You’ve felt it both ways. Some partners you click with by the second game — covering for each other, calling the middle, laughing off the misses. Others, you spend the whole session a half-step out of sync and can’t explain why. We tend to chalk it up to luck — we just have chemistry, or […]
Major League Pickleball is heading to San Diego this week as the regular season gets into the home stretch. There are three events remaining before the playoffs, so teams have a limited number of opportunities to improve their playoff seeding or get inside the playoff bubble (the Top 12 teams will make the postseason). There […]
When Mady Wolfe started playing pickleball competitively, she noticed that a lot of players – herself included – weren’t fully prepared from a nutrition standpoint for the long and often hot days that are common in the sport. That led to playing great one match and being off her game the next – a frustrating […]
I’ve been thinking lately about the correlation between our love of pickleball and the despair it can sometimes bring. On the one hand, we are smitten by the sport: Pickleball is a highlight of our lives that brings us joy. At the same time, however: Whether it’s you personally or someone you know, we each […]
The St. Louis Shock have been the most dominant team in Major League Pickleball for the past several weeks. They haven’t lost since May 31 and have been sweeping teams more often than not as of late, but were still No. 2 in the points standings heading into the Mid-Season Tournament this week. With all […]
One of the biggest mistakes pickleball players make is assuming they need an expensive paddle in order to play good pickleball. These days, that simply isn’t the case, as there are plenty of great paddles that are closer to $100 than $200. In this video, we break down our current Top 5 paddles that come […]
In this episode of Pickleballers, Dave Fleming sits down with co-hosts Roscoe Bellamy and Jared Paul to trace his winding path to the pickleball mic — from calling high school sports in Memphis to ball boying and interviewing tennis legends as a teenager, and finally becoming the defining voice of the sport’s biggest broadcasts. Dave […]
We’ll start this article by stating the obvious: To enjoy pickleball, you need your body. The better your body can move, the better you’ll play. And the more “in shape” your body is, the less likely you are to injure yourself playing pickleball. Now the not-so-obvious: “Nutritious movement” is critical to your body’s health. The […]
The Major League Pickleball Mid-Season Tournament starts Wednesday at Belknap Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which has hosted the event alongside the annual Beer City Open for the past 3 years. It’s the only event on the schedule this season that features all 20 MLP teams, as well as four additional teams in the bracket: […]
Paddletek on Tuesday announced a major acquisition of paddle brand PIKKL, as well as the signing of pro players JW Johnson, Jorja Johnson, Julie Johnson and Tyra Black. It’s the second time in the past 8 months that Paddletek has brought another paddle brand under the Paddletek Group umbrella — in December they acquired ProXR […]
