Armortec 300
Model AT-300
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Armortec 300: the medium-flex Armortec Yonex made in Japan for export, 2004–08
Made in Japan, sold abroad
The Armortec 300 was a Japan-made racquet that Yonex Japan never sold. It belonged to Yonex’s export range from 2004 to early 2008, and in Yonex’s 2006 and 2007 export catalogs it was the lowest of the Japan-made Armortecs and the only one rated medium flex; the 800s, 700, 500 and 900s were stiff or extra stiff. Its frame listing was different too. Yonex named titanium in the frame of every other Japan-made Armortec, gForce Ti on the 800s, 700 and 500 and Elastic Titanium on the 900s, but gave the 300’s frame as graphite and “Super Alloy,” which Yonex China’s product page rendered as a thin-film alloy armor. Its shaft was plain high-modulus graphite. It still carried the series’ Power Armor System badge.
Joining the range in 2004
Yonex USA’s Armortec page of November 2003 listed only the 700 and 500, the first two Armortecs. The 300 arrived the next year: a BadmintonCentral member who had just ordered one asked about it on July 31, 2004, and a US retailer’s Yonex list included it by that October. By October 2005 Yonex USA listed it below the 800 Offensive, 800 Defensive, 700 and 500, rated medium, with a graphite and Super Alloy frame, a high-modulus graphite shaft and 4U (80–84 g) with a G4 grip. Yonex’s series copy credited a graphite and gForce Ti hybrid at the top of the frame with a head-weighted effect worth 4% more smash speed, and the pared frame corners with lighter handling. That copy describes the series; the 300’s own frame listing names no gForce Ti.
Club players, not tour players
No professional is documented using the 300. Yonex’s international tournament reports of 2007–08 name the Armortec 700, 900 Power, 900 Technique and 800 Defensive among winners’ and finalists’ racquets, never the 300, and it never appeared on Yonex Japan’s staff pages. Its users were club players. A BadmintonCentral member who owned the 300, 500 and 250 in 2006 found all three powerful because of their heavy heads but the stiffer 500 easiest to control; another called the 300 forgiving, with a big sweet spot.
Turquoise, then yellow and black
Yonex documented two finishes. Its 2006 export catalog showed the 300 in turquoise, without a new tag, and its 2007 catalog relaunched it as a new color, yellow and black, with the specification unchanged. The colors of the 2004–05 frames aren’t documented in the Yonex material found. Sizes depended on the listing: Yonex USA and both catalogs give 4U (80–84.9 g) with a G4 grip only, while Yonex’s international web page of 2006–08 added 3U (85–89.9 g) in grips 3 to 5. Yonex’s 2006 catalog also brought in two new Taiwan-made models below it, the stiff Armortec 250 and the medium-flex Armortec 150, whose frame Yonex also listed as graphite and Super Alloy. No player or limited edition of the 300 exists.
Off the list in February 2008
Yonex’s international Armortec page still listed the 300 on February 9, 2008. By February 20 the Japan-made 500 and 300 had given way to the Taiwan-made 250 and 150, and Yonex’s 2008 catalog carried only the 900 Power, 900 Technique, 700, 250 and 150. Owners noticed: in June 2008 a BadmintonCentral member wrote that Yonex had discontinued the AT300 that year, after the reviewer who started the thread said he could no longer find it on Yonex’s site. A US retailer still listed it in December 2008. Verified sales so far are few and pre-owned, from Asia resale; the price panel above lists them and marks the value as an estimate.
Copies and neighbors
No counterfeit report specific to the 300 has been found. A BadmintonCentral member wrote in January 2009 that most of the fake Yonex racquets he had met were Nanospeeds, Armortecs and Muscle Power 99s and 100s, without saying which Armortecs. The likelier mix-up is with the 300’s Taiwan-made neighbors of 2006–08, the 250 and the 150, the second with the same frame wording, so the printed name and the Made in Japan marking settle identity.
After the 300
After the 500 and 300 left Yonex’s international list, the lower Armortec slots went to Taiwan-made frames: first the 250 and 150, then, from March 2009, the 70 Mega, 50 and 30, launched beside the Japan-made, flexible Armortec 600. Owners never agreed on how the 300 felt. One 2006 owner credited its power to a heavy head, while a 2009 owner called it only slightly head-heavy and said it does flex. Yonex printed no balance for it, and its 2007 racquet chart placed the 300 near the center, just on the smash side and below the 500 and 700.
Yonex documents the Armortec 300 as made in Japan, medium flex, with a graphite and Super Alloy frame and a high-modulus graphite shaft, 10 mm longer than standard. Its catalogs list 4U (80–84.9 g) with a G4 grip; Yonex’s international web page also listed 3U (85–89.9 g, G3–G5). The finishes Yonex shows are turquoise (2006) and yellow and black (2007). Badges: Power Armor System, Control Support Cap, isometric head and built-in T-joint. An Armortec of the period marked Made in Taiwan is a 250 or 150, so read the name. Yonex printed no balance. Yonex’s counterfeit guidance gives general checks: a hologram sticker, if present, should resist peeling, the O in YONEX should be narrow, and the code on the cap above the handle should be laser-engraved.
The 300 suits an Armortec collection as the Japan-made, medium-flex end of the 2004–08 export range. No player story or edition attaches to it, so buy on identity and condition: the printed name, the Made in Japan marking, the weight class and an uncracked head, throat and joint. It sits naturally between the 500 above it and the Taiwan-made 250 below.
Verified prices last updated Oct 2025. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.