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cardio tennis classes Edgewood — the Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of South Africa
cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Dutch Reformed Mother Church, Rustenburg (NG Moederkerk Rustenburg) in Rustenburg, A large neo-Gothic church of dressed stone standing on open ground in the middle of the town, with a tall square tower and a pointed spire that is the highest thing in central Rustenburg; the long grey wall of the Magaliesberg range closes the view behind it to the south
cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Rustenburg Town Hall and the Paul Kruger statue in Rustenburg, A symmetrical plastered civic building in the town centre, with a pedimented central entrance reached from a forecourt of lawn. On that lawn stands a full-length bronze figure of a heavy-set bearded old man in a frock coat, hat in hand, facing the street
cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Kgaswane Mountain Reserve in Rustenburg, A high plateau of pale grassland and quartzite outcrops on the Magaliesberg ridges directly above Rustenburg, cut by rocky gorges and wetland seeps; from the escarpment edge the city lies spread out on the plain immediately below to the north
cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Rustenburg Kloof in Rustenburg, A deep cleft in the quartzite cliffs of the Magaliesberg on the edge of the town, its rock walls rising steeply on both sides of a narrow, well-wooded valley floor with a stream running through it; the ravine is visible as a dark notch in the mountain wall from the streets of Rustenburg
cardio tennis classes Edgewood — the Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set combined with the national flag of South Africa

Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set

Rustenburg, South Africa  ·  Strings > 18g

Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set

This is the assayed article: the most valuable string in the room in its most fragile form, gut-like under the palm, and frank about how little time it has. Before it changes hands it wants you up the mountain above Rustenburg, where the sable antelope are and the wetlands earned a Ramsar listing.

↓   Tour Rustenburg, South Africa

Four stops before the checkout

Rustenburg, South Africa
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cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Dutch Reformed Mother Church, Rustenburg (NG Moederkerk Rustenburg) in Rustenburg, A large neo-Gothic church of dressed stone standing on open ground in the middle of the town, with a tall square tower and a pointed spire that is the highest thing in central Rustenburg; the long grey wall of the Magaliesberg range closes the view behind it to the south
Stop one

Dutch Reformed Mother Church, Rustenburg (NG Moederkerk Rustenburg)

Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set: Four in the morning is when I do arithmetic I don't need. The congregation was founded in 1850 — second-oldest Dutch Reformed congregation north of the Vaal, which means somebody got there first and I would love to know by how long. Karl Heyne, a German immigrant, designed and built this, about £21,000, cornerstone laid by Commandant-General Piet Joubert, vice-president of the South African Republic. Work started 1898 and then the Anglo-Boer War interrupted it, and afterwards repairs came to £474. Four hundred and seventy-four. Someone counted. Inaugurated 16 April 1903, national monument in 1979. That spire is the highest thing in central Rustenburg, and if I lived under it I would hear every hour of the night.

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cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Rustenburg Town Hall and the Paul Kruger statue in Rustenburg, A symmetrical plastered civic building in the town centre, with a pedimented central entrance reached from a forecourt of lawn. On that lawn stands a full-length bronze figure of a heavy-set bearded old man in a frock coat, hat in hand, facing the street
Stop two

Rustenburg Town Hall and the Paul Kruger statue

Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set: Okay so — Town Hall, and inside it the Rustenburg Museum, history and archaeology of the district, fine, but look at the lawn. Bronze old man, frock coat, hat in hand. That's Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic, and the sculptor showed him as he was in his last years of exile. Exile. That's the choice that keeps me up: not the president, the ending. Made by a French sculptor, incidentally, which is its own long story about where a man's likeness ends up. Rustenburg was laid out in 1851 as the administrative centre for the farming district around it, and Kruger bought a farm about five square kilometres north-west of town in 1863. Before all of it.

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cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Kgaswane Mountain Reserve in Rustenburg, A high plateau of pale grassland and quartzite outcrops on the Magaliesberg ridges directly above Rustenburg, cut by rocky gorges and wetland seeps; from the escarpment edge the city lies spread out on the plain immediately below to the north
Stop three

Kgaswane Mountain Reserve

Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set: Four thousand two hundred and fifty-seven hectares, up on the Magaliesberg directly above the city — pale grass, quartzite, gorges, seeps. Known for its breeding herd of sable antelope, plus a wide range of other mammals and birds, and here's the bit I lost an hour to: the high-altitude wetlands got it designated a Ramsar site in 2019. Wetlands. On top of a mountain. Water sitting up there instead of running off, which shouldn't feel profound and at three in the morning absolutely does. Anyway. Stand at the escarpment edge and the whole city is spread out on the plain immediately below you. I've forgotten what I was saying. It's worth it.

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cardio tennis classes Edgewood — Rustenburg Kloof in Rustenburg, A deep cleft in the quartzite cliffs of the Magaliesberg on the edge of the town, its rock walls rising steeply on both sides of a narrow, well-wooded valley floor with a stream running through it; the ravine is visible as a dark notch in the mountain wall from the streets of Rustenburg
Stop four

Rustenburg Kloof

Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set: Right, the kloof. A deep cleft straight through the quartzite cliffs, walls going up steeply on both sides, wooded floor, a stream running down it — and it is the most prominent natural feature of the whole range. This is the gap. This is the notch you can see from the plain, and it is the reason the town has the setting it has, at the foot of the Magaliesberg, where Rustenburg was established in 1851. And it has long been used as a public recreation ground. That's the part I keep circling back to: the most dramatic thing for miles, and the town's chief use for it is going there on a Sunday. Which is correct, actually. That's exactly right.

The Rustenburg, South Africa track

Wilson NXT Power 18g Tennis String Set

Written for this world alone.

I bring up the softest, densest, most valuable metal on earth from under this town, so I know what a premium material feels like in the hand.

Wilson NXT Power is the premium end of the NXT family: nearly twice the fibre count of regular NXT, Xycro microfibres credited with about eighty per cent less vibration than traditional synthetic gut, and a sweet spot roughly fifteen per cent larger for it. It is the softest, most gut-like string Wilson makes in nylon.

At 18 gauge it is the finest and most responsive — a short-lived luxury, and worth it. One 12 m / 40 ft set.

Rustenburg sits at the foot of the Magaliesberg for good reasons, and the Kloof is the best of them: the gap in the cliffs that gives the town its setting, used as public recreation ground since the place was established in 1851. Above it, Kgaswane Mountain Reserve covers 4,257 hectares, known for its breeding herd of sable antelope, with high-altitude wetlands that earned it Ramsar designation in 2019.

In town, the Dutch Reformed Mother Church congregation was founded in 1850 — the second oldest north of the Vaal — and the present building was designed and built by the German immigrant Karl Heyne, its cornerstone laid by Commandant-General Piet Joubert.

And the Town Hall houses the Rustenburg Museum, with the district's history and archaeology inside and, out front, a bronze of Paul Kruger as he looked in his last years of exile.

A single set is one frame's worth of luxury, and it behaves everywhere from the thin dry air up on the 1,700-metre plateau of the reserve to the heavy heat down in the Kloof, which is a wider working range than a string this fine has any right to. It is also perfect for a district where the most valuable thing in the ground is also the softest, and nobody here has ever confused softness with worthlessness.

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