Best Widebody Pickleball Paddles

If you want one answer: the 11Six24 Pegasus Power 2 is the widebody pickleball paddle to buy, and it is for the upgrading player who keeps catching the ball off the middle of the face and has decided to fix it with the outline rather than with more practice. It is the widest face we cover at a published 15.8 x 8.12in, it keeps a 16mm core so you do not trade touch for stability, and it is the only widebody here with a handle long enough for a two-handed backhand. Buy the Selkirk Vanguard Power Air Epic instead if you want pop and an edgeless face, the CRBN2 TruFoam Genesis if you want a full foam core in the same shape, and the Vatic Pro V-Sol Pro Bloom if you want the most spin per dollar on the page.

Units we claim to have tested: 0. Picks are ranked on manufacturer-published dimensions and construction and on our editorial scores, compiled from those specs and the consistent reviewer record. Live Amazon prices render on every card below and move daily.

What "widebody" actually means

USA Pickleball caps a paddle at 17 inches long and at 24 inches of length plus width combined. Every maker is therefore spending the same budget in different proportions, and the three names you see on spec sheets are just three ways to spend it. An elongated paddle is taller and narrower. A standard shape sits in the middle. A widebody spends the budget on width: shorter than a standard frame, and wider than anything else on the shelf.

The number that changes is twist weight — how much the head resists rotating in your hand when the ball lands away from the center line. Width is the single biggest lever on it, because mass sitting further out to the sides of the handle axis is what resists that rotation. A wider paddle does not literally have more square inches of sweet spot; it has a sweet spot that punishes you less for missing it. On a mishit, a high-twist-weight paddle loses less ball speed and sends the ball closer to where you aimed.

That is the entire case for the shape, and it is a narrow case. If the points you lose are balls you could not reach, a widebody is the wrong paddle and you want our elongated roundup instead. If the points you lose are balls you reached and shanked, read on. The full taxonomy is in our paddle shape guide, and the broader question of mishit tolerance — which also covers elongated and hybrid frames that happen to be forgiving — is on the most forgiving paddles.

The published numbers, side by side

Every figure here is the manufacturer's own. Where a maker publishes nothing — molding method on the TruFoam line and on the V-Sol Pro line — the row says so rather than guessing.

Read the bottom three rows together and the page sorts itself. All four score a 9 on forgiveness, which is what you came for and which none of them differentiates on. The separation is everywhere else: the Epic is two points down on control because of its thin core, Bloom is a point up on spin because of its raw T700 face, and the Pegasus is the only one with a handle long enough for a two-hander — at the cost of an approval that is not USA Pickleball's.

Why core thickness matters more here than usual

Three of these four paddles run a 14mm or 16mm core and one runs about 13mm, and on a widebody that gap is louder than it would be on an elongated frame. A wide, short outline already has low swing weight — there is less mass out at the tip to accelerate — so the paddle is fast through a hands exchange whatever the core does. Add a thin core to that and you get a frame that is both quick and springy, which is excellent at the kitchen and genuinely difficult to reset with, because the ball leaves before the face has had time to absorb it.

That is the Epic. It is not a flaw; it is a choice, and it is the right choice for a player whose problem is generating pace. But if you are buying a widebody because you want to be steadier, a thin core partly undoes the reason you are here. The 16mm Pegasus and the 16mm Bloom are the two that give you width and dwell at the same time. Our 14mm vs 16mm guide covers the trade in general, and dwell time explains why the thicker core feels slower off the face.

Two of these are full foam cores. Be deliberate about that.

The TruFoam Genesis and the V-Sol Pro Bloom are not honeycomb paddles with foam injected into the perimeter. Both makers publish a core that is foam throughout. The advantage is exactly the one this page is about: foam distributes impact across the whole core rather than through a cell-wall grid, which is part of why both land on a 9 for forgiveness.

The risk is equally specific. Honeycomb paddles fail visibly — they delaminate, they crack, you can hear it. A foam core that compresses and softens over a season fails invisibly, and nobody has owned one for long enough to publish what that curve looks like. We have no test data and neither does anyone else, so we are not going to pretend the risk is priced. If you want the shape without that unknown, the Pegasus and the Epic are conventional cores. More on the construction itself in our foam-core roundup and in Gen 3 and Gen 4 foam paddles explained.

The 11Six24 approval catch

Our top pick carries a certification that is not the one most readers assume. 11Six24 lists the Power 2 line as UPA-A approved. UPA-A is the professional tour's equipment program; USA Pickleball approval is the one sanctioned amateur tournaments check. They are separate programs with separate lists, and a paddle can hold one without the other.

Practically: it makes no difference at all in recreational play, it is a real problem if you enter a USAP-sanctioned event, and at the professional end it is the certification that counts. We rank the Pegasus first because it is the best widebody we cover, and we are telling you this so the decision is yours. If you play sanctioned amateur events, the Genesis and Bloom are listed as USA Pickleball approved and the Epic is Selkirk's standard USAP-listed construction. Verify your exact model against the current list before you enter anything — see USAP approval and delisting, explained and PBCoR .43 explained.

How we ranked these

Four paddles, because four is how many widebody frames we cover. We did not pad the list with hybrids that happen to be slightly wide, and we did not leave a paddle off because it is cheap. Ranking is on published construction and dimensions plus our own 1-10 scores, which are an editorial read of those specs against the consistent reviewer record — not lab output. We do not run a lab and do not claim to. Every listing was confirmed in our registry on October 17, 2026, and prices come from our live price layer rather than being typed into the page. The full approach is on our methodology page.

The bottom line

Buy the Pegasus if you want the best widebody we cover and the UPA-A listing does not affect where you play. Buy the Power Air Epic if you want pop and an edgeless face and you are not trying to fix your soft game. Buy the TruFoam Genesis if the foam core is the part you want and you accept the unknown. Buy Bloom if you want the most spin for the least money. And if you are not yet sure the outline is your problem at all, start with standard-shape paddles or how to choose a paddle before you spend anything.