A little while ago I was doing some pickleball drilling with a friend of mine.  They wanted to work on their soft shots, especially dinking, given their goal to take their 4.0 assessment in a few months.  They also mentioned that they had been dealing with back pain and sciatica for quite a few months now, which caused some issues during pickleball. With dinking, one big issue became quickly apparent.  When a return was made more than a foot out of their range, they would eit

The other day a player came up to me to mention that he had been dealing with a bad case of tennis elbow.  The pain is worse in general when playing, but especially when doing backhand blocks. After explaining his symptoms, he proceeds to show me how he moves his arm to block a shot to his backhand.  He demonstrates getting into a wider, stable stance with his knees bent - great!  His forearm comes in towards his chest in anticipation for the ball, movement generated by the s

Recently I had a pickleball player reach out to me from another state, asking if they could have me do some video review of their game to...

The other day I offered to do a little practicing with another pickleball player since I had some spare time.  The player said he really...