Buying Guide: Type of Player How To Choose A Pickleball Paddle

At JustPaddles, we want to help elevate your game by finding the best pickleball paddles for you. Below, our Paddle Experts provide a complete guide on how to choose a pickleball paddle. From grip size to the hitting surface and everything in between, read on to learn more.

Type of Player

We’ve broken down paddles into three categories of play style: power, balance, and touch. As you may guess, power pickleball paddles are geared toward power, touch paddles allow for more precision, and balanced paddles provide a happy medium.

Note that any player can provide touch and power given their skills, but these paddles are designed to give a player more power or more control.

Below are the characteristics of the types of players

Power
- Third shot drives
- Speedups at the net
- Powerful serve
Touch / Control
- Spin and control are what bring you success
- Third-shot drops are your go-to
- Slowing down the game
Balance
- Well rounded player with dinks and finishes in your arsenal
- Wanting both power and control out of your paddle

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What is the best paddle on the market right now?

Once you have filtered your search on JustPaddles, our paddles are defaulted to list in the order of most popular. The best paddles on the market right now will depend on who you are asking. Here at JustPaddles, we carry a wide variety of great brands because we realize everybody has their personal preference.

Check out our blog on the Best Pickleball Paddles for an updated list of top pickleball paddles on the courts!

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