Say What? Pickleball Strategies for Calling Balls! It’s bad when that shot whizzes between you and your partner! It’s worse when it’s one of the slow pickleballs that kind of dribbles between you and your partner! After either of those scenarios, it’s certainly too late to discuss who should have taken the ball. But you […]
How to Grip Your Pickleball Paddle! A number of years ago, I put out an article on how to grip your paddle. Even though it’s a pretty in depth article about the different grips (e.g., the handshake grip, the claw grip), there’s more to talk about when gripping your paddle! If the claw grip works […]
Control the Controllables Dancing with your partner is typically when the A-HA moment happens at bootcamp! This is when we really get into the strategies of partner play – “Where do I stand when my partner does this?” and “What should my partner do when I do that?” And at almost every bootcamp, I get […]
Four Letters to Improve Your Pickleball Game! At clinics, I start off with “How to win the point on the first three shots!” During the first session of bootcamp, which is live play, I get an idea of participants’ style of play, including what’s going on during those first three shots. After a couple of […]
How to Keep Playing Pickleball for Years to Come! Prevention is better than cure. Erasmus Yes! I want you to keep playing pickleball for many more years to come! And I know you can do it! I’ve personally seen players in their 80s and 90s still on the courts, passionately playing the sport we love […]

