Am not sure if it's a ZF but definitely a Voltric. YONEX has been flash boosting their FB sales by painting mogensen and ahsans voltric in FB colourway.
my friend i am selling yonex rackets and the most what i get complaints from breakage is arcsaber fb and the nanoray series from yonex for me the racket is not durable you can buy many other brands with much better specs and cheaper price thanks
I always thinking of trying a FB but the comments here let me think twice.. Currently I am using Arcsaber 6. What other racquet has the same feel as the FB 5u with a better spec?
In my club, those who able to purchase arcfb is either rich enough to stock 4-8 pcs of them in a bag, or have a health issue (e.g. grandpas/grandmas/those injured around the arm).
I've had Arcsaber FB for quite awhile now. I got both the lighther version and the little bit heavier. I've had mine for almost half a year now playing local competitions and using it regularly in practice and mine doesn't have more than a couple of scratches. The lack of power is abit annoying sometimes I have to admit, when I switch to my Voltric 80 I suddenly can thunder down smashes and play more aggressive without using alot of energy. On the upside, you can't lose in flat game or net duels if your using the the FB.
Really? How much are they selling it for in Taiwan? Do you know of any reputable dealer in Taipei offering the 5U G5?
Victor TK15 5U seems to be of a comparison? and at less than half of FB price, break also not so heartache haha
It looks like Yonex is coming back with 4U, 5U and 6U (instead of F) versions of the flash boost rackets this year! Probably trying to have less of them break by having heavier versions available!
Nope, F is 73g. 6U is 70-75g. Yonex never called the Flash Boost 6U before this year. It was just F - 73g.
http://www.yonex.com/sports/badminton/products/badminton/racquets/arcsaber-series/arcsaber-fb/ F is 6U
F is a letter made up by Yonex to designate 73g rackets. No where on that page does it say F = 6U. All you could say is that F is within the 6U range. The U codes designate weight ranges and not specific weights. The FB was the first recent Yonex racket to have a specific weight number (73g) instead of just a range like other rackets. That is why they called it F. A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square. What I'm trying to say is that the new price list specifies 6U for the racket while the old ones specified F, which might mean that they are not trying to aim for exactly 73g anymore or something like that. The weight range might be bigger than before.
Nah, notice how it's listed as F (Ave.73g)? There's no way a manufacturer will make a racket exactly to a specific wt accurate to the gram. Too much manufacturing tolerance variations.
I'd say marketing dept just wanted to make as if yonex invented a new wt category...but really it's just 6U
Your posts are very subjective. You are convinced F is the same as 6U (and you might be right), but it doesn't make it a fact. I only go for facts, and the fact is Yonex made up an F letter for 73g avg, and they changed it to 6U this year. Yonex says F is not 6U (and it is what they have told me), and no one has proof that it is not the case. So unless they say both are the same or someone comes up with an ultimate proof of it, F is not 6U. I'd rather think and discuss about why they changed their labeling or why they created the F category (which was the point of my original post) than pointlessly argue about whether F is 6U or not. Maybe they usually aim for say 90g for 3U/4U rackets and classify them afterwards in the correct weight category. Which would explain why most of their rackets are made in 2 weight ranges. In the case of the FB, they wanted to make a lighter racket with only 1 weight category, so they couldn't aim for an inbetween number. So they aimed for 73g and the couple rackets that were over 75g, they labeled as 5U for the Japanese market only (to limit supply demand, since they probably didn't have that many). Realizing how fragile the racket is, they may have changed their strategy and they now aim for 80g rackets to make 4U/5U rackets and 75g to make 5U/6U rackets. The result is that there should be many more 5U rackets on the market this year, which would result in less rackets breaking in the first 6 months. I also know that the Flash Boost rackets supply/production was stopped for a LONG time, probably to implement that new strategy.
Nah. I believe every Racket has an exact weight with a tolerance about +/-0.5gramm. It shows me my experience in measure some new rackets. I dont know why Yonex is so imprecise and only say 3U or 4U. But i dont know why they put the flashboost in a Category F & i also dont know why they change it now.
Most of the 3U rackets I carry are in the high range of 3U (between 87-90g). There is usually 1-2 grams of difference between two of the same rackets, but I rarely carry more than 2-3 of the same racket, so the sample is small.
2gramm different is very unusually, when you have the same racket. For my experience it could be the worst case szenario. But i would like to see a photo if you have it
