I´m not a good badmintonplayer.
I started to play about ten years ago. I bought a racket on a sale. Nothing special just a cheap racket.
After one season my partner smashed at my racket in a double. Not so fun. The racket broke. Not much but much enough.
I bought a new racket on a sale. A "Slazenger Mystiq 400".
I quit playing badminton after o total of two seasons.
Recently I´ve started to play again and I really enjoy it!! But my Slazenger isn´t good enough so I want to buy a new better racket.

So I surfed around the net to find out about what to buy and guess what!!!!
The racket I broke, my first racket, was a Yonex Boron-2!!

I´ve still got it. It´s slightly broken and not playable. Here is a picture taken yesterday:

And by the way... I need some help in choosing a new racket (that´s my price for the picture!)

I´ve found three rackets that I choose between. Any comments are welcome!!

Yonex Ti Pro 30
Yonex Ti Pro 50
Yonex Graphlex 2002 Gold (Limited Edition)

HOW do you attach an image?????
I´ll try once more and if it doesn´t work I can mail it to anyone that may be able to post it here??

It worked!!!
Any racket I´ll buy.... guess what bag I´ll carry it in....

I am so sorry to hear one more boron 2 broke!!!!

The greatest racket on the world!!!!

Just try Cab 20 or Cab 21, not exactly the same, but feel close.

I also have the privilge to own a Boron-2 and it is a very good racquet. In addition I own a Yonex MP77 and I think it is an excellent racquet. I haven't tried any of the Yonex Ti series but the MP77 IS a Ti racquet.

I would recommend the MP77.

Ben

Originally posted by Framerate
I´ve found three rackets that I choose between. Any comments are welcome!!

Yonex Ti Pro 30
Yonex Ti Pro 50
Yonex Graphlex 2002 Gold (Limited Edition)

Never heard of these Yonex models. It could be that the models are marketed differently in Sweden. Mag? any infor on these models.

Depending on your budget, you have a variety of choices and not just from Yonex, but other brands like Carlton, Forza. The Yonex Boron-2 is a very good racquet although I know folks who either love it or hate it and by the way, it is no longer cheap since a mint Boron-2 can fetch a hefty sum nowadays.

Boron-2 was cheap??? Even on sale??? God... Hope I could born ealier...

Anyway, try Yonex Cab-20. It's more like a traditional racket, good power, good control, with good price.

Other than Yonex, there are other brand available out there. I think if any model fits for u and price is even better, take a shot at it.

Lazybuddy:

It was!! When I was in Hong Kong in 1989, it cost HK$560, which was ONLY US$75. It was one of the most expensive racquets at the time and I nagged my mom into buying for me. :D :D :D

I own the Carbonex 23 and definitely say that Boron-2 is better. The Boron-2 is very similar to the MP77. Perhaps the sweet spot is a bit smaller.

Ben

wow, the boron-2 in the pic looks exactly like my Victor Columbia, even the paintjob pattern is identical. Maybe Victor was trying to copy it? Columbia is only $40 USD.

Originally posted by jwu
wow, the boron-2 in the pic looks exactly like my Victor Columbia, even the paintjob pattern is identical. Maybe Victor was trying to copy it? Columbia is only $40 USD.


If the performance if also close, maybe I will consider get one... Any idea?

Originally posted by benfok
Lazybuddy:

It was!! When I was in Hong Kong in 1989, it cost HK$560, which was ONLY US$75. It was one of the most expensive racquets at the time and I nagged my mom into buying for me. :D :D :D

I own the Carbonex 23 and definitely say that Boron-2 is better. The Boron-2 is very similar to the MP77. Perhaps the sweet spot is a bit smaller.

Ben

Thats about the same price Boron-2 costed in Sweden around 89, BUT mine was on a sale (old modell!!) so I only payed half that price!!! They had maybe five or ten left when I bought mine so there are probably still people around here that doesn´t play any longer and don´t use their old Boron-2. People that even might throw that old racket away and buy a new one if they start to play again.
Painfull isn´t it!!?? :)

I comfort myself with the knowledge that a Boron-2 wont make much different if you aren´t a very good player and maybe, just maybe, not even then! And it was fragile so it would not last forever anyway, because just like a stradivarius, it should be played with and only a good player can get the best of it...

My Boron-2 was probably very unhappy with me so it throwed itself infront of my partners racket and took it´s life...... :(

i had Boron-2 few years back.(it was a give from my coach from highschool team) at then i didn't know too much about rackets, so i didn't value it much. i lost in locker room from my college, know i eveytime thought about it, it just make me so much in pain.(i believe my gym teacher kept it, and pretend don't know anything about it). So sad :(