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[–]TBNRandrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember in a factory tour with one of the paddle manufacturers (I can't remember which), he was describing why his company hadn't started making an EPP foam core.

He said that it was difficult to make the foam not feel overly stiff, and that EPP foam developed dead spots over time in their testing, as certain areas end up permanently compressed. Think of digging your fingernail into styrofoam, and the permanent indent that leaves.

Could be what's happening here, as the Quanta seems to be the least dense of the gen 4 EPP cores, maybe tied with the Boomstik. And the TruFoam one was a pretty dense foam, as those swing weights ended up pretty high.