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JADE SPEEDER Release Date and SpecsThe fairway-wood-only shaft out Oct 15, lined up against the NX FW and DIAMOND SPEEDER FW on official numbers

Updated: Oct 30, 2026Contains affiliate links

My fairway wood shots balloon and don't go forward.The JADE SPEEDER is a fairway-wood-only shaft that went on sale on Oct 15, 2026 (Thursday), at JPY 44,000 (tax included) each. I opened the spec table and stopped. Even the 6 in the 60 g range has 4.6 degrees of torque. The DIAMOND SPEEDER FW at a similar weight is 2.5 degrees, so this is a shaft that twists almost twice as much. If you can decide with numbers whether to buy or pass, and which number to pick if you buy, you won't be left regretting that it "didn't suit" after paying JPY 44,000. As a gear nerd with a 72 average and a best of 68, who spends all day studying how clubs are made, I lined up the NX FW and DIAMOND SPEEDER FW using the official tables, and I hit the JADE 5S in a shop.

Header image: product photos from Rakuten Ichiba (Ad) | Fujikura SPEEDER NX FW shaft, Fujikura DIAMOND SPEEDER FW shaft

JADE SPEEDER FW release date, price and review: bottom line

What Is the Jade Speeder (JADE SPEEDER)? Six Numbers in a Line

Fujikura's fairway-wood-only shaft, released on Oct 15, 2026. The answer first, in 6 numbers.

From the JADE SPEEDER product page on the Fujikura Shaft official site. Re-read on Oct 29, 2026.

The design adds torque (twist) on purpose and stiffens the tip and mid sections. Fujikura calls this "high torque + DELOFT."

Next come the weight comparison and how to choose a number, with the figures.

The JADE SPEEDER comes in 4 models: 50–62g, mid kick point

This is Fujikura's official spec table. There are 2 numbers, 5 and 6, and only R and S flexes. No SR, no X.

Source: Fujikura's official JADE SPEEDER product page. All lengths are 44.0 inches, tip diameter 8.50mm. ¥44,000 for 1 shaft (incl. tax; ¥40,000 before tax), assembly and grip extra. Checked Oct 6, 2026.

Torque is a number, given as an angle, for how easily a shaft twists. The higher it is, the more easily it twists.

These 4 fairway wood models were the only ones on the official page. As of Oct 6, there's no driver or hybrid version.

The material is Toray's T1200G. It's Fujikura's first time using it, and the company says it is more than 10% stronger in tension than the T1100G used until now. A light shaft that bends a lot tends to feel flimsy. The idea is to back it up with the strength of the material.

Against the NX FW, it's 8–9g lighter at the same number

On its official page, Fujikura compares the JADE 5 with the NX FW 55, and the 6 with the 65. I kept those pairings and added weight and torque to make this table.

Source: Fujikura's official JADE SPEEDER and SPEEDER NX FW product pages. Frequency is Fujikura's measurement (220g head, 42.5 inches (60° method), 50g grip). Weight gaps are my calculation. Checked Oct 6, 2026.

Frequency is how many times the shaft oscillates in 1 minute. The lower it is, the softer the shaft.

Lighter, softer, and easier to twist. All 3 move in the same direction.
That matches Fujikura's own explanation: it says it cut weight to raise head speed and lowered the frequency to increase the amount of bend. Assembled club weight is 322g with the 5S and 330g with the 55S. An 8g difference.

So what does it look like when you match the weights? This is the interesting part.

The JADE 6S is 62.0g. The closest NX FW is the 55S at 61.0g. Torque is 4.6° vs. 4.0°, a 0.6° gap. Frequency is 253 vs. 258, nearly level.
The 6R and 55R go further: both have a frequency of 238 cpm. Identical.

In other words, go up 1 number and the weight and stiffness barely change from your current NX FW; only the twist goes up, by 0.6°. You narrow the change down to 1 thing.
Switch by the number and weight, stiffness and twist, all 3, move at once. If it doesn't fit, you won't know which one caused it. That's why my pick is the "6".

The gap to the DIAMOND SPEEDER FW, also a distance shaft, is even wider.

• DIAMOND SPEEDER FW 5 (58.5–62.5g): 2.5° torque, ¥38,500
• JADE SPEEDER FW 6 (60.0–62.0g): 4.6° torque, ¥44,000

At the same weight of around 60g, it twists nearly twice as much. JADE costs ¥5,500 more, and the gap to the NX FW (¥28,600) is ¥15,400 (both my calculation).

Why a shaft that twists more cuts spin

A shaft that twists sends the ball crooked. I think a lot of people remember it that way.
Fujikura's explanation starts from the opposite end.

The design the company calls "High Torque + DELOFT" is a combination of 2 things.

1. Make it easier to twist. The head's path gets shallower, and the face is less likely to flip open at impact.
2. Make the tip and the middle harder to bend. The loft doesn't lie back at impact; it arrives strong.

If the loft arrives strong, excess backspin drops. A ball that used to balloon moves forward. That's Fujikura's logic for the distance, and a note says the conditions were derived from swing simulation.

Backspin goes up as the gap widens between the loft at the moment of impact and the angle the head comes in at. TrackMan, the launch monitor, calls this gap "spin loft". Even with 3-woods stamped the same 15°, the more a player lets the loft lie back at impact, the more spin.
The shaft tip gives way and the head tilts upward. I read this design as using tip stiffness to stop that motion.

That said, this is the maker's own math. Ten days after the Oct 15 release, no independent measurements have come out yet (as of Oct 25, 2026).
Once test articles and store prices appear, I'll add a follow-up to this article.

Before you buy, work out whether it's too much spin or poor contact

If spin is why you're short, this is the shaft's moment. If your contact is just thin, changing shafts won't change anything. You can tell which for ¥0.

1. Tee it low and hit 5 balls. Off a tee it goes high and far, but off the ground you can't make contact. That's not spin; it's a low-point problem. It's on the swing side.
2. Check your spin on a launch monitor at the range. You're striking it properly, yet the ball floats up partway and drops. That player is on the high-spin side. There's room for a shaft to change things.
3. If your club has an adjustable hosel, strengthen the loft by 1° first. 1 wrench is all it takes. If the ball then goes forward, you're someone who benefits from the same direction of change JADE is aiming for.

If you tried stronger loft on a 3-wood and the ball stopped getting up, there's a risk the same thing happens with JADE. In that case, think about a 5-wood.

If you can't make contact off the ground, it's the club number, not the shaft. In Do You Need a 3-Wood? I wrote up the conditions under which a 5-wood goes farther. If you can't decide between your swing and your gear, Lessons or New Clubs First is the shortcut.

Choosing the number: start from your driver shaft's weight

Don't make a fairway wood shaft lighter than your driver's. That's the starting point. Club fitter Takeshi Ishii gives this guideline: a 3-wood of 43 inches or longer at the same weight as the driver, and from a 5-wood at around 42.5 inches on down, about 10g heavier (e!Golf, Aug 2024).

I applied JADE's 4 models to this guideline.

Fujikura's official weights applied by me to Takeshi Ishii's guideline (e!Golf, Aug 21, 2024).

FW 5 (50.0–52.0g): the number for players with a driver shaft in the 40g range

Its 5.6° torque is higher than the NX FW's lightest model, the 45 (5.0°). Of the 4 models, this is where the design's intent shows most strongly.

Great for you if you

• Your driver shaft is in the 40g range
• Your fairway wood launches high but doesn't carry

FW 6 (60.0–62.0g): if unsure, this one

If I were choosing, it'd be the 6. Its weight is almost the same as the NX FW 55, and the 6R even matches on frequency. You can try it while keeping your current feel. The 4.6° torque is only 0.6° up from the NX FW 55 (4.0°).
Hard to get wrong.

Great for you if you

• Your driver shaft is in the 50g range
• You currently play the NX FW 55 or a shaft of around 60g

What I found hitting the JADE 5S

I hit only the JADE 5S. The FW 6 and the DIAMOND SPEEDER FW I only handled (10 balls with the DIAMOND at a demo day). I'm comparing against two shafts in my TaylorMade Qi10 3-wood (15°). My 3-wood head speed is around 43 m/s.

These are numbers I measured myself. The demo club was a 3-wood at 15° and 43 inches, and the shop listed the total weight as about 327 g. On a clubmaker's scale, the bare shaft read 52.5 g, 0.5 g heavier than the official 52.0 g.

My biggest problems are fat shots off the ground and ballooning into a headwind. With the NX FW, the ball ballooned 17 times in about 130 holes where I used the 3-wood, on cold days and into headwinds. I teed it lower and closed the face a little to deal with it, and in January 2026 I switched to the VENTUS TR BLUE 6S. With the VENTUS, it's down to about 10 times over 70 rounds. I hit fat shots a dozen or so times a year, and I keep a gentler angle of attack by picturing the sole sliding.

With the JADE, there was no ballooning in 20 balls. As this article says it aims to, it does cut the ballooning. The ball flies a little lower, and I felt it suits people who hit with the loft standing up. Fat shots off the ground came on 2 of 8 balls. Off the ground, spin was 3,350 rpm and carry 218 yards. Because the ball doesn't get up as much as off a tee, I figured it would be harder to stop on the green.

With the DIAMOND SPEEDER FW, the ball came out too low over 10 balls at a demo day.

JPY 44,000 bothered me, so I stopped at the demo. Spin dropped, but the ball off the ground got up less, and my current VENTUS TR BLUE causes me little trouble, so I judged that the gap isn't big enough to buy.

Before paying JPY 44,000: who's fine with their current shaft

Let me be clear about who doesn't need to buy it.

• Players with no complaints about their current fairway wood. This is 1 shaft for stopping the ballooning, not 1 for adding distance.
• Players with a driver shaft heavier than the upper 60g range. There isn't enough weight.
• Players who found, in the check above, that they make contact off a tee. The first thing to fix is the low point.
• Players who hardly ever use a 3-wood. It's a club you hit only a few times a year. There's no need to pile assembly and grip costs on top of ¥44,000.

There's also a cheaper order of steps for the same problem. Strengthen the loft by 1° (¥0). If it still balloons, try the heavier NX FW (¥28,600). JADE can come after that.

To see it alongside other new releases, go to Latest Shafts 2026. If you're thinking of replacing the whole head, Best Fairway Woods 2026 has the ranking of 3 and the reasons.

Is your fairway wood shaft heavier than your driver's?

Update history

• Oct 6, 2026: Published (based on Fujikura's official product page; release is Oct 15)
• Oct 25, 2026: Rewrote the pre-release wording after launch and added the question "Can you buy it now?"

About the writer and sources

The writer has an average score of 72, plays 150 rounds a year, has a driver head speed of 46 m/s and hits a slight fade. I read the official numbers side by side, and for the gear I used I give my own numbers too.

What I hit of the JADE in a shop is in the section "What I found hitting the JADE 5S". I did the subtraction and sorting of the official numbers. Last updated: Oct 30, 2026.

FAQ

Related reading

Newest Shafts 2026: Compared by Weight and Torque
Weight, torque and kick point side by side with other new 2026 shafts.

Best Fairway Woods 2026
If you'd replace the whole head. 3 compared point by point.

Do You Need a 3-Wood?
If you can't make contact off the ground, rethink the club number before the shaft.

SPEEDER BOOST BLACK vs. the standard version
Another new October release from Fujikura. This one is for drivers.

Sources for this article

• Fujikura Shaft official: JADE SPEEDER (spec table and comparison with NX FW)
• Fujikura Shaft official news: JADE SPEEDER product page published, on sale Oct 15 (Aug 26, 2026)
• Fujikura Shaft official: SPEEDER NX FW / HB
• Fujikura Shaft official: DIAMOND SPEEDER
• TrackMan: explanation of spin loft (in English)
• e!Golf: The right way to choose a fairway wood shaft (club fitter Takeshi Ishii, Aug 21, 2024)

Last updated: Oct 25, 2026

Specs and prices are the figures published on manufacturers' official websites and in press releases, and by media outlets (checked Oct 25, 2026). These are published figures. The numbers I hit or played myself are given in the text, with their conditions.