Seven years ago, Travis Kruse and his father started TrackitHub to help Pickleball clubs and players. While Travis spent the first two years traveling around the country in a fifth wheel promoting the offering, it is now the number one Pickleball management platform, helping clubs and players manage events and connect with each other. If you are tired of using a spreadsheet, this episode is for you. 

 A lot has happened in the six months since I interviewed Shea Underwood.  Hear how his journey is going on the way to becoming a professional Pickleball player and get some great tips on how to master the one-handed spin serve. 

One thing I never thought I would talk about on a Pickleball podcast is murder. But Jeff Rasley author of the novel A Pickleball Soap Opera: Love, Murder, and Pickleball is my guest today.  There is a lot of intrigue both in the interview and novel so let's hear from Jeff. 

I love to interview Pickleball players with different athletic backgrounds.  Kim Jagd, who played professional beach volleyball and coached at UCLA, talks about the parallels she sees between professional Pickelball and beach volleyball.  She also goes deep on the importance of video analysis to your Pickleball game.

Sometimes it is really hard not to talk about tennis during g a Pickleball podcast episode.  But that is because so many of the professionals have a tennis background.  Nathalie Bagby does too, but what is interesting in the podcast is she lists so many differences between the two sports. 

I can tell Nicole Havlicek of Primetime Pickleball does a great deal of on-court teaching and instruction through her online Dominating Doubles Course. She goes in-depth on a few myths of Pickleball which you often hear from others when giving you Pickleball advice.

Senior professional Anna Shirley was just a couple of months away from the USA Nationals when she experienced a freak injury. In this episode, we talk about how she went through some tough times and what she did to prepare for the Nationals despite the injury.  

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is the APP Nextgen Tour, and what Hercilio learned from it
• What he is doing to promote Pickleball in Peru
• Who is playing Pickleball in Peru, and how the government is helping the game grow
• What Hercilio does when he does not get the results he expects when playing a sport
• How another fitness activity helps his Pickleball game

This show is a bit shorter than usual, but it is well worth a listen as I talk with John Lee Dumas about starting a Pickleball business. John has not only been an entrepreneur for the last ten years, but he is also a Pickleball player.

Jay Devilliers burst onto the Pickleball scene just a couple of years ago, and now he is one of the top professionals. In this episode, we talk about professionalism in Pickleball and what it will take to bring the sport to the next level.