Hey Pickleballers,
Take Care of Yourselves
First thing for this newsletter is a PSA: Take Care of Yourselves!
I heard a couple people got injured recently while playing pickleball at the YMCA. There have also been at least 4 pro pickleball players who've had significant injuries in the past month.
Be careful out there because, as the saying goes, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". Please watch this video from PimeTime Pickleball to learn 3 key things you can do to drastically minimize injuries and live a long and happy pickleball life.
Recent Blog Posts
Check out the News & Events section of the CatawbaPickleball.club website for these recent posts:
- 3-Minute Warmup Basics
- How to Warm Up and Upgrade Your Strength and Conditioning
- How to Immediately Improve at Pickleball with this Powerful Mindset
- Better Way to Get to the Kitchen
Pro Pickleball Action
Watching pro pickleball is very entertaining and a great way to learn the game. There are so many different styles of play and dynamic personalities, like Tyson McGuffin who was dubbed Most Electrifying Man in Sports by Barstool Sports. The individual disciplines also have different things to offer, like raw athleticism in singles and very fast-passed games in Women's doubles.
More and more events are getting televised on CBS Sports, ESPN, and Amazon Prime Video, but my favorite way to watch is on YouTube. The PPA YouTube channel live streams almost all of the games on the "Championship" (primary) court and "Grandstand" (secondary) court so you can watch games in progress and jump back to previous games. They also put out individual matches as separate videos to watch at your leisure starting a day or two after the event.
> Pro Tip: Use the fast-forward feature of YouTube to quickly get through commercials/timeouts. This feature allows you to go forward 15 seconds by double-tapping the right side of the video. You can also change that setting to go forward 5 or 10 seconds per double-click.
Take Care,
Mike Drum
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