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Interesting. I wouldn't describe the Rhapsody 13 as "quiet." The pop on it is very strong. I own a club in San Diego and we have to be mindful of noise. What's interesting is that its not the decibels but the pitch that makes it disrupting. Wish I had specific numbers for you - I wouldn't feel confident it would pass a strict community sound ordinance test.

@@AvouraSports Yes, the higher the pitch of the sound the more it penetrates and annoys since it is a repetitive popping sound. Tennis pitch is below 600Hz, and dBA is about 40. Pickleball pitch ranges all the way up to 1,200Hz and dBA of 80-105. The "Quiet" paddles have a pitch of 600Hz or less and the dBA is around 60.

of course! Fully USA Pickleball approved. You're good to go.

Length: 15.5 inches Width 8.3 inches Core Thickness: 13.5mm Weight 8.1 oz Handle Length 5.25 inches Cell Size: 8mm Twist Weight: 7.76 Swing Weight: 110

Not at all. It's the widest 13mm with the highest Twist-Weight (by far!). It doesn't play like a typical 13mm. It's plush but has noticeable pop. However, one thing it's not is an ultra power paddle. That era of paddles will hopefully be a distant memory soon :)

The OG of Pickleball videos! Circle back with me in about a week.

All three of those reviewers have Rhapsody 13's. As well as Pickleball Studio and a handful of smaller channels and reviewers! Feedback on the paddle has been fantastic. Excited to see the reviews published. It's all subjective, but thin, long paddles never felt all that organic and pleasurable to play with.

higher twist weight is super important for tennis elbow and arm injury. shock and vibration are the cause of those ailments and a bigger sweet-spot is a shot with less of those. spin rate is such a hard thing to measure (unlike TW and SW). Having said that, the spin is fantastic with the T700 CF face - it really lets you pocket the ball and the forgiveness of the paddle allows for more accessible spin on more surface area of the face.

you're 100% right. The micro-plastic and forever chemicals is out of control. I'm going to make this change on our next order. thank you.

@@AvouraSports 🤩 TY TY!

Twist Weight: 7.76 Swing Weight: 110

unfortunately, we're unable to do custom paddles.

Toray T700 Carbon Fiber face. There's some fiberglass (nominal amount) in the lay-out, but the face is CF.

Same! I truly believe that if players give it a chance they'll feel and understand what we achieved with the paddle. We're putting our money where our mouth is and offering a free 30-day money back guarantee to encourage as many people to give it a try as possible. The reaction from reviewers that were seeded the paddle early has been solid thus far.

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Also, I have one other question. What is your opinion about the power and pop of this paddle?

Steve Dawson tested every possible option with the metallic gel. Coming from tennis he prefers a tip heavy paddle, but the weight at the head didn't play as well as solely on the 9 and 3. Second best was applying some near the throat, but after so much testing we went with not only Steve, Callan and Jennifer preferred but sampled dozen of rec players with blind tests. Having said that. We realize there's customizations players like to make even if we feel its perfect "out the box." For instance, our grip circumference is 4.1", which is on the smaller side. The logic there is that it's impossible to "grip down" if the handle is too big, but its easy to "grip-up" for preferred size. That's why we offer a free over-grip with every paddle. Lead tape can be applied to slightly modify playability and move the sweet-spot around a bit. We also are giving away free lead-tape with every paddle order. Making the paddle fully in the USA has allowed us to test and optimize everything on the fly. I don't know how we'd do this level of R&D overseas. Anyways. Thanks for your question and apologies for the wordy reply!

The pop is fantastic. the power is accessible and will compliment 98% of player's games. If a player is a banger and just wants to try to hit baseline winners every shot, a gen 3 (floating core) is probably for said player, but I truly feel ultra-power paddles are sabotaging most people's game and destroying the sport.

@@AvouraSports Weight at 9 and 6? Do you mean 9 and 3??

@@gao57009 thanks. edited 👍

The paddle is great for beginners but also very suitable for pros. There are five pros using it, one being Callan Dawson from the PPA. It's a dynamic paddle. Twist weight and sweet-spot are sister metrics, but of course are different. The higher the twist-weight the larger the sweet-spot. And of course, the way its designed and the weighting system we use enlarges the sweet-spot east to west. Besides adding head weight I can't think of a design that would elongate it North/South. Thanks for reaching out!

It has a lot of great pop. It has accessible power that we feel is the perfect amount without being an absolute uncontrollable canon.

7.76 We should have put it in the video, but we added all the specs to the description of the video.

Encinitas, California. Avoura is co-founded by the Dawson family, which own Bobby Riggs Paddle Club. There are demos at Bobby Riggs as of yesterday. The Rhapsody 13 goes on sale on Jan 16 at 10am PST both online and at Riggs.

@AvouraSports price?

@@mikesuarez9780 $225.

Yes, there's a tolerance of about 0.1 in either direction which is lower than the industry standard. We weight them all before boxing since we are fully Made in the USA and able to conduct that QA checklist.

​@@AvouraSports Can you please confirm what the actual weight is? Your website says the weight is 7.76 oz. I was really interested in this paddle because it was under 8 ounces and had room to add weight where I want it. At 8.1 ounces, I'm definitely less interested.

Yup, fully certified by USA Pickleball.

Wow! How cool. I'm a racquet sport fanatic - pickle, tennis, padel, squash, beach tennis - i love it all. But pickleball has my heart.

As we're just launching the brand next week, we don't have the distribution for brick-n-mortar quite yet. But soon! We're offering a 30-day money back guarantee (test drive) as a way to get players to give it a shot.

Its USA Pickleball approved. It doesn't have any trampoline effect to it nor is really considered an ultra-power paddle. There won't be any delisting issues with it, for sure.

true. we should quantify this more. the TW for its core thickness. There's a few 16mm in our range too but they don't carry the accessible power as this - and if we're being honest the thickness is just shy of 13.5mm as well :)

Table tennis has a Stiga Cybershape paddle that modeled this concept of "widest at the equator of the sweet-spot." That table tennis paddle is unreal.

@AvouraSports when does it come out?

@@860anthony Jan 16 at 10am PST

They're from Vuori. The Avoura apparel line is coming in a couple months and we've got some really good looking threads to release. Lots of exciting things coming in 2025!

The feedback from reviewers we've received is that it leans towards power but is more dynamic that a traditional power paddle. It provides the right amount of power without sacrificing touch and control. We test so many designs and lay-outs to get this balance. The one thing it's definitely not is an ultra-power paddle. The focus of the paddle is accessible power, control and touch with the large sweet-spot.

@@AvouraSports I have been playing with wide body or standard shape paddles this seems more like a hybrid shape but i like the concept. Also I like your description that's a good mix for a paddle power is necessary in todays game.

Yup! USA Pickleball approved. It's not foam injected but a proprietary blend we made with metallics and other materials. It's way better than foam, just wait! Thanks for your support!

We're a small family owned business manufacturing in the USA so we have a limited inventory that we're launching with. Unfortunately we don't have the ability to send our freebies at this time but we are offering a 30-day money back guarantee.