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22mm at the rear, 10mm at the front. I have played better shoes, and even so: a full-length TPU Footframe with a shank through the split outsole, Zoom Air under the landing, cast polyurethane over the exact patch a serve grinds away. Neubrandenburg next, and a concert hall put inside a burnt Gothic shell, an argument I lost.
Nike Zoom Vapor 12 PRM Hard Court Men's Tennis Shoes: Rostock would never let you hear the end of a brick gate this ornate, but the Stargarder Tor’s Gothic gable really does work its tracery like lace. Neubrandenburg loses on sea breeze, wins on smug brickwork.
Nike Zoom Vapor 12 PRM Hard Court Men's Tennis Shoes: Lübeck has grander walls, obviously, but these Wiekhäuser—half-timbered guardhouses tucked one by one into Neubrandenburg’s medieval wall—look like the city put tiny referees in the ramparts. I hate to admit it, that’s better crowd control.
Nike Zoom Vapor 12 PRM Hard Court Men's Tennis Shoes: Stralsund has the bigger UNESCO strut, but the Konzertkirche is a Gothic St. Mary’s shell burned in 1945 and rebuilt as a concert hall, which is annoyingly resourceful. Most ruins sulk; this one learned acoustics.
Nike Zoom Vapor 12 PRM Hard Court Men's Tennis Shoes: Berlin has museums stacked like unpaid bills, but the Treptower Tor is about 32 metres of Brick Gothic gate with the regional museum inside. Neubrandenburg cannot out-shout Berlin, but it makes the entrance do the paperwork.
I have worn better shoes. I want that on the record before I say anything else, because I am not going to stand here and be swept along. Now — having said it — this is a very good shoe, and I will explain exactly where, and I will not enjoy it.
The stack is 22 millimetres at the heel and 10 at the forefoot, a 12 millimetre drop, which is the geometry of a shoe that wants you up on your toes and moving forward. The Zoom Air sits in the heel for shock absorption on hard landings.
Running heel-to-toe underneath is a TPU Footframe, full length, with a midfoot shank inside a split outsole — split, meaning the sole is separated through the middle so the forefoot and heel can work independently while the shank holds the whole thing from folding.
The upper is high-denier engineered mesh with cast polyurethane laid over the toe tip and the medial toe box, which is where a serve drags and where shoes go to die. The outsole is a durable, abrasion-resistant rubber compound in a herringbone pattern, meant for hard court and perfectly capable elsewhere.
There is a midfoot fit band for lockdown through lateral movement.
14.6 ounces in a size 10.5. Fits true, snug medium width, no break-in.
It is fast, it is well made, and Alcaraz plays in them, which I mention flatly and without comment.
Neubrandenburg I will concede, and I concede almost nothing. The Stargarder Tor has brick tracery worked across its gable as fine as lace, and I have stood in front of a great many gates and this one is better.
Around the wall sit the Wiekhäuser, half-timbered guardhouses set one by one into the medieval defences — houses inside a wall, still lived in and used, which is a far more intelligent way to keep a fortification than emptying it and charging admission.
You will wear these everywhere from a hard court in high summer to an autumn tournament, and while you are here — the Konzertkirche is a concert hall built inside the burnt shell of the Gothic St Mary's. Inside the shell. They did not restore it and they did not knock it down; they put something living into what was left, and I have argued about this and I have lost.
Then the Treptower Tor, tallest of the four gates, now holding the regional museum. Four gates still standing.
Where I come from we have one, and we are very proud of it, and we should not be.
"They did not restore the burnt shell and they did not knock it down. They put something living inside it. I have argued about this and lost."
