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Nine Rule Changes Pro Pickleball Needs
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Sports are constantly changing. I mean,
just look at Major League Baseball with
the torpedo bats. I think that pro
pickle ball is in need of several
different changes. Now, I've been
playing pickle ball since 2013, and I've
seen the game change from a sport for
old people to the pro sport that it is
today, and we should not be done
changing. I have plenty suggestions of
what the sport should look like when it
inevitably becomes a collegiate and an
Olympic sport. Some suggestions are
easy, lowhanging fruit, while others are
far more high in the sky, hypothetical.
I'm going to start with some of the
simple and practical and then move
towards the more theoretical. And I want
you to stick around until the end to
hear my wildest theories on this sport.
So anyway, first we're going to assume
that I can snap my fingers and these
changes are going to be made. There are
plenty of practical and administrative
issues with some of these ideas. But for
the sake of conversation, we're going to
pretend like I have a magic wand and
I've got the power to just make these
things happen. So, let's start. First
off, I'm getting rid of the let rule.
Tennis got rid of the let rule in
college and honestly, they should
probably get rid of it in the pro game
as well. I don't think that it adds a
thing to the sport of tennis. I
definitely don't think it adds a thing
to the sport of pickle ball. USA pickle
ball already got rid of it as well. I
don't even know what the argument for
keeping lets in the sport is. So, if
anybody has a justification for
reserving when the ball hits the tape,
please let me know. Like legitimately, I
want to hear the counterargument.
Anyway, next up, side switching. Wind,
as we all know, is super impactful in
pickle ball. In certain wind or even
lighting conditions, matches can be
decided by who gets to end the match on
the good side, and that's not what we
want. At the pro level, teams choose to
start the match on the bad side so that
if they end up going to game three, they
play the second half of that game from
the good side, and they theoretically
play more points. On the men's side,
playing against the wind is advantageous
because it allows players to hit their
drives and their attacks slightly harder
with the wind keeping them in and
dipping the ball down. On the women's
side, with playing with the wind tends
to be slightly advantageous since
players stand off of the kitchen line, a
little bit of wind pushes the ball
towards the opponents and enhances the
power in the hands battles. In the case
of a crosswind, you want the wind to
blow the ball towards your stronger
player. Generally, that's going to be
the left side, especially in in mixed,
but that's generally true in in men's
and women's as well. So, all that being
said, we should try to lessen the impact
that win has on the outcome of matches.
Instead of only switching at six in game
three, why don't we switch halfway
through games one and two as well?
Ideally, pickle ball ends up like tennis
where we switch sides every
predetermined number of rallies, not at
arbitrary numbers of points, but
switching each game seems like a simple
solution in the meantime. Cheating. I
made a whole video on pickle ball's
cheating problem, and I'll put the link
in the description, but essentially, we
can't stop cheating given the current
technology and the current budgetary
restraints. But we can deter it through
escalating penalties, fines, and
suspensions for chronic cheaters. If I
was commissioner, curtailing cheating
would be one of my top priorities to
make the game more professional.
Paddles. Paddle regulation is proving to
be one of Pitball's most difficult
problems to solve, which is why there's
a new paddle scandal seemingly like
every single week. If I was
commissioner, I would try to reduce the
power in the professional game and
increase the spin. What's the best part
of pickle ball anyways? In my opinion,
and I think that this is an opinion
that's widely shared by most pickle ball
players, it's the elongated hands
battles. Right now, attacks and
counterattacks are so effective that we
don't seem to be having quite as many of
these elongated hands battles. I mean,
look at this clip from a couple of years
ago. If we reduce the power, I think
we're going to get more of these
elongated hands battles. We can also
incentivize more speedups by enhancing
the spin on the paddles. Spin can help
keep speed-ups in the court. And in my
opinion, we want more speedups. And when
the ball is sped up, we want the hands
battles to be longer. Again, I think we
accomplish this by reducing power and
increasing spin. All right, we're
getting a little bit more controversial
now. Timeouts, getting rid of them. I
think it's lame to be able to
artificially stop somebody's momentum. I
know what you're thinking. Timeouts are
a staple in plenty of other sports, but
these sports like basketball and
football actually have a clock. Pickle
ball and tennis don't have a clock. I
think that momentum swings are
interesting for fans, and I dislike
teams being able to stop momentum
artificially through a timeout. At the
very least, we should only have one
timeout per game at the pro level. As my
Wisconsin friends would say, let's keep
her moving. Hinder rule gone. There's
always so much confusion with it.
Anyways, there are so many times where a
player yells, "Come on," during the
middle of a point, and I see this called
as a hinder sometimes. I see the referee
tell them that it's not a hinder other
times. Nobody knows what the rule is.
And it's enforced very, very differently
all the time. Also, what even is partner
communication? And what is a hinder?
Having played pro pickle ball for 5
years, your guess is as good as mine.
Basketball players and football players
are talking to each other and trying to
distract each other all the time. It is
just part of their game. Let's let the
pickle ballers talk some midpoint. And
now with that being said, we got to mic
them up, too. Wouldn't you be interested
to know what Ben and Gabe are saying to
each other on the court? Or Anna Lee and
Catherine before they broke up? Or what
about the Hayden Patrick Quinn is
definitely talking. All right, we're
going to let the players talk. And same
with the fans. We want them to be rowdy.
Let them be loud. It'll be more
entertaining. And also from a playing
perspective, a constant roar is
something that players can get used to.
Right now, it's only distracting when
somebody yells during the middle of a
quiet point. If there's a constant roar,
it'll be a more interesting fan
experience and it'll create a better
atmosphere. And actually, I think
players are going to get less distracted
to be quite honest. Okay, so now is
where we start to get a little bit more
out there. We changed the dreamer in
Major League Pickleball. I know we love
the Dream Breaker, but currently each
player plays four points before the next
player comes in. The Dream Breaker is
played at 21 and win by two. Dream
Breakers are already electric, but I
think they could be even more electric
if the first player from the away team
only plays two points and the first
player from the home team plays four.
After that, it's 444. Everybody plays
four. This would naturally stagger
players and it would also guarantee at
least two male versus female matchups.
This was actually suggested by my buddy
Joe Slo from Pro XR, so I think it's got
to be referred to as the Sazzlo Super
Dream Breaker. Next up, I'm all about
weaponizing the serves, but we got to go
to drop serve only. I hate uninforcable
rules. We've had so much controversy
over illegal serves for years, and it's
another problem that just isn't going to
go away. USAP now allows drop serves in
competition, and there are two main
complaints with the drop serve. First, I
hear all the time that players can hit
wicked spin serves with them. Yes, you
can hit a solid slice serve out wide
with a drop serve, but as somebody that
knows a lot about spin serves, anything
you can do with the drop serve, you can
also currently do with the out of the
air serve. There is no spin advantage
with the drop serve. Zero. The second
argument against the drop serve is that
it looks dumb on TV, guys. We play
pickle ball, right? We already serve
underhand, so how dumb could it really
be? Padell uses the drop serve, and I
don't think it looks dumb there. And
I don't think that the drop serve looks
dumb or would diminish the effectiveness
of the serve, and it would be completely
enforcable unlike the current serve
rules. But this is a controversial
topic. Let me know what you think. Major
League Pickball substitutes. We have six
players on a team now. It feels strange
to me that we still can't sub them in
and out. If I'm playing like men's
doubles, let's let the other guy get in
there. All right, that's it for now. I
think those are all relatively
implementable. I have two more takes,
but I think they deserve a much deeper
dive. So, make sure to subscribe to the
channel because I'm going to explain why
pickle ball should widen the net posts
on the court and why pickle ball should
implement a quadruple bounce rule in
singles. So, let me know what you agree
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