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Pickleball StudioCore reviewer

25 reviews counted · 29 collected, not yet counted · Publishes lab measurements

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About

Chris Olson came to paddle reviews sideways. Homeschooled in Minnesota and, by his own account, convinced for years that he wasn't clever, he picked up a Rubik's cube at 12 and was breaking speedcubing world records by 15 — then shot a Netflix documentary about that world as its cinematographer. Pickleball arrived in 2021, during the pandemic slump that followed, when a friend took him to a court and he lost badly enough to buy a paddle set the next day. He started filming reviews because the space had nothing like the production values or systematic testing he was used to, and Pickleball Studio became the channel paddle brands watch.

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Disclosures

Review samples and discount codes are normal in this field and never count against a reviewer. A special arrangement with one brand does. Each is recorded with the public source it came from, where there is one to link.

Discount codes and affiliate links

Code PBSTUDIO across brands. About page: no sponsorship money or paid reviews.

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Brand relationships

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Reviews we use

A review only counts once enough reviewers have rated overlapping paddles for the model to compare them. Until then it is collected but not used.