These articles describe the technology and science related to pickleball paddles, including the sweet spot, materials, shape, weight, balance, friction, etc.
The ability to apply topspin to a pickleball is a fundamental and important tool that pickleball players should have in their arsenal. There are numerous instructional videos on the internet that describe the various techniques and exercises that a pickleball player may practice to put topspin on their serves and groundstrokes. Similarly, there are numerous […]
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After starting to play pickleball with a wooden or inexpensive “beginner” paddle, you realize that like many others, you have become addicted to the sport and want to buy your own “performance” paddle. These paddles may range from about $50 to over $300, coming in a wide range of shapes, sizes, materials, weights, and thicknesses.
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Pickleball paddle manufacturers often advertise that their paddles have a larger sweet spot than others based on a variety of factors, including the paddle face size, shape, thickness, weight, and materials. They do not, however, provide quantitative details about the sweet spot, such as its shape, dimensions, and location. How then, can consumers determine the
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There are numerous ads on the Internet by pickleball paddle manufacturers claiming that their paddles are optimized for power or control, but what is the difference? Pickleball players will tell you that paddles with more power have greater “pop”, which is a nebulous term that is understood to mean the sound of the ball hitting
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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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