FOLLOW US

Facebook Instagram Youtube X-twitter

Burn, Laugh and Learn

BOOK A CLINIC

THE TENNIS TACTICIAN, LLC

Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area

cardio tennis in 33319 — the Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet) combined with the national flag of Jordan
cardio tennis in 33319 — Old Phosphate Mine of Russeifa in Russeifa, Abandoned mine tunnels, open pits, and pale spoil heaps with a scatter of early twentieth-century stone industrial buildings on the edge of the crowded city of Russeifa
cardio tennis in 33319 — Hejaz Railway at Russeifa in Russeifa, A single-track railway line with old stone buildings and rusting sidings threading between the hills and dense concrete neighbourhoods along the Zarqa valley
cardio tennis in 33319 — Zarqa River at Russeifa in Russeifa, A narrow green river valley winding between stony desert hills and dense city blocks, with reeds and eucalyptus marking the watercourse
cardio tennis in 33319 — Ain Ghazal in Russeifa, A bare terraced archaeological slope above the Zarqa River on the Amman-Russeifa corridor, with excavation trenches cut into pale earth beside the highway
cardio tennis in 33319 — the Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet) combined with the national flag of Jordan

Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet)

Russeifa, Jordan  ·  Bags > 0-3

Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet)

This three-racquet pit stop of a bag carries primary, backup and spare with a tool pocket and a padded strap — zero wasted motion, four-second changeovers. Before it joins your team, mandatory track walk: Russeifa, Jordan — phosphate trains, a wrestling river, statues older than the wheel. Green flag's waiting.

↓   Tour Russeifa, Jordan

Four stops before the checkout

Russeifa, Jordan
01
cardio tennis in 33319 — Old Phosphate Mine of Russeifa in Russeifa, Abandoned mine tunnels, open pits, and pale spoil heaps with a scatter of early twentieth-century stone industrial buildings on the edge of the crowded city of Russeifa
Stop one

Old Phosphate Mine of Russeifa

Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet): Dry country, this. Not a sail within three hundred miles and it still ran a cargo trade. Russeifa is the birthplace of Jordan's phosphate industry: deposits identified here in the early twentieth century, worked commercially from the 1930s, and after the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company was established in 1949 the town swelled into an industrial centre, drawing workers from across the country and from Palestinian refugee communities. The ore went out on the Hejaz Railway line, which is a landsman's notion of a ship. Mining ended in the 1980s as richer fields opened elsewhere, leaving tunnels, pits and heritage buildings from the earliest phase of Jordanian mining, with proposals to preserve the core as a mining museum and park.

02
cardio tennis in 33319 — Hejaz Railway at Russeifa in Russeifa, A single-track railway line with old stone buildings and rusting sidings threading between the hills and dense concrete neighbourhoods along the Zarqa valley
Stop two

Hejaz Railway at Russeifa

Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet): Iron rails, and I'll allow them — they carried pilgrims, and that is a crossing whatever is under you. The Ottoman line was built between 1900 and 1908 to carry pilgrims from Damascus toward Medina, and it runs straight through Russeifa on the way from Amman to Zarqa. It reached this stretch of the Jordanian highlands in the first years of the twentieth century, and its arrival opened a quiet farming district along the Zarqa River to new settlement, including Chechen communities established in that era. When phosphate mining began in the 1930s the railway became the ore's route to market, to Amman and the port outlets beyond. Famous in the Arab Revolt. Occasional trains still work it.

03
cardio tennis in 33319 — Zarqa River at Russeifa in Russeifa, A narrow green river valley winding between stony desert hills and dense city blocks, with reeds and eucalyptus marking the watercourse
Stop three

Zarqa River at Russeifa

Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet): Now here is water, and water I understand. The Zarqa is the biblical Jabbok, one of the principal tributaries of the Jordan, and in the Book of Genesis the ford of the Jabbok is where Jacob wrestled through the night with the angel — a hard watch, and nobody came to relieve him. Later the valley carried trade routes linking the highlands of Ammon with the Jordan valley. The perennial water made the Russeifa stretch a ribbon of orchards and vegetable gardens serving Amman well into the twentieth century, before urbanization closed over the valley. Surveys have traced settlement here from prehistoric times. That valley is the thread the whole city hangs on.

04
cardio tennis in 33319 — Ain Ghazal in Russeifa, A bare terraced archaeological slope above the Zarqa River on the Amman-Russeifa corridor, with excavation trenches cut into pale earth beside the highway
Stop four

Ain Ghazal

Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet): Older than any hull ever laid down. Ain Ghazal sits on the Zarqa where Amman's built-up area runs toward Russeifa, and it is one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Middle East — first settled around 7250 BC, grown to some fifteen hectares, perhaps thousands of people farming, herding goats, and burying plastered ancestral skulls beneath their house floors. It is world-famous for the Ain Ghazal statues: half-size human figures of lime plaster modelled over reed cores around 6700 BC, among the oldest large-scale human statues ever found, with examples in the Jordan Museum and the Louvre. Discovered in 1974 during highway construction, excavated from 1982. That is where we stopped roaming. Landlubbers ever since.

The Russeifa, Jordan track

Dunlop Sports Team Tennis Bag (3 Racquet)

Written for this world alone.

Listen up — matches are won in the pits. The Dunlop Team 3 Racquet Bag is a pit stop in luggage form: compact, organized, zero wasted motion. Main compartment takes up to three racquets — primary frame, backup, and the backup's backup, because my crew never gets caught without redundancy.

Accessory pocket for grips, dampeners and tools; padded adjustable shoulder strap so you can move from car to court in one clean lap. No dead weight, no rummaging, no four-second penalty digging for your overgrip on changeover. In, out, back on track. That's the Dunlop Team way, and I run a tight garage.

Now, the venue: Russeifa, Jordan — a town that understands hauling freight on schedule. This is the birthplace of Jordan's phosphate industry, and the ore ran out of here on the Hejaz Railway, the Ottoman line laid between 1900 and 1908 — the original heavy-duty logistics operation, and I tip my headset to it.

The Zarqa River valley here is the biblical Jabbok, where Jacob wrestled through the night — longest recorded grappling changeover in history, no towel break. And at Ain Ghazal they dug up plaster statues from around 6700 BC, among the oldest ever found: proof that even nine millennia ago, somebody around here appreciated a well-built chassis.

And by the way, it's also perfect for a Jordanian mansaf afterwards — the accessory pocket takes your keys and your phone, which matters when both hands are busy, and both hands are the correct way to eat it. Fuel up, zip up, go.

Buy on Amazon

Related Products

Related products

Scroll to Top