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cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — the Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Tanzania
cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — Askari Monument in Dar es Salaam, Bronze statue of an African soldier in uniform pointing a bayonet, on a stone plinth at the roundabout at Samora Avenue and Azikiwe Street
cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — St Joseph's Cathedral in Dar es Salaam, Twin-spired German Gothic cathedral in cream and white on Sokoine Drive, facing Dar es Salaam harbour
cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — Kariakoo Market in Dar es Salaam, Large modernist concrete market building with a distinctive umbrella-shaped roof structure in the Kariakoo district
cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, Museum building set in gardens on Shaaban Robert Street near the Botanical Gardens, central Dar es Salaam
cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — the Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Tanzania

Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  ·  Racquets > Adult

Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet

This is the bendy one that will not wander: 100 in², 295 g, a 24.5 mm frame that gives right through the ball and still refuses to twist. Soft hands first, then Dar es Salaam — a bronze askari on a borrowed plinth, Gothic spires on the Indian Ocean, a skull nearly two million years old.

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Four stops before the checkout

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — Askari Monument in Dar es Salaam, Bronze statue of an African soldier in uniform pointing a bayonet, on a stone plinth at the roundabout at Samora Avenue and Azikiwe Street
Stop one

Askari Monument

Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet: EYES ON THE BAYONET. Bronze askari, in uniform, pointing – erected 1927, and you will remember that year. SAY IT BACK. NINETEEN TWENTY-SEVEN. Now the detail that separates a tourist from a soldier: he is standing on the spot where a German colonial monument stood before him. They did not build a fresh plinth. They swapped the statue and kept the pedestal. THAT IS A REASSIGNMENT, NOT A REBUILD. Same ground, new flag, and somebody saved a fortune in masonry. Every empire that has stood in this square has stood on the last one's stonework, and not one of them mentioned it. FOLLOW THE BAYONET. It is pointing. That is an order, and he gave it before I did.

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cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — St Joseph's Cathedral in Dar es Salaam, Twin-spired German Gothic cathedral in cream and white on Sokoine Drive, facing Dar es Salaam harbour
Stop two

St Joseph's Cathedral

Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet: FALL IN, FACING THE HARBOUR. Twin spires. Gothic. On the Indian Ocean. Built between 1897 and 1902 – REPEAT THE DATES – when this was German East Africa, and I want every one of you looking at the windows. POINTED. That shape was invented to squeeze light out of a grey northern sky, and here it stands in equatorial glare doing the precise opposite of its job. THAT IS HOMESICKNESS. IN STONE. AT SCALE. The original German inscriptions are still inside. So is the altar. A building can be issued the wrong kit for the climate and serve on for over a century without a word of complaint. NONE FROM THE CATHEDRAL. NONE FROM YOU EITHER. MOVE.

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cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — Kariakoo Market in Dar es Salaam, Large modernist concrete market building with a distinctive umbrella-shaped roof structure in the Kariakoo district
Stop three

Kariakoo Market

Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet: Stand easy. Voices down for this one. Kariakoo. Say it slowly and you will hear exactly what it is: Carrier Corps, worn smooth by a century of mouths. In the First World War the British Carrier Corps was quartered here – porters, tens of thousands of them, hauling supplies through the campaign on foot, and enormous numbers of them died doing it. The neighbourhood kept the name in Swahili and has carried it ever since. Today it is the busiest market in the city, concrete umbrellas overhead, noise in every direction. A word for men who were worked to death is now the word for where people buy tomatoes. I am not going to shout that at you. I am going to make certain you heard it. Carry on.

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cardiovascular tennis classes 33311 — National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, Museum building set in gardens on Shaaban Robert Street near the Botanical Gardens, central Dar es Salaam
Stop four

National Museum of Tanzania

Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet: INSIDE. AT THE DOUBLE. In this building is a hominin skull that Mary Leakey found at Olduvai Gorge in 1959 – nicknamed Nutcracker Man, for the size of the teeth – and it is nearly TWO MILLION YEARS OLD. SAY THE NUMBER. LOUDER. Two million years, and I heard complaints about the walk from the roundabout. Also in this collection: a vintage Rolls-Royce connected with Julius Nyerere. So the earliest ancestors and a presidential motorcar are billeted in the same building, which nobody planned and nobody is going to fix. NINETEEN FIFTY-NINE. AGAIN. Outstanding. Water in ninety seconds. NINETY. NOBODY FALLS BEHIND.

The Dar es Salaam, Tanzania track

Wilson Clash 100 V3 Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Everyone assumes the horse does the work and the rider sits there. What the rider actually does is stay soft. Grip too hard and you fight the animal; go loose and you fall off. The whole skill is being flexible and stable in the same instant, which everybody says is impossible.

The Clash exists because Wilson decided it was not impossible. The Clash 100 V3 is a 100 square inch frame, 295 g / 10.4 oz unstrung, 27 inches, 16×19 pattern, with a 24.5 mm beam — and the point of it is a pairing that used to be a contradiction.

FreeFlex construction lets the frame bend dramatically through contact, giving you a plush, connected feel and an enormous amount of comfort, while StableSmart geometry keeps the head from twisting, so all that flex does not cost you stability or control. In the hand it feels soft and forgiving, and yet the ball goes where you sent it.

It is the racquet you can swing freely at without your elbow filing a complaint.

Dar es Salaam has the same trick of holding two things at once. At the roundabout where Samora Avenue meets Azikiwe Street the Askari Monument has stood since 1927, a bronze African soldier with a bayonet out — and he is standing on the plinth of the German colonial monument that was there before him. Nobody built a new pedestal. They swapped the statue and left the stone.

Reuse the frame, change what it does: that is the entire Clash argument in bronze.

The city keeps doing it. St Joseph's Cathedral went up between 1897 and 1902 in German East Africa, twin Gothic spires and pointed northern windows facing a harbour in equatorial glare, the original German inscriptions still inside.

Kariakoo is Carrier Corps worn smooth by a century of Swahili, the district where tens of thousands of First World War porters were quartered and where the busiest market in the city now trades under concrete umbrellas.

A frame this soft gets ridden everywhere from a hot morning court behind Kariakoo to a still evening near the Botanical Gardens, and it is also perfect for the Dar es Salaam player whose arm has started objecting to stiff frames in the heat.

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