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Bamboo vs Carbon: Ben Tinkler-Davies on Kinova & the Swift Paddle
Bamboo or carbon? Chris Beaumont talks to Ben Tinkler-Davies, founder of Kinova, an engineer from London now living in Brooklyn who designed the world's first bamboo cricket bat at university and has brought natural materials into pickleball.
We get into the Swift's bamboo-face, cork-core sandwich construction; bench testing with Loughborough University; what's behind the 7% more power and 4% less variation figures (coefficient of restitution across the sweet spot, and less change across the face and over the paddle's life); the 60-70 design iterations; the Founders Series, the first 100…
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