Pickleball Training
Tips, drills, strategies and guides to take your pickleball training to the next level.
Loading at the pickleball kitchen means setting your weight into your legs before you hit, instead of reaching late with your paddle.…
A better pickleball two-handed backhand drive starts with early spacing, a stable contact point, getting below the ball, using the top hand…
The 3-shot rule in pickleball means thinking in mini-sequences of three shots: serve, third, fifth when serving, or return, fourth, sixth when…
Create space at the kitchen line with small, controlled footwork. Stay balanced, keep your paddle compact, reset low balls, and recover quickly…
After serving in doubles pickleball, don’t rush inside the baseline too early. Stay just behind the baseline until you read the return.…
When a wide dink pulls you off court, the safest reply is usually a soft middle reset that lands in the kitchen…
Open play gets distracting because social chatter breaks your point routine. Stay focused by using a simple pre-point cue, tracking the score…
When playing older pickleball players, don’t judge by age alone. Read their mobility, reaction speed, balance, skill level, and competitiveness. Strong senior…
There is a tiny paddle-position detail that separates a lot of advanced kitchen-line attackers from rec players. It is not more power.It…
Most 3.5 players are not stuck because they need a brand-new game. They are stuck because their decisions are just a little…
Pickleball players should choose drinks based on session length, heat, sweat, and energy needs. Water is usually enough for short play. Electrolyte…
Midcourt drives usually fly long because players use too much swing for the shorter court space. As you move closer to the…
There’s a reason pros win points with dinks that don’t even make a sound. It’s not magic—it’s precision. And if you’ve been…
There’s a moment we all dream about: the perfect pop-up. Your opponent makes a mistake, the ball floats high, and it’s your…
There’s a reason top pickleball players make their warmups look so smooth—it’s not luck, and it’s definitely not just arm swings and…
There’s a moment in every rec game when it hits: your opponent hits to the middle, and you—left-handed, strategically placed—step in with…
So here’s the deal: our friend, pro player and coach Nicholas Wade dropped this little strategy bomb on us recently, and once…
Tennis stars transform pickleball’s future. The recent pairing of eight-time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi with 18-year-old phenom Anna Leigh Waters at…
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