Learning Exercise 2.1 Body Scaling to Design Sports Equipment

You have been hired by Haywood’s Tennis Supplies to design a line of body- scaled tennis rackets. Since the company would like its product line to be distinguished from others on the market, you must prepare an initial report addressing important aspects of the new rackets, available product lines from other companies, and how your rackets will be different. Develop this report; you can use the following questions as a guide.

1. What are the important individual constraints to consider when body scaling tennis rackets?
2. How have other companies body scaled their rackets? On what individual constraint or constraints do they scale?
3. What are some novel ways to scale Haywood’s new rackets? What have other companies overlooked?

From Life Span Motor Development Online Student Resource (Fifth Edition), by Kathleen M. Haywood and Nancy Getchell, 2009, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.