Carlton Airblade 400

The Carlton Airblade 400 is good for playing long and tiring games beacause it's light and easy to handle, it's really a good one!

I have been very pleased with it at club level and have had no construction flaws to date on either of my three rackets.

It is overpriced and there are better rackets out there for similar money, saying that I do like the Carlton Airblade 400 racket.

My experience with Carlton airblades has been horrendous. What can I say, I bought 2 as they where on offer at the time when I needed a replacement racquet, the first one I deemed unsafe on the first evening when I played with it. The handle and shaft where not correctly bonded and there was quite an obvious movement, this went back to be replaced. The second racquet lasted 3 or maybe 4 months before mid point and with no external contact the shaft split and the head came flying off. Racquet 3 (which was a replacement for number 1) was subsequently handed on (virtually unused) to my father who plays a much more delicate game than myself, whilst the frame has held up well the strings quickly became soft to the point where they actually are displaced during a rally.