The New CRBN Paddles are USAP Approved! 

I don’t own one yet, almost bought one right the issue started. Guessing it was an incoming quality control inspection issue. I appreciate what they are doing with all the options for their customers. I think I’d do option 2, if I was current customer.

Just went for option 2.

#2 Awesome that CRBN, a small company is doing this. I had an issue some time ago with my Selkirk paddle and they made you jump through hoops to get a resolution! So much for the "large" companies taking care of their customers.

I went with option #2 right when this went live a couple days ago. My wife loves using my old crbn 2 for rec play, so now she gets to keep it and I get a new approved crbn paddle for tournament play. It's the best of both worlds!

#2 for sure

Totally agree on this. From the beginning this has felt almost like a hit job on a small business gaining a ton of traction.

Yea, not a chance.

Wow just got into the scene and what a mess! Glad to see CRBN has done everything they can as a small company to protect their customers... I am from the marketing world and the future is totally in these kickstarter like grass roots companies that are being developed within their tight knit communities, you dont need a multi million dollar R&D and Marketing leg when you are living within the scene. The pickleball community is absolutely just incredible and a perfect breeding ground for these types of small businesses to develop. Unfortunately when small businesses start to cut into the profits of giants there tends to be a path leading to corruption, more legislation, and downright foul play. I was absolutely flabbergasted to say the least after watching "the kitchen" interview with the Czar of USAP paddle enforcement "Donn Paben." He made some stunning admissions in his video, this dude must live in his own absolute bubble world because it is unbelievable the stuff he was admitting to without any hint of greater public awareness to the process he was describing. #1 he admitted to having no real personal oversight over his process #2 he admitted to personally selecting whatever samples he was going to use without any process #3 he admitted to having very personal relationships to major paddle manufactures #4 he admitted to activating testing protocols based on requests from rival companies #5 he intends going forward to share none of his process or findings with the public only handing out punishments. If CRBN has the budget or means i would highly recommend getting a private investigator on this dude, he is probably on yachts wining and dining with heads from head and franklin on the weekly. The USAP as such a powerful central force seems to be ripe for corruption and for them to have such an undisclosed process and for so much trust to be placed in powerful central figureheads is shady and dangerous to say the least. Watching that guy gave me the creeps and i had a very real sense of foreboding this was the type of thing we will all watch on a netflix documentary some day

@@symbolicsoul290 I agree Donn shed a bad light on himself and his process.

I actually did do a test. Old lower case CRBN from November vs white bold letters in all caps. Virtually no difference. I think it was about 40 RPM. Both were still 1500. Blown out of proportion IMO.

@@PickleballStudio would love to see serial number crbn vs. Pre-serial number crbn

I’ll hopefully have them near July!

Link is in the description

If you bought it online you should have a digital receipt. I think if you don't have proof of purchase you can't go with one of the options that require a proof of purchase...

My spin spreadsheet is actually very up to date. Unless you are looking at the wrong tab which contains my brothers results and mine. There's another tab with only my results that stays up to date.

I got my new USAP approved CRBN2 with a serial number yesterday and the surface is noticeably less gritty than my banned CRBN2, the Joola Ben Johns Hyperionl (CFS) and the Gearbox CX14 quad. I haven't been able to play with the new approved CRBN yet due to injury, so I don't have any direct feedback to provide. CRBN was great in keeping me informed and appreciate the different options - Hoping I like the new, approved version as much as I did my old paddle. Thanks CRBN. Thanks to you too Chris for the great videos.

The Joola was partially field tested by Donn Paben (the head of testing, and the sole word on pulling the crbn), and it failed. Donn told the two highly ranked players, "You don't want me to keep going. It's already failed the two least strict testing directions." Of course, Donn didn't know he was being filmed, and the video was layer leaked. The the CEO of Joola videos himself testing a paddle with the same Starritt meter and the paddle failing. But Joola isn't tested and banned like crbn. Total bullshit.

Update: received my codes tonight.

Still nothing and I submitted on 5/30

Actually, the 002 is well under the legal limit. I talked to some independent testers (competitors of CRBN and Selkirk) and they said the 002 passed with no issue. I also spoke to Selkirk and they confirmed the same for me.

Interesting. I wonder what it is about that paddle that produces so much more spin vs the others

Spin and grit are different. Grit is only one factor.

That’s interesting, I thought the test specifically graded the grit on the face? Is that not the case? I bought the new Ben Johns paddle when CRBN was banned and it gets just as much spin as the CRBN. Do you guys know the name of the machine used for the test?

@@SchittsFrozn The test does specifically measure grit. What I'm saying is that spin numbers are not a direct correlation with grit. The gearbox paddles have high spin and virtually zero grit. Theres several other factors in spin generation.

“Without prior manufacturing experience - even outsourced manufacturing experience.” You do realize that only 3-4 paddle makers make the wire in the USA, yes? Joola has some pretty hefty prior experience and yet the Starrett was harsh on them too.

yup, got mine today and it is way smoother than 1st gens even. Feels like almost no grit.

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They don't have to look for it, the person who owns it can just easily dispute haha. Would end the debate in about 3 seconds.

I mean, they are in the right to question why only them being singled out. A Majority of us also believe the same thing; where there may have been a vendetta against CRBN after the Punta Gorda tourney (JW beats Ben Johns in Singles for that one). Even Joey from Pickleball Pirates stated it as a theory (never proven). But goes to show, the politics behind Pickleball are getting out there.

@@halohawkxx they were singled out because their level of grit was easily distinguishable. It was inevitable.