Yasaka ‘Falck’ series is the Swedish blade family named after Mattias Falck – the member of Swedish Men’s National Team. It is a product line that continues the tradition of ‘Gatien’ series and ‘Ma Lin’ series those are made in Sweden. It consists of two models – ‘Falck Carbon’ and ‘Falck W7’. ‘Falck Carbon’ is an inner-fiber blade developed of Mattias Falck, and ‘Falck W7’ is a 7-ply wood blade for the players who like the natural feeling of pure wood blade.

Mattias Falck had used ‘Ma Lin Soft Carbon’, and he had improved his World ranking steadily with that blade. But, afterwards he required a little bit faster blade which still provides good ball feel. Yasaka tried various constructions with various artificial materials, and the result is the inner fiber construction whose artificial material is JPC (Japanese Premium Carbon – more correctly, it isn’t just woven carbon fiber but mixed woven fiber). Mattias Falck proved the ability of this blade by winning silver medal in WTTC 2019, and gold medal in Men’s Doubles during WTTC 2021. ‘Falck Carbon’ is recommended for the offensive players who demand the superb balance between speed and feel.

‘Falck Carbon’ is a fiber blade made in Sweden. Its overall graphic design continues that of existing Yasaka Swedish blade product lines – ‘Gatien’ series and ‘Ma Lin’ series, but graphic of handle and head is simplified. It is characterized by two yellow lines those remind us the yellow color of Swedish national flag.

The construction of ‘Falck Carbon’ is a 5+2 ply inner fiber construction. Top layer is Limba. The middle layer looks like Limba, and the center layer looks like Kiri. (Not confirmed. So the materials of middle layer and center layer can be difference ones.) Artificial material is inserted between the middle layer and the center layer. Yasaka calls the artificial material for ‘Falck Carbon’ as JPC (Japanese Premium Carbon). But, actually it is an mixed woven fiber that includes Carbon fiber and other kind of fiber. Overall thickness is 5.8~5.9mm.

The head size is around 157mm x 151mm.

Left is FL (flared) handle version, and right is ST (straight) handle version.

The width of FL (flared) handle is around 26.5mm (at head side) ~ 27.5mm (at the middle of handle) ~ 35mm (at the end), and the thickness of FL handle is round 22.5mm (at thumb) ~ 24.5mm (at the end).

The size of ST (straight) handle which isn’t shown in the picture is around 29.5mm (width) x around 22mm (thickness). It is a very wide handle. But, because it isn’t thick the handle fits into palm without problem. The top and the bottom of handle is almost flat. (Not perfectly flat.) So it feels like squared handle.

Across the center and the right side of the head, there is simple printing that includes product name and logo graphic. Speed symbol such as OFF or OFF+ isn’t included in the head printing.

There isn’t printing on the backside of head. But, on the backside of handle, there is the plastic lens whose size is same as that of the foreside lens.

The name of blade – ‘Falck Carbon’ – and the logo graphic of Yasaka are printed at the foreside lens.

The backside lens is same as that of ‘Ma Lin Carbon’. The design of backside lens is also same as that of old ‘Gatien’ series. (Currently the products of ‘Gatien’ series are being sold without the name of Gatien.)

Recent Yasaka blades have squared plastic lens at the end of handle, instead of old metal sticker. The logo of Yasaka is printed in gold color on the black background.

‘Falck Carbon’ is the new representative of Swedish fiber blade in Yasaka range, and it can be compared with old representative – ‘Ma Lin Carbon’ (right).

Left is ‘Falck Carbon’, and right is ‘Ma Lin Carbon’. The graphic design of ‘Falck Carbon’ is simpler than that of ‘Ma Lin Carbon’.

Left is ‘Falck Carbon’, and right is ‘Ma Lin Carbon’. We can observe the differences in the artificial material and the thickness of each layer. The center layer of ‘Falck Carbon’ is thinner and brighter than that of ‘Ma Lin Carbon’.

Left is ‘Falck Carbon’, and right is ‘Ma Lin Carbon’. The head printing of ‘Falck Carbon’ is simpler than that of ‘Ma Lin Carbon’.

Left is ‘Falck Carbon’, and right is ‘Falck W7’. ‘Falck’ series continues the tradition of Yasaka’s Swedish blade families.

Left is ‘Falck Carbon’, and right is ‘Falck W7’. ‘Falck Carbon’ is a fiber blade, and ‘Falck W7’ is a pure wood blade.

Left is ‘Falck Carbon’, and right is ‘Falck W7’. Two models share the basic theme of graphic, but are distinguished by theme color of handle – black for ‘Falck Carbon’ and dark blue for ‘Falck W7’.

Left is ‘Falck Carbon’, and right is ‘Falck W7’. Both Swedish blades share the characteristic of excellent balance and superb feeling.

‘Falck Carbon’ is one of the representatives of fiber blades in current Yasaka range.

Following are the performance indices of Yasaka Falck Carbon(avg.weight = 87.6g) :

– Ep = 2.04

– Ec = 1.93 (Ec/Ep = 0.95)

– Vp = 1.33

– Vl = 1.39 (Vl/Vp = 1.04)

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


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