Category: Blog

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, […]

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Stacking It’s kind of a shock the first time you see a team doing that weird switch-a-roo thing. They’ve got one player standing outside the court and yet they seem ready to play. What is going on, you ask yourself… Only to see the ball get served and […]

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 […]

The Ball’s In Your Court… How Can I Help You? This month, I’m changing things up a little. Nope, you’re not going to get a new article today. (But, wait, read on!!) You know how patience pays off in pickleball? (Or, rather, do you believe it would if you could manage to BE more patient?) […]

Get a Grip On Your Game… In the survey I did a while back, a few people asked about proper grip techniques and positions. It can be a tricky subject because most people don’t realize that the way you hold the paddle at the beginning of the point is usually not how you’re holding it […]

What You Win From Me Losing at Nationals Back before I was “The Pickleball Guru” when I was just another bloke getting his behind walloped… We look confident but I am pretty sure neither of us even knew what a dink was! Back then there weren’t many online resources to learn about pickleball! Unless you’ve […]

The 3 Most Common “Paddle Up” Mistakes The 3 Most Common “Paddle Up” Mistakes (Featured on The Pickleball Channel) This week’s episode of Pickleball 411 Features (you guessed it!) Yours Truly Sharing the 3 Most Common Mistakes People Make When it Comes to Keeping Your Paddle Up… If you aren’t subscribed to Pickleball Channel, do […]

7 “Hit to the Middle” Secrets Every Pickleball Player Should Know If you’ve been playing pickleball for any length of time you’ve probably been told by some player (probably more advanced than you) to “Hit to the Middle”. Maybe you’ve even congratulated your team on a winning shot by saying “Down the Middle Solves the […]

Avoiding Pickleball Injuries: My Top 3 Tips In a mad rush toward the ball, your partner crashes into the kitchen, collides with the net, and ends up with their back on the ground, groaning…Under the best of circumstances, they had a safe fall and managed to get off with only a scraped knee. Under the […]

Why They Can Break The “Rules” & You Shouldn’t Today we’re talking about why you’ll often see that what top pickleball players DO does not always match what I TEACH in my book, clinics and bootcamps. Prefer to listen? Click here or use the player below. Prefer to Read? I Gotcha Covered… If you watch […]