If you'll gather round the case, please. What we have here is an overgrip — three of them, in fact — and I should be clear at the outset that an overgrip is not a replacement grip. It goes over the grip already on your handle. It adds a little diameter, it takes the wear, and when it is finished you peel it off and the original underneath is untouched.
That distinction is on my script and I do actually mean it, because half the questions I get on this stand come from people who removed something they should not have.
Now. The Prime Pro. As you can see, the surface is where the interest lies: an innovative chemical reaction increases the number of open cells across the face of the wrap, and those open cells are what absorb the sweat.
The result is the thing every player is really after — a dry, tacky feel that holds up when the rally goes long and the afternoon gets hot, with comfort in the hand rather than a sandpaper finish. Three in the pack, which is roughly a month of serious play for most people, and this is the point at which I am supposed to move you along to the next exhibit.
But — off script for a moment, because Haiphong is my favourite thing in this whole gallery. Sharpened trunks, driven into the riverbed, hidden under the high tide so an invading fleet sailed straight over them and then sat down on them when the water dropped. That is not a battle plan.
At Bạch Đằng Giang they keep the ironwood stakes.
That is carpentry deployed as strategy, and it worked more than once, and I could talk about it until they turn the lights off.
"Carpentry deployed as strategy — and it worked more than once."
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