★★★★★ | 26.354+ Trusted Reviews
Everyone tells you the same thing. Bend your knees, not your back. And you do, for the first couple of games. Then your legs get tired, you start reaching for dinks from the waist, and your lower back ends up doing the work your legs were doing an hour ago.
BackLock Pro wraps your lower back in firm, even support you can feel every time you get low at the kitchen line. The StableCore™ Pulley System tightens it with one pull, and it stays flexible enough that you play your normal game.
Wrap. Pull. Play.
What Makes BackLock Pro Different
One pull tightens it evenly across your lower back. No fiddling with straps between games.
Firm, even support around your whole lower back, right where you feel it when you get low.
Loosen it while you wait your turn, tighten it again before you step back on court.
Stays flexible through dinks, side shuffles and overheads, without locking your torso.
Breathable, low profile build that sits flat under your shirt for hours of open play.
Played all four games Saturday and stayed for a fifth. A month ago I was sitting on the bench after two.
I can get low for dinks again without my back screaming at me by the third game. One pull and it's locked in.
Three hours of open play Saturday and I got out of bed Sunday like a normal person. Haven't been able to say that in a year.
Never rides up, never needs fixing between points. I put it on in the parking lot and just play.
Bought it for my dad. He was about to quit pickleball and his whole morning group with it. He's back on the courts four days a week.
Same player, same kitchen line, late in the session
WITHOUT
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Built to move with you from the first game of open play to the last.
From weekend open play to four mornings a week, here's what pickleball players say about BackLock Pro.
I'd cut down to once a week because my lower back couldn't handle the kitchen battles. Now I'm back every morning with my group and playing the full session.
I wear it for three hours of open play and forget it’s there. It stays put when I’m down low at the kitchen and doesn’t ride up when I lunge.
I used to bow out after the third game while everyone else kept rotating in. Last Saturday I stayed until they turned the court lights off.
I didn't want to look like I was wearing a medical brace at the club. It sits flat under my tank top and the ladies in my league had no idea until I told them.
No velcro, no fiddling. I pull both sides, it locks in, and I don't touch it again until I'm done playing.
He's 63 and plays every morning at the rec center. He was talking about quitting. He hasn't missed a single session since this arrived.
Dinking from a squat used to be the part I dreaded by game four. Now I actually stay down instead of reaching from the waist.
After a long Saturday of open play I'd shuffle around the kitchen Sunday holding onto the counter. Last weekend I made breakfast like it was nothing.
I was expecting a giant brace. It's slim, sits close to the body and doesn't get in the way when I lunge for a ball.
Nobody at the courts notices it. They just notice I'm not the first one heading to the bench anymore.
Wore it for a full day of round robin at our club tournament. Seven matches and it never slid once.
My old one was one big elastic strap with velcro that peeled open every time I lunged. This is a completely different thing.
We play outdoors all summer. The mesh actually breathes. My old brace felt like a wetsuit by game two.
Side shuffles, lunges, overheads. Once it's set, it's set. I don't think about it between points.
I loosen it while I wait to rotate in and tighten it again before I walk back on court. Takes two seconds.
I spent more on ice packs, creams and a massage gun this year than this cost. Should have bought it first.
