Pickleball Education

The Unwritten Rules of Pickleball All sports have a certain basic courtesy or decorum expected by its players which are not explicitly stated in the official rulebook. In the NBA, one unique unwritten rule is not wearing the signature shoe of an opponent. While not required, golfers should remove their ball out of the hole before someone else putts and in baseball, players should...

In the latest installment of “10 Pickleball Rules for Beginners,” professional pickleball official Maddie Toren explains the rules surrounding the “around-the-post” shot.  As the name suggests, an around-the-post shot — more commonly known as an ATP — is a specialty shot where a player hits the pickleball around (rather than over) the net post and into the opponent’s court.  What is an around-the-post shot...

By Mati Bishop When most of us were kids, we didn't get in trouble for visualizing in class, we got in trouble for daydreaming. Times have changed and nowadays visualization has become a valuable tool in the high level athletes arsenal of ways to develop their talent. In 1996 a University of Chicago study took three groups of basketball players and gave them each...