Nanoflare 800 LT
Model NF-800LT
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Nanoflare 800 LT: Yonex’s 5U answer to players who asked for a lighter 800
A lighter 800, by request
Yonex announced the Nanoflare 800 LT on August 13, 2020, saying it had received many requests for a lighter version of the Nanoflare 800. The 800, released in September 2019, came in 3U (average 88 g) and 4U (average 83 g). The LT came only in 5U, averaging 78 g, with grip sizes 5 and 6, and Yonex Japan said the added lightness would raise swing speed further. Yonex had already broken what it called the 4U barrier for head-light racquets with the Nanoflare 700, its first head-light frame at 5U, in March 2019. The 700 is a medium-flex racquet; the 800 LT brought the stiffer 800 down to the same weight 18 months later. The 800’s own page covers the Razor Frame’s debut and the players who won with it.
Damping mesh at the top of the frame
The LT keeps the 800’s Razor Frame, which Yonex says is 13.0% thinner at the top and 15.1% thinner at the bottom than a typical thin frame, and its Ultra Slim Shaft. What changed is the material mix. Yonex said lighter racquets tend to lose control for lack of stability, and that a faster swing can make the strings throw the shuttle too hard. Its answer was Vibration Dampening Mesh (VDM) at the top of the frame, alongside the EX-HMG carbon of the Sonic Flare System. Yonex credits VDM with about 2.5 times the shock absorption of ordinary carbon, by its own measurement, and it also adjusted the amount of Toray’s M40X carbon in the lower frame. Yonex lists the frame as HM Graphite, M40X, EX-HMG and VDM, the shaft as HM Graphite with Nanometric, the flex as stiff and the length as 10 mm over standard. Yonex Japan gave the LT its own balance gauge, with the marker further toward the head-light end than the 800’s.
Built for advanced players, used by none on record
Yonex’s global page describes the LT as a head-light racquet for advanced players who want accelerated maneuverability. Yonex Japan’s suitability grid rates it best for advanced men and women and suitable for intermediate men, and its Japanese tagline calls it a lightweight swing-speed model. No professional player is documented using it: Yonex’s launch material named no one, and no Yonex tournament report lists the LT. The family’s best-known users on Yonex’s lists, among them Mayu Matsumoto and Lee Yang, played the original 800.
One standard finish, one red shop edition
Yonex’s Japanese and global pages list one color, Black/Ice Blue, and Yonex USA’s 2021 catalog shows the same. A red 800 LT was also sold through Japan’s badminton specialist-shop association rather than on Yonex’s own product pages; Yonex recorded it as item NF-800LTBP, “Nanoflare 800 LT BP,” in the Japan Badminton Association’s certified-equipment list for its February 2022 session. It is a variant of this racquet, not a separate model. Some shops outside Japan sold the standard racquet as the “800 Lite,” which is not Yonex’s name.
Three years in the lineup
The LT went on sale worldwide on September 17, 2020, with Yonex Japan’s release in late September. Its Japanese list price was ¥25,000 before tax, the same as the 800’s a year earlier, and Yonex USA’s 2021 catalog listed it at $270, the price it gave the 800. Yonex Japan’s racquet list still carried the LT in February 2023 and its Nanoflare list beside the 800 that August, and Yonex’s global range listed both in late September 2023. By December 2023 Yonex Japan’s list showed the new Nanoflare 800 Pro and 800 Game and neither original, and the LT is absent from Yonex Japan’s 2024–2026 catalogs. Yonex published no end notice, so 2023 is the last year it is documented on sale new. The verified sales shown above come from Asia resale.
Copies and mix-ups
No counterfeit specific to the 800 LT is documented. The likelier error is identity. The LT shares the 800’s Razor Frame, stiff flex and Japanese manufacture, so the weight class, the color and the item code are what separate them, and the red shop-association frame is genuine if it carries its own code. The checklist below sets out what to look for.
The lightest original 800
Yonex’s October 2023 release of the 800 Pro and 800 Game did not mention the LT, and none of the new versions carried its name. The 800 Pro came in 4U and 3U and the 800 Game in 4U, so neither offered the LT’s 5U; Tour and Play versions followed. In the head-light Nanoflare range the 5U class continued in the Nanoflare 700, on sale into 2024, and in its 2024 second generation, the 700 Pro. For a collector the 800 LT is the lightest member of the original 800 family, made in Japan in one standard color for three years.
Yonex’s item code is NF-800LT (NF800LT in Yonex USA’s catalog). It listed one weight class, 5U (average 78 g), with G5 or G6 grips, so a 3U or 4U frame sold as an 800 LT is a standard Nanoflare 800 or a 2023 800 Pro-family racquet, which carry other item codes. The standard finish is Black/Ice Blue; a red frame is the 2022 shop-association version, which Yonex recorded with the Japan Badminton Association as NF-800LTBP (shops print NF800LTBP), so it should carry that code. The frame should be marked as made in Japan, with stiff flex and a length 10 mm over standard; Yonex Japan supplied it with a soft case (C-SCS). Yonex’s own counterfeit test is the hologram sticker: it is hard to peel from a genuine racquet because of a special glue, while on a fake it lifts with a fingernail.
The 800 LT was a standard-production racquet sold for three years, so buy on condition. Confirm the item code and the 5U marking before paying for the LT rather than a 3U or 4U Nanoflare 800, and match a red frame to the NF800LTBP code. Yonex recommends 19–27 lb, with BG66 Ultimax for control players and Aerobite Boost for hard hitters. Ask for daylight photographs of the head, the T-joint and the cone, and look for cracks and repainting. Treat any claim that a frame was a named player’s match racquet as unproven without documentation.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.