Okay... here is what we are doing for Earth Day -- Green Tennis Machines on sale and you get a huge discount if you sign-up for the green challenge

• Green Tennis Machine is normally $5,000
• Practice balls on sale for four days (through the weekend) at $0.33/ball or $1/can equivalent
• $1 off the price of Green Machine for every ball you demo or recycle with us (max limit is 2,000 balls)
• Typical payback for a club is less than one year as nearly 40,000 balls can be recharged each year

After you test out our Green Tennis Machines from afar (via practice balls), you qualify to purchase one Machine at a significant discount.  Again, this is only available for four days (through Sunday) and for continental US only.

Follow these simple steps:

• Come up with how many balls you want to demo and recycle with reBounces (hint: You need to demo the balls ... I'd recommend 1,000 -- demo will last a while, and then you'll be 100% convinced of the product)
• Email me -- cannon@rebounces.com OR twitter @rebounces
  
• In the email provide the following items: Name, Club Name (if applicable), Shipping Addres, # of balls you intend to demo, # of balls you intend to recycle, phone # and best time to reach you
• I'll set-up a time to walk you through any questions you have
• The practice ball demo will begin and you're on your way to Greening Earth and Saving a lot of Cash

So - Living on Earth (of NPR fame) had a quick piece on Rebounces yesterday.  The link is here.  It was funny to see it on here as Grant spoke with them a while ago and now we're finally on :)

Here is the file if you don't want to check out the link > Living On Earth - Rebounces = Cool Fix.mp3

Also, as Grant mentioned the other day... the "Green Tennis Machines" are for sale and more info will be unveiled at the BNP Paribas Open

Cheers

- Cannon

Hopefully you've voted at awards.onthebaseline.com for your favorite WTA players, coaches, writers and commentators.  If you entered the contest, I hope you will win one of the five sets of 50 balls we are giving away.

Rebounces congratulates all the players who made 2009 a truly fabulous year on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour!

In 2009, Rebounces exceeded its goal of diverting five tons of balls from landfills and we are currently setting our sights on 25+ tons in 2010! These lofty goals would not be achievable without the fantastic players and partners, such as On the Baseline, that Rebounces works with every day.

Please check out our Recycling program and our Replay program that allows you to give your dead tennis balls life again.

Have a great holiday season and go VOTE

 - Cannon

 

 

Come out on July 2nd to watch the Aces take on the Boston Lobsters!!  At the entrance, you will have the opportunity to donate 12 balls to be recycled by Rebounces.  In return you will receive a 'Green Cup' that entitles you to discounted refreshments the entire Aces 2009 season.

We look forward to seeing you all there... gates open at 5.30pm and play begins at 7.00pm.  More information via Press Release can be found here.

Hi Folks, 

This is the first official post on Rebounces.com, and I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and say thanks for taking a look. The fact that you’re here tells us that you either love tennis, care about reducing waste, or both. All of us at Rebounces are definitely in the “both” category, and passionately so.  

While this is the new Rebounces website, we’re actually not that new. We’re going on our third year of recycling and providing tennis professionals with quality practice balls. I’ve got to take a moment and thank Raul Bermudez. Raul is the head pro at Rebsamen Tennis Center in Little Rock and a former tour player. He was the first on board and was instrumental in helping me refine the recharging process. Back then I would provide him with a basket of balls and then come back the next week and get feedback. Usually this feedback was quite good, but I remember one instance where this was not the case. He told me that some of his students were hitting a lot of the balls over the fence. Let me interject that Raul is from Venezuela, and while he is very articulate in English, because of the accent (I’m a hillbilly) I still sometimes have trouble picking up the nuances of what he is telling me. So I said something like-  so your students need a little more practice, but everybody hits the ball over the fence sometimes. Raul shook his head and said, “But not bouncing them over on their serve!”  

Two things I’ll say here: First, the students loved the balls (who doesn’t want to serve like Roddick?). Two, I realized I had had a momentary bout of dyslexia and had reversed a compound in the process. The problem was quickly fixed. Enough said. 

In January of this 2008, I joined with my longtime friends, Grant Garland and Cannon Fletcher, and officially incorporated Rebounces. However, both of these guys had been involved in the planning of Rebounces for several years. Grant and I first met at the tennis courts in 7th grade and have been battling it out ever since.  While we’re all club players, Grant does hold the unique distinction of being the only person to ever successfully hurl his racquet over the Quail Tree Health and Racquet Club and into the swimming pool (no one was hurt).  Even back then, the kid had an arm on him. Cannon and I met while completing our MBA’s. It was over a couple of cold ones after class (maybe it was during) that the first attempts at a business plan were taken. 

I can’t go further without thanking my wonderful wife, Shelley, for putting up with all the late nights spent in the workshop working on the Rebounces process and the hours of daily discussions about tennis balls!  My son Andrew is 4 years old and is a big Baghdatis fan (what’s up with that?). We’ll be welcoming a new member to our family in November. 

Anyway, that's a little background on who we are. We hope you’ll try our product. And remember, don’t throw those tennis balls away! 

Bill Dirst

CEO/Rebounces, LLC

 

It was quite a match on Sunday!  Sam pushed Nadal to the limits for two sets.  I mean this is the same Sam we watched in St Louis as a teammate of the WTT Aces get pushed to a tie-breaker versus Dusan Vemic.  Once he gets more comfortable serve and following to the net, watch out... he should win some tournaments.

I would like to say thanks to Bill for mentioning this crazy idea (Rebounces) to me while we were in grad school.  It has been a long and winding road and there are still miles to go.

We hope you will join us in greening the game of tennis.  While there have been a lot of steps taken in the past 12 months, we feel no one is focusing on tennis balls and with your help we can extend the life of balls four or five times.  Replay, Reuse, Recycle - that is the true way to green and/or change tennis.

You can reach me directly via Linkedin if you would like to discuss a potential business venture with Rebounces.

Cheers! 

Hello Friends,

Bill beat me to the punch with his introductory blog.  That's OK.  I have to let him beat me at things once in awhile to keep his spirits up.  You see, Bill and I have been beating up on each other since Jr. High.  We both come from large families with many siblings so getting beat up is kind of like breathing.  I have 3 brothers total ( no sisters unfortunately for my mother ) and many more brothers from other mothers - Bill happens to be one.  He and I have been working out the details of how to launch Rebounces for many years ( that is a lot of ping pong my friends ) and the time has finally come.  With the environmental push and our Rebounces technology perfected the planets finally seem to have aligned.

I want ot thank Cannon Fletcher ( CFO ) for his numbers wizardry and apalling weak serve.  Without him, Rebounces would still be merely an idea.

I also want to thank everyone that has assisted us thus far with their invaluable feedback and support.  We would not be where we are now without them.

Someone very close to me once said, "If you don't follow your passion, you are destined to fail."  ( They also told me that Marilyn Manson was one of the kids off the Wonder Years so go figure. )  Well, I am following my passion and I hope the tennis community will continue to support our efforts. 

 Sincerely,

 Grant Garland

Chief of Marketing / Rebounces, LLC 

P.S. In response to Bill's remark about my tennis racquet hurling abilities, I venture to guess that the name Jack Kramer has never flown so high or so long.  Seriously, don't throw your racquets . . . very bad etiquette and you can go to jail!