Kawasaki Honor S6
Stiffness: Mid Flex
Steadiness: 286 mm
Weight: 86.5g
Body: 201mm x 253mm
Sort: Pace
Strings: YONEX BG66 Ultimax
Pressure: 26lbs
Key Applied sciences: 2 in 1 Body (Field + Aero), Nanometric Carbon (Mitsubishi), Graphene Weaving Shaft, Additional skinny shaft (6.5mm)
Baseline comparability: Yonex NR700FX, NR750, Victor Bravesword 12
Impression:
I need to say Kawasaki is not off course and streamlining their product vary with beautiful packaging and higher product resonance on the most recent vary of rackets akin to excessive vary King K9 and the mid excessive Honor S6 that’s unseen of their earlier releases albeit high vary ones. The Honor S6 clearly doesn’t disappoint with its equally impressively boxed packaging near the exquisiteness of King K9. This actually provides the oomph impact and an excellent deeper impression that they’re getting extra severe of their supply. Barely disillusioned that it doesn’t include grip and strings as a part of the packaging like King K9 does J. The racket is properly designed with a good paintjob round orange, inexperienced and black decals. The body profile is a little bit on the thicker facet typical of field+aero Yonex frames although not as thick as Yonex NR700FX. It appears to have a thinner field profile round 8 and 4 o’clock, aero body in 9 and three o’clock and thicker field profile on the highest a part of the body. Discover a outstanding threaded floor on the additional skinny shaft that offers a touch on the graphene weaving as marketed. A factor that hits me is the reported 4U specs but weighing 86.5g (dry weight) with no strings.
Stiffness:
Kawasaki charges the Honor S6 as mid flex and rightly so upon preliminary swings. Nonetheless in continuation of the unusual stable, stiff, crisp really feel on a equally mid-flex King K9 body, Kawasaki manages to repeat the feat on Honor S6 albeit from a unique perspective. Unsure whether it is as a result of further graphene weaving over the Mitsubishi Nanometric carbon shaft or the standard of the Mitsubishi Nanometric carbon itself, it does remind of the unique TK8000 and Bravesword 12 the place one might really feel a particular mid-flex really feel but coupled with a handy guide a rough, crispy repulsion completely not like the traditional out and out mid-flex shafts (Eg: Yonex NR750, Duora 6, Glanz). It is a Field + Aero 2 in 1 body extensively utilized by Yonex rackets which one way or the other gave it a typical extra stable Yonex really feel than the relatively powder puff Victor sword frames particularly the Bravesword sequence which doesn’t really feel any stable supplies in your entire construction (apologies to Victor followers). That is complimented by a pleasantly stunned further slim shaft that offers extra oomph in energy, pace and management. It appears more likely to be 6.5mm similar to high vary Victor Thruster and Yonex VTZF2 and undoubtedly slimmer than the reported 6.8mm as seen within the Victor HX and JS sequence. Truthfully I’ve not seen any pace sequence with such a slim shaft and is raring to see the way it performs.
Lobs/Clears: Base to base is typical minimal effort like the standard mid-flex rackets. Factor to notice that it certainly didn’t really feel like the standard flexi shaft that performs like a catapult however extra of a stable, managed, fast returning form of repulsive really feel with a big candy spot, stable body and crispy slim shaft that offers a really feel like each inch of your palms. For my part, I consider the field body profile within the high and backside of the body provides as much as the stable really feel. The aerodynamic really feel is clear as supposed by the aero body on the centre and possibly additional enhanced by the additional slim shaft.
Management: I truly love the undemanding nature of this racket as a result of its mid-flex score. The additional slim shaft gave bestowed an unparalleled uplift in management as in comparison with different pace rackets. Key motive being it’s not overly quick or fluffy like 4U/5U Jetspeed or any of the light-weight sequence. It provides a relative stable and managed swing that I felt in complete management. It isn’t muted with apparent dampening to masks the hollowness or masquerade a stable really feel. It gave me a really feel there may be certainly some first rate materials in there although that is nonetheless a mid-flex. Compared to different parallel pace sequence from different large manufacturers akin to Victor, not one of the Victor Bravesword sequence may give such a really feel with the closest being Bravesword 11. It was improved within the Victor Jetspeed sequence although by way of higher supplies, know-how as claimed however Kawasaki Honor S6 ratchets it up a notch. I suppose the differentiator could be very possible the additional slim graphene weaving shaft and a Yonex examined and confirmed stable Field + Aero body. So it might not be an absolute parallel comparability since S6 is a traditional Field + Aero and Jetspeed/Braveswords are Aero + Sword. Extra lookup between the two producers’ applied sciences revealed that Victor’s Aero sword is sharper and extra just like Kawasaki’s Hexagonal body and Trapezium body whereas Kawasaki’s Aerofoil body is fully oval like just like Victor’s previous Aerodynamic body as seen in Superwave sequence.
Smashing: That is the place I really feel the Kawasaki design crew is missioned to producing high quality gear. Informal gamers need easy accessibility to energy, all spherical capabilities, first rate maneuverability with out tiring out. The dry BP is ~286mm which is a borderline even balanced racket. Little question this can be a pace sequence, it actually didn’t try and offset from any of the specified options. Equally adept at brute pressure smashing in addition to exact flick smash (surprisingly), energy is well generated and as soon as once more that is the place the additional slim shaft shines giving it higher management, really feel and precision. A really all-round mid-flex racket that’s often not straightforward to seek out available in the market particularly at this value level. Truthfully I like Victor Jetspeed 10, and Honor S6, whereas it doesn’t have the stiffness of Jetspeed 10 and isn’t related in totality to start with due to the Aerosword body vs Field+Aero body, actually doesn’t disappoints me. Perhaps I’m a simply sucker for further slim shaft J
Protection: Being a pace sequence, it needs to be quick and rightly so. Whereas Bravesword and Jetspeed sequence distinctively lower by the air with a sword like hexagonal body, being a field + aero body, S6 doesn’t have such a really feel. As a substitute it has a typical Yonex Arcsaber really feel like Arc 7 and Arc 11. Not at all inferior to the Victor sword frames, it’s simply as quick and stable simply that it feels completely different from typical sword frames with out the sword slashing sound. An issue with mid-flex rackets at the very least for me is the defensive repulsion. Often these rackets whereas being very quick, doesn’t have the repulsion of a stiff body to simply flick return off a defensive place. I didn’t really feel that in Honor S6. It has an odd repulsive fast snapping really feel which is often absent on a mid-flex shaft. Have to be the graphene and slim shaft at work 
Internet shot, entrance courtroom: Internet shot is a class that doesn’t favour mid-flex pace rackets which I’ve to confess. Whereas to me, it’s already an impressive pace racket with a little bit of all the pieces, it nonetheless can’t rival an absolute stable, stiff racket when it comes to management and precision. However the all-round capabilities does make it easy and simple and is only a matter of getting used to. No fuss at entrance courtroom, merely quick and decisive and as marketed, resetting shortly for the following assault. The key system should be the graphene and slim shaft at work once more
Conclusion:
This racket could be very all spherical and appropriate to each brute pressure and wristy gamers. I need to admit it might not be everybody’s cuppa since it appears that evidently most individuals are searching for stiff shafts with the presumption that it’s simpler entry to energy. I’ve no doubts that is truly a 3U racket that feels and play like a 4U but provides one the convenience to thunder it down like a boxy 3U at occasions. It’s also the precise factor that Honor S6 shouldn’t be high tier and my go-to racket as I might nonetheless love one thing stiffer J Nonetheless there are undoubtedly occasions the place such a racket be proved useful. The actual fact is a barely flexi shaft requires lesser effort and that Honor S6 makes an attempt to interrupt the mould of such rackets by ideally combining graphene weaving method and additional slim shaft to offer such rackets one other dimension that’s fairly distinctive available in the market. The marketed fast reset for the following assault slogan actually proves its level and under no circumstances glittering candy advertising and marketing lingo. Regardless of not being a high vary racket, the supply in its packaging and construct, merely reinforces the truth that Kawasaki is that severe in its supply. It completely ooze confidence of their steady potential to provide high quality badminton gear sooner or later. I used to be being knowledgeable that Kawasaki’s star score doesn’t equate to the category of the rackets however extra on the value level. It’s arduous to fathom the logic behind this as I might consider star rankings resonates extra to high quality. Due to this fact the notion that Honor S6 is a mere mid-high tier racket might not be true in spite of everything.
