ArcSaber i-Slash
Model ARC-ISLASH
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ArcSaber i-Slash: the Z-Slash’s slim body, made Medium and 3U for intermediate players
A slim-body ArcSaber for intermediate players
The ArcSaber i-Slash brought the slim-body idea of Yonex’s ArcSaber Z-Slash to intermediate players. Yonex Japan scheduled it for mid-July 2012 at ¥17,000 before tax, against the Z-Slash’s ¥25,000, and its player chart recommended it for intermediate men and women and for no other level. Where the Z-Slash is Stiff and came in 2U and 3U, the i-Slash is Medium and was offered only in 3U. Yonex’s one-line pitch, on its UK site, was “Wider sweet spot and innovative Slim Body generates an accurate, high-speed smash with ease.”
Compact frame, long slim shaft
Yonex Japan listed the i-Slash before it reached shops: it appears on the racquet list in late June 2012 with mid-July 2012 as its scheduled release, and Yonex’s international ArcSaber list carried it by September. Yonex’s technology list names a Compact Frame and a Super Slim Long Shaft, with an Aero+Box frame, Isometric head shape, CS Carbon Nanotube, Solid Feel Core, a built-in T-joint, a new grommet pattern and the Control Support Cap. Yonex’s international page gives a frame of graphite, H.T. graphite, CS carbon nanotube and glass fiber and a graphite shaft. It was made in Japan, with a frame 10 mm longer than standard, and Yonex Japan’s racquet matrix of 2013–14 placed it on the even-balance line, between the ArcSaber 7 and the Carbonex 35.
No documented tour use
No Yonex report names a player on the i-Slash. Yonex’s international product page of 2012 had an “Other Ambassadors” tab naming Carsten Mogensen and Peter Gade, but that tab was a site template, not evidence that either played it, and Yonex’s 2013 reports list Mogensen on the ArcSaber FB. The i-Slash was a racquet for club players at the intermediate level.
Black/Clear Red, then Deep Red
Yonex sold the i-Slash in Black/Clear Red from 2012, in 3U with grips 4 and 5. By February 2015 Yonex Japan’s page showed a Deep Red design marked “new design” under the same item code, ARC-IS, still 3U (88 g on average) and still ¥17,000 before tax; both designs are the same model. Its costlier sibling is the Laser Yellow ArcSaber Z-Slash of 2009, Stiff and in 2U or 3U, which has its own page; the deep red Z-Slash made for Taufik Hidayat in 2010 is a Z-Slash edition, not an i-Slash.
Four years on Yonex’s lists
Yonex Japan priced the i-Slash at ¥17,850 including 5% tax (¥17,000 before tax) in 2012 and still listed it at ¥17,000 plus tax in 2016. It was not a Japan-only racquet: Yonex’s international site, Yonex UK and Yonex’s Far East site carried it, and Yonex UK’s 2015 brochure still named the ARC-IS on its stringing page. Yonex Japan’s racquet list dropped it at the turn of 2016, together with the ArcSaber 7 and 9 FL; Yonex’s international ArcSaber list still showed it in February 2016 and had dropped it by June. No production-end date is published, so 2016 is the last year it is documented on sale new. It outlasted the Z-Slash, which had left Yonex Japan’s list by February 2015. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mistaken for a Z-Slash
No counterfeit of this model is documented in Yonex sources. The likelier mistake is identity: the i-Slash shares the slim shape and the “Slash” name with the costlier Z-Slash, and a slim red frame can be taken for the Taufik Z-Slash. The print settles it: i-SLASH and the code ARC-IS, Medium flex and a 3U label. The ArcSaber 2i (ARC2I), a Japan-made 3U model Yonex Japan announced for release in February 2015, is a different model despite the similar letter; it has its own page.
The intermediate slim body
The i-Slash carried the Z-Slash’s compact head and long, slim shaft into Yonex’s intermediate range for four years and outlasted the original on Yonex Japan’s list by about a year. Yonex documents no player, edition or tour history for it, so its interest is as the plain, Japan-made member of the slim ArcSaber family, in Black/Clear Red or Deep Red.
Look for i-SLASH printed on the frame and the item code ARC-IS. Yonex documents two designs: Black/Clear Red (2012) and Deep Red (marked “new design” by 2015). Yonex offered only 3U (85–89.9 g; Yonex Japan gives an average of 88 g) with grips G4 or G5, Medium flex, and Made in Japan; Yonex Japan marks the frame 10 mm long. Yonex recommends 19–24 lb. A Laser Yellow slim frame coded ARC-ZS, or the deep red Taufik model, is a Z-Slash, and a black-and-magenta frame sold as a Z-Slash BP is a Japanese shop color of the Z-Slash. Yonex’s own checks: a laser-engraved production code on the cap above the handle, and a hologram sticker that resists peeling.
Look for the ARC-IS code, the i-SLASH print and a 3U label; either documented design is the same model. Treat a 2U or 4U i-Slash, or a claim of tour use, as unproven without a Yonex source. For a club racquet of 2012–2016, check the long, slim shaft and the T-joint for cracks and the grommets for wear.