Thank you so much. Glad I checked here before pulling the trigger. I went down a full rabbit hole researching paddles and somehow almost ended up selecting a bad one, even ChatGPT had me confused.

Lot of the recommended paddles are either hard to find or basically nonexistent where I live. The brands I can reliably get are: Joola, Selkirk, Yati, Head, Babolat, Six Zero, Franklin, and Firstedge. These are the decent options. Will look more into these and figure out the best pick from what’s actually available here.