Well Arc10 & AT900T are being discontinued now. Taufik used to use these rackets and for that same reason I started to use them and fell in love with them.
I just realised something - since Yonex is stopping production of the Arc 10, does that include the Premium version?
I wouldn't think so...the Premium only came out last year. I would assume that this will succeed the original Arc 10.
In Germany is the ARC10 3U/G4 version not available at the moment, only the 2U/G3 version. A couple of shops write that the 3U/G4 will be available again from the ~8. February...
Premium version is coming out at two batches only and usually they will not manufacture for 3rd batch because the demands in the market is low. Arc11 still will be the latest control style racket in year 2013.
Some answers to your guys' questions. ArcS 10 Premium is also discontinued, as it was a premium version. Unless they push out another batch, what's available on the market is what you can get. AT900-T and AT900-P are still available in Canada, and probably in the US. Latest information I have for the ArcS11 release here is end of February. I got this info Sunday.
Really tempting to get one and try it out. I like A10 but not really a fan of AZ. Hope this one will be my new toy.
They claim that the new control cap gives the player a better grip and that whatever return you do your thumb will fit well on the new cap. It also is supposed to give 2% less air resistance while swinging compared to other rackets by Yonex.
That is for the Z-Slash . Someone thought the ARC11 cone was cheap looking and I said it looked no different than a regular ArcSaber clone, at which point I was comparing to a Slash. The lighting in the 11 DEMO pic made it look like the 11 had the extra bezels as well but not confirmed so far (must be the lack of graphics perhaps that made it look cheap??). 8DX for one has the regular ArcSaber CS CAP ...
check this out...... http://www.yonex.com/sports/badminton/products/badminton/racquets/arcsaber-series/arcsaber-11/
Of course there will be a discount! And I'm going to buy it too! But, the price was stated by my friend which authorised yonex seller. Price are subjects to Sunrise.