 Hey guys, welcome to the Tennis Mentor YouTube channel. My name's Ashie Neves and I run a tennis coaching program down on the south coast of the UK. Alongside my full-time role, I recently set up this YouTube channel to help tennis players, tennis coaches and tennis parents to get more out of the sport. Usually I'd be posting tennis lessons and tutorials on here, but today is going to be slightly different. Over the last few months, as the channel has grown, I've been contacted by a few companies from around the world asking me to unbox and review their products. And as unfortunately in the England at the moment, we are in lockdown and unable to play tennis. I thought it would be a good way to spend my time and to make more content. So I've chosen a couple of these products to unbox to show you and to let you know what I think. The one that I'm going to be looking at today is from a company called Racket Pets based in the United States and they kindly sent me a box of goodies. I've seen Racket Pets on Instagram, seen a few of their products and really like them, but never really looked much further than that because they are not available in the UK. However, Maria from Racket Pets emailed me to let me know that they are launching the product in the UK and that she'd like me to unbox them to show everybody what they are. Racket Pets are a fairly new company and they have created a matching overgrip and dampener set for children's tennis rackets. Or I guess you could probably use them as adults as well, but they are aimed towards children. I believe they're the only company that sells specifically matching overgrip and dampener sets and even more exciting, they are designed around the theme of animals. Now I don't have kids. If I did, it would be the perfect opportunity to get them to help me with the unboxing. The closest I can get is you can probably hear him snorting. But my dog, Marcel, he won't get quite as excited as kids would about the product, but I'm sure he'll be able to help me. Yeah, are you going to help if he looks that interested? So let's take a look. Nice. OK, so a little message. Hi Ashley. Thank you very much for your time and consideration of Racket Pets. I hope you like them, Maria. Nice little panda. OK, so let's have a look at the products. We've got quite a few in here. As you can see, I've sent a few of them. Got a set of stickers. OK, so the first one I'll show you here is a giraffe with a matching grip. Pretty cool. Got a dragon, an elephant, a unicorn, crocodile or an alligator. And finally, a snake. Which one would I choose? I think I'd go for the crocodile, actually. I think he's my favourite. However, probably want him to match my racket. Now, I've been playing with the head radical prototype, which is kind of a silvery grey with bright orange. So I reckon actually the elephant would go well with that or maybe the dragon. But to be honest, they're all pretty cool. I thought it'd be good to actually put a grip on, see how it feels and see how they look on the racket. So yeah, I'm going to put the crocodile on. So here is the grip out of the pack and the dampener. They're pretty good quality. They're actually, I don't know how they're made, but they're 3D and the quality feels very, very good. This is kind of like a standard dampener, but I know looking at the snake, it's one that will go across quite a few of the strings, but they do look very well made, which is pretty cool for a small company. So I'll put the dampener on first. Nice, so crocodile is on there looking cool. Let's put the grip on now. Okay, you've got a special guest now, Marcel. It comes with tape, just like a normal overgrip. It's got the protective film that you can take off and a little adhesive at the end to stick the first part of the grip down. My system's gone. So the grip feels nice and tacky actually, and it's got a little bit of stretch in it, which is nice. And it comes with racket pets tape. So you want to get the tapered edge. So I'm gripping a 21-inch racket, and you can see that there's quite a lot of the grip left over. So it will be suitable for a full-size racket too, I'm pretty sure. So just trim that end down to taper it off at the tape. And voila, looks pretty cool together. Got the grip and the croc. Feels nice and tacky actually, then it's nice and thin, so it's not going to build up the kid's grip too much. It's going to feel similar to the sort of grip size they already had. And it's nice and tacky too. Very cool. I would have absolutely loved this as a kid. I'm going to name him Colin, Colin the Crocodile. Let me know which one you would have gone for. Luckily I've got a nice selection now, so I'll probably give these out as prizes on the coaching program to some of the kids. So as I said, these are already on sale in the States. I will pop the link in the video description below, and they will be coming out in the UK very shortly. So as soon as they do, I will add that link into the video description as well. As part of making this video, I've been given an affiliate link. So if you wanted to purchase some of these, click the link in the video below, and I get a little kick back from this, so much appreciated. If you are in the UK and you're desperate to get a hold of them before they're launched, you can still order them. And I do have a discount code below as well, which will give you free shipping, but you need to order five units for that to work. So check out the link in the description below. I believe there are various other products that you can buy on the website too. Anyway, I'm really excited to get back onto the coaching program and to see what the kids and the players think of these. And hopefully I'll find little challenges in games to give them out as prizes. I hope you enjoyed this unboxing video. I will be doing a couple more over the coming weeks. So stay tuned, click subscribe if you'd like to see more, and hopefully I will see you on the next video. Take care.