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Can we talk about the $12 pickleball paddle I grabbed at a garage sale in Tucson that outplayed my $150 one
I've been playing pickleball for about 3 years now at a park near my house in Tucson, and I finally caved and bought one of those fancy honeycomb core paddles for $150 last spring. My old paddle was a cheap wooden thing I got for $12 at a garage sale down the street. Well, fast forward to last month and my expensive paddle's edge guard started peeling off after maybe 4 months of play. Meanwhile that $12 wooden paddle still sits in my bag as a backup and honestly? The control on dinks is way better with it. I started using the cheap one again out of spite and my win rate in our Saturday group actually went up. My buddy Dave keeps telling me it's all in my head but I swear the heavier wood just absorbs the ball better at the net. Now I'm wondering if I just burned $150 on marketing hype. Anyone else gone back to cheap gear after dropping real money on the upgrade?
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wades764d ago
Did you ever check if the cheap paddle and the fancy one are actually the same weight? Because that's where the real story is, honeycomb cores are crazy light, so a heavy wooden paddle plays nothing like them no matter what the price tag says. It's not that cheap beats expensive, it's that you happen to like a heavier paddle, and you could've gotten that feel for way less than $150.
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