Adidas Metalbone Team 3.4 Padel Racket vs Adidas Metalbone Carbon 3.3 Padel Racket — Padel Rackets Comparison UK 2026

Adidas owns both ends of this matchup — except the two ends have collapsed into the same price bracket: £113 for the Arrow Hit, £108 for the Metalbone HRD. The Arrow Hit is a teardrop EVA Soft frame aimed at improving intermediates, with a softer face that makes mishits survivable. The Metalbone HRD is Ale Galan's HRD edition: tubular carbon faces, a denser SpinBlade core, and the kind of swing weight that makes warm-up volleys feel like sledgehammers until you adapt.

The old logic — pay the club-frame price or pay the pro-weapon price — is gone. The pro weapon is now a fiver cheaper than the club frame. But don't let that fool you into the wrong buy: the HRD's price dropped, its demands didn't. Buy the Arrow Hit if you've played a season, you're still finding the sweet spot under pressure, and you want a racket that forgives Saturday morning roundabouts. Go for the Metalbone HRD only if you're competing in regional tournaments, you've already got reliable technique on the smash, and you want a frame that rewards a fast arm. Grabbing the HRD "because it's basically the same money" when you can't yet hit consistent bandejas is how elbows get wrecked on a budget.