These articles describe the technology and science related to pickleball paddles, including the sweet spot, materials, shape, weight, balance, friction, etc.
If you have two different paddles with the exact same weight one paddle may feel heavier in your hand than the other. Why? The answer is that there is a difference between a paddle’s static-weight (often called just the “weight”) and its swing-weight. Although the static-weights of the paddles are identical, the swing-weight of one […]
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It is important to know the location of the sweet spot on your pickleball paddle so that you can learn to consistently hit the ball at this location to obtain the highest degree of accuracy, velocity, and power. However, locating the sweet spot is not easy. It is complicated by several different factors, including the
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One of the keys to hitting an accurate shot as explained in our article, How to Avoid Pickleball Mis-Hits, is to strike the ball on the paddle face at a location that does not induce misorientation of the paddle. This location is known as the Sweet Spot on the paddle. In this article, we delve further
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The idea of a “sweet spot” on a pickleball paddle is a bit like the idea of love. We all know what it is when we experience it, but no one quite knows how to explain it. In this article we discuss commonly held misconceptions about the sweet spot and identify what it is. In
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