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cardio tennis for optimism — the Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of Lithuania
cardio tennis for optimism — Church of Christ's Ascension in Kupiškis, A vast red-brick neo-Gothic church with twin spires towering over the low wooden houses of Kupiškis, its scale wildly out of proportion to the small Lithuanian town around it
cardio tennis for optimism — Kupiškis Lagoon in Kupiškis, A broad artificial lake stretching from the edge of Kupiškis, its calm water dotted with wooded isles and edged by beaches, formed by a long dam across the Lėvuo River valley
cardio tennis for optimism — Aukštupėnai Mound in Kupiškis, A steep, grassy hillfort mound beside the Kupiškis Lagoon with wooden stairs climbing to its flat summit, overlooking the water, the town, and the neo-Gothic church spires
cardio tennis for optimism — Kupiškis Ethnography Museum in Kupiškis, A stone-and-brick museum building in central Kupiškis displaying traditional farm tools, linen textiles, and reconstructed rural interiors of the surrounding Aukštaitija countryside
cardio tennis for optimism — the Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of Lithuania

Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set

Kupiškis, Lithuania  ·  Strings > 17g

Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set

This is the most broadly sensible poly Head weaves, cut to one racquet: 1.25 mm of Lynx in its Touch tuning — control first, comfort a close second, a working life that makes no scene. Seal it properly. Then eat, then walk Kupiškis: a colossal brick church, an 828-hectare lagoon, an Iron Age mound.

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Four stops before the checkout

Kupiškis, Lithuania
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cardio tennis for optimism — Church of Christ's Ascension in Kupiškis, A vast red-brick neo-Gothic church with twin spires towering over the low wooden houses of Kupiškis, its scale wildly out of proportion to the small Lithuanian town around it
Stop one

Church of Christ's Ascension

Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set: Oh, they loved something here. Between 1900 and 1914 one small Aukštaitija town raised the third-largest Catholic church in Lithuania — brick neo-Gothic, roughly 60 by 43 metres, two towers, three naves, five altars — and it consumed a generation of their lives, in the closing years of the Russian imperial era, when building a church was how you said aloud who you were. And beneath it, an older devotion: local tradition holds that when the foundations were dug, workers uncovered an oak box with human bones, a rusted sword and old coins. Something sacred stood on this ground long before.

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cardio tennis for optimism — Kupiškis Lagoon in Kupiškis, A broad artificial lake stretching from the edge of Kupiškis, its calm water dotted with wooded isles and edged by beaches, formed by a long dam across the Lėvuo River valley
Stop two

Kupiškis Lagoon

Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set: In 1984 they dammed the Lėvuo beside the town and made 828 hectares of water, the fourth-largest artificial lake in Lithuania, lying some 25 kilometres along a shallow valley that had known nothing but flat farmland. And then, because these are romantics with a wicked streak, they named the islands Mother-in-law's Tongue — which carries a dendrological park — and Son-in-law's Shelter. Beaches, boating, fishing, summer festivals on the shore. From the Aukštupėnai hillfort it all lies open at once: a young lake with its arms wrapped around a very old settlement.

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cardio tennis for optimism — Aukštupėnai Mound in Kupiškis, A steep, grassy hillfort mound beside the Kupiškis Lagoon with wooden stairs climbing to its flat summit, overlooking the water, the town, and the neo-Gothic church spires
Stop three

Aukštupėnai Mound

Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set: This is where the whole affair began. People lived on this ground in the third and second centuries BC, in the lands of the Selonian tribes, and by the eighth century a wooden castle stood on the hillfort, guarding the Lėvuo valley for the people below it. It is believed the Livonian Brothers of the Sword destroyed the stronghold around 1240, during the Livonian Crusade. The settlement beneath survived, became Kupiškis, and appears securely in 1480, when Stanislaus Johannis de Cupyschky enrolled at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków — a boy off this hill, gone to Kraków; I like to think he wrote home. Climb it. The view over the lagoon is the reward.

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cardio tennis for optimism — Kupiškis Ethnography Museum in Kupiškis, A stone-and-brick museum building in central Kupiškis displaying traditional farm tools, linen textiles, and reconstructed rural interiors of the surrounding Aukštaitija countryside
Stop four

Kupiškis Ethnography Museum

Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set: A museum of ordinary devotion. It keeps the everyday world of the northeastern Lithuanian countryside — flax grown and spun into linen, farm implements, household furnishings, folk art, and the seasonal rituals that shape a village year — for a region whose dialect and songs had enchanted ethnographers long before anybody thought to build it a museum. Beside all that sits the town's own story, from that first written mention in 1480 through the market-town centuries under the Grand Duchy and the Russian Empire. It tends manors, villages and memorial homesteads across the district too. Someone loved this life enough to label every piece of it.

The Kupiškis, Lithuania track

Head Lynx Touch 17g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

Filling, fold, seal. Get the seal wrong and everything you cared about ends up in the water. Head Lynx Touch 17g seals properly: a co-polyester monofilament at 1.25 mm, the balanced gauge, in the Touch tuning that makes it softer and more comfortable than standard Lynx. One 12-metre set, one racquet — the single-frame version of the most broadly sensible string Head makes.

Control first, comfort a close second, tension behaviour that surprises nobody, and a working life that is honest about itself. You will use it everywhere from a windy afternoon court beside the lagoon to an indoor hall in the long Lithuanian winter, and it is also perfect for a town that measures a good day in dumplings rather than in sets.

Kupiškis is Aukštaitija, which means the dumplings are serious.

We begin at the Church of Christ's Ascension, built between 1900 and 1914 and the third-largest Catholic church in Lithuania, an astonishing scale for a small Aukštaitija town.

The brick neo-Gothic hall church measures roughly 60 by 43 metres, with two towers, three naves and five altars, and its construction consumed the town's energies for a generation at the close of the Russian imperial era, when church-building was an assertion of Lithuanian Catholic identity.

Then the Kupiškis Lagoon, the fourth-largest artificial body of water in Lithuania, created in 1984 when the Lėvuo was dammed beside the town. It spreads across roughly 828 hectares and runs about 25 kilometres through the shallow valley, and its islands carry famously witty local names — Mother-in-law's Tongue, which hosts a dendrological park, and Son-in-law's Shelter.

Then the Aukštupėnai Mound, the ancient root of the town. Finds show people living in the surrounding area as early as the third and second centuries BC, in the lands of the Selonian tribes, and by the eighth century a wooden defensive castle stood on the hillfort, guarding the Lėvuo valley until the era of the northern crusades.

And we finish at the Kupiškis Ethnography Museum, which preserves the everyday world of the northeastern Lithuanian countryside — a region whose distinct dialect, songs and customs made it a subject of ethnographic fascination well before the museum era. Flax growing and linen weaving, farm implements, household furnishings, folk art and the seasonal rituals of village life. And the recipes. Obviously I checked.

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