Don’t be stunned one bit if RPM, pickleball professional James Ignatowich’s very personal paddle model, quickly turns into one of many main paddle producers on the earth. And if that had been to occur, count on Asia to be one of many firm’s largest markets.
That’s as a result of Asian shops and particular person pickleball gamers are already shopping for Ignatowich’s paddles in bulk—simply two months after the adorned professional laborious launched the model in September. This heat reception just isn’t misplaced on Ignatowich, who took to X to thank Asia for the majority orders.
“Shoutout to the people and storefront areas in Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore for ordering in bulk and serving to take RPM to the subsequent stage,” wrote Ignatowich on X.
In a separate submit earlier, Ignatowich acknowledged that neither he nor his workforce anticipated orders to come back quick and livid, whether or not within the US or anyplace else on the earth. Even so, he described this optimistic improvement as “cool to see.”
“Cool to see no less than 30 RPMs on the courts in Vegas this week. We’re offered out once more, although our final batch was our largest ever,” Ignatowich wrote in a submit on 27 October 2025. “None of us anticipated this many orders this shortly. Marwan is presently watching one other 5,000 RPMs get made, which land within the US in 7–10 days.”
Whereas Ignatowich admits the majority orders are a nice shock, he most likely mustn’t have been too shocked by it. RPM’s paddles are designed by Ignatowich himself, admitting beforehand that he spent six hours or extra a day for a couple of yr simply dissecting paddles from each producer and making an attempt out his personal designs to seek out the right one. So, it simply may be doable that he has made the right paddle—or perhaps one thing near it.
In that case, the previous Selkirk Sport ambassador might need to organize his workforce for much more orders sooner or later—particularly right here in Asia.
