Two Carlton Vapour Trail 78S badminton rackets from the Carlton brand, featuring blue frames and black grips with a unique geometric pattern on the strings. These are crafted from Japanese High Modulus Graphite. One racket is displayed in its entirety, while the other focuses on the string details of the head against a plain white background.

Carlton Vapour Trail 78S Badminton Racket - Blue

£64.00
£80.00 £64.00
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  • Two Carlton Vapour Trail 78S badminton rackets from the Carlton brand, featuring blue frames and black grips with a unique geometric pattern on the strings. These are crafted from Japanese High Modulus Graphite. One racket is displayed in its entirety, while the other focuses on the string details of the head against a plain white background.
  • The Carlton Vapour Trail 78S Badminton Racket in blue, showcasing a black grip and a logo on the strings, is made from Japanese High Modulus Graphite and isolated against a white background.
  • Displayed against a pure white background is the Carlton Vapour Trail 78S Badminton Racket in blue, featuring a black grip and a distinctive geometric logo on its stringed face. It is expertly crafted with Japanese High Modulus Graphite.

Carlton Vapour Trail 78S Badminton Racket - Blue

Carlton Vapour Trail 78S Badminton Racket - Blue

£64.00
£80.00 £64.00
(Save 20%)

WEIGHT:

78G

PLAYER LEVEL:

Intermediate

BALANCE:

Head Heavy

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What we love

Super Light

Player Style

Defensive

Model Series

Carlton - Vapour Trail

Weight:

78G

  • Balance Shows where the racket is naturally weighted, Heavy Head suits Power, Light Head suits Speed.

     75%

    HEAD LIGHTHEAD HEAVY

  • Flex Shows the level of racket flex. Flexible rackets suit players needing extra power, Stiff rackets are for accuracy

     20%

    HIGHLY FLEXIBLEEXTREMELY STIFF

  • WEIGHT Shows the weight of the racket. Lighter rackets mean faster racket speed, but sometimes less power

     78G

    LightHeavy

Head Heavy Stiff Head Light Flexible

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Overall feel of the racket
  • Product description
  • BUYING GUIDE
  • PRODUCT DELIVERY
  • RETURNS / WARRANTY
  • PRICE MATCH

Product description

  • Head Heavy
  • 78 Grams
  • Torsional Control System
  • Japanese Hotmelt Graphite
  • Vectran Enhanced
  • Xtreme Tension Frame

The Carlton Vapour Trail 78S Badminton Racket is a head-heavy and high-flex racket, designed to help turn defensive play into offensive play. With easy power generation from the head-heavy balance and the quick reactions from the flexible shaft, this racket is great for turning the tides on the court. 

Features:

Japanese High Modulus Graphite  - Japanese Hi Modulus Graphite is the highest specification carbon available on the market treated with high pressurized heat for better graphite fusion ensuring your Carlton frame will outperform all other construction materials for frame response and stability.

Nanocell Enhanced - Unique resin system increases overall stiffness for enhanced shot precision. Extreme racket recoil velocity gives excellent manoeuvrability for ultimate speed and control.

Vectran Enhanced - Super elastic Vectran fibres are five times stronger than steel. Braided Vectran and Carbon fibres in the shaft increase elastic responsiveness, dramatically increasing power return for greater penetrative shot-making.

Torsional Control System - By flattening the T-joint section, torsional twist is minimised on shuttle impact providing a stable platform and improving shot accuracy and control.

Bi-Axial Dynamics - Carlton’s Bi-Axial Dynamic frame develops more efficient aerodynamics in both directions compared to competitor frames. This increased efficiency is delivered through a cross-sectional frame profile that is more aerodynamic than competitors' frames. During development, over 80% of players stated the new Bi-Axial frame profile delivered increased swing speed.

High-Repulsion Shaft - High-Repulsion Shaft is engineered with the highest precision in shaft manufacturing ensuring 360-degree balanced graphite layups. Higher power and increased precision are achieved by blending the optimum flexibility and kick point of your Carlton racket shaft every time you swing it.

XTREME Tension Frame - Precision engineering and the utilisation of the finest construction materials ensure your Carlton frame can accommodate 11% higher string tensions compared with competitor frames.

PRO V12 Grommets - Positioned at 3 and 9 o’clock these specialised grommets have been softened to allow greater string movement thereby increasing power across the hitting zone.

Stabilisor Top Cap - By introducing 4 convex channels into the top cap, the stiffness of the top cap is increased allowing for greater shot accuracy and control.

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Brand Carlton
Model series Carlton - Vapour Trail
Shaft construction High Modulus Japanese Graphite
STRING TENSION RANGE 20-30
PLAYER LEVEL Intermediate
PLAYER STYLE Defensive
RACKET BALANCE Head Heavy
BALANCE POINT (MM) 300
FLEX Flexible
WEIGHT 78 grams
GRIP SIZE G5/S3 (Small)
HEAD SHAPE Optimetric
OVERALL LENGTH 675

BUYING GUIDE

Badminton Rackets Buying Guide

The key question to ask firstly is what style of player are you, or what type of player do you want to become?

  1. Power Attacking
  2. All Round
  3. Fast Reactions to Rallies
  4. Control and Touch, by moving players around the court to create space

As a general guide for your playing style below is the kind of racket you'll want to look at purchasing:

Playing Style Racket Balance Racket Flexibility Racket Weight
Power Attacking Head Heavy Stiff 85g – 89g (3U)
All Round Balanced Medium 80g – 84g (4U)
Speed & Fast Reactions Head Light Medium 79g or below (5U and up)
Control & Touch Head Light Hi Flex 79g or below (5U and up)


In simple terms is means this:
Player with Explosive Backswing Hitting = Stiffer Shaft needed as it'll unload faster for more power.
Player with Slower Backswing Hitting = More Flexible Shaft needed so that it'll unload fully at impact.

If you're still unsure what to choose for yourself, we'd recommend going for a medium flex badminton racket to minimise the chances of choosing incorrectly what's right for you.

Weight:

Weight can make a real difference to reaction speeds, and power behind the hit of a shuttle. Too light a racket and it won't go far or powerful enough. However too heavy a racket and you'll find you'll be reacting too slow in fast flat rallies, where reaction speed is everything.:

Most rackets are weighted around 3U (85-89g) or 4U (80-84g), this is because it's a good weight balance for players to hit hard and also be able to react fast too.:

Typically singles players will use heavier rackets 3U (85-89g), this provides the player with more stability and accuracy, with a little more weight for power behind it, without compromising on racket speed too much, as quick racket head speed isn't needed as much in the singles game:

Doubles players however will usually want lighter rackets, the most popular weight for this being 4U (80-84g), this is because the Badminton Racket will offer more speed and quicker reactions in around the net and for defence against smashes.:

Racket Strings Used & Tension:

Again like the grip, this is customisable on any racket. However do look out for racket tension ranges on the product as this could potentially limit your ability to have the racket strung at a desired tension.:

For a full breakdown on strings and tensions, see our buying guide specifically on this.:

To put it simply however, if you're unsure what to choose when buying a racket you like, either go for the “Original Strings” option or “Stringers Professional Decision” for which we'll choose the string that best suits getting the maximum performance out of the racket for you.:

Full Badminton Racket Buying Guide:

PRODUCT DELIVERY

UK Mainland Delivery

FREE if over £75 or £4.95

Standard 2-4 days delivery.

Express (Mon-Fri) 1-2 working days £5.95

Order by 1PM Monday-Friday for Next Working Day UK delivery.

Full Badminton Delivery Buying Guide

International Delivery

Unfortunately, due to Brexit, we will no longer be shipping outside of UK Mainland.

RETURNS / WARRANTY

Easy Returns

UK Customers

We have a simple 30 days (can be extended) upon receiving the order policy, but we will be flexible and extend this if it's a gift for a specific event, such a a birthday, this can be done by simply ticking the the gift option when purchasing.

We provide a part filled returns form for all UK orders, simply follow the process below:

To find your local collect plus shop: https://www.collectplus.co.uk/store-locator

See here for our full returns details & information.

 

Our UK Address for returns is:

Badminton HQ
Unit 1, Greabridge Business Park
Budds Lane,
Romsey,
Hampshire,
England
SO51 0HA

Warranty Policy - Our Risk Free Support

Within 30 Days of receipt of the items?

Simple 30 days retailer warranty on all orders with genuine manufacturer defects.

More than 30 Days?

We work with the brands/suppliers to see if it can be covered under warranty for you (usually it is, but depends on the way the damage has occurred).

Still not covered but within 6 months of purchase?

We offer a crash replacement policy, where we offer a goodwill policy of 20% discount off your next order with us for the same/alternative replacement item, not including postage costs.

PRICE MATCH

Price Match Promise

It's this simple - Find it cheaper anywhere else in the UK & we'll match it! Subject to conditions (see below).

So how does it work?

  1. Fill in the form on the right with all the relevant details requested. Alternatively you can call our team on 02380 002388.
  2. We'll email you or call you after we review the price match request.

* By requesting the price request you have checked it meets the requirements below

The boring conditions bit:

  1. Make sure the item being sold elsewhere is new and include a direct link to it.
  2. Unfortunately we're unable to match prices for websites based outside of Mainland UK, unauthorised brand stockists, or 3rd party sites such as Amazon or eBay. 
  3. The item must be in stock and actively being sold.
  4. At our own discretion we can refuse to offer the price match. Where this is the case we will offer you a full refund, this is rare, but there are exceptions. We will offer to refund the order in full if this happens.
  5. The product is identical to ours in brand, colour, size and model number.
  6. We cannot provide retrospective price matching after you have already purchased from us in the past, as we cannot verify if on the date of original purchase the price of the alternative retailer you may ask us to price match with.
  7. Strings and Shuttlecocks excluded.
  8. Yonex products are excluded from this offer.
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We provide a simply returns form with all orders, if you’re not happy after receiving the item within the first 30 days, you’re able to return it for a refund. This does not cover product warranty periods.

EASY 30 DAY RETURNS

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We aim to make sure your order, delivery, products and service from ourselves is of the highest possible standards. Our staff are highly trained to make sure all our customers are properly looked after to ensure the sport is properly supported by ourselves as a shop

Need Help? Call us on +44 (0)2380 002388 or email us on sales@badmintonhq.co.uk

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Our Prices are price checked every day against all major competitor retailers to ensure we’re offering you the best possible deals! Combined with this IF you do find a price better than ourselves we price to beat it by 10% of the difference in addition (Excluding Yonex products. Excluded all Strings and Shuttlecocks).

If this is the case you can either complete our price match promise form online, or call us on +44 (0)2380 002388 or email us on sales@badmintonhq.co.uk

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Carlton Vapour Trail 78S Badminton Racket - Blue