Product description


The Neon 130 racquet offers outstanding power with great maneuverability and comfort. It is an excellent racquet for players looking for extra power within a Quadro-shaped racquet. d3o: The frame-inlay d3o is a smart material. The specially designed molecules in d3o react on different impacts within nano seconds. They stay soft during slow hits and lock together on hard strokes. With this behavior, d3o is able to sense the needs of your play and adapts to you. It provides maximum power as well as softer touch for a better feel. YouTek: YouTek combines superior technologies to perfectly match your individual needs. Whether your game is aggressive and adventurous or consistent and smooth, YouTek enhances your performance and brings out the best in you. Teflon Friction Reducing Polymer: Allows minimal string friction and creates a bigger "sweet spot" through the even distribution of tension across the entire string bed. Strings do not lose as much energy and can move freely around the grommets offering the player more power and feel on the racquet. Corrugated Technology: A revolutionary shaft deign that optimizes power. Corrugates rails are incorporated into the shaft of the racquet creating up to 12% more stiffness than a conventional racquet design. This provides superior torsion, blending and handling for optimum power in every single shot.


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The Neon 130 features d3o material for added versatility and power. The Neon 130 pre-strung squash racquet is part of HEAD's new YouTek series, provides optimal maneuverability and comfort, and is recommended for players seeking extra power in a quad-shaped racquet. YouTek combines technologies to match your individual needs. Whether aggressive and adventurous or consistent and smooth, YouTek enhances your performance and brings out the best in your game.


The racquet is constructed of d3o smart material, a dilatant foam which dramatically changes its behavior under dynamic loading or impact. Integrated in the lay-up and positioned in the shaft area of the racquet, d3o technology senses different strokes. On high-speed impacts, the smart molecules lock together within nanoseconds and dramatically increase the stiffness of the whole racquet frame to provide maximum power. On slow-speed impacts like slices or drop shots, the d3o molecules absorb the impact to provide a softer touch for better feel.


HEAD grommets with Teflon friction-reducing polymer provide a low-friction contact surface, enabling the strings to slide through the grommets with nearly no friction, creating a self-lubricating effect in the base material. Moving without resistance, the strings maintain their energy during ball impact, providing more power.


Specifications


16.5-to-20-millimeter cross-S


500-square-centimeter head size


130-gram frame weight


370-millimeter balance


Evolution Pro string


16/17 string pattern


About HEAD


HEAD is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of premium branded sports equipment, in four categories--winter sports, racquet sports, diving and licensing. HEAD sells products under the HEAD (tennis, squash, paddle and racquetball racquets, tennis balls, tennis footwear, badminton products, alpine skis, ski bindings and ski boots, snowboards, snowboard bindings and boots), Penn (tennis and racquetball balls), Tyrolia (ski bindings), and Mares/Dacor (diving equipment) brands.


The company's products are endorsed by some of the world’s top athletes including Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn, Hermann Maier, Didier Cuche, Maria Riesch, Anja Parson, Rainer Schonfelder, Elisabeth Gorgl, Novak Djokovic, Andrew Murray, Gilles Simon, Robin Soderling, Stanislas Wawrinka, Richard Gasquet, Marat Safin, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Victoria Azarenka, Patty Schnyder, Amelie Mauresmo, Zhou Mi, Karim Darwish, and Jack Huczek.