Pickleball Science

August 2025

Contact Dynamics

Conventional wisdom suggests that paddles with higher weight, lower stiffness, and higher PBCoR (Paddle/Ball Coefficient of Restitution) ratings will have greater power than paddles with lower weight, higher stiffness, and lower PBCoR ratings.  As we know, this is not always the case.  There are numerous instances where a paddle might appear (on paper) to have […]

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Grip Enhancers

The soundness of your grip onto the handle of your pickleball paddle is an important factor that affects your shot accuracy, power, and consistency.  For those of us who live in warm and humid climates, we know that excessive sweat on the palm of our hands can cause the paddle to slip or rotate, resulting

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