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beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet and the flag of the United Kingdom combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The Union Flag fills the frame in deep folds on a dark navy ground, the red and white crosses and the offset red saltire catching a low side light, and the blue and white extended-length racquet is composed into the arrangement so the shaft runs along one arm of the white saltire and the hoop sits in the upper quarter, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom. Low and near the ground at the Clifton abutment looking up along the chains to the stone tower, the Avon Gorge dropping away beyond the parapet. Very early morning in autumn with mist filling the gorge below the deck and the first sun catching the top of the far tower: commuters walking briskly across with collars up, a runner going the other way, a woman stopped dead at the rail with her phone out at the mist, a dog pulling ahead on a lead. The racquet leans against a worn stone step at the base of the tower in the near foreground, and the commuters walk straight past it.
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at the SS Great Britain in Bristol, United Kingdom. Eye level and straight across the dry dock at the Great Western Dockyard, the black iron hull and rigging filling the frame with the glass sheet laid across the dock at the waterline. Bright hard midday sun in summer, reflections flaring off the glass: a school party being counted at the gangway with two hands in the air, a guide in period costume mid-anecdote to a semicircle of adults, a small boy running the length of the dock edge, a workman on a cradle touching up paint on the hull. The racquet rests on the quayside railing in the middle distance, off to the left, ignored.
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, United Kingdom. Elevated and wide from across the churchyard so the whole Gothic church, its tall spire and the hexagonal north porch sit small in a big frame with the city behind. Golden hour on a summer evening, the last sun on the upper spire and the churchyard already in shadow: a wedding party coming out of the porch into a shower of confetti still in the air, a bell-ringing practice audible with rooks going up off the tower, two teenagers sitting on a table tomb eating chips, a man cutting the grass between the stones. The racquet lies far off and small on the flat top of the churchyard parapet at the right edge, alone.
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Bristol Old Vic on King Street in Bristol, United Kingdom. Close and intimate with shallow depth on the cobbles outside the modern glass foyer, the warm interior and the Georgian building above it soft behind. A wet night in winter with rain coming down through the streetlights and the cobbles throwing the light back: an interval crowd out on the pavement under umbrellas with drinks, two people running for the door with a coat held over their heads, a bicycle going past through a puddle, condensation running down the foyer glass. The racquet rests on the wet timber of a pub bench in mid-frame, off centre, beaded with rain and touched by nobody.
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet and the flag of the United Kingdom combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The Union Flag fills the frame in deep folds on a dark navy ground, the red and white crosses and the offset red saltire catching a low side light, and the blue and white extended-length racquet is composed into the arrangement so the shaft runs along one arm of the white saltire and the hoop sits in the upper quarter, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet

Bristol, United Kingdom  ·  Racquets > Adult

Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet

This one is Brunel's instinct in a tennis frame: run longer and stronger than anybody thought reasonable. 105 in², 27.5 inches, a 25 mm beam right round, with dynamic mass in the hoop and a comfort cap in the butt so none of that stiffness reaches one's elbow. One is expected to take it round Bristol first.

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Four stops before the checkout

Bristol, United Kingdom
01
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom. Low and near the ground at the Clifton abutment looking up along the chains to the stone tower, the Avon Gorge dropping away beyond the parapet. Very early morning in autumn with mist filling the gorge below the deck and the first sun catching the top of the far tower: commuters walking briskly across with collars up, a runner going the other way, a woman stopped dead at the rail with her phone out at the mist, a dog pulling ahead on a lead. The racquet leans against a worn stone step at the base of the tower in the near foreground, and the commuters walk straight past it.
Stop one

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet: I should say at the outset that I am only standing in today, which, as it happens, is also the story of this bridge. The Clifton Suspension Bridge spans the Avon Gorge 75 metres above the river, linking Clifton in Bristol with Leigh Woods on the Somerset side, and it is the defining image of the city. Isambard Kingdom Brunel won the design competition for the crossing as a young man in 1831, but the funding collapsed repeatedly, and the bridge was only completed in 1864, five years after his death, by fellow engineers, as his memorial, reusing chains from his demolished Hungerford Bridge in London. Somebody else's drawing, somebody else's hands, and it holds. Its 214-metre span between Egyptian-influenced stone towers was an audacious feat for its era, and it still carries thousands of vehicles daily on its original principles. Floodlit at night above the gorge, with a visitor centre, and it remains in the care of a charitable trust. Understudies finish things. That is all I shall say about that.

02
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at the SS Great Britain in Bristol, United Kingdom. Eye level and straight across the dry dock at the Great Western Dockyard, the black iron hull and rigging filling the frame with the glass sheet laid across the dock at the waterline. Bright hard midday sun in summer, reflections flaring off the glass: a school party being counted at the gangway with two hands in the air, a guide in period costume mid-anecdote to a semicircle of adults, a small boy running the length of the dock edge, a workman on a cradle touching up paint on the hull. The racquet rests on the quayside railing in the middle distance, off to the left, ignored.
Stop two

SS Great Britain

Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet: Not usually my stop, this one, so do stop me if I go wrong. The SS Great Britain, launched in Bristol in 1843, was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's revolutionary leap in shipbuilding: the first large ocean-going vessel built of iron and driven by a screw propeller, and on her debut the largest ship in the world. She carried passengers to New York and then thousands of emigrants to Australia, later served as a storage hulk in the Falklands, and was scuttled there, seemingly forever. Seemingly. Because in 1970 she was salvaged and towed eight thousand miles home on a pontoon, returning to the very Great Western Dockyard where she was built. Eight thousand miles, and back into the exact dock. She is conserved there beneath a glass waterline plate that seals a dehumidified chamber around her fragile iron hull, and she is now Bristol's leading museum and a landmark of maritime engineering history. A second chance, properly taken. Sorry. I got carried away, and I am aware it is not my material.

03
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, United Kingdom. Elevated and wide from across the churchyard so the whole Gothic church, its tall spire and the hexagonal north porch sit small in a big frame with the city behind. Golden hour on a summer evening, the last sun on the upper spire and the churchyard already in shadow: a wedding party coming out of the porch into a shower of confetti still in the air, a bell-ringing practice audible with rooks going up off the tower, two teenagers sitting on a table tomb eating chips, a man cutting the grass between the stones. The racquet lies far off and small on the flat top of the churchyard parapet at the right edge, alone.
Stop three

Bristol Cathedral

Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet: I was told to keep this one short, and I am afraid I cannot. Bristol Cathedral began as the abbey of St Augustine, founded in 1140 by Robert Fitzharding on the slope above the harbour, and was raised to cathedral rank by Henry VIII in 1542 after the Dissolution. Its glory is the fourteenth-century eastern arm, rebuilt as a hall church in which the aisles rise to the same height as the choir vault, and that is genuinely the thing, because architectural historians rank that spatial experiment among the most original achievements of medieval design in Europe. In Europe. I am not qualified to disagree, though as it happens I agree. The unique skeleton vaults of the aisles and the star-burst recesses of the Berkeley Chapel deepen the inventiveness further. The Norman chapter house survives as one of England's richest twelfth-century interiors. And the nave and twin west towers, left unbuilt in the Middle Ages, were completed to G. E. Street's designs only by 1888. A building that waited centuries to be finished by other hands. I do see why they gave it to me.

04
beginner cardio tennis clinics — the Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet photographed at the Bristol Old Vic on King Street in Bristol, United Kingdom. Close and intimate with shallow depth on the cobbles outside the modern glass foyer, the warm interior and the Georgian building above it soft behind. A wet night in winter with rain coming down through the streetlights and the cobbles throwing the light back: an interval crowd out on the pavement under umbrellas with drinks, two people running for the door with a coat held over their heads, a bicycle going past through a puddle, condensation running down the foyer glass. The racquet rests on the wet timber of a pub bench in mid-frame, off centre, beaded with rain and touched by nobody.
Stop four

Cabot Tower

Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet: Last stop, and then your proper guide has the afternoon back. Cabot Tower crowns Brandon Hill, the steep park between the city centre and Clifton, and commemorates the voyage of John Cabot, the Venetian navigator who sailed from Bristol in the Matthew in 1497 and made the first recorded English landfall in North America, and I note with approval that the ship gets remembered by name as well. Built by public subscription for the four hundredth anniversary and completed in 1898, the tower rises about 32 metres in red sandstone dressed with cream limestone, carrying a winged figure of Commerce and a beacon-like crown. You climb the tight spiral stair free of charge, which is not a small thing, to balconies with the finest all-round views of Bristol, from the harbour and the cathedral to the distant Mendips. And Brandon Hill around it, granted to the city in the twelfth century, is among England's oldest municipal parks. A tower anyone may climb, on a hill everybody owns. That is my favourite fact and I had not intended to use it.

The Bristol, United Kingdom track

Prokennex Ki 15 300g Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

Bristol is a city that solved things by making them longer and stronger than anyone thought reasonable — a suspension bridge flung across the Avon Gorge, an iron ship built when ships were made of wood. The Ki 15 300g is in that tradition.

It is 27.5 inches, half an inch over standard, with a 105 square inch head and a 25 mm beam all the way round: an oversize, extended-length frame built to give a swing more leverage than it has earned.

The specifications, in full. Head 105 sq in / 677 sq cm, length 27.5 in, unstrung 300 grams, strung 11.1 oz / 315 g, balance 12.99 in and 6 points head light strung, swingweight 327, stiffness 68 RA, beam 25 / 25 / 25 mm, 16 x 19 pattern with mains skipping 7T, 9T and 8H, and the frame is Spiral Tech Carbon Graphite.

Grips run 4 1/8 through 4 5/8, five sizes, and the recommended tension is 50 to 65 pounds with an optimum of 58.

A stiff 25 mm beam and an oversize head is the classic recipe for cheap power, and the half-inch of extra length adds racquet head speed at the tip where it turns into serve pace. What normally comes with all that is a harsh frame.

Here it does not, because ProKennex packs its Kinetic system into the head — dynamic mass that shifts on impact and absorbs shock instead of sending it on — and adds a Comfort Cap in the butt to soak up the residual vibration that gets past it.

It is the reason a 68 RA racquet with a 25 mm beam is a sensible purchase for someone who plays four times a week and would like to keep doing so.

You will use it everywhere from a windy court on the Downs above the gorge to an indoor hall out past Ashton Gate. And by the way, it is well suited to the local calendar, in which a match is followed without discussion by a pint of West Country cider on the harbourside, and one becomes three, and the last ferry across the floating harbour is missed by everybody.

An arm-friendly frame is a courtesy to your future self.

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