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How to choose your padel racket.

Thirty pages to read any spec sheet — shape, weight, balance, materials, core foam, surface — and to work out, from your game and your arm, the racket that suits you. No marketing filler, no made-up figures.

Cover of the SCUD guide “How to choose your padel racket”: black, with the title in white and red

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What is inside

Ten chapters, one decision table, one glossary.

Read it in order, or go straight to the chapter that answers your question.

  1. 00Before you startHow to read a spec sheet — and what it does not say.
  2. 01The rulebookFIP dimensions (45.5 × 26 cm, 38 mm), perforated face, compulsory wrist cord.
  3. 02The shape of the faceRound, teardrop, diamond: where the sweet spot sits and what it changes.
  4. 03Weight and balance340–385 g, low to high balance, and why felt weight beats stated weight.
  5. 04Shell materialsFibreglass, 3K, 12K and 18K carbon: what the K means on court.
  6. 05The coreSoft, medium and hard EVA, FOAM — and what cold does to all of them.
  7. 06Surface, handle and cordSmooth, rough or sanded faces, grip size, the safety strap.
  8. 07Your level, your gameFour profiles, four set-ups, and the special cases (tennis players, winter, competition).
  9. 08Your arm: preventing tennis elbowWhat the racket changes, what it does not, the signs not to ignore.
  10. 09Care and lifespanProtect, store, dry — and know when a racket is done.
  11. —Decision table and glossaryYour profile on one line; the words on spec sheets explained.
  12. 10The SCUD rangeFour rackets read with the same words as the nine chapters before.
What it is — and is not

A guide, not a brochure.

30 pages, A4, for screen or print

Short chapters, airy pages, diagrams where words fall short. Read in twenty minutes, kept as a reference.

Cautious figures

Where manufacturers disagree, the guide gives a range rather than a precise value; where we are not sure, it says nothing.

SCUD comes last

One chapter, at the end, presents our four rackets with the very same vocabulary — so you can judge them with the same critical eye.

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