HOW TO
CHOOSE
THE RIGHT
PADDLE
FOR YOU
Virtually every touring pro can attest that
choosing the right paddle will improve
your game and add countless points in
your win column. Similarly, using the
wrong paddle can cause unforced errors
and most likely cost you numerous
points, games and matches.
By Wayne Dollard
Pickleball Magazine
There are more than 50
1,000 USAPA Ambassadors. One
“Approved” manufacturers of the questions we asked was,
for pickleball, but the paddle “Why did you choose the paddle
manufacturers in this issue make you currently use?” And the
up 99 percent of the tournament overwhelming response was “for
paddle market—and nine control 90 playability.”
percent of all tournament paddle
Here are some things to
sales. They are Paddletek, Prolite, consider when choosing a paddle.
Head, Selkirk, Engage, Gamma, CORES
Franklin, Pickleball, Inc. and
While some paddle cores
Escalade Sports (Onix). At the same are solid, the overwhelming
time, there are more than a dozen majority is made with some sort
other paddle producers that are of honeycomb-style material;
rapidly growing due to quality and but not all honeycomb-shaped
technological improvements. polymer cores are equal.
A few months ago, Pickleball
Magazine conducted a survey of
Have you ever wondered
how a manufacturer could
PickleballMagazine SPECIAL
EDITION
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NOVEMBER 2019
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