THE PADDLE REGISTER · 2025 · CURRENT
Bread & Butter Loco
John Kew called it a true elite power paddle with a big sweet spot at well under the premium price; Pickleball Studio rated it 9/10 and Pickleheads 5/5. Pickleball Effect said it trims just enough power off the Boomstik blueprint to be playable for more people. It won The Dink's 2025 Paddle of the Year and sold in limited pre-order batches through the fall.
- List price
- $199
- Launched
- Q3 · on sale by Jul 28, first lab reviews Sep 4-5; exact date unverified, 2025date known to the quarter
- Build
- Full foam (Gen 4)
- Thickness
- 16mm
- Shapes
- Elongated · Hybrid · Widebody (Standard)
Status checked Sep 21, 2026. Lists change; confirm on the USAP and UPA-A lists before a tournament.
TIMELINE
- Aug 2025 LAUNCH Launch: Q3 · on sale by Jul 28, first lab reviews Sep 4-5; exact date unverified. johnkewpickleball.com ↗
HOW IT IS BUILT
EPP foam center with a floating EVA foam perimeter band, under a carbon / fiberglass / carbon T700 face. The handle is filled with polypropylene honeycomb.
- 1EPP foam center
- 2floating EVA foam perimeter band
- Face
- carbon / fiberglass / carbon (T700 raw carbon)
Construction per johnkewpickleball.com ↗
VARIANTS · PUBLISHED AND MEASURED NUMBERS
| Variant | Shape | Length × width | Handle | Core | Weight | Swingweight | Twistweight | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loco Elongated | elongated | 16.46 × 7.4 in | 5.67 in | 16 mm | 7.98 oz | 121.4 | 6.12 | johnkewpickleball.com ↗ |
| Loco Hybrid | hybrid | 16.26 × 7.72 in | 5.51 in | 16 mm | 8.07 oz | 115 | 6.65 | johnkewpickleball.com ↗ |
| Loco Widebody (Standard) | widebody | 15.91 × 7.99 in | 5.43 in | 16 mm | 8.01 oz | 108.7 | 7.29 | johnkewpickleball.com ↗ |
Swingweight and twistweight are each lab's own measurement of its own sample. Unit-to-unit variance is normal.
MEASURED BY THE LABS
The register does not re-measure paddles or copy a lab's numbers wholesale. Power, pop and spin belong to the people with the radar guns; go read them.
FIELD REPORTS · AFTER YOU BUY IT
Reviewers measure a paddle new. Nobody measures it at hour sixty.
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Keep a bag on Rally: log the hours you put on this paddle, when the grit fades, and when it goes dead. It stays on your device until you press "send a wear report", and the report carries no name.
Open the bag on Rally ↗ Compare with…SOURCES · HIGH CONFIDENCE
- johnkewpickleball.com ↗
- pickleballstudio.com ↗
- pickleballeffect.com ↗
- pickleheads.com ↗
- thedinkpickleball.com ↗
- pickletip.com ↗
- bnbpickleball.com ↗
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