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cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the full spool of black co-polyester composed together with the flag of Taiwan, the red field with its dark blue canton and white twelve-rayed sun filling the frame behind the reel and lifting on a slow breeze so the canton catches the light, clean directional studio daylight, no lettering anywhere in the picture.
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the string reel photographed at the Huxin Pavilion in Taichung Park, Taiwan, the twin-peaked pavilion standing on its island in the lake with the arched footbridge running out to it and old banyans leaning over the water. First light on a still morning in early spring, camera low near the water's edge looking up along the bridge: a dozen people doing slow tai chi on the grass under the trees, an old man walking a caged bird, two rowing boats being unchained at the jetty, mist sitting flat on the lake. The reel rests close in the near foreground on a worn stone step at the bridge approach, and nobody breaks their form to look at it.
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the string reel photographed inside the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan, the interior a continuous flow of pale curving cast concrete running from floor into wall into ceiling with rounded cave-mouth openings instead of doors and no straight wall in sight. Hard midday light pouring down through the roof openings, camera at eye level straight on: an interval crowd moving through in both directions, a girl running her palm along the curve of the wall, an usher pointing two latecomers up a ramp, a string quartet playing in the open foyer with people stopping to listen. The reel sits on a broad concrete ledge in the middle distance off to one side, completely ignored.
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — a wide elevated view over Baojue Temple in Taichung's North District, Taiwan, the enormous gilded seated Budai rising clear above the temple's tiled roofs with apartment blocks pressing in on every side. Warm golden hour with a thunderhead building over the hills, camera high looking down into the courtyard: worshippers lighting incense at the burner in a haze of smoke, a queue at the offering table, a caretaker sweeping fallen joss ash across the flagstones, a delivery scooter idling at the gate. The reel sits small on the parapet in the near foreground, the temple and the gold figure dominating the frame.
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the string reel photographed close and shallow-focused on the dark timber counter of the Chun Shui Tang teahouse in central Taichung, Taiwan, low tables and laid-out tea trays soft in the background behind it. Late on a wet night with rain running down the window glass and street neon smearing through it, camera close: a member of staff mid-shake with a metal cocktail shaker held high, tapioca pearls being spooned into a tall glass, two customers leaning on the counter waiting, a third asleep over a book in the corner. The reel sits on the counter beside a stacked tray of clean glasses, and nobody so much as moves it.
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the full spool of black co-polyester composed together with the flag of Taiwan, the red field with its dark blue canton and white twelve-rayed sun filling the frame behind the reel and lifting on a slow breeze so the canton catches the light, clean directional studio daylight, no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel

Taichung, Taiwan  ·  Strings > 16g

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel

<p>This is 200 m of slippery 1.30 mm co-polyester on one spool, and the reason to buy it is that every racquet in the bag finally feels like every other. It claims it can show you Taichung, and honestly, I would want to see some evidence before you agree to that, but it is going to take you anyway.</p>

↓   Tour Taichung, Taiwan

Four stops before the checkout

Taichung, Taiwan
01
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the string reel photographed at the Huxin Pavilion in Taichung Park, Taiwan, the twin-peaked pavilion standing on its island in the lake with the arched footbridge running out to it and old banyans leaning over the water. First light on a still morning in early spring, camera low near the water's edge looking up along the bridge: a dozen people doing slow tai chi on the grass under the trees, an old man walking a caged bird, two rowing boats being unchained at the jetty, mist sitting flat on the lake. The reel rests close in the near foreground on a worn stone step at the bridge approach, and nobody breaks their form to look at it.
Stop one

Huxinting Pavilion (Mid-Lake Pavilion), Taichung Park

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel: Sit. The boats are slow here and so are we. This pavilion and its lake were finished on 24 October 1908, for the ceremonies opening the trunk railway from Kaohsiung to Taipei and Keelung. It received a visiting Japanese imperial prince. Consider that. Built to celebrate the fastest thing on the island, and it has spent the century since standing perfectly still on its piles. It sits in Taichung Park, completed 1903, the city's oldest. Emblem of Taichung since the colonial period. City historic site in 1999. The bus can wait. The bus has waited before.

02
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the string reel photographed inside the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan, the interior a continuous flow of pale curving cast concrete running from floor into wall into ceiling with rounded cave-mouth openings instead of doors and no straight wall in sight. Hard midday light pouring down through the roof openings, camera at eye level straight on: an interval crowd moving through in both directions, a girl running her palm along the curve of the wall, an usher pointing two latecomers up a ramp, a string quartet playing in the open foyer with people stopping to listen. The reel sits on a broad concrete ledge in the middle distance off to one side, completely ignored.
Stop two

Old Taichung Railway Station

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel: A station teaches patience whether or not you wish to learn it. This one was completed in 1917, replacing a wooden station of 1905. Neo-Renaissance, in the Japanese colonial manner: red brick, white banding, a clock set in the pediment for people who were already late. It was Taichung's principal station for close to a century. In 2016 the passengers moved to the elevated line behind it. The trains left; the building stayed, and became the centre of the Taichung Station Railway Cultural Park. Notice which one you came to see. Breathe. We are not catching anything today.

03
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — a wide elevated view over Baojue Temple in Taichung's North District, Taiwan, the enormous gilded seated Budai rising clear above the temple's tiled roofs with apartment blocks pressing in on every side. Warm golden hour with a thunderhead building over the hills, camera high looking down into the courtyard: worshippers lighting incense at the burner in a haze of smoke, a queue at the offering table, a caretaker sweeping fallen joss ash across the flagstones, a delivery scooter idling at the gate. The reel sits small on the parapet in the near foreground, the temple and the gold figure dominating the frame.
Stop three

Taichung Prefectural Hall

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel: Approach along the carriage drive, slowly. It was designed for arrivals, and an arrival cannot be hurried. Begun in 1913 by the Japanese government architect Moriyama Matsunosuke, who also gave Taipei its Presidential Office Building, and raised in stages across the following decade in a French-derived mansard style. It held the administration of Taichū Prefecture under Japanese rule, then served as Taichung City Hall. A designated historic monument, now under restoration to become a cultural venue. A building that has changed its purpose three times and its roof not once. There is a lesson there. Take your time finding it.

04
cardio camps Fort Lauderdale — the string reel photographed close and shallow-focused on the dark timber counter of the Chun Shui Tang teahouse in central Taichung, Taiwan, low tables and laid-out tea trays soft in the background behind it. Late on a wet night with rain running down the window glass and street neon smearing through it, camera close: a member of staff mid-shake with a metal cocktail shaker held high, tapioca pearls being spooned into a tall glass, two customers leaning on the counter waiting, a third asleep over a book in the corner. The reel sits on the counter beside a stacked tray of clean glasses, and nobody so much as moves it.
Stop four

National Taichung Theater

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel: No straight walls. Nowhere for the eye to stop, so it keeps moving, which is the whole point. Toyo Ito designed this with the engineer Cecil Balmond and Arup; it opened in 2016 after a construction programme complicated entirely by its own geometry — a continuous system of curved, interconnected concrete shells, no conventional columns, no flat surfaces. Ito called it the Sound Cave. Inside: a grand theatre of 2,007 seats, a playhouse, a black box. The principal performing arts venue of central Taiwan. Someone poured this patiently, shell by shell. Stand in the curve a moment. Yes, I know the time.

The Taichung, Taiwan track

Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel

Written for this world alone.

<p>This is the 200 m / 660 ft reel of Dunlop Explosive Speed in 16 gauge, 1.30 mm — a co-polyester monofilament with a smooth rather than shaped surface, enough string on one spool for roughly twenty racquets. Dunlop list the reel in black, blue and yellow.

If you string your own frames, or your club does, the reel is the only sensible unit: the cost per job drops sharply against packet sets, and every racquet in the bag comes off the same spool, so the spare frame you grab at 5-4 down feels like the one you have been playing with all afternoon.</p><p>Taichung is a fair place to test a claim, because it is a city that keeps making them and then, irritatingly, turning out to be right.

It says bubble tea was invented here, at the Chun Shui Tang teahouse, and that appears to hold up. It says its opera house has no straight walls anywhere in the building, and Toyo Ito's National Taichung Theater, opened in 2016, genuinely does not.

Nearly three million people, an average annual temperature of 23.3 °C, and over a thousand registered temples.</p><p>The playing character is the reason to buy rather than the price.

A smooth poly slides across itself and snaps back cleanly, so spin comes from the string bed recovering rather than from edges tearing at the felt, and the launch angle on a flat ball is much easier to trust. The 16 is the firmer, more controlled gauge of the two; Dunlop pitch it at big hitters who want their heaviest shot to land inside the line rather than three feet past it.

Tension maintenance is respectable for the category, which is a phrase every polyester manufacturer uses and this one has more right to than most.</p><p>You will get through this reel everywhere from a humid August evening in central Taiwan to an indoor hall in a colder country entirely — and by the way, it fits a city that eats at ten at night: restring after the last set, walk out for a cup of the drink Taichung invented, and be back on court in the morning before the heat arrives.</p><p>Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel</p><p>Come join the Dunlop Explosive Speed 16g Tennis String Reel for a tour of Taichung.</p><p>
• Taichung Park and the Huxin Pavilion — the twin-roofed pavilion on the lake, built in 1908 to mark the completion of Taiwan's north-south trunk railway.<br />
• The National Taichung Theater — Toyo Ito's cave of curving cast concrete, opened in 2016, with not a straight wall in it.<br />
• Baojue Temple — the enormous gilded seated Budai that rises clean over the rooftops of the North District.<br />
• Chun Shui Tang — the teahouse where bubble tea was invented, and where they still shake it by hand in front of you.

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