Ben Johns recently posted a video demonstrating how he customizes his JOOLA pickleball paddle. It’s getting a lot of attention in the pickleball community, so we wanted to break it down and explain the benefits of Johns’ setup. For starters, he uses the new JOOLA Perseus Pro IV 16mm paddle. (For more on the new […]
The all-new DAPS Pickleball shoes have been used by several pros and a handful of play testers for the past several months, but after launching last week to the general public, you can expect to see them on pickleball courts across the country soon enough. I have been wearing my DAPS exclusively since early February, […]
When brothers Rich Goldstein and Dave Goldstein started playing pickleball a few years ago, they tried a bunch of different shoes from a handful of big brands in the sport. Whether they were tennis shoes or shoes marketed for pickleball, they couldn’t find anything that hit the sweet spot between performance, comfort and style. As […]
Major League Pickleball Phoenix wrapped up Sunday in the desert, and the fourth event of the season gave us a good chance to see several teams who figure to be fighting for the last couple playoff spots at the end of the season. It also gave us a larger sample size to look at for […]
Multiple billboards featuring Anna Leigh Waters — the No. 1 women’s pickleball player in the world — have started popping up in New York City recently, including one in Times Square that Waters and her family saw for the first time in person this week. Waters has been the face of the PPA Tour and Major […]
Pro player Quang Duong has been fined $50,000 and suspended for one PPA Tour event and four Major League Pickleball matches after participating in an event in Vietnam last weekend that was not sanctioned by the PPA Tour. The United Pickleball Association (the governing body of the PPA Tour and MLP) announced the punishment Wednesday […]
Major League Pickleball is returning to Phoenix this weekend for the league’s fourth event of the season. It will feature 7 Premier Level teams, with each team playing 6 matches from Thursday-Sunday at Arizona Athletic Grounds, which is one of the largest pickleball facilities in the country. There are no Challenger Level teams playing this […]
In addition to the two new Hype X and Hype X Pro pickleball paddles released this month, ONIX has several other options at various price points, ensuring that every type of player can find something that fits their game from one of the most trusted brands in the sport. Our play testers have spent hours […]
When Jay Simmons joined Escalade Sports (the parent company of ONIX Pickleball) in 2019, ONIX was one of only a handful of major brands in the sport. It was still early on in terms of pickleball’s explosion in popularity in the U.S., but Simmons – the brand’s Senior Product Manager – could see the incredible […]
The whole staff from The Kitchen was on-site this weekend in Austin for the third event of the 2025 Major League Pickleball season. We saw some epic matches, cheered on our Challenger Level team — the Nashville Chefs — and caught up with several players who were in town for the event. A few of them […]
