The Weight

At Osaka, we believe that 90% of players out there benefit from holding as little weight as possible in your hand.

This will allow you to respond more quickly at the net when playing volleys
and give your racket a nice agile feeling. It also helps greatly in reducing the risk of
common injuries like tennis-elbows, or shoulder-joint infections.

What determines the weight in our rackets is the material that is used, Osaka
Snap® foam is lighter than Osaka Touch® foam. But more importantly,
carbon weighs a lot less than glass fibre.

Consequentially, the higher the carbon content (or the price) of the racket, the lighter its weight.

Here is an overview of the weight variations in all our ranges.

Pro Tour LTD : 340-360g

Pro Tour : 340-360g

Vision Pro: 345-365g

Vision Aero: 350-370g

Vision: 360-380g

Deshi: 370-390g

Deshi Kids : 280 – 320g

The Foam

EVA foam is in high demand in the sports- and especially padel-market
today because of its exceptional qualities and uses. EVA foam is produced by a co-
polymerization reaction between Ethylene and Vinyl Acetate, hence EVA. It
is highly durable and sturdy even at extremely low temperatures. More
importantly for padel, it is able to withstand repeated stress and
compression without obtaining cracks and recuperates at an incredible rate. It
also maintains these properties for a long time and is considered a very resilient foam.

On top of all that it offers these excellent properties in a lightweight package,
making it the ideal choice for padel.

All the above caused us to choose EVA foam in our padel rackets in 2 densities
and blends.

Osaka Snap® foam is an excellent lightweight EVA we developed with our
supplier to specifically increase sweet-spot size and help players achieve higher
ball-speeds with less effort. The foam is designed specifically to help you get the
ball back across the net with little effort, this is achieved through the excellent
recuperation rate of the EVA foam, which in turn creates a trampoline effect in the
sweet-spot area. We use this foam in the majority of our range since it is an ideal foam for a wide variety of players.

Osaka Touch® foam is marginally heavier than its counterpart, but offers
some very similar properties. It was also designed to increase sweet-spot size, but
Touch® foam seeks to offer more control and precision. We achieved this through
developing a slightly less bouncy foam that allows players to place the ball
where they want it from anywhere on the court. Touch® foam is used in parts of
our range where we feel players will be looking for more accuracy.

The Materials

All our padel rackets are built from Japanese carbon fiber, high grade
fiberglass or a combination of the two which we refer to as composites.

Our beginner rackets are built from fiberglass, fiberglass is not as stiff as
carbon fiber making the rackets you build out of it easier to play with, it is also less
expensive which allows us to offer high quality rackets at entry level pricepoints.

Our intermediate level rackets are built out of a carbon/fiberglass composite.
They are not quite as stiff as 100% carbon rackets but they will allow players that
are growing their technical capabilities to get more precision and power out of their
rackets.

Our advanced level rackets are built out of 100% carbon fibre. They are the
lightest, and most demanding rackets we offer. The best players will need to use all
their skills to get the most out of these rackets.