The Shaft has an Easy to load technology which is a unique stiffness profile that mirrors the RIBCOR shaft. While the Blade, which is a SXX Blade compliments the blade's stiffness profile. This is stiff in the heel to extra stiff in toe, and helps keep the blade square to the target for more accuracy on every shot. With a high loading power balance in the shaft you have more vertical stiffness which means less energy wasted down into the ice and all your effort goes into fully loading the stick.