{"id":1250,"date":"2026-04-09T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/brand\/proton-sports-pickleball\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:08:16","slug":"proton-sports-pickleball","status":"publish","type":"brand","link":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/brand\/proton-sports-pickleball\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton Sports | A paddle maker applying aerospace technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proton Sports<\/strong>was founded in 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona, by Charles Darling (20 years in aerospace\/defense). A former softball bat maker that turned its attention to pickleball in 2022 and released products at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>Product lines<\/h2>\n<p>Series One (11mm\/15mm), Series Two (edgeless 360-degree molding), Series Three (Raw Carbon, 16.5&#8243;, 8.2oz). Proprietary Nanotac technology (friction-based spin).<\/p>\n<h2>JOOLA lawsuit<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/brand\/joola-pickleball\/\">JOOLA<\/a>A defendant in the patent lawsuit.<\/p>\n<h3>Reference Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/protonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proton official<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thekitchenpickle.com\/blogs\/gear\/proton-pickleball-paddles-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Kitchen guide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"pt-asof\"><small>* The prices, sponsored players, rankings, etc. in this article are information as of June 2026. Please check each official site for the latest information.<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton Sports\u306f2021\u5e74\u306b\u30a2\u30ea\u30be\u30ca\u5dde\u30d5\u30a7\u30cb\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u3067Charles Darling\uff08\u822a\u7a7a\u5b87\u5b99\/\u9632\u885b [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ssp_meta_description":"Proton Sports\uff08\u30d7\u30ed\u30c8\u30f3\uff09\u306e\u7279\u5fb4\u30fb\u88fd\u54c1\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\u30fb\u304a\u3059\u3059\u3081\u30e2\u30c7\u30eb\u3092\u89e3\u8aac\u3002\u30d4\u30c3\u30af\u30eb\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u30d6\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9\u56f3\u9451\u3002","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5,16],"brand_category":[156],"brand_country":[164],"region":[1973],"brand_name":[2788],"class_list":["post-1250","brand","type-brand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand-info","tag-paddle","tag-brand","brand_category-paddle","brand_country-usa","region-united-states","brand_name-bn-proton-sports-pickleball"],"acf":{"founded_year":"","hq_country":"","official_url":"","logo_image":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/brand"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand\/1250\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"brand_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_category?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"brand_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_country?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"brand_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand_name?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}