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The Ball’s In Your Court… How Can I Help You?

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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?) 😉

Patience will pay off here, too.  You see…

  • Some of you have been reading my newsletters for years, others just signed up last week…
  • Some of you have read my book already and some haven’t…
  • Some are past tennis pros and some have never played a sport in your life ’til you got addicted to pickleball…

I want to know how I can best help YOU.

So this month, it’s up to you to tell me what you want to know about the strategy, strokes and positioning YOU need to play better pickleball… [Read more…] about The Ball’s In Your Court… How Can I Help You?

Pickleball Coach 101: 7 Questions to Ask Before You Choose a Coach

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Pickleball-Coach-Prem-Carnot-The-Pickleball-Guru-group-headshotWhile 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 better players in your group, but you probably haven’t worked with a professional pickleball coach.

There are more people hoping to be a pickleball coach in their local area than ever before. While some amateurs can help your game by leaps and bounds, many (even some pros) may inadvertently be teaching you ineffective strategies or bad habits. [Read more…] about Pickleball Coach 101: 7 Questions to Ask Before You Choose a Coach

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Stacking (a.k.a. That Weird Switch-a-Roo Thing Some Teams Do…)

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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 play continue as normal–once they scurry back into normal playing positions…

This, my friend, is what we call stacking (a.k.a. “The Australian” or “That weird switch-a-roo thing some teams do.”)

I’ve received a couple questions about it lately, and while I’ve briefly mentioned in my article about how to play with and against a lefty it’s not something I’ve talked much about ‘til date.

So let’s start with some basics… [Read more…] about Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Stacking (a.k.a. That Weird Switch-a-Roo Thing Some Teams Do…)

How Does Pickleball Impact Your Relationships?

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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, Wendy, and I learned to play the game at the same time, and we were both immediate fans of the sport. We played together, traveled together, competed together and are now in the pickleball business together. (Heck, we wrote the book on pickleball—together!)

While we are lucky enough to get along extremely well together in most of those domains, I’ll be the first to admit that she’s threatened “pickleball partner divorce” on me more than a few times when we play in tournaments.

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My Top 5 Pickleball Strategies to Play Against Slammers

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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 pretty good at it…

But then you go to another venue, or you play at a different time, and you’re facing off against the “less enlightened” players who are still just smacking the heck out of every shot…

You know that you should be able to beat them (in theory at least) but every time you try to return one of their shots, the ball whizzes up and off your paddle, landing way out of bounds – or down in the net – or up and into their wheelhouse – and it ain’t pretty. [Read more…] about My Top 5 Pickleball Strategies to Play Against Slammers