C-12 Extreme Performance

270lb deadlift with a used shaft!

Why C12?

I love my titanium lacrosse shaft…………

Lets face it, carbon fiber is the future. Who wouldn’t want something made from the sexiest, strongest material out there? With some many different carbon fibers out there, how do you know who is making it correctly? Any company can take a sheet of carbon fiber and slap some resin (glue) on it and make a good looking lacrosse shaft, but what are you really getting? With C12 having patents on so many important processes and factors, how are they doing it? Company H (for example) would take some unidirectional carbon fiber sheets, throw in a little resin, bake, and form themselfes a lax shaft. The problem with the unidirectional carbon is just like it sounds, it is strong in 1 direction and weak in others. So to combat this Company H probably rotates the placement and direction of them to make what they think is a strong shaft. The issue is that when you use a sheet of something it must have a start and an ending point somewhere, in essence as seam, and that is a weak spot. You can rotate the weak spots but there are still there. Now C12 uses a braid which is a woven tube of carbon fiber that has no start or finishing point. Each layer is seamless giving ultimate strength in all plains and directions. Braid sounds great so far, so you just slap some resin on and bake right? Not so fast. Unless that braid is saturated inside AND outside with the resin you will have uneven flow/distribution. That sounds not good right? Don’t worry we have Patent #1 on the process the make that resin get put into the braid inside and out. Oh yea we own the machine to do it, and the resin (Patent #2). For all you techies out there, this is called the Pre-preg process of making carbon fiber.

But don’t lacrosse shafts take A LOT of abuse?? I don’t really want to have my shaft break while playing, and what about stiffness?

Heck yea they take abuse, this IS lacrosse we are talking about here!! How about we throw in a little thingy we like to call the Exoskeleton (Patent #3) to stiffen up the shaft and give ultimate protection against the abuse? Don’t ants have exoskeletons? Yup and they are the strongest animals in size to strength ration on the planet. I guess our carbon fiber shafts would be second place!!

But I hear carbon fiber is weak.

Watch this video below.
The funny looking man weighs 210lbs!

Our carbon fiber layup process and along with the exoskeleton, allows us the create flex into the shaft. We use math (yup not just a class in school anymore) to figure out the best strength to weight ratio for the best shaft possible. Faster shots, better passes, ball control, and temperature resistance are all factored into the design. This also means that you aren’t going to spend halftime anymore straightening out your bent aluminum or titanium blend shafts. How nice it will be to have confidence in your stick that you wont have to be scared that your passes will go to their intended target with a straight dent free shaft.

Wait a second! Faster shots??

We took our fancy radar gun and speed clocked a couple people shooting. They used their current titanium or aluminum set ups and shot 10 shots on goal. We then put their same heads on a C12 carbon shaft and they shot another 10 on goal. Just to be fair we had them do another round of 10 and 10. Average short shaft speed increase was 5% and average long shaft was 10%. They also we shooting the ball directly at the radar gun in closer groupings than their metal shafts. Remember we DID NOT tweak their heads to perform differently with our shafts.

Well what if a carbon shaft ever broke?

Sure these things aren’t indestructible and there is always a chance of malfunction as with anything else. I can tell you two things to help calm your mind. First we have been testing these for many years and with our current design, we haven’t broken a shaft in over two years. Second IF one ever broke, we have a film that wraps the outside of the shaft to add some additional protection, but also it would contain the broken area in a safe manner. Our film (Patent #4) is so strong that it is also used on Jet aircrafts and Nascar vehicles.

So many sticks out there have plain boring designs that just promote the company. I want options……….