diff --git a/PROJECT.md b/PROJECT.md
index 91df6db..d1f49cb 100644
--- a/PROJECT.md
+++ b/PROJECT.md
@@ -2577,6 +2577,19 @@ of the `o_*` originals they were composed from.
 The one thing the first roll got wrong: it drew a TENNIS BALL into both bouncing frames. The game
 draws the ball; a drawn one is a blob stuck to his hand. The prompt says so now.
 
+**THE TOUR RIDES THE WIRE TOO** (Oliver, same session: *"ja, das geschlecht sollte auch über die
+leitung gehen"*). A tour is which BODY you play in, so it is part of the look and it goes in the same
+message (`u`, alongside `k`/`s`/`n`). Before that, both phones drew the friend in whatever tour THIS
+phone picked, so a men's/women's pairing showed each player a body their friend was not using.
+`oTour()` in render.js is the one accessor — yours everywhere, theirs in netplay — and it feeds the
+three places that must agree: the sprite suffix (`SK`), how the art takes a colour (`PS`: her whites
+wash, his blue dyes) and the palm the idle ball bounces under (`BOUNCE_IDLE.oDx/oApex`, measured per
+body). An older build sends no tour and falls back to ours, which is exactly what it used to do.
+
+Those palm knobs were re-checked against the new art rather than assumed: the ball marker still
+lands under the drawn palm on `n_bounce` and `n_bounce_f` at the values measured off `o_bounce`,
+because the poses were copied. No retune.
+
 **And the SETUP SCREEN uses the front too** (Oliver, same session: *"das heisst aber auch, dass wir
 in der farb- und charakterauswahl den frontfacing nehmen können"*). Picking a face off the back of a
 head was the best the art allowed; `drawLook` draws `n_idle1` now — same kit, same palette, same
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 06fbb60..021e9a1 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -659,6 +659,6 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one') {
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=294"></script>
+<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=295"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/net.js b/src/net.js
index 8e1cc06..4d06ae1 100644
--- a/src/net.js
+++ b/src/net.js
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 //
 // ponytail: no reconnect-and-resume. A dropped radio ends the match with a card; the recorded
 // plan calls reconnection "the bulk of the real work" and a prototype must not start there.
-import { COURT, UI, KITS, SKINS } from './config.js';
-import { G, P, O, ball, score, setupPoint, selectCourt, court, kit, skin } from './state.js';
+import { COURT, UI, KITS, SKINS, TOURS } from './config.js';
+import { G, P, O, ball, score, setupPoint, selectCourt, court, kit, skin, tour } from './state.js';
 import { pointTo, fault, tossBall } from './gameplay.js';
 import { startMatch, matchReady, resolveInterlude, netMatchWon } from './beats.js'; // runtime-only cycle: beats sends verdicts back through this module
 import { zombies } from './zombies.js';
@@ -129,7 +129,11 @@ function netStart(side, death, courtId) {
   // tell them how we look AND WHO WE ARE, the moment there is somebody to tell. Sent once, on
   // pairing: neither phone can change its pick mid-match, because the setup screen is only
   // reachable between runs.
-  send({ t: 'look', k: kit.id, s: skin.id, n: savedName() });
+  // `u` is the TOUR — which body they play in, not just what colour it wears. It rides the same
+  // message because it is the same fact: what the friend across the net LOOKS like. Without it both
+  // phones drew the opponent in whatever tour THIS phone picked, so a men's/women's pairing showed
+  // each player a body their friend was not using.
+  send({ t: 'look', k: kit.id, s: skin.id, n: savedName(), u: tour.id });
   G.modal = null; G.modalQ.length = 0;      // the waiting card has done its job
   // THE HOST'S COURT RIDES THE ROOM, exactly as the death-match pick does — two phones playing the
   // same rally on two different surfaces disagree about the bounce as well as the picture, and the
@@ -202,6 +206,9 @@ export function netMsg(m) {
   else if (m.t === 'look') G.net.look = {
     kit: KITS.find(k => k.id === m.k) || KITS[0],
     skin: SKINS.find(s => s.id === m.s) || SKINS[0],
+    // a build that predates the tour field sends none, and the fallback is what it used to do:
+    // draw them in OUR tour. Same rule as the kit — an unknown id resolves to the drawn default.
+    tour: TOURS.find(t => t.id === m.u) || tour,
     name: tidyName(m.n || '').slice(0, 8) || 'FRIEND',
   };
 }
diff --git a/src/render.js b/src/render.js
index fc1dc99..f34a8bd 100644
--- a/src/render.js
+++ b/src/render.js
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ function farB(z) {
 // Asset cache-buster — bump with main.js?v=N (see the img.src note below). EXPORTED because the
 // menu screens hang <img> tags on the same files, and two copies of this number is one copy too
 // many: the one that does not get bumped is the one that serves a cached 404.
-export const SPRV = 141;
+export const SPRV = 142;
 // The boot bar in main.js watches this. Nothing here CHANGES when things load — every sprite was
 // already requested at import — it just makes the wait visible and holds the menu back until the
 // last sheet has landed. See the onerror note below for the other half of "sometimes missing".
@@ -1526,10 +1526,19 @@ function drawPiles(near) { // split at the net like zombies so height occludes c
 // one whose PNG has not loaded yet — falls straight through to the men's frame. That fallback is
 // deliberate: a cached 404 on one female frame degrades to a man for a frame, it does not blink the
 // body out of existence (the same rule drawZombie's missing-frame guard is built on).
+// THE TOUR THE BODY ACROSS THE NET IS PLAYING. Yours everywhere except netplay, where it is the
+// one their phone sent — a tour is which BODY you play in, and the friend picked that on their own
+// setup screen. It reaches three things and they must not disagree: the sprite suffix (SK), how the
+// art takes a colour (PS: her whites wash, his blue dyes) and the palm the idle ball bounces under
+// (BOUNCE_IDLE.oDx/oApex, which are measured per body).
+const oTour = () => (G.net && G.net.look && G.net.look.tour) || tour;
+
 const SK = n => {
   // the bench's living slots pick the suffix directly (G.bench.char 'o'/'of'/'p'/'pf'), so all four
   // tennis bodies can be reviewed without touching the picked tour
-  const sfx = G.bench && G.bench.char != null ? (G.bench.char.endsWith('f') ? '_f' : '') : tour.sfx;
+  const sfx = G.bench && G.bench.char != null ? (G.bench.char.endsWith('f') ? '_f' : '')
+            : n[0] === 'n' && n[1] === '_' ? (oTour().sfx || '')   // the friend, in THEIR tour
+            : tour.sfx;
   return (sfx && SPR[n + sfx]) ? n + sfx : n;
 };
 
@@ -1636,7 +1645,7 @@ function PS(name) {
   // women's it sits at the same hue as her skin and her hair, so a dark pick painted her arms, her
   // legs and her ponytail. Blue-over-white is hue-isolated by construction — see TINT in config.
   if (n[0] === 'n' && n[1] === '_' && G.net && G.net.look)
-    return tinted(n, img, G.net.look.kit, G.net.look.skin, tour.kit, TINT.kit);
+    return tinted(n, img, G.net.look.kit, G.net.look.skin, oTour().kit, TINT.kit);
   return img;
 }
 
@@ -2445,8 +2454,8 @@ export function render() {
     // the racket side. One `* sv.facing` fixes it for both players and both tours; it was wrong in
     // the men's world too, it just took a second body to notice.
     const mine = sv.side === 'P';
-    const bx = sv.x + sv.facing * (mine ? -bounceDx() : (tour.oDx ?? BOUNCE_IDLE.oDx));
-    const by = Math.abs(Math.sin(G.idleT * BOUNCE_IDLE.tempo)) * (mine ? bounceApex() : (tour.oApex ?? BOUNCE_IDLE.oApex));
+    const bx = sv.x + sv.facing * (mine ? -bounceDx() : (oTour().oDx ?? BOUNCE_IDLE.oDx));
+    const by = Math.abs(Math.sin(G.idleT * BOUNCE_IDLE.tempo)) * (mine ? bounceApex() : (oTour().oApex ?? BOUNCE_IDLE.oApex));
     drawBall(bx, by, sv.z);
   }
   // hot-ball ghost streak: a fast rally ball drags three fading ghosts behind it. It gated on
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index 79b10bf..5fbacb6 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -1840,13 +1840,17 @@ test('netplay: your look goes over the wire on pairing, and theirs comes back',
   assert.ok(look, 'pairing announces this phone\'s look');
   assert.equal(look.k, 'green'); assert.equal(look.s, 'deep');
 
-  netMsg({ t: 'look', k: 'red', s: 'pale' });
+  assert.equal(look.u, state.tour.id, "...and WHICH BODY it plays in — the tour is part of the look");
+
+  netMsg({ t: 'look', k: 'red', s: 'pale', u: 'women' });
   assert.equal(G.net.look.kit.id, 'red', 'their kit is what the opponent is drawn in');
   assert.equal(G.net.look.skin.id, 'pale');
+  assert.equal(G.net.look.tour.id, 'women', 'and their tour, whatever THIS phone picked');
   // an older build, or a colour this one has never heard of, must not blank the opponent out
-  netMsg({ t: 'look', k: 'chartreuse', s: undefined });
+  netMsg({ t: 'look', k: 'chartreuse', s: undefined, u: 'mixed doubles' });
   assert.equal(G.net.look.kit.id, cfg.KITS[0].id, 'an unknown colour falls back to as-drawn');
   assert.equal(G.net.look.skin.id, cfg.SKINS[0].id);
+  assert.equal(G.net.look.tour.id, state.tour.id, 'and an unknown tour falls back to OUR tour');
   state.selectKit(cfg.KITS[0].id); state.selectSkin(cfg.SKINS[0].id);   // leave the table as found
 });