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Pickleball Self-Assessment Results: 4 Weeks To Your Next Level
This is the third blog in a series helping you to self assess your pickleball game strengths and areas for growth.  If you missed the previous two blogs start here:…
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Pickleball Self-Assessment Results: Your Roadmap to the Next Level
This roadmap is about moving away from the “tip of the week” and toward intentionality. Now that you’ve used our Pickleball Assessment: Which Pillar is Your Strength to pull back…
Mental Game
Raise Your Pickleball Level With Better Shot Selection
It’s easy to get lost in the sea of pickleball content. You see a pro hit a logic-defying around-the-post (ATP) or a 100-mph speed-up, and you think, “I need that…
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Pickleball Self-Assessment: Which Pillar Is Your Strength?
This assessment helps you identify which pillar: mechanical, strategic or athletic you rely on most right now. Every strong pickleball player needs all three pillars. This quiz reveals where your…
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Is Open Play Quietly Holding You Back? The 2 Minute Quiz of Your Pickleball Progress
Are you hitting a plateau on the pickleball court? You show up for open play, hit some great shots, but feel like your game isn’t actually evolving.  To achieve pickleball…
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How to be Everyone’s Favorite Pickleball Partner
You’ve shown up at the courts, paddle in hand, ready to play — and you’re paired with someone you’ve never met. Maybe it’s open play, maybe a new league, maybe…
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Players Just Like You are Thriving Thanks to the Pickleball System
Unlock Your Best Pickleball Game with The Pickleball System Before diving into The Pickleball System, let’s talk about you… You love pickleball, but frustration and a lack of confidence are…
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March Bootcamp: Solve Your Top Three Problems And Improve Your Pickleball Game
Pickleball Improvement: How to Stay Consistent and Stop Missing Shots You Know You Should Make Have you ever wondered what is keeping you back from improving your pickleball game? You’re…
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The Future of Pickleball Open Play: How Pickleheads is Changing the Game
Connect With Players, Find Courts and Optimize Your Open Play If you’ve played pickleball for any length of time, you’ve probably run into the challenges of open play. Whether it’s…
Injury Prevention
Active Recovery: The Secret to Improving Your Pickleball Performance
The Secret to Improving Performance and Limiting Injuries on the Pickleball Court How do you feel these days after playing pickleball?  Are you energized or exhausted?  What about the next…
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Pickleball Footwork: This Ain’t Sexy Pickleball, But It Wins Games
Mastering Pickleball Footwork: A Guide to Better Movement and Winning Games What’s sexy in pickleball? For many players, it’s hitting an Erne or an ATP (around the post). Those shots…
Rally Scoring Strategy for Pickleball Players explained
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Rally Scoring Strategy: A Guide to Winning
How Does Rally Scoring Affect Our Play? Specifically our strategy. Rally scoring is here. Whether it will become the dominant scoring approach is yet to be seen. Rally scoring is…
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8 Strategies to Excel at Rally Scoring
Want to Excel Using Rally Scoring?  Here are the 8 Strategies you need. 1. Using Scoring Shorthand in Rally Scoring Rally scoring presents a twist on how we think about…
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7 Reasons to Adopt Rally Scoring
Have you tried rally scoring?  If not yet, here are the top 7 reasons for using rally scoring. Rally scoring, where points can be won by either side regardless of…
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Traditional Scoring vs. Rally Scoring
Pickleball Scoring Systems: Traditional Scoring  v Rally Scoring Pickleball games are typically played to 11 points, with players or teams needing to win by at least 2 points. Some tournaments…