The Li-Ning Aeronaut 8000 Drive Badminton Racket showcases a striking dark blue frame complemented by green accents, and it is finished off with a white grip. Its distinct string pattern, characterized by a straight line intersected with three diagonal lines, enhances precision and control. The image provides an up-close view of the racket head.

Li-Ning Aeronaut 8000 Drive Badminton Racket - Blue Green

Regular price £155.63
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Li-Ning Aeronaut 8000 Drive Badminton Racket - Blue Green

Li-Ning Aeronaut 8000 Drive Badminton Racket - Blue Green

Regular price £155.63
Regular price £220.00 Sale price £155.63
(Save 29%)

WEIGHT:

88G

PLAYER LEVEL:

Professional

BALANCE:

Head Heavy

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What we love

Peak Control

Player Style

Control

Model Series

Li-Ning - Aeronaut

Weight:

88G

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

     65%

    HEAD LIGHTHEAD HEAVY

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

     35%

    HIGHLY FLEXIBLEEXTREMELY STIFF

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

     88G

    LightHeavy

Head Heavy Stiff Head Light Flexible

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

Product description

  • Control Racket
  • Used by Liu Yuchen (China)
  • Head-Heavy Balance
  • 3U (85-89g)
  • Wing Stabiliser Technology
  • Dynamic Optimum Frame
  • TB-Nano Carbon Fibre
  • MPCF reinforcing tech
  • Cubic Locking
  • Bio Inner Core
  • Stabilised Torsion Angle
  • Hot Melt

The weapon of choice for 2018 World Mens Doubles Champions Liu Yuchen (China). The Aeronaut 8000 badminton racket features a flexible shaft combined with an aerodynamic frame for rear court power, speed and accuracy

Aeronaut Badminton Racket Technology is geared towards ultimate precision and control. A unique air-stream channel integrated into the racket head reduces air resistance which helps to generate faster shuttlecock speeds. It’s suitable for players looking for the best control with little to no sacrifice in power.

FEATURES:

Wing Stabiliser - Aviation technology that stabilises frame vibration to improve comfort, control and racket recovery.

TB-Nano - Designed for improved power transfer, nanometer technology binds carbon-fiber and resin more tightly, allowing grater stability, elasticity and durability.

Dynamic-Optimum Frame - This unique head-design, enlarges the sweet-spot of the racket. It allows for more consistent and higher hitting velocity, without sacrificing durability.

Hot Melt - The resin distributed more uniformly and closely combined with the carbon fibre by using the Hot Melt. It improves the strength and provides the same excellent using experience.

Cubic Locking - Cubic grommet locked within the slim groove is more stable and could provide extra protection for string, effectively absorb shock to get an accurate placement, improve controlling performance.

MPCF Reinforcing Tech - Multi-layer carbon fibres combine with exquisite handicraft to strengthen the racket whilst ensuring there are no wrinkles in the material during machine processing. This improves racket perfromance and durability

Aero Tec-Beam System - Based on aerodynamics, support of advanced calculation and gathering practising data, the racket frame has an extremely low drag coefficient and high intensity to provide maximum speed and improve players' performance in various shots.

FATP Tech - By changing the shaft flex point, quickening rebound speed, rackets featuring FATP return to position quickly and ready for the continuous attack

Stabilised Elastic Shaft - Aramid fiber is a high modulus, high strength material with good elasticity and toughness. It's the main material in helmets and body armour. The slim shaft, filled with aramid fiber helps to reduce vibrations that could cause sports injuries.

Bio Inner Core - Different from traditional shafts, Li-Ning has introduced the cone-shaped racket shaft with patent. By moving up the beding point of the shaft they have managed to increase flexibility and enhance shot control.

Stabilised Torsion Angle - STA improves the torsion resistance performance of the racket, stabilising the frame quickly even when hitting away from the sweet-point. This helps to create high-quality strikes, making your attack more effective.

*Please note that all Li-Ning rackets require a custom restring as they are not strung by the manufacturer.

BadmintonHQ is an authorised Li-Ning stockist and all Li-Ning products sold by us are 100% genuine

Brand Li-Ning
Model series Li-Ning - Aeronaut
Shaft construction Carbon Fibre
ORIGINAL RACKET STRINGS & TENSION None
STRING TENSION RANGE 20-30lbs
PLAYER LEVEL Professional
PLAYER STYLE Control
RACKET BALANCE Head Heavy
BALANCE POINT (MM) 298mm
FLEX Flexible
WEIGHT 88 grams
GRIP SIZE G5/S3 (Small)
HEAD SHAPE Isometric
OVERALL LENGTH 675mm
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN China

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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Kenneth Wilmot
Li-Ning Aeronaut 8000 badminton racquet

Hi, an extremely nice racquet. It seems a touch heavy for me unfortunately. But only just started using it. Would definitely recommend it.