Best Foam Core Pickleball Paddles

Reasons to Choose a Pickleball Paddle with a Foam Core

Is the future really...foam? You may have heard a lot about foam core paddles recently, and that's for good reason. While some brands are using foam in creative ways, augmenting their polypropylene cores with foam around the edges, what we've collected here are the paddle models from innovative companies who are introducing to the market new lines of pickleball paddles with full-foam cores; such as the CRBN's TruFoam paddles, Diadem's BluCore paddles, and some of adidas' Metalbone paddles. These are paddles built with foam as the primary component in their cores, and spanning the entire length and width of the paddle. So far, foam-core paddles are known for their durability. And when paired with multiple layers of fiberglass, graphite, or carbon fiber face materials, foam core paddles can hit as hard and play as consistently as anything else on the market.

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