Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
Control frame; yes, thrilling. Blade 98 V10 packs 98 in², 305 g sans strings, 7 pts HL, a 16×19 string grid, plus Turbo Taper beam shifting 21.5 mm to 20.5 mm. Also, the 1835 post station still stands, wow, please forget I read that: Utena, Lithuania.
Wilson Blade 98 16×19 V10: Yeah, it's a church, fine, I guess. The paintings inside are fine too. …Okay FINE, they were done by artists who trained under the Italian fresco tradition and the neo-baroque interior scheme is actually considered one of the more intact examples in the Aukštaitija region but I did NOT spend twenty minutes reading about that, so drop it.
Wilson Blade 98 16×19 V10: It's an old building on an old road, fine, I guess. Horses used to stop here or whatever. …Not that I know that post stations on the imperial road network required fresh relay horses every fifteen to twenty versts and that this one's lodging house is still structurally original from 1835, because that would be a weird thing to just know.
Wilson Blade 98 16×19 V10: Museums are fine, I guess, especially in old train stations, whatever. …Not that the resistance movements documented here span from the anti-Soviet partisan struggle of the late 1940s through to the Sąjūdis independence movement, which is actually kind of a lot of history for one building but I'm not, like, into history or anything, so.
Wilson Blade 98 16×19 V10: A lake with a fountain, fine, I guess, water does water things. …Okay the fountain projecting onto a mist screen so it acts as an actual outdoor water cinema is genuinely kind of cool, but I mean, light refraction through a water curtain is just basic physics so it's not like I'm impressed or anything.
It's a Blade. It's fine. I mean, if you actually want the numbers: 98 square inch head, 632 square centimetres, 27 inches long, 305 grams unstrung, 7 points head light. String pattern 16×19, so more open than the 18×20 version, which means more spin and a bit more launch and a slightly higher trajectory, and you can shape the ball instead of just hitting it flat and hoping. Whatever.
The new thing on the v10 is the Turbo Taper beam. It varies from 21.5 millimetres down to 20.5, which sounds like nothing, and it isn't nothing — a thinner section through the throat lets you drive through the ball more aggressively without the frame going stiff on you.
Then StableFeel+ for stability when you swing hard at a bad moment, FORTYFIVE degree layup so it feels connected to the ball, DirectConnect, which runs the carbon fibre handle all the way into the end cap so it doesn't twist, and Parallel Drilling in the grommets for a more consistent string bed. …Sorry. That was a lot. I read the spec sheet. Once.
Seven points head light at 305 grams is stable but still fast, and if you're the kind of player who wants to swing at it rather than block it back, this is the one in the family that lets you. That's it. That's the racquet.
It's for people who like to attack.
And it's touring Utena, which is, like, a small Lithuanian town, so, sure. It's a whole complex on the old road, stables and a lodging house, still standing, from when the way you crossed a country was to change horses every twenty-odd kilometres and sleep wherever the horses stopped.
Except — okay, the post station of 1835 is actually kind of incredible?
That's an entire vanished system of travel, physically still there, on a normal street. Nobody talks about it.
The Church of the Ascension is neo-baroque and was painted inside by Italian-trained masters, so somebody in a town this size hired the good people. The Museum of Freedom Fights is in the former railway station, which — a station is a building about leaving, and they filled it with the people who stayed and fought. Fine. That's fine. That's a good building decision, I guess.
And Lake Dauniskis has a fountain that plays against a screen of water. It's fine.
"An entire vanished way of travelling, still standing on a normal street."
