THE PADDLE REGISTER · 2025 · LIMITED RUN
Selkirk LABS Project Boomstik
Pickleball Effect called it a clear return to form for Selkirk: Gen 3-style power and pop with foam-core durability, suited to advanced players with a developed soft game. It became the power benchmark later foam paddles were compared with, was Pickleball Blast's top pick and Speak Pickleball's Paddle of the Year runner-up. Sold only through Selkirk.com and LABS retailers, with a $33 feedback credit.
- List price
- $333
- Launched
- Aug 14, 2025date known to the day
- Build
- Full foam (Gen 4)
- Thickness
- 16mm
- Shapes
- Elongated · Widebody
- Pro
- Jack Sock, Catherine Parenteau, Lauren Stratman
- Made in
- China
Certification note. Selkirk sells a separate UPA-approved Boomstik Elongated without the MOI weights to players in PPA pro-division events.
Status checked Sep 21, 2026. Lists change; confirm on the USAP and UPA-A lists before a tournament.
TIMELINE
- Aug 14, 2025 LAUNCH Launch: Aug 14. selkirk.com ↗
HOW IT IS BUILT
BoomCore: a PureFoam (EPP) core fused inside an EVA 'Power Ring', three-layer T700 carbon face with InfiniGrit texture, and an MOI Tuning System of 7.5g weights clamped at 3 and 9 o'clock. Selkirk claims 12 percent more power than the average Gen 3 paddle.
- 1PureFoam (EPP) core
- 2EVA Power Ring
- Face
- Multistrata T700 carbon, 3 layers, InfiniGrit texture
- Edge
- MOI Tuning System weights at 3 and 9 o'clock
Construction per selkirk.com ↗
VARIANTS · PUBLISHED AND MEASURED NUMBERS
| Variant | Shape | Length × width | Handle | Core | Weight | Swingweight | Twistweight | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boomstik Elongated | elongated | 16.5 × 7.45 in | 5.8 in | 16 mm | 8.3 oz | 121 | 6.9 | pickleballeffect.com ↗ |
| Boomstik Widebody | widebody | 15.95 × 8 in | 5.6 in | 16 mm | 8.3 oz | 113 | 7.72 | pickleballeffect.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
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