Finally Flawless Paddle? Cliff Pickleball Vauraus Review
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I really don't have any flaws to talk about with this paddle. This is Cliff's Pickleball Vauraus paddle. If you want to hear about it, stay tuned. Okay, so Cliff Pickleball, he is one of our YouTube competitors. He is also a very good friend who lives here in the Orlando area. Love that guy! He's a guy that I've watched come from table tennis, go on up through the amateurs, and now he's playing in Pro tournaments. He's got a very unique playing style; he loves to spin the ball in weird ways, spins the ball on almost every shot, has a weird grip, and he decided to get into the paddle market. Well, did he do a good job? Let's talk about it.
This is a really good paddle for touch shots. I was very impressed with it. I thought it was going to be a very poppy paddle, and it's not a very poppy paddle. Now it has plenty of power; we'll get to that in a minute. But when we're talking about hitting resets from the kitchen line, hitting resets from No Man's Land, hitting third shot drops from the baseline, this paddle excels in this area. It's a very, very good touch paddle because of the muted feeling of it. Really, the whole face feels like a sweet spot. So I feel like you could hit all the way out here. I'm going to just hit the ball here and just show you that all the way around, all the way to the edges, this paddle still, all the way down here in the handle. Now, this is one of the things that I was very impressed with on this paddle. So most paddles, when you hit down here near the handle, you get nothing. But as you just saw, I hit all the way around here. Even here, it made a different noise. You could even hear the noise if you can hear that on the video. Even down here, the ball was still bouncing where it's supposed to go. This is traditionally a dead spot for most paddles, not for this paddle. The Vauraus Cliff has done a really good job of balancing this face and balancing the weight around this face, so the whole paddle feels like a sweet spot. In the kitchen, I was able to do anything I wanted with dinks, No Man's Land resets, even turning defense into offense out of No Man's Land because of the weight of this paddle. It's very, very easy to turn this thing into a weapon.
But let's talk about the weapon that this paddle really is. So if you watch Cliff play, you've got to watch guys that love to spin the ball. This is a very spinny paddle. Now it has not been measured yet by the people that measure these things; this paddle has not been measured yet. But given my experience and the paddles I've played with, this is going to be one of the top-tier spinning paddles. I would put this in the 2000 mark; it probably would end up there where it's going to be one of the top-tier spinning paddles. Not the 2300 like the Project 06; those are like the top spinning paddles on the market so far that have been tested. This one's going to be in the 2000 range, I would think, as well. But the thing that I was impressed with the most is it's a great all-around paddle. It had plenty of power. So hitting power shots, putting power shots from the baseline, and putting drives in place, this paddle excelled in that. You're able to really generate some really good whip with the length of this handle and the way you're able to get in and put some power on the ball. On top of that, it has the feel, so really, it's a great all-rounded paddle. I was very impressed with it, and I've tested hundreds of paddles to date. And I was like, 'Okay, this is just going to be another carbon fiber face paddle, blah, blah, blah.' This actually was very impressive because I really don't have any flaws to talk about with this paddle. Now, typically, there are some things that I don't like, but this one here, I really can't find any flaws with it. It's a very good evenly balanced paddle, and it is a good spinning paddle, and it is a good reset paddle. So what more could you ask for?
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