THE PADDLE REGISTER · 2025 · CURRENT
FLiK Falcon
The first paddle built around cork inserts in a foam core, announced as USAP approved. No independent lab review was found beyond a database entry. It is in the register as one of 2025's few core-material experiments outside EPP and EVA.
- List price
- $190
- Launched
- Sep 1 · announcement; ship date unverified, 2025date known to the day
- Build
- Full foam (Gen 4)
- Thickness
- 13mm
- Shapes
- Elongated
Status checked Sep 21, 2026. Lists change; confirm on the USAP and UPA-A lists before a tournament.
TIMELINE
- Sep 1, 2025 LAUNCH Launch: Sep 1 · announcement; ship date unverified. bodyhelix.com ↗
HOW IT IS BUILT
EPP foam core with natural cork 'dwell pads' that let the face flex and hold the ball longer, under three layers of raw Toray T700 carbon. Pitched as unusually quiet.
- 1EPP foam
- 2natural cork dwell pads
- Face
- three layers raw Toray T700 carbon
Construction per bodyhelix.com ↗
VARIANTS · PUBLISHED AND MEASURED NUMBERS
| Variant | Shape | Length × width | Handle | Core | Weight | Swingweight | Twistweight | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon Elongated | elongated | 16.5 × 7.5 in | 5.5 in | 13 mm | 8.0 oz | 118 | — | bodyhelix.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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