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cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — the Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip combined with the national flag of Poland
cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — Basilica of St Andrew the Apostle in Olkusz, A Gothic brick and stone church just off the north-east corner of the market square, with a steep tiled roof, buttressed walls, tall pointed windows and a single tower. Inside, above the west end, stands a Renaissance organ case in dark carved and painted wood with two flanking towers of pipes; a very large silver crucifix, about a metre and a half tall, hangs in the nave
cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — The Market Square and the Underground Olkusz museum in Olkusz, A large rectangular square of pale paving surrounded by low two- and three-storey townhouses in plain render, with a reconstructed stone tower and a surviving fragment of the medieval town wall on one side. There is no town hall standing in the middle; instead a low modern entrance structure sits at the centre of the open paving, and a second entrance is set in the district office building at number 4
cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — Rabsztyn Castle in Olkusz, Ruins on a tall limestone crag rising abruptly out of forest a few kilometres north of Olkusz: white rock outcrops with broken walls growing straight out of them, some sections reduced to jagged stubs, others rebuilt in clean modern stonework with a restored tower and roof. An eighteenth-century manor house and farm buildings stand on the gentler ground at the southern foot of the castle hill
cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — The Stary Olkusz hillfort in Olkusz, A circular earthwork about eighty metres across on a low rise in open ground outside the modern town: two concentric rings of grassed earth rampart with a deep ditch between them, clearly readable as a ring from the ground and unmistakable from the air. The interior is flat and turfed, and there is no standing masonry
cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — the Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip combined with the national flag of Poland

Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip

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Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip

This tacky, sweat-absorbing truth-teller of an overgrip restores that new-handle feel in ninety seconds — the one upgrade THEY never mention. But before it lets you add to cart, it needs to show you what's really going on in Olkusz, Poland, its silver-mining hometown with an actual museum hidden under the market square. Open your eyes. Then wrap.

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Four stops before the checkout

Olkusz, Poland
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cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — Basilica of St Andrew the Apostle in Olkusz, A Gothic brick and stone church just off the north-east corner of the market square, with a steep tiled roof, buttressed walls, tall pointed windows and a single tower. Inside, above the west end, stands a Renaissance organ case in dark carved and painted wood with two flanking towers of pipes; a very large silver crucifix, about a metre and a half tall, hangs in the nave
Stop one

Basilica of St Andrew the Apostle

Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip: Fourteenth century, the oldest building in Olkusz, and I believe I have stumbled onto something. The organ was begun in 1611 by Hans Hummel, the celebrated organ builder from Wrocław, and it has 1,776 pipes. Now attend: it is one of the very few instruments in Europe to have kept both its original mechanism and the greater part of its original pipework, which makes it a primary source for late Renaissance organ building. A primary source! Sitting quietly in a Polish parish church! The silver Miners' Cross was given in the seventeenth century by the miners of Olkusz themselves, out of the metal they worked. A late-Gothic polyptych of the 1480s besides.

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cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — The Market Square and the Underground Olkusz museum in Olkusz, A large rectangular square of pale paving surrounded by low two- and three-storey townhouses in plain render, with a reconstructed stone tower and a surviving fragment of the medieval town wall on one side. There is no town hall standing in the middle; instead a low modern entrance structure sits at the centre of the open paving, and a second entrance is set in the district office building at number 4
Stop two

The Market Square and the Underground Olkusz museum

Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip: The square looks innocent. It is not. A Gothic town hall stood at its centre from the fourteenth century and was demolished in the nineteenth — and its cellars were rediscovered in 2011 during work on the revitalisation of the old town. They now house an underground museum a few metres beneath your boots, reached from two entrances. Beneath the square, I say! The displays cover Olkusz as the Silver City: lead and silver mined here from the Middle Ages, wealth enough to make it for a time one of the richest towns in Poland, supplying silver to the royal mint. I shall write this up at once.

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cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — Rabsztyn Castle in Olkusz, Ruins on a tall limestone crag rising abruptly out of forest a few kilometres north of Olkusz: white rock outcrops with broken walls growing straight out of them, some sections reduced to jagged stubs, others rebuilt in clean modern stonework with a restored tower and roof. An eighteenth-century manor house and farm buildings stand on the gentler ground at the southern foot of the castle hill
Stop three

Rabsztyn Castle

Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip: A castle! On a crag! The rock is known as Krucza Skała, and the stone castle was raised there in the fourteenth century by King Casimir III the Great as one of a chain of royal strongholds guarding the road from Kraków toward Silesia — a chain now called the Trail of the Eagles' Nests, which I concede is a rather well-marketed name for something I have only this moment discovered. Retreating Swedish forces burned it in 1657 during the Deluge, damage confirmed by the royal inspection of 1660. Rebuilding was never completed; the owners moved down to the manor below and abandoned it. Part of the upper castle has been reconstructed recently.

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cardio tennis clinic Oakland Park — The Stary Olkusz hillfort in Olkusz, A circular earthwork about eighty metres across on a low rise in open ground outside the modern town: two concentric rings of grassed earth rampart with a deep ditch between them, clearly readable as a ring from the ground and unmistakable from the air. The interior is flat and turfed, and there is no standing masonry
Stop four

The Stary Olkusz hillfort

Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip: And now the true prize, which I doubt more than a handful of souls have laid eyes on — excepting the archaeologists, the local schools and the signage. The hillfort is thought to have been raised in the twelfth century and destroyed by fire at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth, during the period of Polish fragmentation. Digging in the burnt layer produced arrowheads, spurs and pottery, together with numerous objects of silver and lead of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries — direct evidence that the metal trade was already running here before the present town was laid out. A Gothic church of St John the Baptist rose on the burnt stronghold, reduced to a chapel in the sixteenth century.

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Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip

Written for this world alone.

Listen. LISTEN. They don't want you thinking about your grip. The racquet companies talk about carbon layups and string patterns, but the only part of the racquet you actually touch? Silence. Wake up!

The Head Pro Grip Tennis Overgrip is the truth they keep at the bottom of the page: a thin, tacky wrap that goes right over your base grip, soaks up sweat before it sabotages your third set, and renews that fresh-handle feel in about ninety seconds. Worn, slick grip? Replaced.

Just wrap, tape it off with the included finishing tape, and suddenly your trusty frame feels showroom-new. And when it wears down, you swap it again. Cheap. Simple. Effective. Why isn't this on the news?

And it gets deeper. This overgrip is based in Olkusz, Poland — 'the Silver City' — a town that has literally been hiding things underground for seven hundred years. Silver. Lead. An entire Gothic town hall's cellars, rediscovered under the market square in 2011. They put a museum down there. A MUSEUM. Meters below where people buy vegetables. Coincidence?

You'll use this grip everywhere from the courts near the old town to a sweaty summer session out by Rabsztyn Castle — and by the way, the locals will tell you their basilica's organ from 1611 still has 1,776 original pipes, one of the only ones in Europe. Original pipes! Nothing that old stays original without SOMEBODY protecting it. Connect the dots. Then wrap your handle.

You'll feel the difference — and then you'll know.

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