Shake and bake is a term – recently trendy – that simply describes a “one-two punch” in pickleball in which one player from the serving team drives the ball on the third shot (but sometimes drops it) while his/her partner “crashes” forward and to the middle ahead of the player striking the ball in hopes […]

We all love to win easy points.  We don’t have to exert unnecessary effort.  And the easiest point of all is the one in which we don’t have to even hit the ball because our opponent misses the shot – either into the net or out-of-bounds.  Unfortunately, however, when it comes to letting “out” balls […]