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Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes and the flag of Poland combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The plain horizontal bicolour of white above red fills the frame, the cloth lit from one side so the fold shadows do the work in the absence of any emblem, and the pair of shoes is composed into the arrangement so the white upper sits against the white band and the sole breaks the line into the red, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at the Primate's Palace in Skierniewice, Poland. A long pale Baroque and Neo-Classical palace with a shallow pediment, standing among mature limes and chestnuts in the town park. Camera low and close to the ground looking up along a worn stone step, early morning raking light in October with mist still lying on the grass: a groundsman raking leaves into a heap, an elderly couple walking a dachshund on the gravel, a runner going past the colonnade, rooks coming off the roofline. The shoes sit on the step in the near foreground, nobody wearing, holding or touching them.
Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at Skierniewice railway station in Skierniewice, Poland. A long brick station building in an English Gothic manner with pointed window heads and steep gables, through platforms and a steel footbridge, on the main Warsaw–Łódź line. Eye level straight on in bright hard midday sun: a regional train just in and doors open, commuters walking fast down the platform with bags, a guard leaning out to check the length of the train, a man running for the footbridge stairs, pigeons scattering off the canopy. The shoes sit on a platform bench in the middle distance to one side, untouched.
Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at the National Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice, Poland. Low research blocks and long glasshouses set among numbered rows of dwarf apple trees running away in straight lines across experimental orchards. Elevated camera looking down, wide, the orchard dominating and the product small in frame, golden hour in mid-October: pickers moving along the rows with canvas bags, a tractor towing stacked crates down the headland, two researchers crouched over a clipboard at a numbered stake, a ladder against a tree with someone half up it. The shoes sit on the concrete parapet of a low retaining wall at the edge of frame, nobody near them.
Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at Konstancja Gładkowska's manor house in Skierniewice, Poland. A modest single-storey manor with a small columned porch and a hipped roof, set back behind a garden on a quiet residential street. Close and intimate with shallow depth of field, after dark in wet November: street lamps and lit windows doubled in the puddles, a small evening recital letting out, listeners pausing in the porch light to put up umbrellas, a woman carrying a violin case down the path, rain lines visible against the lamps. The shoes sit on a rain-darkened wooden garden bench in mid-frame with the porch soft behind them, nobody touching them.
Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes and the flag of Poland combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The plain horizontal bicolour of white above red fills the frame, the cloth lit from one side so the fold shadows do the work in the absence of any emblem, and the pair of shoes is composed into the arrangement so the white upper sits against the white band and the sole breaks the line into the red, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women’s Shoes

Skierniewice, Poland  ·  Shoes > Women's > Babolat

Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes

This 320-gram clay specialist is the lightest thing Babolat has ever drawn, a Matryx forefoot panel carrying the lateral load on a slide and five per cent more cushioning underfoot than last year's. Something is building over Skierniewice, so we walk the four stops now and settle up afterwards.

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Four stops before the checkout

Skierniewice, Poland
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Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at the Primate's Palace in Skierniewice, Poland. A long pale Baroque and Neo-Classical palace with a shallow pediment, standing among mature limes and chestnuts in the town park. Camera low and close to the ground looking up along a worn stone step, early morning raking light in October with mist still lying on the grass: a groundsman raking leaves into a heap, an elderly couple walking a dachshund on the gravel, a runner going past the colonnade, rooks coming off the roofline. The shoes sit on the step in the near foreground, nobody wearing, holding or touching them.
Stop one

Primate's Palace (Pałac Prymasowski)

Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes: An archbishop's residence was raised here in 1610, and through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Skierniewice was the summer seat of the Primates of Poland — a summer place, which I have not had since I was a boy. Primate Antoni Kazimierz Ostrowski had the palace rebuilt in the 1780s. After the partitions the estate passed to the Russian emperors, and from 15 to 17 September 1884 Tsar Alexander III received Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary here, to renew the League of the Three Emperors that Bismarck first assembled in 1873 and formalised in 1881; at Skierniewice it was reconstituted for a further three years. The complex now houses part of the Institute of Horticulture. Three emperors, and now people growing fruit. I prefer the fruit.

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Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at Skierniewice railway station in Skierniewice, Poland. A long brick station building in an English Gothic manner with pointed window heads and steep gables, through platforms and a steel footbridge, on the main Warsaw–Łódź line. Eye level straight on in bright hard midday sun: a regional train just in and doors open, commuters walking fast down the platform with bags, a guard leaning out to check the length of the train, a man running for the footbridge stairs, pigeons scattering off the canopy. The shoes sit on a platform bench in the middle distance to one side, untouched.
Stop two

Church of St James the Apostle (Kościół św. Jakuba Apostoła)

Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes: The present church was built between 1781 and 1783 at the expense of Primate Antoni Kazimierz Ostrowski, the same patron rebuilding the town's palace in those very years — one man, one town, one extremely busy decade. Efraim Schröger designed the building together with its interior arrangement and its polychrome decoration, which is rarer than it sounds and rather lovely: the same hand chose the walls and everything that went on them. Six altars stand inside, the high altar showing the Crucifixion, the side altars the Immaculate Conception and St James. An earlier church here was begun about 1457, halted between 1463 and 1473, and completed under Jakub of Sienno. It entered the register of historic monuments on 12 May 1946. The church at home smelled exactly like this. I had forgotten I knew that smell.

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Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at the National Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice, Poland. Low research blocks and long glasshouses set among numbered rows of dwarf apple trees running away in straight lines across experimental orchards. Elevated camera looking down, wide, the orchard dominating and the product small in frame, golden hour in mid-October: pickers moving along the rows with canvas bags, a tractor towing stacked crates down the headland, two researchers crouched over a clipboard at a numbered stake, a ladder against a tree with someone half up it. The shoes sit on the concrete parapet of a low retaining wall at the edge of frame, nobody near them.
Stop three

Skierniewice Roundhouse (Parowozownia Skierniewice)

Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes: This is the building that undid me. The depot dates from 1845, the year the Warsaw–Vienna Railway reached Skierniewice and made the town a junction almost exactly midway between Warsaw and Łódź. No drawings or descriptions of the original 1845 shed survive; by 1858 it had already been heavily rebuilt on the same footprint as the twenty-three-road roundhouse standing today. It serviced locomotives until 1991 and is now run as a museum by the Polish Association of Railway Enthusiasts, whose collection includes Ty51, Ol49, TKi3 and OKl27 steam locomotives, LS40 and SP30 diesels, and EP03 and AEG electrics. Halfway between two cities, and everything here has always been leaving for one or the other. I know that particular feeling in my bones.

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Broward County cardio tennis classes — the Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes photographed at Konstancja Gładkowska's manor house in Skierniewice, Poland. A modest single-storey manor with a small columned porch and a hipped roof, set back behind a garden on a quiet residential street. Close and intimate with shallow depth of field, after dark in wet November: street lamps and lit windows doubled in the puddles, a small evening recital letting out, listeners pausing in the porch light to put up umbrellas, a woman carrying a violin case down the path, rain lines visible against the lamps. The shoes sit on a rain-darkened wooden garden bench in mid-frame with the porch soft behind them, nobody touching them.
Stop four

House of Konstancja Gładkowska (Chamber of the History of Skierniewice)

Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes: A small house, and the sweetest sad story on the tour. Konstancja Gładkowska was born in Warsaw on 2 June 1810, became a singer, and was the first love of Fryderyk Chopin, whom she met at a concert when both were eighteen. She spent the last ten years of her life in this house, which is more than two hundred years old. It now holds the Chamber of the History of Skierniewice, a branch collection on the town's past. Born in the capital, and she ended her days in a quiet town some distance from it, in a house that is now full of other people's history. I am not going to pretend that did not land somewhere personal.

The Skierniewice, Poland track

Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes

Written for this world alone.

<p>Three hundred and twenty grams in a EU 42.5, which makes this the lightest shoe Babolat currently sells. Naturally the brochure treats that as a miracle rather than a measurement. It is a measurement.

But it is a good one, and on clay — where you are not landing, you are arriving sideways and continuing — light is the difference between finishing a third set and thinking about your feet in the second.</p>
<p>The clay version of the Michelin outsole is what you are actually paying for, along with the Matryx panel across the forefoot, which does the lateral holding so the upper does not have to be thick to do it.

Babolat's Active Flexion divides the sole into nine key pressure points, which is a marketing sentence describing a real thing: the sole bends where a foot bends and stays honest where it should not. Cushioning is up five per cent on the previous model, by way of a moulded OrthoLite insole over a KPRS-X EVA insert under the heel.

Breathable mesh upper, lateral reinforcements built in rather than glued on, and hard-wearing rubber over the inner forefoot down to the toes, because that is where a sliding shoe dies and everybody pretends otherwise.</p>
<p>Skierniewice is the correct place to think about all of this.

Poland has red clay in quantity, the town sits almost exactly halfway between Warsaw and Łódź on the old Warsaw–Vienna line, and it has spent a century as the country's capital of horticultural science — which means the whole place is professionally interested in what happens between a surface and the thing standing on it.

You will get use out of these everywhere from a municipal court behind the Primate's Palace to a dusty August afternoon anywhere south of the Vistula.

And by the way — they are perfect for the Skierniewice Festival of Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables, which involves walking on grass, gravel and wet market floor for an entire weekend while carrying more apples than you intended to buy.</p>
<p>One caveat, predictably: this is a clay shoe.

Put it on a hard court and you will wear the tread off it in a season and then complain to somebody. Buy it for what it is.</p>
<p>Babolat Jet Tere 2 Clay Court Women's Shoes</p>

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