THE PADDLE REGISTER · COMPANY FILE

CRBN

Recovered from the Waves with the Barrage. Holds a full-foam core patent and used it on Vatic Pro. Held MSRP at $280 through the tariff year; older TruFoam lines now sell at $199.99.

Based
Costa Mesa, California
Founded
2020
Ownership
Founders Garrett Gosselin and Kyle Goguen
Lines
TruFoam Genesis · Waves · Barrage · X Series
Pros
Andrei Daescu · Alex and Angie Walker · Dani-Elle Townsend
Release cadence
A TruFoam line every six to eight months.
Patents
Brand holds core patents

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Mar 17, 2026 · $279.99 · Full foam (Gen 4) TruFoam Barrage CRBN's third TruFoam line in fourteen months and the best one. Fixes the small sweet spot that sank the Waves. Power with forgiveness, aimed at 4.0+. USA Pickleball: approved · UPA-A: approved
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Sep 25, 2025 · $280 · Full foam (Gen 4) TruFoam Waves (TFW1-TFW4) Reviews were mixed. Pickleheads measured power near the Boomstik on clean contact and Matt's Pickleball recorded elite spin, but both described a narrow sweet spot; Pickleball Effect judged it a refined all-court paddle rather than the power step CRBN marketed. It showed how quickly the foam field had caught up with the brand that started it in January. USA Pickleball: not confirmed here · UPA-A: not confirmed here
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Jan 30, 2025 · $279.99 · Full foam (Gen 4) TruFoam Genesis (TFG1 · TFG2 · TFG3) Marketed as the first Gen 4 paddle: a full-foam core approved for tournament play. Pickleball Effect wrote that CRBN had 'solved foam cores' on durability while performance gains over prior all-court paddles were marginal; others noted less pop than Gen 3. It set the template most brands followed for the rest of 2025 and took Speak Pickleball's Innovation Award. USA Pickleball: approved · UPA-A: pending

EVERYTHING DATED, NEWEST FIRST

  1. Mar 17, 2026 TruFoam Barrage Public launch of the CRBN2 (square) and CRBN4 (hybrid) TruFoam Barrage at $279.99; new signee Andrei Daescu plays the Barrage 2. mattspickleball.substack.com ↗
  2. Mar 13, 2026 TruFoam Barrage Presale opened for the Barrage 2 and Barrage 4. thepickleballblast.com ↗
  3. Feb 18, 2026 TruFoam Barrage Pickleball Blast published a first look at Barrage 2 and 4, reporting a March 13 presale and March 17 public release with Barrage 1 and 3 to follow. thepickleballblast.com ↗
  4. Feb 4, 2026 TruFoam Barrage First TruFoam Barrage models appeared on the UPA-A certified list (PickleTip tracker shows Barrage 1-4 entries from Feb 4 through Aug 7, 2026). pickletip.com ↗
  5. Sep 25, 2025 TruFoam Waves (TFW1-TFW4) Launch: Sep 25. pickleballeffect.com ↗
  6. Jan 30, 2025 TruFoam Genesis (TFG1 · TFG2 · TFG3) Launch: Jan 30. thedinkpickleball.com ↗

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