New Paddles, What a difference!
OMG... I got my new paddles through (from Ali-Express and AliBaba) the other day, and was able to try them out for the first time yesterday...
What a difference.. The Ben Johns Perseus clone feels so close to the real one - it looks, feels and sounds exactly the same (to my unpracticed ear), so much so that I think the blurb on the site might be true - and that this is essentially a pre-press of the real thing - it even has Ben's Signature on it... Now I KNOW how easy it is to put whatever graphics you like on a paddle (see my upcoming Pickleball Cabin Paddles - but that's another blog), but this feels real.. AND I can do a *proper* banana server with it - the first time I tried I was astonished!
At the weekend I was playing at the Premier Pickleball League event - Draft/Festival, a senior coach/player asked me to take a look at my Ben John's paddle commented that it seemed exactly the same as the REAL one... but said I'd not be allowed to use in a real tourney.... $32 vs $300+ I'm happy with that...!!!
The other paddle - a Juciao Aelous that I managed to track down - feels similar, but not (quite) as good though costing over twice as much (RRP of this would be about half of the Ben Johns). The grip is probably a little two narrow for me and I'll need to build it up a bit.
This also allows me to do the Banana serve and get a daft amount of spin on the ball.
Both are better than the Arronax paddle that is falling apart after only a few weeks (and that cost twice as much as the Juciao Aeolus). I'm currently trying to get my money back for that one - AliExpress are being difficult!!
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