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As Carbon Fibers' superior performances, high specific tensile strength and specific modulus modulus, become familiar, sporting goods manufacturers have endeavored to make use of the fibers for basic material of their final products. In 1970s, fishing rods, golf club shafts and tennis rackets began to be made of the fibers. In an introductory period, only limited number of sports maniac welcomed the goods due to high price. As price goes down, vast number of people suddenly started to buy those high performance goods and now Carbon Fibers are an indispensable basic material of sporting goods. Further on, the manufacturers have been developing various sporting/leisure goods made of the fibers. JCMA is proud to illustrate below a list of those goods.

Main usage and performance of Carbon Fibers

Usage Special Feature of Carbon Fiber Utilized
Fishing Goods Fishing Rods, Reels Light in Weight Rigidity Sensitivity
Sensitivity Golf Club Shafts, Club Heads, Face Plate Light in Weight Rigidity Sensitivity
Rackets Tennis Rackets, Badminton Rackets, Squash Rackets Light in Weight Rigidity Vibration Stability
Marine Yachts, Sail Boats, Cruisers, Athletic Rowing Boats, Canoes, Sail Masts Light in Weight Rigidity -
Bicycle Bicycle Frame, Front Fork, Bicycle Rims Light in Weight Rigidity -
Others Baseball Bats, Skis, Hockey Sticks, Ski Stocks, Bamboo Swords, Japanese Type Bows, Archery Bows, Radio-control Cars, Table Tennis, Billiards, Gate-balls Light in Weight Rigidity -


Fishing Rods

Fishing Rods

This is one of the application items in which you can make the most of the special features of Carbon Fibers (light weight, high rigidity, high sensitivity).
Started with fishing rods for ayu, use of Carbon Fibers expanded to fishing rods for small size fishes with very sensitive strikes. On account of high rigidity (stiffness) Carbon Fiber rods, as something like extension of one's arms, give fishers the feeling of even more subtle strikes.
This is one of successful examples of Carbon Fibers applied to daily used gears.

Golf Clubs

Golf Shafts

As golf shafts made of Carbon Fibers (carbon shafts) are far lighter than those made of metal, the swing speed with a given power becomes higher with carbon shafts than with metal shafts. In the beginning, carbon shafts became popular among senior players and ladies as an effective way to increase driving distance of them. Now carbon shafts golf clubs are commonly used by most of professional and amateur golf players.

Tennis Rackets

Tennis Rackets

Tennis is a hard sport requiring big quantity of motion. Rackets that use Carbon Fibers can be by far lighter than those that use wood or metal and can reduce burden on players. This is the reason why they have become popular drastically. (Improvements in racket design such as enlarged sweet spot also contributed to the popularization.)
It seems that they are more attractive to players also because of their longer service life than wooden rackets'.

Canoes

Canoes

By the use of Carbon Fibers, canoes have become light enough to be able to be transported by passenger cars. By this, canoe population seems to have increased.
Speed is most important for racing canoes. It is, therefore, advantageous to use Carbon Fibers to attain higher speed by reducing weight.
Furthermore, Carbon Fiber canoes can cope with shooting down the rapids due to their toughness.


Baseball Bats

Baseball Bats

Carbon Fiber bats have gained public favor mainly in amateur baseball.
The reasons for it are that the numbness of hands when hitting balls can be reduced, speed of balls hit is higher and the flying distance becomes longer, as well as that the hitting sound and hitting feeling are similar to those of wooden bats.


Bicycle

Bicycle

Due to Health and Environmental Problem, Bicycle is accepted more favorable spotrs in the world. Carbonfiber is adopted with main frame materials of Bicycle in stead of Aluminum, so that the Bicycle is succeeded to reduce weight.