Honest answers
All 18 of them — the practical, the skeptical, and the honest limits. Missing yours? hello@steadilabs.com reads everything.
That's the point of the shape. Chase-downs, stray balls, footsteps along the apron — the wide flexible base spreads across the sloped, hard-packed apron and the fins hold the drink by its bottom inch, so a bump settles it back instead of sending it over. It resists tipping; it isn't glued down, so a direct kick is still a direct kick.
That's the surface this base is built for. Uneven turf, narrow bench slats, the soft top of a gear bag — the base spreads its grip and settles back level instead of tipping the moment the ground underneath changes, whether that's a footstep on a bleacher plank or someone grabbing their bag.
Not to the base. What changes is your drink, not the holder — an insulated tumbler will still sweat and a bare can will still go warm by the second game, same as it would on the ground.
Measure the base, not the lid. A base 2 to 3 inches across settles in — the 40 oz Stanley does. A wide-mouth bottle or a half-gallon jug runs wider than that and won't.
No — it doesn't clip to chain-link, and it doesn't need bare mesh to work. It sits on the bench, the bag, or the ground outside the gate, which means it also works at indoor courts and on fencing wrapped in a windscreen, where hook-style holders have nothing to grab.
A glancing hit from a stray ball rolling through on a "ball on!" call is exactly what it settles back from. A direct shot from close range is a harder ask for anything sitting out in the open.
No — that's a different problem. Rows of near-identical insulated tumblers are common enough at open play that some fence-holder vendors sell name tags for exactly that reason. What this does is keep your drink upright and where you left it until you're back for it.
Yes — it holds at least as well on the fence apron or any hard, flat surface. The wide base and the grip keep a bumped drink from sliding or going over, which matters on a crowded bench too.
Rinse it or run it through the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to come apart — no mesh to mildew, no clip to rust.
It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to change your mind.
Most players do fine with one, carried from the fence apron to the bench to the next court as you rotate. A second earns its keep for a doubles pair or a family who plays together — one for whoever's holding the court-side spot, one for whoever's ferrying bags and towels between games.
It's one piece of injection-molded flexible material — no metal hardware to rust from dew or sweat, no fabric sleeve to fray or mildew, no clip hinge to work loose from fence vibration or bench shifting. There's nothing in the design that depends on staying dry or staying cool to keep working game after game.
Rinse it under a hose bib or the clubhouse sink and it comes off — it's a solid piece of matte material with no mesh weave or fabric pocket for dust and grit to settle into, unlike the mesh sleeves and sewn pockets most fence-side fixes use.
It's a practical one. With pickleball's player base now in the tens of millions, a lot of people are quietly solving "where does my drink go" on their own, and this answers it without needing to know their favorite fence-holder brand, their bag style, or which bench they usually sit on.
It fits, but snugger. The 40 oz Stanley Quencher's base runs about 3.1 inches; the 30 oz version runs slightly wider at about 3.15 inches, which is the exact top edge of what the flexible fins seat — a push-in fit rather than a loose drop-in, but it settles in.
Yes — a standard 12 oz can has a roughly 2.6-inch base, comfortably inside the 2-to-3-inch range that settles in fully, with room to spare compared to a 40 oz tumbler's wider base.
No, and it's an honest no. A 32 oz Hydro Flask Wide Mouth runs about 3.58 inches across the base — well past the 3.15-inch flex ceiling the fins can seat. It's the same shape of exception as the half-gallon jug: too wide to grip, not a defect in the bottle.
Yes. Acrylic coating and bare asphalt differ in color and how much grip they give a player's shoes, not in how they hold a base and fins — both are hard, flat surfaces, and hard, flat surfaces are exactly what the wide base and grip are built for. It settles in the same at a club complex as it does at the park down the street.
The buy button goes to steadilabs.com — Steadi Labs makes it.