The best pickleball-themed New Year's resolutions from The Kitchen community
Last Edited
Jan 01 2025
Category
Community
We asked last week in our newsletter and on our Facebook Group what pickleball-themed New Year's resolutions our readers had, and boy did they deliver.
Submissions included everything from health and fitness related goals to specific skills readers would like to improve this year.
We've picked the top resolutions and broken them down by category below. There are several on this list that we should all be try to incorporate into our games in 2025. Happy New Year from The Kitchen team!
Health and fitness
Get injury healed and get back out there.
Develop stronger legs.
Balance gym time with pickleball.
Don't overdo it ... play to play another day.
Stretch more, before and after.
Drink less, dink more.
For the love of the game
Play more (this was our most common submission!)
Don't chuck any paddles into or over the fence.
Improve DUPR rating.
Play in a league.
Don't get beat by the Granny Annie Tandem.
Keep my mouth shut and don't call kitchen violations or serve position violations.
Find cooler people to play with. (LOL)
Play more tournaments and take a pickleball destination vacation.
Play to win and lose with a smile. (AKA don't be this guy)
Play my first tournament(s).
Convince the city to build pickleball courts in town.
Drill more. Take lessons. Get better.
Be a better partner and I'm not referring to skill!
Skills
Dinking, dinking and more dinking.
Finally nail my flicks and rolls constantly.
Improve Ernes, ATPs and counters.
Let out balls go out.
Don't attempt any cute drop shots when I could be hitting an overhead with my opponent at the baseline.
More Nasty Nelsons.
Be more aggressive at the net.
Placement over power.
Fewer unforced errors.
Improve backhand cross court dink.
Drop more, drive less.
Develop a two-handed backhand.
More drops, more resets, more purposeful dinks and more consistent depth on serves and returns.
Cut down stupid/lazy mistakes.
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