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Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip and the flag of India combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The saffron, white and green horizontal tricolour with the navy blue twenty-four-spoke Ashoka Chakra in the centre of the white band fills the frame in heavy fabric, side-lit so the folds run through the bands, and the black grip is composed into the arrangement coiled so its curve echoes the rim of the chakra and the two read as one object, the whole composition carried by fabric, light and colour alone.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at the Baba Baidyanath Temple in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. A pyramidal Nagara shikhara about 22 metres high over a walled courtyard, ringed by twenty-one smaller temples packed tight around the central shrine. Pre-dawn during the month of Shraavana, the sky just going grey, the flagstones black and wet from overnight rain and lit by strings of bulbs. The camera is low, near ground level, looking up past the queue toward the tower. The line of kanwariyas in soaked saffron is shuffling forward with water pots on shoulder poles, a priest is passing marigolds back down the line, a bell rope is mid-swing, volunteers are handing out water, an old man is being steadied by two younger ones. The grip sits on a worn stone step at the courtyard edge in the near foreground, and the whole crowd goes past without a glance.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at Naulakha Mandir in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. A tall slender temple to Radha and Krishna standing about 1.5 kilometres from the Baidyanath complex, rising well above the surrounding rooftops. Hard flat midday sun in the dry season, the light white and shadowless, dust hanging. The camera is at eye level, straight on, the product in the middle distance to one side. Families are circumambulating the base, a wedding party is being arranged for photographs on the steps with a photographer walking backwards, a hawker is stacking boxes of peda on a bicycle carrier, two boys are flying a kite off the boundary wall, a woman is buying marigold strings. The grip rests on the low painted boundary wall, ignored by everyone.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at Trikut Pahar near Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. Three bare rocky peaks rising out of forest to 753 metres, with a stepped stone path up the accessible summit, small shrines on the rock, and the towers of the disused ropeway standing silent over the trees. Golden hour on a late monsoon afternoon, cloud shadow moving fast across the forest below and mist still lying in the folds of the hills. The camera is elevated, high on the stairs looking down, the frame wide and the product very small in it. Trekkers are working up the steps in a strung-out line, a family is resting on a boulder passing a bottle round, a chai seller has set up on a flat rock with a kettle going, goats are picking their way across the slope, someone is shouting up to the group above. The grip lies on a bare rock ledge in the middle distance, untouched.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at the Satsang Ashram in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. A large walled ashram campus with wide swept avenues, low colonnaded halls and workshops, on the edge of town. Evening after dark, warm lamplight along the colonnade and oil lamps set out on the ground, moths turning in the light. The camera is close and intimate with a shallow depth of field. Evening prayer is breaking up: devotees in white coming down the steps in a slow stream, a woman relighting a lamp that the breeze has taken, two men carrying a folded mat between them, a bell being rung once and left to fade, a queue forming at a serving hatch. The grip sits on a wooden bench at the edge of the colonnade, mid-frame, with the crowd soft behind it, and nobody touches it.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip and the flag of India combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The saffron, white and green horizontal tricolour with the navy blue twenty-four-spoke Ashoka Chakra in the centre of the white band fills the frame in heavy fabric, side-lit so the folds run through the bands, and the black grip is composed into the arrangement coiled so its curve echoes the rim of the chakra and the two read as one object, the whole composition carried by fabric, light and colour alone.

Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip

Deoghar, India  ·  Accessories > Grips

Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip

<p>This is the plushest replacement grip Volkl builds — ultra-soft cushioning, medium tack, three perforated lines drinking the sweat straight off your palm. It has agreed, graciously, to show you Deoghar first — the great temple, the three-peaked hill, the monkeys at Tapovan — and you are welcome.</p>

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Deoghar, India
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Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at the Baba Baidyanath Temple in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. A pyramidal Nagara shikhara about 22 metres high over a walled courtyard, ringed by twenty-one smaller temples packed tight around the central shrine. Pre-dawn during the month of Shraavana, the sky just going grey, the flagstones black and wet from overnight rain and lit by strings of bulbs. The camera is low, near ground level, looking up past the queue toward the tower. The line of kanwariyas in soaked saffron is shuffling forward with water pots on shoulder poles, a priest is passing marigolds back down the line, a bell rope is mid-swing, volunteers are handing out water, an old man is being steadied by two younger ones. The grip sits on a worn stone step at the courtyard edge in the near foreground, and the whole crowd goes past without a glance.
Stop one

Baba Baidyanath Temple

Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip: Kites overhead — always kites over a temple town; they follow the crowds. Right. Baidyanath is counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas, the most sacred shrines of Shiva in India, and is also revered as a Shakti Peetha, which makes it one of very few sites holding both statuses. The main spire is twenty-two metres in the Nagara style and the complex holds twenty-two temples in all. In 1266 Raja Bir Vikram Singh founded the princely state of Gidhaur, which controlled the temple area, and after Plassey in 1757 the East India Company took an interest in the pilgrim revenues; in 1788 an official named Hesilrigg was sent to supervise them. Sorry — koel. Hear it?

02
Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at Naulakha Mandir in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. A tall slender temple to Radha and Krishna standing about 1.5 kilometres from the Baidyanath complex, rising well above the surrounding rooftops. Hard flat midday sun in the dry season, the light white and shadowless, dust hanging. The camera is at eye level, straight on, the product in the middle distance to one side. Families are circumambulating the base, a wedding party is being arranged for photographs on the steps with a photographer walking backwards, a hawker is stacking boxes of peda on a bicycle carrier, two boys are flying a kite off the boundary wall, a woman is buying marigold strings. The grip rests on the low painted boundary wall, ignored by everyone.
Stop two

Naulakha Mandir

Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip: Look at it before the cloud arrives; there's weather building in the west and I'd give it an hour. The Naulakha temple is dedicated to Radha and Krishna, stands 146 feet high, and is the tallest structure in Deoghar, visible above the town from a long way out — which is exactly why the swifts work around it at dusk. Its name comes from its cost: nine lakh rupees, nau lakh, an enormous sum when it was built. And note the proportions, unusually narrow for a north Indian temple, closer to the Bengali tower form than to the broad-based Nagara shikhara of the Baidyanath temple it faces across town.

03
Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at Trikut Pahar near Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. Three bare rocky peaks rising out of forest to 753 metres, with a stepped stone path up the accessible summit, small shrines on the rock, and the towers of the disused ropeway standing silent over the trees. Golden hour on a late monsoon afternoon, cloud shadow moving fast across the forest below and mist still lying in the folds of the hills. The camera is elevated, high on the stairs looking down, the frame wide and the product very small in it. Trekkers are working up the steps in a strung-out line, a family is resting on a boulder passing a bottle round, a chai seller has set up on a flat rock with a kettle going, goats are picking their way across the slope, someone is shouting up to the group above. The grip lies on a bare rock ledge in the middle distance, untouched.
Stop three

Trikut Hill

Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip: Now THIS I can get excited about. Trikut takes its name from its three peaks — trikut, three-peaked — twenty-one kilometres out on the Dumka road, and it is both a pilgrimage site and the local hill resort, with an ashram and small shrines among the boulders. But the boulders are the real story: this is the Chota Nagpur plateau, the ancient granite tableland underlying most of Jharkhand, and granite weathers precisely like this — rotting along its joints until what is left are rounded corestones stacked into hills above thin forest. Marvellous. Watch the thermals over the peaks for raptors.

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Beverly Heights cardio tennis lessons — the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip photographed at the Satsang Ashram in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. A large walled ashram campus with wide swept avenues, low colonnaded halls and workshops, on the edge of town. Evening after dark, warm lamplight along the colonnade and oil lamps set out on the ground, moths turning in the light. The camera is close and intimate with a shallow depth of field. Evening prayer is breaking up: devotees in white coming down the steps in a slow stream, a woman relighting a lamp that the breeze has taken, two men carrying a folded mat between them, a bell being rung once and left to fade, a queue forming at a serving hatch. The grip sits on a wooden bench at the edge of the colonnade, mid-frame, with the crowd soft behind it, and nobody touches it.
Stop four

Taponath Mahadeva at Tapovan

Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip: Ten kilometres from the centre, in the Tapovan caves. Tapovan means the forest of penance, and the hill is associated in Hindu scripture with ascetic practice; sadhus have used these caves for that purpose for centuries — and a cave is genuinely sound thermal engineering, constant temperature, no wind, which is more than most buildings manage. Taponath Mahadeva sits inside. It belongs to the ring of hills that gives Deoghar its whole character, with Nandan Pahar on the town's edge and Dighriya Pahaad closing the western boundary of the built-up area. Same granite. Same weathering. That's a barbet, by the way. Been going all morning.

The Deoghar, India track

Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip

Written for this world alone.

<p>A replacement grip, not an overgrip — this is the layer that goes onto the bare handle, and it is the softest thing Volkl makes for that job. The Cushtac is an ultra-soft cushioned grip in black, originally specified for Volkl's Quantum series racquets, with three parallel lines of perforations backed in silver running its length to pull sweat off the surface.

The tack level is medium — enough to hold the hand without gluing it in place — over a genuinely plush, cushy feel.

If your complaint about your current handle is that it is hard and it buzzes, this is the answer to that complaint.</p><p>Deoghar is a town that receives millions of walkers in a single monsoon month, every one of them carrying something they cannot afford to drop, and it will tell you for free what cushioning and grip are for.

You will get use out of this everywhere from a monsoon-humid outdoor court to an air-conditioned indoor hall, and by the way — this is a place where the traditional gift on the way home is a box of Deoghar peda, so consider the perforations your insurance against sticky fingers.</p><p>Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip</p><p>Come join the Volkl Cushtac Tennis Replacement Grip for a tour of Deoghar.</p><p>
• <strong>Baba Baidyanath Temple</strong> — one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, a 22-metre pyramidal shikhara with twenty-one further temples packed around it.<br />
• <strong>Naulakha Mandir</strong> — a temple to Radha and Krishna that cost nine lakh rupees and was named after the bill.<br />
• <strong>Trikut Pahar</strong> — three rocky peaks at 753 metres, climbed on foot up the stairs since the ropeway stopped running.<br />
• <strong>Satsang Ashram</strong> — the headquarters of the Satsang movement, which crossed a border to get here and stayed.</p>

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