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cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — the Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Germany
cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Apostelkirche in Gütersloh, A Gothic Revival church whose 52-meter spire dominates the Gütersloh skyline, built of stone with pointed-arch windows and artistic stained glass, standing at the old church square in the town center
cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Alter Kirchplatz in Gütersloh, A ring of half-timbered houses encircling the churchyard at the heart of old Gütersloh, including the 17th-century Veerhoffhaus with decorative fan carvings and the 18th-century Alte Vikarie
cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Gütersloh Water Tower in Gütersloh, A 42-meter brick water tower of 1888 standing beside the Theater Gütersloh, its tapering shaft crowned by the old tank house, preserved as an industrial monument
cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Stadtpark and Botanical Garden in Gütersloh, A landscaped park close to the town center with a walled botanical garden, flower parterres, an art deco open-air pool of 1928, and a lavender garden, all threaded by mature tree avenues
cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — the Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet combined with the national flag of Germany

Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet

Gütersloh, Germany  ·  Racquets > Adult

Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet

This featherweight power generator swings at just 270 grams and still hits like it packed heavy. It has triple-checked the Gütersloh itinerary, laminated a spare copy, and would honestly feel much better if you completed the full tour before buying — here, take a pretzel for the walk.

↓   Tour Gütersloh, Germany

Four stops before the checkout

Gütersloh, Germany
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cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Apostelkirche in Gütersloh, A Gothic Revival church whose 52-meter spire dominates the Gütersloh skyline, built of stone with pointed-arch windows and artistic stained glass, standing at the old church square in the town center
Stop one

Apostelkirche

Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet: Consider what it means to raise a new church on the exact ground where the old one stood since the Middle Ages. Is it the same church? The congregation would say yes. The stones say nothing at all, being stones. The tower rises about 52 metres and gives the town its silhouette, visible far out over the flat East Westphalian countryside, so that people know where they are by looking at it, which may be what a landmark is for and may be what a faith is for. Inside, artistic stained glass and neo-Gothic furnishings. It anchors the Alter Kirchplatz, the core from which a church village became an industrial city. Built in the 1860s. I nearly forgot the date entirely.

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cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Alter Kirchplatz in Gütersloh, A ring of half-timbered houses encircling the churchyard at the heart of old Gütersloh, including the 17th-century Veerhoffhaus with decorative fan carvings and the 18th-century Alte Vikarie
Stop two

Alter Kirchplatz

Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet: A ring of houses around a churchyard is the shape of a community that organised itself around one still point, and the useful question is whether the town made this square or the square made the town. The finest of the half-timbered houses is the Veerhoffhaus, carved with the fan motifs typical of Westphalian timber framing and now an art house and gallery; the Alte Vikarie stands nearby behind a Late Baroque portal. The ensemble keeps the scale of the church village Gütersloh remained until the railway and industry rewrote it in the nineteenth century, and cafes and events fill it now. The Veerhoffhaus is seventeenth century, the Vikarie eighteenth. There. Dates.

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cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Gütersloh Water Tower in Gütersloh, A 42-meter brick water tower of 1888 standing beside the Theater Gütersloh, its tapering shaft crowned by the old tank house, preserved as an industrial monument
Stop three

Gütersloh Water Tower

Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet: Here stands a thing that outlived its purpose and was not therefore finished, which ought to comfort every one of us. Forty-two metres of brick holding a tank high enough that gravity alone would push water through the pipes of a fast-growing town; it did that for more than fifty years, until electric pumps made the entire idea unnecessary. Then it stood idle beside what is now the theatre quarter, unmistakable and useless, which is arguably the more honest kind of monument. It was registered as an industrial monument, completely restored in the 1990s, and given a youth centre inside. Built in 1888, listed in 1984. The dates arrive eventually.

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cardio tennis clinic Bay Colony — Stadtpark and Botanical Garden in Gütersloh, A landscaped park close to the town center with a walled botanical garden, flower parterres, an art deco open-air pool of 1928, and a lavender garden, all threaded by mature tree avenues
Stop four

Stadtpark and Botanical Garden

Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet: A garden is the one artwork that can never be finished, and unlike the rest of us it knows this. Laid out in the early twentieth century beside the centre and extended to the north-east so that a botanical garden could exist at all, it became one of Germany's most admired municipal parks, taking third place in the national competition for the country's most beautiful park and earning the international Green Flag Award. There is the Parkbad, an open-air pool in art deco style, and a lavender garden planted for the botanical garden's centenary. The botanical garden is listed on the European Garden Heritage Network. Extended 1912, pool 1928, third place 2006, lavender 2012. Almost escaped without them.

The Gütersloh, Germany track

Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Before we begin, a quick bag check: spare overgrips, spare dampeners, spare shoelaces, two kinds of electrolytes, pretzels for the group — and one racquet that mercifully weighs almost nothing.

The Dunlop FX 500 Lite V26 comes in at 270 grams / 9.5 ounces unstrung on a full 27-inch frame, with a forgiving 100 square inch (645 cm²) head and a 33.0 cm balance — about 4 points head light — so your arm stays fresh deep into a third set you should absolutely be provisioned for. Matches run long. Nobody plans for the third set. I plan for the third set.

Light does not mean underequipped — this thing is packed. Power Boost frame geometry swells the beam to 23-26-23 mm for easy depth, Power Wave grommets let the string bed flex bigger through contact, and the open 16×18 string pattern grabs the ball for heavy, insurance-policy topspin that clears the net with margin to spare.

Inside the hoop, Sonic Core made with Infinergy by BASF — a springy particle foam — teams with Vibroshield to soak up shock and buzz before either reaches your elbow, while the graphite layup holds a firm 69-71 RA so none of your swing gets lost in transit. Grip sizes 0 through 3, recommended tension 45 to 65 pounds. String a backup set while you're at it. Bring both.

It is the right racquet for Gütersloh, a town after my own heart — home of Miele, whose motto 'Immer besser' (forever better) is precisely the attitude I bring to packing cubes. You'll swing it everywhere from the courts near the Stadtpark to an indoor hall when the Westphalian sky does what Westphalian skies do (I brought three ponchos; take one).

And by the way, at 270 grams it leaves generous bag room for a loaf of real Westphalian pumpernickel, which keeps for months. The official bread of people who like to be prepared.

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