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cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — the Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of Uzbekistan
cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Khonakhan Mosque in Margilan, A mosque with two tall brick minarets about 26 metres high, banded near the top, flanking a low prayer hall whose deep verandah is carried on slender carved wooden columns with painted capitals. The columns and the beamed ceiling above them are the striking detail; the mosque stands in a walled compound in the older part of Margilan
cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Said Ahmad Khoja Madrasah in Margilan, A single-storey madrasah built around a square courtyard, with twenty-six small cell doorways opening onto the yard under a continuous arcade. The brickwork is plain buff-coloured; in the north-west corner of the courtyard stands a small mosque with a one-sided aywan on carved wooden posts, giving the plan a deliberate asymmetry
cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Chakar Mosque in Margilan, A neighbourhood mosque whose glory is overhead: the flat wooden ceiling of its verandah is painted across every beam and panel with dense floral ornament in bright reds, greens and golds, carried on turned and carved timber columns. The building itself is low and unassuming, set behind a plain wall in a residential mahalla of Margilan
cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Yodgorlik Silk Factory in Margilan, A working factory of long low sheds and open courtyards, with skeins of dyed silk hung in bright bundles to dry along the yards and rows of wooden hand-looms inside. Alongside them stand German and Soviet machines from the 1950s; vats of dye and bundles of raw cocoons occupy the outer rooms
cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — the Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of Uzbekistan

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set

Margilan, Uzbekistan  ·  Strings > 16g

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set

This is a set of five-sided spin co-poly at 1.30 mm — edges that catch the felt, a bed that stays put, and outright permission to attack. Everything taut across a frame interests it, and Margilan's hand-weaving silk factory is the first stop.

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Four stops before the checkout

Margilan, Uzbekistan
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cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Khonakhan Mosque in Margilan, A mosque with two tall brick minarets about 26 metres high, banded near the top, flanking a low prayer hall whose deep verandah is carried on slender carved wooden columns with painted capitals. The columns and the beamed ceiling above them are the striking detail; the mosque stands in a walled compound in the older part of Margilan
Stop one

Khonakhan Mosque

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set: Sixteenth century, and I was here when those columns went in. You can still see the original carved wooden ones beneath the later repairs, and I promise you the later repairs are not an improvement. This is the oldest surviving religious building in Margilan, a Fergana Valley town whose silk trade is recorded from the period of the Silk Road caravan routes — and I do mean the period: busier then, dustier, better company at the caravanserai. It has since been restored under the Uzbek Ministry of Culture, which is thorough work, if a little tidy for my taste. Put a hand on the columns. They remember more than the plaque does.

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cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Said Ahmad Khoja Madrasah in Margilan, A single-storey madrasah built around a square courtyard, with twenty-six small cell doorways opening onto the yard under a continuous arcade. The brickwork is plain buff-coloured; in the north-west corner of the courtyard stands a small mosque with a one-sided aywan on carved wooden posts, giving the plan a deliberate asymmetry
Stop two

Said Ahmad Khoja Madrasah

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set: Said Ahmad Khoja built this in the nineteenth century — wealthy Margilan patron, wanted to be remembered, and to be fair to Said, here we are. The sad part is that it barely operated, closing soon after Soviet power was established in the Fergana Valley. I remember the doors going shut. After Uzbek independence in 1991 it was restored and reopened, and it now houses a centre for traditional crafts, in particular the ikat-dyeing of atlas and adras silk for which Margilan is known. It is listed among Uzbekistan's protected cultural heritage sites. A building that waited a century for its second act. I have waited longer.

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cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Chakar Mosque in Margilan, A neighbourhood mosque whose glory is overhead: the flat wooden ceiling of its verandah is painted across every beam and panel with dense floral ornament in bright reds, greens and golds, carried on turned and carved timber columns. The building itself is low and unassuming, set behind a plain wall in a residential mahalla of Margilan
Stop three

Chakar Mosque

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set: Early twentieth century, and I sat under that ceiling while it was being painted, which remains the correct way to view it. It is regarded as one of the finest surviving examples of Fergana decorative painting, a regional tradition of polychrome ornament applied directly to the structural timber — no plaster in between, colour straight onto the bones of the building. The mosque is still in local use and people come specifically for the ceiling. The colours were louder then, obviously. Everything was louder then. Stand and look up for a good while; you cannot hurry a ceiling, and you should not try.

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cardio tennis clinics in 33313 — Yodgorlik Silk Factory in Margilan, A working factory of long low sheds and open courtyards, with skeins of dyed silk hung in bright bundles to dry along the yards and rows of wooden hand-looms inside. Alongside them stand German and Soviet machines from the 1950s; vats of dye and bundles of raw cocoons occupy the outer rooms
Stop four

Yodgorlik Silk Factory

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set: Founded in 1972, which is practically this morning, and it is the largest silk enterprise in Central Asia still producing by hand. Reeling from the cocoons, tying and dyeing the warp for the ikat patterns, weaving — much of it done without electricity, following the methods that made Margilan a silk centre for well over a thousand years. I have watched those methods for a fair portion of that, and they have barely shifted, which is the compliment. The factory was central to the revival of Uzbek hand-woven atlas and adras silk after independence. Stand near the looms a moment. That sound has not changed either.

The Margilan, Uzbekistan track

Volkl Cyclone 16g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

Ribs, canopy, tension. Get any one of the three wrong and you have made a very expensive object that turns inside out on a bridge. I have spent my life on things that are held taut across a frame, so a string bed is practically family.

Volkl Cyclone is a shaped co-polyester monofilament with five sides instead of a round profile, and those edges are the point: they catch the ball's felt and drag it, which is what puts real rotation on the ball. This is the single 40-foot (12 m) set in 16 gauge, 1.30 mm — the more durable gauge, enough for one racquet.

It is a firm, control-first string, so it gives you a low launch angle, a bed that does not shift about, and the confidence to swing fully at a ball because the spin will bring it down. Two rules, and they matter: string a co-poly five to ten percent below your usual synthetic tension, and replace it around fifteen to twenty hours in, because it goes dead long before it snaps.

It does the job everywhere from a junior's first full swing to a club singles player's heaviest forehand, and it is also perfect for anyone who has watched a warp being tensioned in Margilan and finally understood what a string bed is.

Margilan is where things are stretched across frames properly. The Yodgorlik Silk Factory, founded in 1972, is the largest silk enterprise in Central Asia still producing by hand — reeling from cocoons, tying and dyeing the warp for ikat, weaving, much of it without electricity. Ikat is entirely a question of what is under tension when the dye goes on. I could watch it for a week.

The town around it is older. The Khonakhan Mosque dates from the sixteenth century, the oldest surviving religious building here, with its original carved wooden columns still standing. The Said Ahmad Khoja Madrasah was built in the nineteenth century and reopened after independence in 1991. And the Chakar Mosque's painted ceiling is among the finest surviving Fergana decorative painting.

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