Tibhar ‘MK Carbon’ that was announced in early 2023 is the blade for Kenta Matsudaira who was signed with Tibhar on April 2022. ‘MK’ is the initial of ‘Matsudaira Kenta’. (‘Matsudaira’ is his family name, and ‘Kenta’ is his given name.) The blade that is preferred by Kenta Matsudaira is the outer-fiber blade which provides sufficient elasticity and can lift the ball upward well. The fiber that was selected for realizing the characteristics that Kenta Matsudaira wants is new ‘Crypto Carbon’. And, for the harmony with ‘Hybrid MK’ which is the new foreside rubber of Kenta Matsudaria that provides soft feeling, the overall feeling of ‘MK Carbon’ has been tuned to be a bit harder than the Butterfly ALC blade that had been used by Kenta Matsudaira for long time.

‘MK Carbon’ is the new flagship outer-fiber blade of Tibhar. The fiber of ‘MK Carbon’ isn’t a pure woven carbon fiber but the mixed woven fiber with different material which is called as ‘Crypto Carbon’. ‘Crypto Carbon’ is assumed to be a kind of ALC (= Arylate Carbon), but the details of this material haven’t been announced.　

‘Crypto Carbon’ is placed directly under the top layer. The top layer is Koto, the middle layer is Ayous and the center layer is ‘Kiri’. Overall thickness is 5.8mm. The construction looks similar to that of current version of Butterfly ‘Viscaria’ except for the color of fiber.

FL (flared) handle version of ‘MK Carbon’.

FL (flared) handle is semi-wide type. The width is 25~28~26~34mm from the head side to the end. The thickness is 23mm at thumb and 25mm at the handle end. This handle provides firm grip.

Aluminum panel with new Tibhar logo is applied at the end of handle.

There isn’t pad printing on the backside of head. However, there is a small aluminum plate at the backside of handle.

‘MK’ is the initial of Matsudaira Kenta.

ST (straight) handle version of ‘MK Carbon’.

ST handle is also semi-wide type. Width is 28mm, and thickness is 23mm. It also provides very firm grip.

Aluminum panel with new Tibhar logo is applied at the end of handle.

FL and ST.

TTGearLab will post the test report of ‘MK Carbon’ as soon as possible.

Following is the Performance Indices of ‘MK Carbon’ (average weight = 85.4g) :

Ep = 2.01

Ec = 1.84 (Ec/Ep = 0.92)

Vp = 1.32

Vl = 1.45 (Vl/Vp = 1.10)

Please note that above are average values and can be updated by further measurement.

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