Pickleball Power Up: Recover Like a Champ & Master Communication

How To Recover After A Pickleball Match

May 02, 2024

Inside this issue: Stay on top of your game and discover recovery secrets for peak performance and longevity on the court while elevating your communication skills with essential hand signals & verbal tactics. Let’s Go!

How To Recover After A Pickleball Match

 How To Recover After A Pickleball Match

If you’re playing pickleball regularly, you need a recovery routine to help you stay healthy and perform at your best. We’ve put together our best tips for rehydrating, refueling, and recovering after a match, including a few products that will help you stay healthy all year. Read More

Improve Your Pickleball Communication

How to Improve Communication in Pickleball

How much time do you spend working on pickleball communication? It’s easy to prioritize practicing dinks and third shot drops, but communication is an equally important part of the game. It’s time to talk about pickleball communication. We’re here to help! We’ve pulled together some tips about hand signals, verbal communication, and improving on-court communication instantly.  Read More

Rick Cipes cartoon

We wanted to introduce our new humor contributor Rick Cipes. Rick has written for over 50 publications including Pickleball Magazine, the L.A. Times, and ESPN Magazine. Rick is also the host of the Bite Size Pickleball podcast, newsletter and Facebook group, all which you can access at bitesizepickleball.com

Rick Cipes cartoon

Picks of the week

Babolat WZRD $219.00

Created for the player who relies more on defense and control rather than raw power from the paddle itself. At the heart of the WZRD's well executed design is a 20mm Polypropylene Core, which increases dwell time by cradling the impact of the ball, giving players a chance to use more of their own power along with adding disguise to their offensive and defensive strategies.

Babolat STRKR $219.00

Although this paddle leans towards easy power from any part of the court, don't be fooled into thinking the STRKR + is a one-trick power paddle. Designed to keep opponents on the right end of the shot leash, the STRKR+ also dispenses plenty of feel for finesse shots, absorbing pace and critical directional changes of the ball. 

Babolat BALLR $219.00

Manageable power and top notch stability is on tap via the BALLR+'s average 8.3 oz. weight. Complementing that power with precision is a 16mm polymer core, which affords free swinging confidence from the baseline along with a Charmin soft feel for absorbing pace, and changing the direction of dinks, blocks, re-sets and third shots.