Pickleball Tungsten Tape Calculators

Four paddles from the CourtHz preset catalog. Place 1g to 6g tungsten or lead strips at the throat (5 & 7), belly (3 & 9), upper corners (10 & 2), or tip (12). Static weight, balance point, swingweight, and twistweight update with the same parallel-axis formulas as the iOS lab.

These paddles are solid honeycomb or foam cores, with no strings. Static weight is what a scale reads, in grams and ounces. Balance point is the center of mass in centimeters from the butt cap: higher is more head-heavy. Swingweight is rotational inertia about a pivot 10 cm up the handle, which is what your hand fights when you speed the head up at the kitchen line. Twistweight is inertia about the long centerline, which is what resists the face twisting on an off-center hit.

Throat and belly strips sit far from the centerline, so they raise twistweight more than swingweight. A tip strip sits far from the 10 cm pivot, so it raises swingweight the most. Tungsten and lead of the same gram weight move the numbers the same way: this lab uses mass, not metal density.