Carbonex 30 Muscle
Model CAB-30MS · Lee Jae-jin
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Carbonex 30 Muscle: the Ultimum Ti Carbonex of Lee Jae-jin’s 2007 German Open title
A Carbonex built for power
Yonex Japan launched the Carbonex 30 Muscle, item CAB30MS, on 20 September 2003. Its launch page recalled the Carbonex series’ countless titles, still shining “more than a quarter century” after its debut, and said the new model was “born from the limitless pursuit of power.” It joined two Yonex technologies in one Carbonex: the Muscle Power Frame at the top of the head, and Ultimum Ti in the frame sides and the shaft. At ¥19,000 before tax it cost ¥1,000 more than the Carbonex 20 Muscle, and by December 2003 it headed the Carbonex section of Yonex Japan’s racquet lineup with a NEW tag. It stayed in production until 2011.
Muscle Power Frame and Ultimum Ti
Yonex described the Muscle Power Frame as its own structure that raises the frame between the grommets, binding frame and string closely to cut energy loss and send power straight to the shuttle. Ultimum Ti, which Yonex credited with three times the strength of carbon and twice the repulsion of titanium, was meant to store the shaft’s bend at impact and return it as the shuttle leaves. The product page listed a high-modulus carbon frame with Ultimum Ti and a high-modulus carbon shaft with Ultimum Ti and a built-in T-joint. It called the 30 Muscle an upper-level model that kept the Carbonex feel at high tension, 10 mm long for steep-angled smashes. The launch copy also promised a balance that “swings through well,” without naming a balance point.
Lee Jae-jin’s racquet in 2007
Yonex’s global tournament reports of 2007 name the Carbonex 30MS twice, both times for South Korea’s Lee Jae-jin, whose partner Hwang Ji-man played the Armortec-800DE. At the Yonex Korea Open in January the pair lost the men’s doubles final to Jung Jae-sung and Lee Yong-dae; at the Yonex German Open in early March they beat the same pair for the title. Yonex Japan’s pages name no player for the model. Its launch page cited Xia Xuanze of China, the 2003 world men’s singles champion, among the top players won over by the Carbonex series; it does not say he used the 30 Muscle.
One finish, two weights
Yonex documented one finish, black and silver (color 076). Yonex Japan sold it in 3U and 2U, grips 4 and 5, with a soft case; Yonex’s English-language page listed 3U (85.0–89.9 g) and 2U (90.0–94.9 g) with grips from 3 to 5, rated it Stiff and marked it made in Japan. At launch Yonex Japan recommended BG80 for hard hitters or BG85 for control players, at 17–20 lb mains and 19–22 lb crosses for the 3U and a pound more for the 2U; its later pages widened that to 17–22 and 18–23 lb. Yonex Japan’s spec charts of 2008–10 place its balance marker across the even point. The Carbonex 20 Muscle sold beside it was peacock blue, with no Ultimum Ti.
Eight years on sale
The 30 Muscle sold in Japan and abroad. Yonex’s US site listed the Carbonex-30MS by October 2005, Yonex’s 2007 export catalog carried it beside the Carbonex 21 and 8600Ti, and Yonex’s English-language Carbonex page still listed it in June 2011, by then beside the newer Carbonex 35. Yonex Japan lists it among the models whose production ended in 2011, with the Armortec 600 and the Ti Zero. Its Japanese product page, by then showing ¥19,950 including tax (¥19,000 before tax), stayed online into 2013. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Copies and identity
No counterfeit of the Carbonex 30 Muscle is documented. The confusions are of name. The Carbonex 20 Muscle of 2002–05 is the earlier Muscle Carbonex, peacock blue and without Ultimum Ti, and the “Carbonex 35 Muscle” of a 2010 US retail listing is the plain Carbonex 35; both have their own pages. Yonex wrote the name both ways, Carbonex 30 Muscle and Carbonex 30MS.
A Muscle Carbonex for most of a decade
The 30 Muscle carried Ultimum Ti, the material of the Muscle Power 90, and the Muscle Power Frame under the Carbonex name from 2003 to 2011, far longer than the 20 Muscle’s three years. It was the Carbonex that Yonex Japan put first in its lineup through the mid-2000s, and in its last years it shared Yonex’s Carbonex lists with the Carbonex 35.
Check the name against Yonex’s: Carbonex 30 Muscle (also written 30MS), item CAB30MS, with the raised Muscle Power Frame between the grommets at the top of the head. Yonex documented one finish, black and silver (color 076); a high-modulus carbon frame and shaft, both with Ultimum Ti, and a built-in T-joint; 3U (85.0–89.9 g) or 2U (90.0–94.9 g); Stiff; 10 mm long; made in Japan. Yonex recommends 17–22 lb for the 3U and 18–23 lb for the 2U. A peacock blue frame is the Carbonex 20 Muscle. On a frame up to two decades old, check the grommet ridges, the joint and the hoop for cracks.
The 30 Muscle has a Yonex launch date, one finish, Japanese manufacture and two 2007 Yonex tournament reports behind it, so identity is the main check: the black and silver finish, the muscle ridges at the head and the 30 Muscle or 30MS name. Be careful with listings that call a Carbonex 35 a “35 Muscle,” or that name only the series.