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List Price: $20.00 Price: $13.34 You Save: $6.66 (33%)

1. Adjustable headstrap
2. Micro-fiber cleaning pouch included.

List Price: $40.00

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List Price: $13.50 Price: $9.17 You Save: $4.33 (32%)

1. Cool and comfortable PowerNet mesh backing
2. Hydrolyte Moisture Management System
3. An Incredible fit!

List Price: $50.00 Price: $34.70 You Save: $15.30 (31%)

1. High-performance racquetball racket designed with Ektelon's Force 3 technology
2. Fused graphite and Aerolite alloy frame creates even weight distribution and large sweet spot
3. Inverted Power Ring enhances power across string bed; Power Line beam adds durability
4. 105-square-inch headsize; measures 22 inches long; power rating of 1,100
5. Weighs 180 grams unstrung; 3-11/16-inch synthetic grip; 1-year warranty

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List Price: $44.99

1. Ektelon Energy Racquet
2. 3 Blue Ektelon Racquetballs
3. Mirage Protective Eyewear
4. Instructional Booklet
5. Carrying Case

List Price: $30.00 Price: $30.00

List Price: $109.95 Price: $39.39 You Save: $70.56 (64%)

1. Pump technology in tongue
2. Air release valve for adjustability.
3. DMX Foam provides cushioning
4. PLAYDRY lining for moisture management.

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When you're in a small community, it's important for you to pull together with your neighbors. Excellence is created by concentrating resources, so if people in small communities are not putting their resources together then opportunities can be squandered.

Racquetball is a small community, so it's important for all of us to pull together. However, racquetball is an individual sport so it's easier for people to try to do their own thing than in a team sport, because in team sports you need many more people for (a) your team, and (b) your opponent's team. Without team-mates or an opposition side, there's no game, so there's more incentive to co-operate with others, because more others are needed.

Thus, it's easier to put on a racquetball tournament or league than, say, a baseball or football tournament or league, because there are fewer people involved. This point is illustrated by the failures of football (a team sport) leagues to rival the National Football League in the USA while boxing (an individual sport, like racquetball) continues to have a few different sanctioning bodies, which have undoubtedly contributed to the demise of boxing's popularity (if some people are saying Adam's the champ, while others say it's Issac and still others say Zach's the champ, well the casual fan soon loses interest, because the issue is clouded, suggesting that the people running the show don't know what the heck they're doing).

Of course, once any system is established, some people will dislike it and want to change it. This is natural, and all systems will need to change from time to time to stay current. The question is should such changes be revolutionary or reformatory? Revolutionary changes would be to throw out the current system, whatever it is, while reformatory changes would be alterations within the existing system.

Revolutionaries try to create their own system. Reformists try to make the system their own.

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