Bullpadel padel rackets

Bullpadel was born in padel, and that makes it weird

Bullpadel is Spanish, founded in 1995, and has belonged to Aguirre y Cía, based in Madrid, since 2005. It was born in padel, which is what sets it apart from almost all the others: Head comes from skiing, Wilson from baseball and tennis, adidas from sports in general. Bullpadel has never done anything else.

It shows on the circuit: Paquito Navarro, Chingotto, Di Nenno, Tello, Gemma Triay and Delfi Brea play with Bullpadel, and each with a different family. And it shows in how the catalog is built: each family is designed for a specific type of player, not for a price range.

What Bullpadel racket families are there

The high-end range, what Bullpadel calls Pro Line, is organized into families, and each has a stated bias. Bullpadel publishes a score from 1 to 5 for each racket in power, control, maneuverability, sweet spot, stability and stiffness. It is its own scale, so it is only useful for comparing Bullpadel with Bullpadel, but it is very useful for that:

Below Pro Line are Next (advanced-intermediate), Advance (intermediate), Tour (beginner) and Junior. And the junior rackets have a real technical difference, not commercial: 35 mm profile instead of 38, and 335-345 grams.

The number of a Bullpadel is not the year: it is the mold generation

It is the most widespread confusion about this brand, and it shows as soon as you look at two official sheets: the Hack 04 mounts a Hack Core⁴ heart and the Hack 05 mounts a Hack Core⁵. The number is the architecture, not the date.

And a generation usually lives for two seasons. That is why things like a Vertex 04 from 2025 and a Vertex 04 from 2026 coexist: it is the same racket with another decoration.

The year is in the name, but at the end and with two digits: a Hack 05 27 is the fifth generation of the Hack mold, in the 2027 season.

What this means for your purchase, and it is the most useful thing about this whole page:

• When the change of season does not change the generation, the previous one is the same racket. The Vertex 05 from 2026 and the one from 2027 share the mold, heart, face, core, surface and the same six performance scores. What changes is the design, and with it the price.
• When there is a generation jump, they are different rackets. Between the Hack 04 and the Hack 05 the heart and the frame architecture change. There you are not buying the same racket cheaper.

The previous season usually costs quite a bit less. Knowing if there was a generation change is what turns that difference into a good buy or a worse racket.

What Comfort, Hybrid, GEO, W and CTR mean

The suffix is what they have changed in the mold, and it does not always mean what it seems:

If you are left with one idea from this section, let it be this: Comfort and Hybrid are not soft versions of the same racket. They change material and mold, and with them the game.

Vertex or Hack: the question that is asked the most

Both are diamond, both weigh 365-375 grams and both are top of the range. What separates them is the bias:

In a sentence: the Vertex is made to do everything well and forgive; the Hack, to smash above the head, and it punishes you if you don't have technique.

And a nuance that the brand explains well: the philosophy of the Hack is not to smash harder, it is to accelerate faster. Its frame is designed to cut the air, and the power comes from the speed of the gesture, not from the mass.

The Xplo is the opposite: it generates power by mass, 27 centimeter balance, three millimeters thicker hexagonal tubular, and it pays with the smallest sweet spot in the catalog. Power 5 out of 5, maneuverability 2.5. It is not a more powerful Hack: it is a racket for another arm.

Women's Bullpadel rackets

Bullpadel has a real female range, with its own families and not just lightened versions: Elite, Wonder, Pearl, Flow and Vertex W. All are around 350-360 grams, about fifteen less than the male range, and almost all carry a Fibrix face, which is softer and more tolerant.

With the scale of the brand itself:

And a useful warning: the Elite and the Neuron are not sisters, although both are hybrid. The Neuron is from the male range, with hard rubber and carbon, and gets 5 out of 5 in control; the Elite carries multilayer rubber and Fibrix, and gets 2.5. The real sister of the Elite is the Wonder.

Having said all this, the honest recommendation is always the same: choose by weight and by handling, not by label. If a 365-gram one works for you, take it.

The technologies of Bullpadel, translated

The rubbers: MultiEVA and HardEVA

Bullpadel uses three layers of EVA in its standard core, the MultiEVA: the outer ones dense and rigid, the inner soft. The result is a racket that smashes hard when you accelerate and forgives when you go slow.

The HardEVA reverses the configuration, the outer ones denser, and gives a hard and dry touch: control and punch at the cost of demanding more from the arm. It is what the Neuron carries.

Below are the CloudEVA (ultra-soft, huge sweet spot), the SoftEVA and the Evalastic, the latter designed so that the racket does not die in three months.

Three names that are not from Bullpadel. HR3 is a Nox technology, not a Bullpadel rubber. Bullpadel's anti-vibration is Vibradrive, not "Vibra-Stop". And "Hack System" does not exist: Hack is a line, and its technology is called Hack Core.

What the laboratory says about Bullpadel

Three Bullpadel rackets are in the 2026 guide of Testea Sport Lab, from the ai2 institute of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, which measured 60 models from thirteen brands with the same method:

Three things that come out of there:

1. The three get 4.5 or 5 out of 5 in vibration absorption. It is the most consistent thing that appears when looking at the Bullpadel together, and it fits with the brand having three different technologies dedicated to that.
2. The Hack 04 weighs 377 grams, one of the heaviest of the sixty on the test bench, the maximum was 380. That is consistent with what it is, and explains why it is not a racket for anyone.
3. And a discrepancy that is worth mentioning: Bullpadel classifies the Neuron as hybrid and the Vertex GEO as geometric; the laboratory notes them as teardrop and diamond. The shape categories are not standardized between brands, and "hybrid" is the least defined of all. Trust the balance and the weight before the shape name.

What rackets do the Bullpadel professionals use

And the usual disclaimer: the professional's racket is made for their arm. If you like the Hack by Paquito, check out the Comfort or Hybrid versions first: the same family mold, but much less demanding. And if you like it but the price doesn't fit your budget, a previous generation of the same family does the same thing for much less.

Complete your Bullpadel gear

Bullpadel uses the same family names, Vertex, Hack, for its padel bags and its padel shoes. If you're torn between brands, compare them with adidas padel rackets, Head padel rackets, and Wilson padel rackets, or view all padel racket brands. The full range is available in all padel rackets.

Guide updated in September 2026.