Broken Pickleballs: From Trash to Trophies

Published: Sun, 06/23/24

I'm getting on in years and am dealing with some back and hip pain as a result of my burn the boats approach to playing pickleball.

What I should do is learn to pace myself and go home a game or two earlier than I do.

A good close second to that is regularly stretching out my hips and back.

If you're not stretching or warming up before you play, you should give it a try. Your body will thank you.

What Do You Do with Broken Pickleballs?

If you hit as hard as we do (brag) you end up cracking a lot of pickleballs. That's a lot of waste over the course of a year.

This redditor came up with a fun way upcycle at least a few of these broken balls into tournament trophies. The feedback is typically... reddit. A little cynical mixed with some really

How do you reuse cracked pickleballs?

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Draws announced for Select Medical Orange County Cup - ALW, Federico Staksrud, Ben Johns, Lea Jensen and more lace up for what's sure to be a hectic tournament starting Monday, June 24. Here's where you can watch the action.

Drills, Baby, Drills

5 Drills to Do at Home (and drive your family crazy)

Austin from Pickleball Playbook breezes through 5 simple drills to do at home to improve your touch and control (and pass some time doing it).

Production Update

We're creating the types of paddles and apparel we want to use and wear. This section is where we build in public so you can see what it takes to bring a paddle to market.

We're still deep in the visual design phase on some of our paddles. The latest round of back and forths is around color-matching for the some of the more ornamental paddles.

On the left is the desired artwork, and on the right is one of the recent test prints.

Throughout the process, we've found that everything is a tradeoff. For the actual product design, it's mostly been focused on play quality, and the tradeoff has been that it's taken a year this July since our first prototype.

On the design size the tradeoff I'm currently balancing is do I actually need the paddle to look exactly the way I designed it, or can I use the constraints I'm finding to make something that looks different, but just as cool.

Daily Mantra

I love pickleball too much to destroy my body playing pickleball.

It's all fun and games.

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