Your Complete Guide to Pickleball Paddle Customization! | Rackets & Runners
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Have you ever wondered how to perfectly tailor a pickleball paddle to your game? Today, Rackets & Runners' Luca Berg opens the pandora's box of what is what in paddle customization.
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00:00 - Intro
02:13 - CRBN Eraser
04:08 - Protection Tape
06:18 - Overgrips
11:19 - Lead Tape
19:05 - Paddle Matching
17:33 I’ve really been enjoying your video content. Great work! Your point play mixed in with all your videos is very relatable, as I’m also an open tennis player who occasionally plays pickleball. Our strokes are similar and I trust your advice!
My tendency is to add lead to the handle so the balance isn’t as head heavy. As a tennis player it just feels a little more natural to me. I know it’s not going to maximize power potential but it feels good in the hand and helps me keep the paddle upright more so than a super head heavy balance. It’s still head heavy, just less so (8 pts HH). What’s your experience with adding weight to handle, either lead or a leather grip, or is this just a tennis thing?
Belt sander cleaner at Home Depot of Lowes. Waaaay cheaper, works the same.
what about put leadtape in the 4 angles of the paddle? would it increase the sweetspot and add u also power am I right?
Yes, absolutely.
I typically see people add lead tape to affect static, swing and twist weights. Have you had any experience with applying the weight asymmetrically, given that during a swing, not all parts of the paddle will be moving the same speed? (similar to swinging a golf club where the club head - horizontal plane - at the toe, will be moving slightly faster than the heel.
I've never been brave enough to try asymmetric lead tape placements but I've certainly thought about it (at least for tennis). In my opinion, it's going just a little too far in trying to make something "perfect" with customization.
Likely to remain just a curiosity for me as well. I'm pretty sure that in trying to improve, more court time is much lower hanging fruit.
p.s. My son is enjoying the Vatic Prism Flash he received from you.
Hey Luca! Would you put the lead tape before or after the protection tape?
Before!
Is it possible to remove the butcup of the joola padel?
And, you did not talk about adding wait to the grip, neither with lead tape nor silicon. Why?
I haven't actually checked if you can remove the buttcap on Joola's paddles, but I would assume so. You certainly can add weight to the handle on a picklelball paddle, I've never found it that useful since you're basically just boosting stability without altering the paddle face which isn't too necessary considering how light the ball is.
@@RacketsandRunnersPickleball thanks for your response.
I could not remove the cup! And I thought it was weird 🤔
Is the paddle eraser good for gearbox pro?
Yes, it should be totally fine. I used one on mine and it worked well & didn't cause any damage the way it might on a kevlar paddle.
sounds like waaay too much bother for moi, except the lead tape
12:50 Uhhh no, you cannot keep your static weight the same by adding lead tape anywhere. Static weight is just the weight in the conventional sense of the word. Adding weight adds weight. The further away from the handle you add any given amount of weight, the higher your swing weight will be. In that sense, the top of the paddle is the worst place you can add weight if you desire a less drastic change in playability. Adding weight to the throat is the most sensible place if you don't want the paddle to change it's performance profile, but you just want increased stability (via increased twist weight) and slightly more plow-through (i.e. via increased swing weight).
13:20 "Force is spin and power"??? WTF?
@@RacketsandRunnersPickleball Well I disagree with the revised statement almost as much as the original haha. Adding weight further away from the handle (i.e. increasing swing weight more drastically) absolutely results in a more drastic change to the paddles original performance profile. Adding it closer to the handle (i.e. increasing swing weight less drastically) results in a more subtle change in perfomance, notably a boost in stability due to the increased twist weight.
@McPickleness your response was great up until your last sentence, which (in my opinion) is half correct. Adding tape at the throat will marginally help with stability, to the extent the tape is near the vertical/“y” axis of the handle. The further the weight is applied from this axis, the more stable in a off sweet spot hit. The effect of your suggestion tends to affect the static weight more than add stability. However, with that said, if a person wants to add a little stability with the least amount of affect to the paddle’s performance, adding the weight to the lower part of the paddle is likely the best solution for most.
@@richarde1355 I think you misunderstood my statement, because you literally just repeated exactly what I was saying in different terms. Obviously twist weight increase is directly correlated with the distance from the y-axis. But the same can be said for swing weight and distance from the hinge. If you add weight any further up from that hinge than the throat, then both swing weight and twist weight both increase such that the performance profile begins to deviate from the normal factory conditions. So while the throat is not the optimal location for increasing twist weight (and thus stability), it is the best place for a moderate increase in twist weight (and thus stability) while not seeing an undesirable corresponding increase in swing weight.
How much does it cost to review my new paddle and give me a great review?
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