Three in the morning, still awake, so let me tell you about the Boom Elite while the thought is here. It is a super-oversize head. That is the whole personality of it. A bigger hoop means a bigger sweet spot, and a bigger sweet spot means the ball you did not hit properly still goes over the net, and honestly, at this hour, that is the only kind of forgiveness I am interested in.
So: light, manoeuvrable, built for beginners and intermediate players, with an open string pattern and effortless power coming off the oversize face. That is the pitch and it is an honest one — this is not a control stick and nobody has claimed it is.
It has been refreshed for this generation with vibrant colours and a matte finish, and the value in it is real, which matters more than the marketing does. Where was I. The sweet spot.
Right — the reason the oversize frame suits an improving player is that it removes one variable at a time when there are already six, and once the contact stops being a lottery the swing starts building itself. Anyway.
Oranjestad. Fort Zoutman went up in 1798 and it is the oldest building still standing there, with the Willem III Tower right beside the walls, and I have lost the thread but found a better one: the whole main street, Caya G. F.
I have never been able to sleep in a port town, there is always something arriving.
Betico Croes, is Dutch colonial fronts painted in colours nobody in the actual Netherlands would dare, and it looks best at about four in the morning when the light comes up off the water and there is nobody in it.
"A bigger sweet spot is just forgiveness with a specification."
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