Your Partner Refuses to Join You at the Non-Volley Line During Open Play. What do you Do?
For those of us who study basic pickleball strategy, or, have perhaps taken a lesson or clinic or two, we…
Youth Pickleball Programs That Foster Skill Development and Are Fun!
One has to look no further than their local courts to confirm the fact that the average age of pickleball…
PPA Rules vS. Rules for Everyone Else
It’s confusing. No doubt about it. Various rules adhered to at your local courts are sometimes different than those bound…
My Pickleball Improvement Road Map
I’m starting to get the itch again. It’s an itch that more-and-more wants to be scratched. With local, skill levels…
Importance of Sleep for Pickleball Players
When you don’t get enough of it, you surely feel it. You’re inattentive. You have lapses in concentration. Your reaction…
Pickleball Overhead Smash
A pickleball smash represents a mouth-watering, adrenaline-producing opportunity to end a rally and “flex your muscles” to your opponents as…
How to Hit a Pickleball Harder
It’s something most of us are programmed to do – particularly as we first enter the sport and before we…
When, Why and How to Reset in Pickleball
Reset. It’s, admittedly, one of the more difficult concepts to execute on the pickleball court – from both an execution…
The Flamingo – Balance, Counter-Balance & Attack!
Creating offensive opportunities and executing on these opportunities is a skill/mindset that is absolutely necessary to be successful on the…
Sting your Opponent with “The Scorpion!”
You constructed a brilliant pickleball point – or so you thought. After a perfectly executed drop shot that neutralized your…
2024 Pickleball Rule Changes
Pickleball rules changes for 2024 have now been implemented. While there were 92 rule changes proposed for 2024, just 27…
3 Times to Paddle Tap in Pickleball
Every sport has its own culture – its unique set of customs and “rules” that endear the sport to those…
Pickleball Kitchen Rules: Know When to Stay Out
Regardless of your skill level, positioning yourself at the kitchen line is a must-adhere-to strategy to play winning pickleball and…
Review of the DUPR Waterfall
The DUPR Waterfall is billed as a “new and innovative format – a revolutionary, amateur-only event like none other.” Needless…
3 Strategic Times to Call Timeout in Pickleball
“You can’t take them [time-outs] home with you.” Most pickleball tournament players understand this principle – yet, in the heat…
