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Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area

cardio program Fort Lauderdale — the Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Syria
cardio program Fort Lauderdale — The Great Mosque of Douma (Al-Jami' Al-Kabir) in Douma, The town's largest mosque, a broad flat-roofed stone prayer hall around an open courtyard with a single square minaret, standing at the centre of the old quarters of Douma
cardio program Fort Lauderdale — Al-Reis Mosque in Douma, A modest eighteenth-century neighbourhood mosque of plain cut stone with a small courtyard and a slender minaret, in the older streets of Douma near the historic markets
cardio program Fort Lauderdale — Dar al-Hajj Hussein in Douma, A traditional Damascene courtyard house in Douma, entered from a plain street wall into an inner court, with carved stone and painted woodwork facing inward around the yard
cardio program Fort Lauderdale — The Ghouta orchards of Douma in Douma, Dense irrigated orchards and vine plots pressing right up against the edge of the town on the flat plain northeast of Damascus, a band of green between the city and the bare grey hills beyond
cardio program Fort Lauderdale — the Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Syria

Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet

Douma, Syria  ·  Racquets > Junior

Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet

This one is chalk, little one, and chalk is kind. A 21-inch companion in light aluminium, pre-strung, with the whole Paw Patrol team riding the frame, cut for hands aged five to seven. Settle in for a gentle walk through Douma and its orchard gardens, and by the last page it is yours.

↓   Tour Douma, Syria

Four stops before the checkout

Douma, Syria
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cardio program Fort Lauderdale — The Great Mosque of Douma (Al-Jami' Al-Kabir) in Douma, The town's largest mosque, a broad flat-roofed stone prayer hall around an open courtyard with a single square minaret, standing at the centre of the old quarters of Douma
Stop one

The Great Mosque of Douma (Al-Jami' Al-Kabir)

Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet: Right. Normally the senior guide takes this one, and he takes it beautifully, so do bear with me. The inscription in the stone gives the foundation as 531 AH, which is 1136 AD, when Damascus and its Ghouta were ruled by the Burid dynasty and the whole region was contested during the Crusades. It was substantially enlarged in 1900 under the late Ottoman administration, then rebuilt on a wider footprint in 1983. And beneath it, uncovered in 1950, are a crypt and an underground passage that local tradition ties to a far older shrine on this same ground. He pauses there, usually. I can see why.

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cardio program Fort Lauderdale — Al-Reis Mosque in Douma, A modest eighteenth-century neighbourhood mosque of plain cut stone with a small courtyard and a slender minaret, in the older streets of Douma near the historic markets
Stop two

Al-Reis Mosque

Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet: I am only covering today, so please do not take my word as final, but I think this is the best story in the town. The mosque was founded in 1188 AH, that is 1774 AD, and named for Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Reis, a scholar of Moroccan origin who came east and simply stayed. He was not the only one. Several of Douma's historic mosques were founded by North African scholars and merchants who travelled the pilgrimage routes and never went home, among them the mosque founded in 1898 by Sheikh Ali al-Tayar, also from Morocco. Douma lay on the northern approach to Damascus and absorbed such travellers steadily. Sorry. Was that too long?

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cardio program Fort Lauderdale — Dar al-Hajj Hussein in Douma, A traditional Damascene courtyard house in Douma, entered from a plain street wall into an inner court, with carved stone and painted woodwork facing inward around the yard
Stop three

Dar al-Hajj Hussein

Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet: Blank outside, elaborate within: that is the classic Damascene manner, and every piece of Arabic ornamental carving and decorative detail is saved for the courtyard elevations, where the household would actually see it. I am told the stand-in should not editorialise, but I find that a wonderful order of priorities. Douma could afford houses of this quality from its fruit trade and from being the largest town of the eastern Ghouta. Its oldest quarter is Al-Shams in the north, the core the rest of the town grew out of, followed by Al-Qasarneh to the north-west and Al-Sharqiyah to the east. That is genuinely all I have.

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cardio program Fort Lauderdale — The Ghouta orchards of Douma in Douma, Dense irrigated orchards and vine plots pressing right up against the edge of the town on the flat plain northeast of Damascus, a band of green between the city and the bare grey hills beyond
Stop four

The Ghouta orchards of Douma

Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet: Last stop, and then you get your proper guide back. Douma is the principal town of the eastern Ghouta, the belt of irrigated gardens fed by the Barada river that has ringed Damascus since antiquity and made the city habitable at all. These orchards are known above all for Douma grapes, along with apricots, walnuts and other fruit, and their produce supplied the Damascus markets for centuries. The town itself is documented back to the Aramaean period and stayed a significant centre through Roman, Byzantine and Islamic rule, always tied to the water and the fruit. I did warn you I was only filling in.

The Douma, Syria track

Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Come closer, little one, and I will tell you about a small racquet with a big heart. The Head Junior 21 Paw Patrol Tennis Racquet is 21 inches from head to handle — just the right size for growing players around five to seven years old, about 110 to 125 centimeters tall.

Its frame is light, friendly aluminum that shrugs off bumps the way puppies shrug off rain, and it arrives already strung, ready for the very first swing of a very long story. And of course, the Paw Patrol pups ride along on the frame, because every young hero needs a team.

Now, where does our racquet's story begin? Far away, in Douma, an old, old town in the gardens of the Ghouta, near Damascus in Syria. For centuries, Douma was famous for its orchards — grapes sweeter than a birthday, and apricots, and walnuts — watered by channels that farmers tended like bedtime rituals, generation after generation.

Merchants there built beautiful courtyard houses, plain as a closed book on the outside and full of carved wonders within, which is a good lesson for judging books, houses, and tennis swings. You could take this racquet everywhere from the shade of the old Great Mosque, standing since 1136, to a quiet morning practice among the fruit trees.

And it is also perfect for a courtyard, little one. A merchant's house like Dar al-Hajj Hussein is blank as a wall on the outside and all carved wonder within, and 21 inches is short enough to swing gently between such walls without frightening a single tile.

Afterwards, as the people of the Ghouta have always known, there is nothing finer than sharing the harvest with someone you love. Every story needs a beginning, little one. Let this racquet be yours.

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