When are you ready to sign up for your first pickleball tournament?
If you can keep score and know where to stand, then it’s time. Don’t wait! Think of it like having kids: if everyone waited until they thought they were ready to have kids, then there would be no kids, and therefore no one to easily beat me at Call of Duty. I’m talking to you RacoonDude2011, if that is your real name!
The key is having a versatile perspective on tournaments. Playing a tournament can be to scratch your competitive itch, to prove yourself against a jury of your peers, motivation to get in shape, or simply because your wife told you to. The most important perspective for long-term development, however, is...