Voltric 30
Model VT-30
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Voltric 30: the Japan-made 5U that Yonex called its lightest racquet, in pink for men too
Yonex’s lightest racquet, pitched in pink
When Yonex Japan announced the Voltric 30 on November 5, 2012, it called it the lightest Yonex badminton racquet, and one that still sent the shuttle a long way. It was a 5U frame, averaging 78 g on later Yonex pages, made in Japan and sold from early December 2012 at ¥14,000 before tax. The release also made an unusual case for its colors. Men were increasingly wearing bright pink, Yonex said, so the Voltric 30 came in pink-based colors, Magenta and Pink, offered to men and women alike. It then stayed in Yonex Japan’s range for nearly eight years, longer than most of the Voltric line.
Tri-Voltage in a 5U frame
Yonex presented the design as a reconciliation of two opposites: a light racquet that still hits the shuttle deep. Its answer was the Voltric series’ Tri-Voltage System. The frame is thick and rigid at three points, at 10 and 2 o’clock and at the joint with the shaft, with dense tungsten compounded into those areas to give a head-heavy weight balance, while slim frame sides add flex. A narrowed shaft cut air resistance and saved weight. The product page lists a carbon frame with high-strength carbon, a carbon shaft and a built-in T-joint, plus Solid Feel Core, a Super Slim Long Shaft 10 mm longer than standard, a new grommet pattern, the Control Support Cap, the Isometric head shape and an Aero+Box frame. Nanometric, which Yonex lists for higher Voltrics such as the Z-Force II, appears on none of Yonex Japan’s Voltric 30 pages from 2012 to 2020. Yonex’s 2013 racquet matrix plotted it with a milder head-heavy lean than the Voltric 70, 80 or Z-Force.
Built for beginners and club players
No professional player is documented with the Voltric 30. Yonex Japan rated it by level and by sex: for men, best suited to beginners and suitable for intermediates; for women, best suited to beginners and intermediates alike; for advanced players of either sex, not rated at all. Its later tagline summed up the idea as a light 5U frame and the Tri-Voltage System combining lightness with shuttle flight. Yonex recommends 17–22 lb, and its pages suggested BG65 Titanium for hard hitters and BG68 Titanium for control players.
Four designs, one code
Yonex kept the item code VT30, the 5U class and the ¥14,000 pre-tax price on every archived page, and changed only the paint. The launch colors were Magenta and Pink. A May 2015 page shows White/Pink; a January 2018 page, marked as a new design, shows Light Blue and White/Green; and pages from November 2019 and November 2020 show Black/Magenta and Black/Lime. Captures from 2013–2014 and 2016–2017 are thinner, so the year each design arrived is approximate. Japanese retailers add a color number to the code, such as VT30-704 for Black/Magenta. Yonex Japan offered grip sizes 5 and 6 only. The Voltric 30 appears in none of the Yonex export catalogs and US or UK lists checked, where the lower rungs were Taiwan-made models such as the Voltric 5 and 7.
A regular-production racquet
The Voltric 30 was a regular-production model on sale for nearly eight years, a racquet players used rather than one collectors set aside. Verified sales so far come from Asia resale and are mostly pre-owned; the price panel above lists them, and its figure for new examples is an estimate. Listings usually state the color and weight class, which makes Yonex’s color list a quick identity check.
Fakes and look-alikes
No counterfeit specific to the Voltric 30 has been documented. Mix-ups are more likely to come from the name. Retailer listings for the Voltric Lite models, such as the Lite 35i, describe different racquets, not the Japan-made Voltric 30. The Voltric FB of 2017 is another very light Yonex Japan Voltric, but it came in F and 5U classes, in Black/Blue or Black/Green, with a stiff rating. The closer look-alike is the Voltric i-Force of 2013 (item VTIF), also a Japan-made 5U, in Bright Pink and rated medium; it has its own page. The Voltric GlanZ is a 4U racquet. A Voltric 30 should be 5U and Made in Japan, in one of the seven colors Yonex listed.
The last light Voltric on the list
The Voltric 30 outlasted most of its series. In Yonex Japan’s racquet list of August 2020, the only Voltrics left were the Z-Force II, the GlanZ and the 30; the FB, the E-tunes and the i-Force had gone. The i-Force, Yonex Japan’s other 5U Voltric, had left the list in January 2019; it has its own page. By mid-2021 the 30 had left the list too, although its product page stayed reachable into 2022. Yonex published no production-end notice, so 2020 is its last documented year on sale. It brought the Voltric design to a 5U frame five years before the Voltric FB added the lighter F class.
Yonex’s item code is VT30. Every Yonex Japan listing gives 5U (average 78 g) in grip sizes 5 and 6, and the frame should be marked Made in Japan. Yonex documented seven colors: Magenta, Pink, White/Pink, Light Blue, White/Green, Black/Magenta and Black/Lime. A 4U or 3U frame, or one marked Made in Taiwan or China, is not a Voltric 30. Yonex recommends 17–22 lb, so ask how a used frame was strung. Yonex’s own checks: a hologram sticker that resists peeling, cleanly printed YY and YONEX logos, and a laser-engraved production code on the cap above the handle.
A Japan-made 5U Voltric that Yonex sold at the same list price for nearly eight years, and one of the last Voltrics in its Japanese range. Check the weight class, the color and the Made in Japan marking against Yonex’s listing before anything else. As with any light pre-owned frame, look closely at the head and T-joint for cracks, and ask about the stringing tension.
Verified prices last updated Sep 2026. All data based on tracked secondary market transactions.