Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
I’m calmer when the sky behaves, the group stays visible, and this Wilson spec sheet looks merciful. Clash 108 V3 sits at 280 g sans strings, 297 g with strings, 108 sq in, 27.3 in; please keep both feet planted on the mine rail car and don’t sway in the cable car above Zacatecas, Mexico
Wilson Clash 108 V3: Okay, I positioned the racquet right in front of the facade — which, for the record, took over two hundred years to finish carving, so clearly the builders were also anxious about deadlines. I'm a little worried that chunk of stone on the third tier looks loose, I've already located the nearest doorway, and has anyone seen Miguel? He was right behind me thirty seconds ago.
Wilson Clash 108 V3: I want everyone to know that I counted the rail car seats before we got in, and there is exactly one fewer seat than there are people in our group, which feels like the premise of a horror film. The El Eden mine has been producing silver since 1586, which means generations of miners went into this hill before anyone invented emergency lighting, and I cannot stop thinking about that. I am fine. The racquet is fine. I'm watching the exit.
Wilson Clash 108 V3: The Zacatecas teleferico stretches six hundred and fifty metres of cable directly over the city centre, and I read — I just want to say I read this before we boarded — that it is one of the longest urban cable cars in the world, which is very impressive and also means there is a very long way to fall. I am gripping this racquet with both hands, the gondola is definitely swaying more than the brochure implied, and if that cloud to the west reaches us before we land I will be composing a strongly worded letter.
Wilson Clash 108 V3: We made it to the top of Cerro de la Bufa, home to the chapel of the Virgen del Patrocinio and the monuments commemorating Pancho Villa's decisive 1914 battle here, which was genuinely one of the turning points of the Mexican Revolution — I did read the whole placard, even while watching for lightning. The wind up here is considerably stronger than I was prepared for, the group is scattered across three separate viewpoints, and if someone does not check in with me in the next four minutes I am going to start a headcount.
Right. Deep breath. The racquet is the easy part, so let us do the racquet.
The Wilson Clash 108 V3 is the most forgiving frame in the line and, frankly, the least likely to hurt anybody, which I appreciate. Length, 27.3 inches — slightly extended. Unstrung, 280 grams, 9.9 ounces; strung, 297 grams, 10.5 ounces.
Head, 108 square inches, 697 square centimetres.
Balance one point head heavy, swingweight 312, flex 58, which is soft, which means it will not send shock up your arm. The beam is a uniform 24.5 millimetres, graphite construction, 16 by 19 pattern, tension 50 to 60 pounds, Wilson Pro Performance grip.
The rebalanced design uses Wilson's patented SI3D technology so the frame flexes where you want it and stays stable where you need it, and the plant-based Agiplast bumper and grommets come off and on with the Click and Go system, which means when you scrape it — and you will scrape it — it is a two-minute fix rather than a disaster.
Big head, big sweet spot, soft feel, easy depth. Almost nothing about it can go wrong.
Serious ones. The El Eden mine has been worked since 1586 and you enter it by rail car, riding straight into the hill, into a working mine, on rails. Underground. I have counted the exits and I would like everyone to know where they are. It is spectacular, obviously, but so is the ceiling and I would rather it stayed up there.
Which cannot be said for Zacatecas, and I have concerns.
Then the teleferico, which is six hundred and fifty metres of cable slung over the rooftops of the city with cabins on it. Over. The rooftops. And I know the engineering is sound, I know it, and I still want to know what the wind is doing this afternoon, because the wind is the variable nobody talks about.
It carries you up to Cerro de la Bufa, which has a chapel and the revolution monuments on top, and the view is astonishing, and I will look at it once we are on solid ground.
The cathedral of 1753 is at street level. Pink stone, carved end to end, every inch of the facade worked. That is where I would like to start, and possibly finish, and I will be waiting there when you come down.
"Underground on rails, then over the rooftops on a wire. Both. In one day."
