AIBU to want to bash this man into a pulp with my son´s tennis raquet?

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Am soooo spitting furious at the moment! Here´s why, but do tell me if I shouldn´t be!
So I´m sending my kids (5 and 7)to a rather costly tennis camp for 2 weeks in the hope that they will learn a bit about how to hit a ball....no aspirations to turn them into Murray or Nadal or anything...
And, since we had no idea if they would like it or not, I bought them functional yet thrifty little raquets from the local supermarket.....
Was gobsmacked and enraged yesterday upon fetching them to hear bratty little boy laughing and chanting, "You have toy raquets, you have toy raquets, etc etc"
Resisting strong urge to stop up his nasty little gob with a sizeable tennis ball, I then was told that one of the instructors had told my sons (in front of all the other kids) that "Those are not raquets, they are toys"!
Now I have wielded both these raquets last week hitting balls about and they are perfectly fine, IMO. I mean are people honestly buying Slazengers for their 5 year olds???
Have a good mind to go and have it out with this stuck-up twat...what would you do??

Actually the tennis camps where we are are usually for child care and fun - not to really learn much about tennis. Many of the kids are first timers or not that great just having a go and keeping out their parents hair.

Facquet :)

I think I know the type of racket/racquet( ? ) you mean, because we made a similar mistake. My DD brought an advert for tennis lessons at a local club home from school last year, age 7, and asked if she could go. I didn't have a clue about tennis at the time, so was surprised but said yes. She had a little set from Morrison's that had cost a fiver (it wasn't the kiddie plastic ones with a soft ball and looked like proper ones to me)...and off she went with them proudly.

However as soon as we arrived it was obvious they weren't. They were a different shape/size and looked old fashioned. The difference is, the coach discreetly suggested she try one of his. She used that for a few weeks until I bought her a Head Sharapova racket for about £15.

Your kids probably need different size rackets to each other any way depending on height. Some good advice here www.lta.org.uk/players-parents/Getting-started-in-tennis/Equipment/ It's not about designer kit, it's about preventing injury and being able to hold and control the racket properly to perform different shots correctly.

My daughter actually turned out to be pretty good and plays competitively now a year later. In all honesty, if your kids do take to it you're going to need a much thicker skin! That boy wasn't very nice, but I've witnessed some almighty tantrums and drama much worse during matches from certain kids. And some of the parents are even worse!

probably a throw away comment, i would hope, by the instructor, and i bet they are toy rackets. they should have just offered them some of theirs, but who knows, some nasty minded child would still have picked up on it.