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The 12 Best Shoes for Pickleball, According to Pros and Podiatrists
There’s a good reason pickleball has become very popular over the years: It’s easy to learn, fun for both serious athletes and social players alike, and requires low investment to get started. Whether ...
Skill Acquisition
You will learn how your brain actually builds a skill — the neuroscience of myelin, neural pathways, and why the state you are in when you practice determines how fast and how permanently your learning takes hold. You will discover why visualization in a deeply relaxed and focused state is not a supplement to court practice — it is practice, neurologically equivalent to hitting the ball, and in some ways more powerful because there are no errors, no frustration, and no interruption to the encodi
Finding Your Rhythm
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Finding Your Rhythm — The Most Reliable Tool You Own
Every player has experienced it — the moment the game starts moving too fast, your footwork gets choppy, your decisions get hasty, and you feel like you are chasing instead of playing. That is not a skill problem. That is a rhythm problem.
This session teaches you to establish and maintain your own internal tempo on the court, independent of your opponent's pace, the score, or the pressure of the moment. You will learn why your breath is the most powerful on-court tool you already own, how to synchronize your movement, your breath, and your shot timing into one connected flow, and what it actually feels like to play inside your own rhythm rather than someone else's.
The best players in the game are not reacting faster than everyone else. They are simply staying in their own time. This session shows you how to do the same.
Use it as a standalone practice session, during your recovery days, or any time your game feels forced and you need to find your way back to free.
Rhythm over force. That is your new performance driver.
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Resilience and The Comeback Mind
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Resilience — The Comeback Mind
Every player who has ever gotten significantly better at this game has been through a moment that tested them. A tough loss that landed deeper than disappointment. A rating drop that stung more than expected. A stretch of play where nothing seemed to be working and the game that usually brings joy started feeling heavy. A tournament that left you questioning things you thought you had already figured out.
This session is for those moments.
Resilience is not a personality trait you either have or don't have. It is a trainable neurological skill, the ability to process a setback completely, release the emotional charge it carries, rebuild your belief in yourself as a player, and return to the court with something that was not there before the difficulty arrived. Because the players who develop the deepest resilience are almost always the ones who were tested the hardest. Not despite the difficulty, but because of it.
In this session you will learn to distinguish between a bad result and a bad player, reframe a rating drop or losing stretch as information rather than identity, and use a proven process for draining the emotional charge from a difficult loss so it stops living in your body and starts living where it belongs, in the past, as a lesson.
At the center of this session is a decision. Not a feeling, not a hope, but a conscious decision about what your setback means and what it does not mean. That decision is where resilience actually lives. And it is always available to you.
The joy of this game is not lost. It is waiting for you on the other side of this session.
Feel it. Process it. Decide. That is the comeback mind.
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Your donation helps us in our mission to share the joy and benefits of pickleball for everyone and every community!
Thames Park: No new pool but pickleball and spray pad coming in revamp
Though Old South residents are still smarting over the imminent loss of the Thames Park outdoor pool, many say they're happy to see a series of upgrades coming to the park this summer.
Albuquerque doctor hosts charity pickleball tournament for healthcare in Dominica
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A local cancer physician is bringing the Duke City pickleball community together to support ...
Dynamic Warm-Ups Over Static Stretching: What Players Should Know Before Pickleball Matches
Experts explain how the right warm-up routine, including dynamic stretching and activation, can improve performance, while ...
Pickleball Docuseries ‘Partners’ Set to Give Fans an Inside Look at PPA Tour
The upcoming docuseries Partners follows PPA Tour players on and off the court, offering behind-the-scenes access, personal stories, and a fresh look at professional pickleball’s growing global appeal., Pickleball, Times Now
2026 US Open Pickleball Championships gets underway in East Naples
Close to 4,000 players of all ages and levels will compete at the 2026 US Open Pickleball Championships, which is set for April 11-18.
US Open Pickleball Championships include some of sport's top stars
Some of the world's top professional players, along with thousands of amateurs, will be competing at the U.S. Open Pickleball ...
Pickleball Reality Series Served Up By Shutterstock Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Pickleball is getting its moment in the sun with a new reality series going behind the scenes of its professional ...
The Reset Protocol
What separates the players who compete consistently from the ones who ride the emotional waves of a match is not talent — it is the ability to return to neutral between points, every point, regardless of what just happened. This session trains the most undervalued skill in pickleball. You will learn to recognize what carrying a point forward actually feels like in your body, why emotional residue moves in both directions — after a mistake and after a brilliant winner — and how to release both co
From Indian Open to IPBL: IPA Rolls Out Packed 2026 Pickleball Season
The IPA has unveiled its extensive 2026 calendar. The season kicked off with the Indian Open in Hyderabad. The season will conclude with the second season of the Indian Pickleball League in December. , Pickleball, Times Now
Vacant South San Jose Big Box To Become 11-Court Pickleball Palace
According to Ace Pickleball Club, San Jose members will have access to unlimited open play, court reservations, social mixers ...
Construction Begins on Leesburg Pickleball Complex
The Town of Leesburg today celebrated the groundbreaking for its new pickleball complex, which will be located at Freedom Park along Evergreen Mill Road.
Elgin News Digest: Pickleball clinics at Rakow Center; Elgin tree bank planting program
Pickleball clinics for beginners will run from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and for advanced beginners from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Mondays ...
Pickleball company taps long-empty San Jose retail site for expansion
A fast-expanding pickleball company has chosen a long-empty retail site in south San Jose for a big new hub for the sport and other activities in a fresh sign that older commercial sites can be repurposed.
New pickleball courts open in Lee’s Summit. More fun projects are on the way
Additional Lee’s Summit projects on the horizon include a new trail connecting Eagle Creek Park to Red Hawk Park and then Red ...
EXPLAINED: Why the Lob Serve is Becoming a Game-Changer in Pickleball - Insights from Collin Johns
Professional pickleball player Collin Johns explains how the lob serve, by altering trajectory and pace, can disrupt rhythm, force errors, and trouble opponents who rely heavily on speed and spin., Pickleball, Times Now
How to Use Bulk Email in CourtReserve | Design, Schedule & Send Emails to Members
In this tutorial, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about the Bulk Email feature in CourtReserve — from setting up permissions and selecting recipients, to designing your email, scheduling sends, and reviewing performance metrics.
What you'll learn:
✅ How to grant Sub-Admin access to Bulk Email
✅ How to create an email and select the right recipients
✅ How to set up the From Name and Reply-To fields
✅ How to write a subject line and design your email content
✅ How to use rows, content blocks, images, and buttons in the email builder
✅ How to save a draft, send a test email, and schedule for later
✅ How to view sent email stats — open rates, click rates, and bounce rates
✅ How to manage scheduled emails, reschedule, or cancel a send
✅ How to save and reuse email templates for future campaigns
Whether you're sending a monthly newsletter, a membership announcement, or a targeted message to a specific group — Bulk Email gives you everything you need to reach the right people at the right time.
🔗 Related Resources:
• CourtReserve Help Center: https://help.courtreserve.com
• Sub-Admin Permissions Guide: [link]
• Overview: CourtReserve Additional Features: [link]
Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
0:30 – Sub-Admin Permissions
1:15 – Creating an Email
1:45 – Step 1: Selecting Recipients
2:30 – Step 2: From Name & Reply-To
3:00 – Step 3: Subject Line
3:20 – Step 4: Designing Email Content
4:30 – Saving as Draft & Sending a Test
5:00 – Scheduling & Sending
5:30 – Sent Email Stats & Analytics
6:15 – Managing Scheduled Emails
7:00 – Using Templates
7:30 – Recap & Wrap-Up
CourtReserve is the all-in-one court management platform for tennis, pickleball, and racquet sport facilities.