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cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel composed together with the national flag of Peru in a single photoreal studio image, the black spool set against the vertical red, white and red bands of the flag under a low warm directional light.
cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed at the Plaza de Armas de Huaraz in Huaraz, Peru. A wide view across the rebuilt main square in hard bright late-morning highland sun under a deep blue sky, the cathedral and low concrete arcades around it and the snow line of the Cordillera Blanca showing above the roofs. The square is busy — shoeshiners working a bench, a woman in a tall hat and layered skirts selling drinks from a wheeled cart, a group of trekkers comparing maps on the steps, pigeons scattering as a child runs through. The reel stands on the low wall of a planter, faintly luminous in the glare.
cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed on Jirón José Olaya in Huaraz, Peru. A close night view down the narrow colonial street, low ochre and blue adobe houses with carved wooden balconies, lit only by a few bare bulbs over doorways and one open shopfront throwing yellow light onto the cobbles, a little woodsmoke in the air. A woman is folding down the awning of a food stall, two men stand talking over a doorway with a dog between them, a boy carries a crate of bottles into the lit shop, and a moto-taxi idles at the far corner with one headlamp on. The reel sits on a doorstep in the foreground, glowing softly.
cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed at Wilcahuaín in Huaraz, Peru. A wide view of the squat three-storey stone-slab temple standing on open farmland at around 3,400 metres, shot in cold grey light under heavy low cloud with rain moving across the valley behind and the Cordillera Blanca hidden. Farmers are working the field beside it, one driving two oxen along a furrow, a woman in a shawl herds sheep past the wall, and a small group of visitors is ducking one at a time into a dark doorway with a torch. The reel rests on a projecting stone slab at the base of the wall, faintly glowing.
cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed at the Museo Arqueológico de Áncash in Huaraz, Peru. A close view among the rows of carved Recuay stone monoliths in the museum's open-air lithic park, low warm sunset light raking across the sculpture faces and throwing every cut into relief, long shadows on the grass. A conservator is brushing lichen from the base of one monolith, a school group sits cross-legged on the grass while a guide points up at a carved head, and a couple move slowly along the row reading labels. The reel sits on a low stone plinth at the end of the row, glowing softly.
cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel composed together with the national flag of Peru in a single photoreal studio image, the black spool set against the vertical red, white and red bands of the flag under a low warm directional light.

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel

Huaraz, Peru  ·  Strings > 16g

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel

This is the thick square one: 1.30 mm, four sharp edges, and a whole spool of it — sixteen restrings, so nobody has to be woken up. It keeps unsociable hours, this reel, and it fancies a walk round Huaraz after the shops shut, when the town finally sounds like itself.

↓   Tour Huaraz, Peru

Four stops before the checkout

Huaraz, Peru
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cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed at the Plaza de Armas de Huaraz in Huaraz, Peru. A wide view across the rebuilt main square in hard bright late-morning highland sun under a deep blue sky, the cathedral and low concrete arcades around it and the snow line of the Cordillera Blanca showing above the roofs. The square is busy — shoeshiners working a bench, a woman in a tall hat and layered skirts selling drinks from a wheeled cart, a group of trekkers comparing maps on the steps, pigeons scattering as a child runs through. The reel stands on the low wall of a planter, faintly luminous in the glare.
Stop one

Willkawain Archaeological Site

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel: Okay, first stop, and I have been looking forward to this one all week. Willkawain, also spelled Wilcahuain, is a national monument roughly 8 kilometres north of Huaraz, dating from around AD 600 to 900. The principal structure is a large multi-chambered stone mausoleum of the Wari culture, rising three storeys beneath enormous stone slabs, with interior galleries and chambers that once held the dead of the local elite. In Quechua the name is commonly rendered as grandson's house. The ventilation shafts and galleries show the influence of the earlier Chavín tradition, and with the smaller Ichik Willkawain nearby it is the most important complex around Huaraz.

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cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed on Jirón José Olaya in Huaraz, Peru. A close night view down the narrow colonial street, low ochre and blue adobe houses with carved wooden balconies, lit only by a few bare bulbs over doorways and one open shopfront throwing yellow light onto the cobbles, a little woodsmoke in the air. A woman is folding down the awning of a food stall, two men stand talking over a doorway with a dog between them, a boy carries a crate of bottles into the lit shop, and a moto-taxi idles at the far corner with one headlamp on. The reel sits on a doorstep in the foreground, glowing softly.
Stop two

Ancash Archaeological Museum

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel: The Ancash Archaeological Museum holds material from the whole succession of cultures in the Callejón de Huaylas — Chavín, Recuay, Huaraz White-on-Red, Mochica, Wari and Chimú. Ceramics, textiles, and, my notes said lithic park, which I assumed was a typo for garden, and it is in fact exactly that: an open-air park of carved Recuay monoliths. It is the fullest record of the region's pre-Columbian history. It stands near the Plaza de Armas, in a city almost entirely rebuilt after the earthquake of 31 May 1970, which destroyed most of Huaraz and killed tens of thousands of people across Ancash.

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cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed at Wilcahuaín in Huaraz, Peru. A wide view of the squat three-storey stone-slab temple standing on open farmland at around 3,400 metres, shot in cold grey light under heavy low cloud with rain moving across the valley behind and the Cordillera Blanca hidden. Farmers are working the field beside it, one driving two oxen along a furrow, a woman in a shawl herds sheep past the wall, and a small group of visitors is ducking one at a time into a dark doorway with a torch. The reel rests on a projecting stone slab at the base of the wall, faintly glowing.
Stop three

Sanctuary of the Lord of Soledad (Señor de la Soledad)

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel: The Sanctuary of the Lord of Solitude houses the statue of the Señor de la Soledad, patron of the city, a carved image whose origins are traditionally placed in the sixteenth century, soon after the Spanish foundation of the town. The present church was built after the earthquake of 31 May 1970 destroyed its predecessor along with most of Huaraz. The image survived and remains the focus of the city's devotion, and each May the feast of the Señor de la Soledad fills Huaraz with processions, dancing and fireworks. It stands in the Soledad neighbourhood on rising ground east of the Plaza de Armas, framed by the Cordillera Blanca.

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cardio tennis class Fort Lauderdale Beach — the Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel photographed at the Museo Arqueológico de Áncash in Huaraz, Peru. A close view among the rows of carved Recuay stone monoliths in the museum's open-air lithic park, low warm sunset light raking across the sculpture faces and throwing every cut into relief, long shadows on the grass. A conservator is brushing lichen from the base of one monolith, a school group sits cross-legged on the grass while a guide points up at a carved head, and a couple move slowly along the row reading labels. The reel sits on a low stone plinth at the end of the row, glowing softly.
Stop four

Jirón José Olaya

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel: I want to read this one carefully. Jirón José Olaya, in the Soledad quarter east of the centre, was the only street in Huaraz to survive the earthquake of 31 May 1970 intact. That earthquake levelled nearly all of the city and, together with the debris avalanche it unleashed from Huascarán, killed on the order of seventy thousand people in the region. The street therefore preserves the city's pre-earthquake appearance: low adobe houses with carved wooden balconies, tiled roofs, stone portals. It is protected as a monumental zone and hosts a Sunday fair of regional dishes. A memorial and a living street at the same time.

The Huaraz, Peru track

Tecnifibre Black Code 4S 16g Tennis String Reel

Written for this world alone.

Sixteen gauge is the durable end of the 4S. Co-polyester monofilament with a square profile — four flat faces and four sharp edges, not a round barrel — pulled to 1.30mm, which is the thickest the 4S comes. Those edges are what makes it a spin string: they catch the ball rather than sliding across it, and the extra diameter is what keeps them intact through the long sets.

Firm, very direct, muted, and low on free power by design. Huaraz sits at just over 3,000 metres and the ball flies further up here than it has any right to; a string that gives you shape and a ceiling instead of pace is exactly the right instrument at altitude.

ThermoCore sits underneath it — a multi-stage heating process that softens the core structure and takes the sharpest of the impact shock out. Tecnifibre's published comparisons put the 4S at around 20% more power than Pro Red Code and about 15% more durable than the original Black Code, with the same tension maintenance as Razor Code.

Playtesters reported it holding consistent playability for around three weeks, which for a polyester is well above average.

This is the reel: 660 ft / 200 m, roughly sixteen frames' worth. If you have ever tried to get anything technical done in a mountain town after five in the afternoon you already understand why. Huaraz is the staging post for the whole Cordillera Blanca — the buses for the high lakes and the passes leave in the dark, and the shops that serve them keep hours to match.

Owning the spool means the restring happens the night before, in a hostel courtyard, under a bulb.

You'll get use out of this everywhere from the courts around the Plaza de Armas to the ones on the flat ground out towards Independencia.

And by the way, it's also perfect for the week of the Señor de la Soledad, when the processions take the streets and go on into the night — a devotion whose image goes back to the sixteenth-century Spanish foundation of the city, and one of the very few things here older than the earthquake.

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