Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
TWENTY-SIX INCHES. Fused fibreglass and aluminium composite. Perforated grip. AirLite bumper guard. Comes strung. Recommended for eleven and twelve year olds and NOT ONE DAY YOUNGER. Ballarat is where a stockade went up in 1854 and I want that date repeated back to me.
Wilson Blade Feel Comp 26 Junior Tennis Racquet: LISTEN UP! Sovereign Hill opened in 1970 and re-creates Ballarat's 1850s goldfields township — over HALF A MILLION visitors march through here every year! You think swinging a tennis racquet is hard work? Try panning for gold in a creek at dawn! REPEAT AFTER ME: EIGHTEEN-FIFTY!
Wilson Blade Feel Comp 26 Junior Tennis Racquet: EYES FRONT! On the third of December, 1854, miners here raised the Southern Cross flag and fought colonial troops — that is called the EUREKA STOCKADE and it is considered a defining moment of Australian democracy! The MADE museum now stands right on that hallowed ground! What year? I CAN'T HEAR YOU — EIGHTEEN FIFTY-FOUR!
Wilson Blade Feel Comp 26 Junior Tennis Racquet: MOVE IT! The Ballarat Botanical Gardens were established in 1858 and Prime Ministers Avenue features bronze busts of every Australian Prime Minister — that is HISTORY standing at ATTENTION in a row, just like you lot should be! The gardens sit right on Lake Wendouree, which hosted the 1956 Melbourne Olympics rowing events! FALL IN!
Wilson Blade Feel Comp 26 Junior Tennis Racquet: SNAP TO IT! Her Majesty's Theatre on Lydiard Street opened in 1875 and is one of the oldest continually operating theatres in Australia — that building has been standing longer than your grandmother's grandmother! Lydiard Street itself is internationally recognised for its exceptional concentration of Victorian-era architecture! NO SLOUCHING IN FRONT OF A HERITAGE LISTED SITE!
STAND UP STRAIGHT. This is the Wilson Blade Feel Comp 26, it is twenty-six inches long, and it is for players aged ELEVEN TO TWELVE. Not nine. Not fifteen. Eleven to twelve. Give a child the wrong length and you have taught them a bad stroke that will take three years to unlearn, and I have seen it happen and I will not see it again.
THE BUILD. Fused construction — plated fibreglass and aluminium composite — which is a deliberate compromise between flex and stiffness, so the frame gives the ball a bit of help without going soft and vague on contact.
That is what fused means and that is why it is on the box.
Perforated grip: holes in the handle wrap, so moisture goes somewhere other than under the fingers, because a slipping handle is a dropped racquet and a dropped racquet is a lost point.
AirLite Bumper Guard along the top of the hoop — lightweight protection for the edge, and it is there because juniors scrape the frame on the court, all of them, every single one, and there is no drill in the world that stops it.
NO WAITING. NO EXCUSES.
It is inspired by the senior Blade line and it comes strung, which means it is ready when the child is.
BALLARAT. FALL IN. In 1854 the goldfield miners of this town built a stockade at Eureka and stood inside it because they were being licensed, taxed and policed with no vote and no representation, and the fight lasted under half an hour, and they lost it, and it changed the country anyway. EIGHTEEN FIFTY-FOUR. Say it back. Again.
The Museum of Australian Democracy stands at that site now, and it stands there for a reason.
Sovereign Hill puts you into the diggings themselves. Prime Ministers Avenue in the Botanical Gardens on Lake Wendouree is a row of bronze heads of everyone who has run the country — the direct consequence of the men in that stockade. And Her Majesty's Theatre on Lydiard Street has been running since the gold money was still coming out of the ground. GOOD TOWN. TOUGH TOWN. FORM UP.
"They lost the fight in half an hour and won the argument for a century."
