Pickleball Drill: Walk the Kitchen Line Pickleball practice drill written by Jacquee Ware, a fan of the Pickleball Guru. Two players start at the opposite ends of the kitchen line across the net from each other. Then doing nothing but dinks, using both the forehand and backhand shots, walking the kitchen line placing the ball […]
My Top 2 pickleball strategies If you’ve been following my articles for some time now, you (hopefully) understand the importance of hitting a drop shot for the “critical third shot.” I’ve written about WHY this shot is so important in this article getting up to the net. I’ve even written about HOW to hit a […]
The Dink Shot: Part 1- Definition & Examples I’ve covered many pickleball strategy topics in the nearly-two-years since I started my monthly newsletter, however it was recently brought to my attention (shockingly!) that I haven’t talked much about the dink shot — how to hit it, why you need it, etc. So (at long last) […]
My Top 5 Pickleball Strategies to Play Against Slammers Maybe you’ve learned the value of the dink, or you’re beginning to consider it at least. If you’re like one woman who wrote to me this past month, maybe you have a group of people with whom you regularly play the dink game, and you’ve gotten […]
How Does Pickleball Impact Your Relationships? With Valentine’s Day around the corner, February is the month we tend to focus on our “special” relationship (or lack there of). So I thought it would be appropriate this month to take a look at how pickleball impacts and influences our relationships. As you may know, my wife, […]
7 Questions to Ask Before You Choose a Coach While tennis coaches are at every high school, country club and city park, a good pickleball coach is hard to find. If you’re like most players I work with, you probably learned from a friend or relative and may get occasional pointers from one of the […]
