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 most advanced material availiable? With several different types of carbon fiber handles 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 C-12 having patents on so many important processes and factors, how are they doing it? Company H (for example) takes  unidirectional carbon fiber sheets, throws in a little resin, bakes it, and produce a carbon fiber 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 address this weakness, Company H probably rotates the placement and direction of the carbon fiber to make what they think is a strong shaft. The issue is when you use sheet materials, it must will have a start and an end point somewhere, whats known as a seam. Seams are the fundamental weak spot in every competitive carbon fiber handle. With repetitive stick checks, seams will eventually delaminate and fail catastrophically or more simply said BREAK. You can rotate the weak spots but there are still there. Now C-12 uses a seamless carbon fiber system which is why our carbon fiber handles can withstand the physicality of the sport at the highest level.  Sounds great so far, so we just slap some resin on and bake it right? Not so fast my friend. We also have patents pending on the process of saturating our carbon fiber system which allows for even distribution of resin and the resin system itself. . Oh yea we own the machine to do it, and the resin. For all you techies out there, this is called the Pre-preg process of making carbon fiber. We are proud to say that C-12 Lacrosse handles were invented by Americans and are being made by Americans.

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 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 C-12 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, all C-12 Lacrosse handles come with an industry leading 12 month warranty and 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 is so strong that it is also used on Jet aircraft’s and Nascar vehicles.

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

If customization is your thing, we have the unique ability to customize  your handle, just let us know what you want and our design team will mock it up for you. We can also personalize your handle with your name, your school and logo.

Check out our Facebook Fan Page at C12Lacrosse. Under the men’s and women’s designs tab, we list over 100 different designs.