Do This When Your Opponents Won’t Hit You the Ball As much as we all love this crazy sport, occasionally the interpersonal dynamics can make you wish you’d stayed home and not bothered to come to the courts. This topic came up with my recent Bootcamp Breakthrough participants and I wanted to give you some […]

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Top 5 Shortcuts for Hosting a Kick-Butt Clinic

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  • April 25, 2023
  • 9 min read

Top 5 Shortcuts for Hosting a Kick-Butt Clinic Whether you’re someone who dreams about taking a clinic from a professional pickleball instructor, but has never had the opportunity OR you’re a self-professed pickleball junkie who has taken advantage of any and every learning opportunity that’s hit your way, if you show up to a clinic, […]

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The First Commandment of the Third Shot (And It’s Not “Hit a Dropshot”) irst off, let’s just say that this is obviously not the only commandment to live your life by (unless Pickleball truly is your only religion). But when it comes to pickleball, this is a biggie. In this article, I’m going to clear […]

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Avoiding Pickleball Injuries: My Top 3 Tips

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  • April 25, 2023
  • 11 min read

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 […]

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Segment 1: A Good Serve

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  • April 25, 2023
  • 6 min read

Segment 1: A Good Serve Think about it. What would you answer? At a clinic, voices will usually call out one after another, “Fast.” “Hard.” “Lots of spin.” “Over the net.” (Always good.) “In the court.” (Also extremely important.) “Deep.” I’ll listen, inviting more and more answers until nobody’s got anything left to add. And […]

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Top Pickleball Players: Why They Can Break The “Rules” & You Shouldn’t Without stopping, make a list of 100 people, situations, experiences and things you’re grateful for right now. Okay, you can pause if you really need to for a minute between items, but the point is to just keep letting the ideas flow and […]

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Top Pickleball Players: 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 Read I Gotcha Covered… If you watch many videos on Youtube or watch top-level […]

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The Pickleball Serve: What’s The Most Effective One? The Pickleball Serve: What’s The Most Effective One? Obviously there are a lot of options out there: the hard serve, the spin serve, the short serve, or the deep serve… Most importantly before you worry about which serve – the bottom line is you have to get […]

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When to Hit a Hard Ball Soft in Pickleball

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  • April 25, 2023
  • 4 min read

When to Hit a Hard Ball Soft in Pickleball Welcome, Gurunation! In this quick tip video & post we’re going to talk about how to know when to return a hard ball hard or soft in pickleball… Want More Specifics About How to Hit a Hard Ball Soft? I have an entire video dedicated to […]

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How to “Make” Your Opponents Hit the Ball Where You Want It… One of my favorite moments as a pickleball coach is when I help my students take what seems (to them) like a very complicated scenario with myriad possible outcomes and simplify it down to a few, highly predictable, results. In fact, one of […]

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