About PickleballMAX

Tennis player turned pickleball player. I blog about how one maximizes their picklebility. Picklebility is simply defined as an embodiment of one's passion, ability and addiction to #pickleball. See you on the courts!

The Pickleball Serve — What to Hit, When to Hit and Why to Hit Different Types of Serves

The serve in pickleball represents a dichotomy of fundamental philosophies. On the one hand, pickleball "traditionalists" will argue that, because you can't win a point if you don't get your serve in, it's best not to take any chances and, instead, … [Read more...]

Top 10 Tournament Preparations for the Pickleball Tournament Newbie

Pickleball Tournaments. For many, it may be your first time in a very long time of competing, perhaps since your "glory years" of high school when you were on the basketball, football, softball or debate teams. Perhaps you didn't play sports prior to … [Read more...]

Pickleball Planner Reviews

Late last year, the team at PickleballMAX launched a product specifically for the pickleball addict -- the pickleball planner. Since launching, we have received various reviews -- including the two shown below. The 163-page pickleball planner … [Read more...]

Top 10 Technique & Strategy Flaws Impeding Your Pickleball Progress

We've all been there. We exhibit meteoric pickleball improvement and progress during the first several weeks or months of playing -- or perhaps, even years -- and then, we hit a performance plateau. We just can't seem to bust through any … [Read more...]

Pickleball Passion Meter — What’s your Score?

If you're like me, you are addicted to the game of pickleball. I have previously expounded on 10 reasons why I love pickleball -- from the numerous health benefits, to the competition to the social aspect of the game. On the pickleball passion … [Read more...]

Healthy Heart, Happy Heart — Pickleball’s Common Thread

February is a particularly meaningful month for Middletown, Ohio native and, now pickleball-lover, Tonnie Reimer. First, as it’s National Heart Month, February serves as her recurring reminder of the prudent decision she made to get herself … [Read more...]

Pickleball Rally Scoring — Good Idea… or it Messes with the Integrity of the Game!!!?

Nothing generates a retreat to one’s own philosophical corner in pickleball like the ball debate or rally scoring. For both topics, opinions are plentiful – and, like politics, one is not likely to change the mind of another. What is Rally … [Read more...]

Pickleballs — Must-Know Information for the Pickleball Newbie

Pickleballs. Arguably, no other topic generates such a passionate debate and angst amongst pickleball players than these 2.87” to 2.97” in diameter plastic balls that have between 26 and 40 circular holes. Well, perhaps aside from rally … [Read more...]

Pickleball Rules — Major Rule Changes & Revisions (Effective February 15, 2019)

In its annual review of the pickleball rules — the USAPA Rules Committee has published the 2019 USAPA/IFP Official Tournament Rulebook along with the 2019 Major Rulebook Revisions document which specifically outlines the significant pickleball rule … [Read more...]

Pickleball Etiquette — Unwritten Rules (until now) for the Pickleball Newbie… and for some Experienced Players too!!!

If you’re a pickleball newbie, you can download the USAPA & IFP Official Tournament Rulebook to find the “official” rules about how to play the game of pickleball. Etiquette “rules,” on the other hand, are generally unwritten – yet equally as … [Read more...]