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cardio classes — the coiled black co-polyester set composed together with the flag of Poland, the white-over-red horizontal bicolour hung full-frame behind it and lifting on a slow wind so a single soft fold crosses both bands, low warm side light picking out the coil against the white field, no lettering anywhere in the picture.
cardio classes — the string set photographed at the foot of the Żnin Town Hall Tower, the freestanding brick tower of 1445 in the market square, square in its lower storeys and octagonal near the top under a pointed cap. Grey overcast drizzle on a Tuesday morning in March, camera at eye level: a market van with its back doors open, a woman in a headscarf setting out crates of beetroot and onions, a school group in yellow high-visibility vests being counted at the museum door, a man crossing the wet brick with a ladder over his shoulder. The set lies on the flat top of the low railing that skirts the tower, mid-frame to the left, entirely ignored.
cardio classes — the string set photographed on the open platform of the Żnin County Narrow-Gauge Railway, a small green locomotive with open-sided wooden carriages standing on rails visibly narrower than a main line, reeds and lake water immediately beyond the fence. Hard bright sun at the top of an August afternoon, camera low near the ballast looking along the train: the guard leaning out and waving people down the platform, a family passing a pushchair up through a carriage door, a boy with an ice cream running the length of the train, steam and hot oil coming off the locomotive. The set rests close in the foreground on the worn wooden step of the first carriage, nobody paying it any attention.
cardio classes — a wide elevated view over the castle ruins at Wenecja near Żnin, Poland, low broken stone and brick walls standing in cut grass between two lakes, with a row of retired narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock lined up on tracks along one side. Blue hour on a still evening in late June, camera high on the ruin looking down: visitors walking the top of the wall in single file, a man photographing his children against a green tank engine, a couple sitting on the grass with a thermos, mist beginning to lift off the water behind. The string set sits small on the parapet in the near foreground, the ruin and the engines filling the rest of the frame.
cardio classes — the string set photographed close and shallow-focused on a thatch-covered timber workbench inside the reconstructed settlement at Biskupin near Żnin, Poland, the log palisade and rows of identical gable-roofed longhouses soft behind it. Golden late-afternoon sun in September during the archaeological festival, smoke drifting flat across the compound: a smith working a small bloomery with a bellows boy pumping beside him, a woman turning a warp-weighted loom under an awning, a crowd three deep pressing in, a dog threading between legs. The set lies on the bench beside a pile of raw wool, unnoticed by every single person in the frame.
cardio classes — the coiled black co-polyester set composed together with the flag of Poland, the white-over-red horizontal bicolour hung full-frame behind it and lifting on a slow wind so a single soft fold crosses both bands, low warm side light picking out the coil against the white field, no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Dunlop Explosive Speed 17g Tennis String Set

Żnin, Poland  ·  Strings > 17g

Dunlop Explosive Speed 17g Tennis String Set

This is the chattier gauge — 1.25 mm of smooth co-polyester that bends round the ball and hands the feeling straight back to your palm. One condition before it comes home: an afternoon in Żnin, a small train through the reeds, and somebody to say the light on the lake looks like hammered tin.

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Four stops before the checkout

Żnin, Poland
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cardio classes — the string set photographed at the foot of the Żnin Town Hall Tower, the freestanding brick tower of 1445 in the market square, square in its lower storeys and octagonal near the top under a pointed cap. Grey overcast drizzle on a Tuesday morning in March, camera at eye level: a market van with its back doors open, a woman in a headscarf setting out crates of beetroot and onions, a school group in yellow high-visibility vests being counted at the museum door, a man crossing the wet brick with a ladder over his shoulder. The set lies on the flat top of the low railing that skirts the tower, mid-frame to the left, entirely ignored.
Stop one

Żnin Tower

Dunlop Explosive Speed 17g Tennis String Set: At last, a building put up for the correct reason. The tower is all that survives of Znin's brick town hall, and its construction was decided in 1447 specifically so that the town's charters, privileges and account books could be kept safely inside it. Account books. In a fortified brick tower. This town had its priorities in order. In the eighteenth century a clock mechanism, the town's coat of arms and a bell commemorating the town fire of 1751 were installed at the fourth storey — and note that the fire got its own bell, which tells you roughly what that loss came to. It is the recognised symbol of Znin and now houses the first branch of the Museum of the Paluki Region.

02
cardio classes — the string set photographed on the open platform of the Żnin County Narrow-Gauge Railway, a small green locomotive with open-sided wooden carriages standing on rails visibly narrower than a main line, reeds and lake water immediately beyond the fence. Hard bright sun at the top of an August afternoon, camera low near the ballast looking along the train: the guard leaning out and waving people down the platform, a family passing a pushchair up through a carriage door, a boy with an ice cream running the length of the train, steam and hot oil coming off the locomotive. The set rests close in the foreground on the worn wooden step of the first carriage, nobody paying it any attention.
Stop two

Church of St Florian

Dunlop Explosive Speed 17g Tennis String Set: Now here is thrift I can respect. The parish church was built in the fifteenth century in Gothic form, using dressed stone blocks taken from the thirteenth-century Romanesque building that had stood on the same site. Reused. Already cut, already paid for, already delivered — no quarry, no haulage, no waste. Then the end of the eighteenth century arrived and they remodelled the whole thing in Baroque, which will not have come cheap. And then the neo-Baroque tower, added between 1910 and 1924. Fourteen years for one tower. I have seen the invoices from projects like that in my sleep. Handsome, though. I will concede that much.

03
cardio classes — a wide elevated view over the castle ruins at Wenecja near Żnin, Poland, low broken stone and brick walls standing in cut grass between two lakes, with a row of retired narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock lined up on tracks along one side. Blue hour on a still evening in late June, camera high on the ruin looking down: visitors walking the top of the wall in single file, a man photographing his children against a green tank engine, a couple sitting on the grass with a thermos, mist beginning to lift off the water behind. The string set sits small on the parapet in the near foreground, the ruin and the engines filling the rest of the frame.
Stop three

Żnin County Railway terminus

Dunlop Explosive Speed 17g Tennis String Set: Built in 1894. Goods trains ran that autumn, and 1 July 1894 is taken as the official start of traffic — and I would dearly love to see the ledger covering the gap between those two dates. The Znin County Railway was laid to link the town with Wenecja, Biskupin and Gasawa, and at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was the main means of transport in the district: farm produce, freight, mail, and the people of the Paluki region travelling to work, to school and to market. Four revenue streams on a single line. That is a business. It still runs from Znin as a tourist line, so the asset outlived its purpose and found another. Rare. Excellent.

04
cardio classes — the string set photographed close and shallow-focused on a thatch-covered timber workbench inside the reconstructed settlement at Biskupin near Żnin, Poland, the log palisade and rows of identical gable-roofed longhouses soft behind it. Golden late-afternoon sun in September during the archaeological festival, smoke drifting flat across the compound: a smith working a small bloomery with a bellows boy pumping beside him, a woman turning a warp-weighted loom under an awning, a crowd three deep pressing in, a dog threading between legs. The set lies on the bench beside a pile of raw wool, unnoticed by every single person in the frame.
Stop four

Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland

Dunlop Explosive Speed 17g Tennis String Set: One site, four owners, nearly seven hundred years. A Dominican monastery stood here from 1338 until 1839. In 1839 an Evangelical chapel funded by the Prussian king Frederick William III was built in its place — royal money, and it still bought only a chapel. By 1909 the present neo-Gothic Evangelical church had replaced that chapel, consecrated on 19 October 1910. Seventy-one years between chapel and replacement, which suggests to me the first was underspecified. It passed to the Catholic parish in 1945 and was consecrated as a Catholic church by Archbishop Henryk Muszynski on 10 January 2010. Everything on this plot has been paid for at least twice. Somehow it always is.

The Żnin, Poland track

Dunlop Explosive Speed 17g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

Explosive Speed 17 is the thinner half of Dunlop's co-polyester monofilament — 17 gauge, 1.25 mm, a single 40 ft / 12 m set, one racquet's worth.

Five hundredths of a millimetre off the 16 sounds like nothing and changes everything: the string bends more readily around the ball, the response comes up livelier and more powerful, and the feel arrives in the hand rather than being reported to it.

The surface is smooth rather than shaped, so it slides and snaps back cleanly instead of gouging, which is why a flat drive off this string leaves at an angle you can actually predict.

Żnin is a good place to think about thin things that carry weight. It is a small town in the Pałuki lake country of Kuyavia-Pomerania, and the Gothic tower of its old town hall, put up in 1445 with an octagonal upper storey on a square base, still stands alone in the middle of the square holding the regional museum.

Out of the station runs a narrow-gauge railway — a toy-sized line on a full-sized errand — that carries people through Wenecja to Biskupin and Gąsawa all summer long.

The 17 is the gauge for players who want the ball to leave faster without giving up the line. It will not last as long as the 16; nothing thin ever does. What you buy instead is bite, pocketing and a stringbed that talks back. Dunlop offer the string in black, blue and yellow.

You will use it everywhere from a breezy court beside the Żnin lakes to an indoor hall in Bydgoszcz in February — and by the way, it is also perfect for September, when the whole of Pałuki turns out at Biskupin for the archaeological festival and watches men in linen smelt iron in a ditch, which is exactly the sort of afternoon that ends in one more set.

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