John & Eddie discuss Week 3 of the Paddle Bracket Challenge, including the new Engage Pro-1 paddles. A winner is picked from the reader questions for this week's giveaway: a Chorus backpack and photochromic safety glasses.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction/stories
4:45 PPA North Carolina results and notable matchups
10:20 Christian Alshon's tweet. Is pickleball more athletic than tennis?
16:58 Paddle bracket challenge Week 3
19:14 Electrum Pro Stealth
25:26 GRUVN MUVN 16-S
31:27 Volair Mach 2 Forza
38:47 Engage Pursuit Pro-1
51:09 Current paddle rankings, to date
52:18 Winner of this week's challenge
53:13 Should players lose a point for hitting someone in the face with the ball?
58:13 Should pickleball focus more on groundstroke technique for power, rather than paddle technology?
01:02:38 Exercises that target the mental game?
01:10:07 Joola teases Gen-3 paddles

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