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beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet and the flag of Canada combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The red, white, red vertical bands fill the frame in heavy moving cloth with the eleven-pointed red maple leaf centred on the white square, side light raking the folds so the red deepens at the edges, and the white and orange racquet is composed into the arrangement so the frame's hoop and the outline of the leaf read as one shape, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed outside Glanmore National Historic Site at 257 Bridge Street East in Belleville, Ontario. Low camera close to the lawn looking up at the three-storey buff-brick Second Empire mansion, the slate mansard roof with its cast-iron cresting and the semi-circular dormers cutting the skyline, the turret off to one side. Early morning raking light in late spring, long shadows across the wet grass, dew still on it: a docent unlocking the front door and propping it, a school group being lined up two by two on the path, a gardener kneeling in the border, a woman carrying a tray of exhibition labels up the steps. The racquet lies on a worn stone step in the near foreground, unattended and unnoticed.
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed in Market Square behind Belleville City Hall in Belleville, Ontario. Eye level, straight on, mid distance: the red brick City Hall with its limestone trim and its 144-foot clock tower rising over the square, the four illuminated clock faces visible, market stalls filling the paving in front of it. Bright hard Saturday midday in high summer, short shadows, awnings up: the farmers' market at full tilt with traders weighing tomatoes and beans, a baker restacking loaves, a queue at a stall selling prepared Syrian food, two women comparing bunches of dill, a child holding a bag with both hands. The racquet rests on the end of a market trestle among the crates, off to one side, ignored by everyone.
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed at Belleville railway station in Belleville, Ontario. Close, intimate frame with shallow depth along the platform edge, the bluish-grey Trenton limestone of the 1856 Grand Trunk building and its run of six arches going soft behind, the glazed 2012 terminal just visible past it. Winter dawn well below freezing, blue pre-sunrise light, breath and exhaust steam hanging over the platform under the lamps: the morning corridor train loading for Toronto, commuters with briefcases stepping up into a car, students with duffel bags queueing, a conductor leaning out and checking down the platform, a man stamping his feet by a luggage cart. The racquet sits mid-frame on the flat top of a platform bench, the limestone arches off centre behind it, untouched.
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed at Belleville Cemetery on Dundas Street West in Belleville, Ontario. Elevated camera looking down across the sixty-five acres of mature trees and Victorian monuments towards the water, wide, the uniform white Commonwealth headstones showing in a small group among the taller family stones and the Bay of Quinte flat and grey beyond. Overcast November afternoon with a cold wind, the last leaves stripping off the maples, light going early: a Remembrance gathering breaking up around the war graves with poppies and a wreath laid on the grass, an older couple bent over a family plot with a trowel and a bucket, a groundskeeper raking leaves onto a tarp, two people standing bare-headed at the prime minister's grave. The racquet lies small in frame across a stone bench in the middle distance, nobody near it.
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet and the flag of Canada combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The red, white, red vertical bands fill the frame in heavy moving cloth with the eleven-pointed red maple leaf centred on the white square, side light raking the folds so the red deepens at the edges, and the white and orange racquet is composed into the arrangement so the frame's hoop and the outline of the leaf read as one shape, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet

Belleville, Canada  ·  Racquets > Adult

Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet

This one is a lode, and it has been assayed twice. A 100 in², 305-gram control frame with actual loose mass sealed in the hoop, graded like ore dust. That is not marketing; it is the design. Nothing gets bought until it has driven you round Belleville and shown you what the tourist office omits.

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Four stops before the checkout

Belleville, Canada
01
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed outside Glanmore National Historic Site at 257 Bridge Street East in Belleville, Ontario. Low camera close to the lawn looking up at the three-storey buff-brick Second Empire mansion, the slate mansard roof with its cast-iron cresting and the semi-circular dormers cutting the skyline, the turret off to one side. Early morning raking light in late spring, long shadows across the wet grass, dew still on it: a docent unlocking the front door and propping it, a school group being lined up two by two on the path, a gardener kneeling in the border, a woman carrying a tray of exhibition labels up the steps. The racquet lies on a worn stone step in the near foreground, unattended and unnoticed.
Stop one

Belleville City Hall

Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet: I was about in 1872 when John began drawing this, and I told him plainly he was mad: a market building and town hall in High Victorian Gothic Revival with the depression of 1873 coming down on everybody. Very few civic complexes were finished in those years, and fewer still finished with elaborate fittings inside and out. This one was, with John Forin building it to John D. Evans's designs across 1872 and 1873. It became city hall proper in 1877, when Belleville was incorporated as a city, and in 1987 and 1988 Bill White renovated it, keeping much of the interior while adding some ten thousand square feet. Handsome then. Handsomer now, which I almost never concede.

02
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed in Market Square behind Belleville City Hall in Belleville, Ontario. Eye level, straight on, mid distance: the red brick City Hall with its limestone trim and its 144-foot clock tower rising over the square, the four illuminated clock faces visible, market stalls filling the paving in front of it. Bright hard Saturday midday in high summer, short shadows, awnings up: the farmers' market at full tilt with traders weighing tomatoes and beans, a baker restacking loaves, a queue at a stall selling prepared Syrian food, two women comparing bunches of dill, a child holding a bag with both hands. The racquet rests on the end of a market trestle among the crates, off to one side, ignored by everyone.
Stop two

Glanmore National Historic Site

Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet: Harriet painted those ceilings herself, it is believed, and I remember thinking at the time that a woman who inherits the land, commissions the house and then goes up a ladder to fresco the ceilings does not get nearly enough credit. It was built in 1882 and 1883 for her and her husband, the banker John Philpot Curran Phillips, on ground she had from the Bleecker family; Thomas Hanley of Belleville designed it, Francis McKay built it, Second Empire throughout. Four generations of the family lived here until 1971. Designated a National Historic Site in 1969, opened as a museum in 1973, owned by the city. The wallpaper was louder in my day.

03
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed at Belleville railway station in Belleville, Ontario. Close, intimate frame with shallow depth along the platform edge, the bluish-grey Trenton limestone of the 1856 Grand Trunk building and its run of six arches going soft behind, the glazed 2012 terminal just visible past it. Winter dawn well below freezing, blue pre-sunrise light, breath and exhaust steam hanging over the platform under the lamps: the morning corridor train loading for Toronto, commuters with briefcases stepping up into a car, students with duffel bags queueing, a conductor leaning out and checking down the platform, a man stamping his feet by a luggage cart. The racquet sits mid-frame on the flat top of a platform bench, the limestone arches off centre behind it, untouched.
Stop three

Belleville railway station (the 1856 Grand Trunk Railway station), 220 Station Street

Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet: 27 October 1856, and I was on the platform, which I mention only because the noise was extraordinary. Thomas Brassey's men built it for the Grand Trunk Railway and it opened with the Montreal-to-Toronto main line that very day, a mid-size second-class wayside station of the larger Type B design. It is now the last intact original station on that line still keeping a full second storey. A full second storey. They all had one once. Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1973, protected as a heritage railway station in 1992, and it took passengers right up until the replacement at 250 Station Street opened on 20 March 2012. Newer is not better. I have seen both.

04
beginner cardio tennis classes — the Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet photographed at Belleville Cemetery on Dundas Street West in Belleville, Ontario. Elevated camera looking down across the sixty-five acres of mature trees and Victorian monuments towards the water, wide, the uniform white Commonwealth headstones showing in a small group among the taller family stones and the Bay of Quinte flat and grey beyond. Overcast November afternoon with a cold wind, the last leaves stripping off the maples, light going early: a Remembrance gathering breaking up around the war graves with poppies and a wreath laid on the grass, an older couple bent over a family plot with a trowel and a bucket, a groundskeeper raking leaves onto a tarp, two people standing bare-headed at the prime minister's grave. The racquet lies small in frame across a stone bench in the middle distance, nobody near it.
Stop four

Meyers Pier, at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte

Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet: When I first came through, everyone called it Meyers Creek, after John Walden Meyers, the Loyalist who around 1800 put a dam and mills on the river and ran a trading post and a brick kiln besides. Busy man, Walden. Six or more dams on the Moira eventually powered the whole town's industry. Then in 1816 they renamed the place Belleville in honour of the wife of Lieutenant Governor Sir Francis Gore, and nobody consulted me. The harbour carried the lumber and grain trade right through the nineteenth century, and the rail ran down Pinnacle Street to the water until the last locomotive made that trip in 1964. I watched it go. It looked better then, obviously.

The Belleville, Canada track

Prokennex Ki 10 305 Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Belleville is a town that built a 144-foot clock tower in the middle of the 1873 depression, so it understands the appeal of a frame that quietly delivers more than it looks like it should.

The Ki 10 305 is ProKennex's modern all-court player's racquet, and the full numbers are these: a 100 square inch head, 27 inches long, 305 grams unstrung and 11.3 ounces — 320 grams — strung. Balance is 320 mm unstrung, and strung it comes out at 12.99 inches, roughly four points head-light. Swingweight 331. Stiffness 68 RA. The beam is a constant 24 mm from throat to tip.

String pattern is 16 mains by 19 crosses, two-piece, with no shared holes and a mains skip pattern of 7T, 9T, 7H and 9H. Recommended tension 50 to 65 pounds, with 58 given as the optimum.

The composition is SpiralTech Carbon, and the reason anyone buys a ProKennex is Kinetic Technology: sealed chambers of movable mass in the head that are thrown into motion by the swing and by the impact, so a measurable share of the shock is spent shifting mass around instead of travelling up into your forearm.

A Comfort Cap with the same kinetic principle sits in the butt of the handle. It is a mechanical answer rather than a foam one, and it is why this frame reads softer in the hand than a 68 RA rating would lead you to expect. The grip is ProKennex synthetic, in four sizes: 4 1/8, 4 1/4, 4 3/8 and 4 1/2. The cosmetic is white and orange.

Now the honest reading of that spec sheet. Power level is low to medium, and that is deliberate — this is a control frame that expects you to bring the racquet head speed. Medium to full strokes, medium to fast swing.

But the 100 square inch head with a 16 by 19 pattern is the forgiving half of the equation: a real sweetspot and a genuine spin window, so 320 grams strung is not punishing when you are late.

The combination — moderate mass, four points head-light, 331 swingweight, open pattern, movable mass in the hoop — is aimed at the player who plays three or four times a week and would like to still be doing that in ten years. Pair it with a soft multifilament or a gentle co-poly and you have about the most arm-friendly serious frame on the market.

You will use it everywhere from a windy Bay of Quinte afternoon to an indoor club court through a Canadian February, and by the way, it is a fine companion for a Saturday in Belleville: the farmers' market has run behind City Hall since 1816, and the bay in front of the town is called the walleye capital of the world by people who fish it through the ice in winter.

A racquet that stays comfortable in the cold is not a small thing here.

One caveat, given straight. Low to medium power means exactly that. If you are coming off a light, stiff, powerful frame, expect a fortnight of balls landing short while your swing lengthens. After that, nothing comes back at you that you did not ask for.

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