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Continuing on the discussion (to myself) about picking a new racket, I took my own advice on how to choose a badminton racket and borrowed my friends rackets to test over the previous weekend. Since they were in the same game with me, I wasn’t able to play game with their rackets, only a lengthy warm up/sparring.

As I expected, Armortec 900, both Technique and Power, were a bit too heavy for my liking, although the smash power and accuracy was awesome from both rackets.

Nanospeed 9000 S, on the other hand, is a very fast racket just like Nanospeed 7000 that I’m playing with. What impress me was its solid feel. Each drive, clear, smash felt really good in my hand. Drop shots felt good too, either at the net, or from the back of the court. I was able to do offensive clear to my friend backhand side with enough depth and speed to cause them to use their backhand consistently, instead of around the head forehand, and that spoke a volumn (to me at least) because my friends footwork were really quick. The keyword here is consistency, because I incorperate that attack into my game already, but 50% of the shot are either go out or not deep enough or fast enough. I’m talking about dropping it in the rectangle box in the corners (actually against my friends, the target area is 1/4 the size of that box) Just like that, a new way of attacking was offered to me. As a result, my friends may not be able to hang out closer to the net too much (to catch my drop shot). The new aspect of my game open up. Love it!

So that’s my short review about Yonex Nanospeed 9000 Type S. To read more review, you can catch Ants reviews about both NS 9000 Type X and S on BadmintonCentral.com.

Yonex Nanospeed 9000 Type X Review

Yonex Nanospeed 9000 Type S Review

I heard about this new series from Yonex, called ArcSaber. The first one in the series, ArcSaber 7 was released a few months ago. I will try to find a review for it and put it up on this blog. However, I am usually not so thrill about the first one of the series because it usually the defensive/soft feel one. Yonex always saves the offensive/solid feel racket for later releases.