Third Shot Drop

Pickleball Points: Third Shot Drop Shot into the kitchen spot Some players tell me they feel they are caught in limbo, unable to advance to that next level. I believe I have an answer.  I think we have failed you in teaching the Third Shot Drop. I have written multiple articles on how to hit …

Pickleball and SCORING

Pickleball Points: A Pickle of a Score Recently many people have been introduced to pickleball, and more will soon follow.  You invariably will hear that pickleball scoring is very difficult, and a gentleman at a pickleball clinic recently suggested to me that pickleball should have made scoring more simple like tennis.  I looked at him …

Wimbledon – Behind the scenes…

Behind the Scenes of Wimbledon For two weeks in 2019, July 1 to 14, the world will be watching ‘The Championships, Wimbledon’ from their homes, taverns, tennis clubs, and airports. Most certainly, Sea Colony will have it dialed in at their national award-winning tennis center. Although I do not have recent statistics, a billion television …

The Baron talks Pickleball to hard core tennis crowd

I spoke on a tennis podcast with Gary Plock, a former top tennis player until he blew out his arm some years ago. He is a tennis player's tennis player. We did several tennis podcasts, 62 & 67, earlier this month. He has over seventy podcasts about the period of the tennis boom. No surprise …

We don’t get no respect

I did a very successful double negative once. Tennis was exploding. I had just been with Wilson Sporting for a few months, and imprinted “Wilson, we’re not number one for nothing” on several thousand tee shirts and handed them out to all the top junior tennis players in the country. The kids loved it. English …

Pickleball Points: It’s Tournament Day, Let’s Play

I thought some of you folks might like to learn a little more about pickleball tournaments.  The weather is finally cooperating along the Delaware and Maryland beaches, and the winds have subsided somewhat.  Pickleball is in the air.   Many of the active pickleballers in our area were participating last week in an indoor tournament …

Proud of the Captains of the Coastal Communities Pickleball League

There are so many of you, I gave you a group shout out in my first column this year. Pickleball Points: Proud of our Coastal Point Pickleball Worthies of 2018 Last year, we nominated the top five persons as the 2017 Coastal Point Worthies who we felt had done the most to advance Pickleball in …

Peace Through Pickleball

Last year I submitted the following article and it appeared I was being opportunistic and it was not published. I had actually been working on it for some time so it was just a coincidence that I submitted it the week before all the news about North Korea. Now all of the noise has dimmed, …

Happy Pickleball New Year

Thursday, December 27, 2018 - 1:06pm Depending on when you read Coastal Point this week, the year 2019 is about to occur or has already stepped onto center stage. It’s time to plan your new pickleball year with gusto, but you won’t be the only ones. America loves to physically work out in January, at …

Santa’s Elves Play Pickleball

It is that magic time of the year, 75 and counting for me.  I always find my body weight increasing this time of year, and remind myself that I will seriously turn it up a notch in the gym after New Years...and unfortunately I do that just before I have another piece of cake or …