The Shaft is a pre-loaded Ribcor shaft, this technology is to increase power transfer during your shot. 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 taper 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.