It is the first version we are willing to stand behind. We call the first release of QUEST: QUEST 1.0. The “1.0” does not mean the product is waiting to be finished. It means the opposite. This is the first version we are ready to put into a player's hands with the LUCORAS name on it.

Before this point, it could still be a prototype. It could be rejected. Reworked. Or taken back a step when a better answer appeared. But once it becomes QUEST 1.0, something changes. Its fundamental construction is defined. Its product character is clear. Its surface, visual design and packaging now belong to one coherent system.

Most importantly: we are willing to be responsible for this version.

Most consumer products do not tell you which version you own. Changes happen. New production runs arrive. The product page may look exactly the same. Sometimes, the customer has no clear way of knowing whether the product in their hands is identical to the one sold months earlier.

We would rather build differently. Starting with QUEST, we want product versions to mean something. Normal manufacturing variation should not create a new version. A minor packaging text change should not create a new version. But if something materially changes the product — its construction;

materials; weight or balance logic; surface; or another element that meaningfully changes the playing experience — then we believe: that change deserves to be recorded. Version numbers are not there to make the product feel newer. They are there to make change traceable.

QUEST 1.0 is our current complete answer for the first LUCORAS paddle. It keeps: MPPStructure as its structural foundation. 16mm as the thickness direction we chose for the paddle. The existing weight and balance logic because we did not find a sufficiently strong reason to change what was already working.

It refines: the surface. Earlier development feedback told us that interaction between the paddle face and ball could be improved. So QUEST 1.0 moves forward with a: grit-treated surface. It redesigns: thevisual system. Removing unnecessary graphics and reducing information until LUCORAS, QUEST and the details that genuinely matter have a clearer hierarchy.

And it rethinks: the packaging. QUEST uses an all-corrugated paper packaging structure. Not a heavy presentation box designed to manufacture perceived value, but a packaging system focused on protection, material simplicity and reducing unnecessary waste. Together, these decisions define QUEST 1.0.

QUEST 1.0 is not designed to have the longest list of technical claims. And it is not built to push every individual specification toward an extreme. What matters more to us is: coherence. Do construction, surface, grip, balance and visual design all express the same product character?

Does the paddle feel natural when you first pick it up? Does it still make sense after more time on court? When the novelty disappears, is there still a reason to keep it in your bag? That is the central goal of QUEST 1.0. Not one characteristic overpowering everything else. But a paddle whose important parts work together well enough that the equipment can gradually disappear from your attention.

Pick it up. Learn it. Then return your attention to the game.

Just as important: there are many things we chose not to do with QUEST 1.0. We did not launch several similar paddles simply to make the product line look larger. We did not rebuild working parts just to make the product appear more “developed.” We did not turn every individual preference into another feature.

We did not create unnecessary proprietary terminology simply to make the paddle sound more technical. And we did not ask a heavy presentation box to explain why the product should feel valuable. These absences are not gaps. They are also part of QUEST 1.0. Because we increasingly believe:

a product is defined not only by what was added. It is also defined by what the team had the discipline not to add.

“Continuous improvement” can easily become an excuse for a product to change quietly from batch to batch. That is not the system we want. For LUCORAS: QUEST 1.0 should remain QUEST 1.0. A defined release should maintain a stable core product definition and quality standard. We will continue collecting feedback.

Continue observing the paddle over longer periods of use. Continue learning about materials and manufacturing processes. But a new opinion will not immediately change the product already in market. Before a meaningful change reaches a future version, we want to answer: Is the problem real?

Does it repeat across enough actual use? Does the proposed change genuinely improve the product? Has the new solution been validated again? Only then should a change become part of the next version.

We do not want to release QUEST 2.0 simply because another year has arrived. And we do not want a new version number because the market expects another “new product.” If QUEST 1.0 remains a good answer, it should be allowed to remain. To us, one sign of product maturity is not faster updates.

It is: being willing not to update when there is no sufficiently good reason.

PRODUCT

LUCORAS QUEST

VERSION

1.0

STRUCTURE

MPP

THICKNESS

16mm

SURFACE

Grit-treated surface

BALANCE

Core balance direction retained for Version 1.0

VISUAL DIRECTION

Minimal, restrained, information only where necessary

PACKAGING

All-corrugated paper structure

PRODUCT PRINCIPLE

Keep what works. Change what matters.

STATUS

Release Version

It is not a demonstration of how many things we were capable of changing. And it is not the result of a specification race. It is simply the paddle that, at this stage, after screening, judgment, removal and refinement, we are willing to release with the LUCORAS name on it. It may change in the future.

Or it may remain exactly as it is for a long time. That decision should belong to the product. Not the product calendar.

Version 1.0 is not a promise that nothing will change.
It is a promise that nothing changes without a reason.