0:02 Sports are constantly changing. I mean,
0:03 just look at Major League Baseball with
0:05 the torpedo bats. I think that pro
0:07 pickle ball is in need of several
0:09 different changes. Now, I've been
0:11 playing pickle ball since 2013, and I've
0:13 seen the game change from a sport for
0:15 old people to the pro sport that it is
0:17 today, and we should not be done
0:19 changing. I have plenty suggestions of
0:21 what the sport should look like when it
0:23 inevitably becomes a collegiate and an
0:26 Olympic sport. Some suggestions are
0:28 easy, lowhanging fruit, while others are
0:31 far more high in the sky, hypothetical.
0:32 I'm going to start with some of the
0:34 simple and practical and then move
0:36 towards the more theoretical. And I want
0:37 you to stick around until the end to
0:39 hear my wildest theories on this sport.
0:42 So anyway, first we're going to assume
0:43 that I can snap my fingers and these
0:45 changes are going to be made. There are
0:47 plenty of practical and administrative
0:49 issues with some of these ideas. But for
0:51 the sake of conversation, we're going to
0:53 pretend like I have a magic wand and
0:55 I've got the power to just make these
0:58 things happen. So, let's start. First
1:00 off, I'm getting rid of the let rule.
1:02 Tennis got rid of the let rule in
1:04 college and honestly, they should
1:06 probably get rid of it in the pro game
1:08 as well. I don't think that it adds a
1:10 thing to the sport of tennis. I
1:11 definitely don't think it adds a thing
1:13 to the sport of pickle ball. USA pickle
1:15 ball already got rid of it as well. I
1:17 don't even know what the argument for
1:20 keeping lets in the sport is. So, if
1:22 anybody has a justification for
1:24 reserving when the ball hits the tape,
1:26 please let me know. Like legitimately, I
1:27 want to hear the counterargument.
1:30 Anyway, next up, side switching. Wind,
1:32 as we all know, is super impactful in
1:34 pickle ball. In certain wind or even
1:36 lighting conditions, matches can be
1:38 decided by who gets to end the match on
1:39 the good side, and that's not what we
1:42 want. At the pro level, teams choose to
1:44 start the match on the bad side so that
1:46 if they end up going to game three, they
1:47 play the second half of that game from
1:49 the good side, and they theoretically
1:51 play more points. On the men's side,
1:53 playing against the wind is advantageous
1:55 because it allows players to hit their
1:57 drives and their attacks slightly harder
1:59 with the wind keeping them in and
2:01 dipping the ball down. On the women's
2:03 side, with playing with the wind tends
2:05 to be slightly advantageous since
2:07 players stand off of the kitchen line, a
2:08 little bit of wind pushes the ball
2:11 towards the opponents and enhances the
2:13 power in the hands battles. In the case
2:15 of a crosswind, you want the wind to
2:17 blow the ball towards your stronger
2:18 player. Generally, that's going to be
2:20 the left side, especially in in mixed,
2:22 but that's generally true in in men's
2:25 and women's as well. So, all that being
2:27 said, we should try to lessen the impact
2:29 that win has on the outcome of matches.
2:31 Instead of only switching at six in game
2:33 three, why don't we switch halfway
2:35 through games one and two as well?
2:37 Ideally, pickle ball ends up like tennis
2:38 where we switch sides every
2:41 predetermined number of rallies, not at
2:43 arbitrary numbers of points, but
2:46 switching each game seems like a simple
2:48 solution in the meantime. Cheating. I
2:49 made a whole video on pickle ball's
2:51 cheating problem, and I'll put the link
2:53 in the description, but essentially, we
2:55 can't stop cheating given the current
2:57 technology and the current budgetary
2:59 restraints. But we can deter it through
3:02 escalating penalties, fines, and
3:04 suspensions for chronic cheaters. If I
3:06 was commissioner, curtailing cheating
3:08 would be one of my top priorities to
3:09 make the game more professional.
3:12 Paddles. Paddle regulation is proving to
3:13 be one of Pitball's most difficult
3:15 problems to solve, which is why there's
3:17 a new paddle scandal seemingly like
3:18 every single week. If I was
3:20 commissioner, I would try to reduce the
3:22 power in the professional game and
3:24 increase the spin. What's the best part
3:27 of pickle ball anyways? In my opinion,
3:28 and I think that this is an opinion
3:31 that's widely shared by most pickle ball
3:32 players, it's the elongated hands
3:35 battles. Right now, attacks and
3:37 counterattacks are so effective that we
3:39 don't seem to be having quite as many of
3:41 these elongated hands battles. I mean,
3:43 look at this clip from a couple of years
3:45 ago. If we reduce the power, I think
3:46 we're going to get more of these
3:49 elongated hands battles. We can also
3:52 incentivize more speedups by enhancing
3:54 the spin on the paddles. Spin can help
3:56 keep speed-ups in the court. And in my
3:58 opinion, we want more speedups. And when
4:00 the ball is sped up, we want the hands
4:03 battles to be longer. Again, I think we
4:05 accomplish this by reducing power and
4:06 increasing spin. All right, we're
4:07 getting a little bit more controversial
4:10 now. Timeouts, getting rid of them. I
4:11 think it's lame to be able to
4:14 artificially stop somebody's momentum. I
4:16 know what you're thinking. Timeouts are
4:18 a staple in plenty of other sports, but
4:20 these sports like basketball and
4:23 football actually have a clock. Pickle
4:26 ball and tennis don't have a clock. I
4:27 think that momentum swings are
4:30 interesting for fans, and I dislike
4:32 teams being able to stop momentum
4:35 artificially through a timeout. At the
4:37 very least, we should only have one
4:39 timeout per game at the pro level. As my
4:41 Wisconsin friends would say, let's keep
4:45 her moving. Hinder rule gone. There's
4:46 always so much confusion with it.
4:48 Anyways, there are so many times where a
4:50 player yells, "Come on," during the
4:51 middle of a point, and I see this called
4:54 as a hinder sometimes. I see the referee
4:55 tell them that it's not a hinder other
4:57 times. Nobody knows what the rule is.
5:00 And it's enforced very, very differently
5:02 all the time. Also, what even is partner
5:04 communication? And what is a hinder?
5:06 Having played pro pickle ball for 5
5:08 years, your guess is as good as mine.
5:10 Basketball players and football players
5:12 are talking to each other and trying to
5:14 distract each other all the time. It is
5:16 just part of their game. Let's let the
5:18 pickle ballers talk some midpoint. And
5:21 now with that being said, we got to mic
5:23 them up, too. Wouldn't you be interested
5:26 to know what Ben and Gabe are saying to
5:28 each other on the court? Or Anna Lee and
5:30 Catherine before they broke up? Or what
5:32 about the Hayden Patrick Quinn is
5:33 definitely talking. All right, we're
5:35 going to let the players talk. And same
5:37 with the fans. We want them to be rowdy.
5:39 Let them be loud. It'll be more
5:41 entertaining. And also from a playing
5:42 perspective, a constant roar is
5:44 something that players can get used to.
5:46 Right now, it's only distracting when
5:48 somebody yells during the middle of a
5:50 quiet point. If there's a constant roar,
5:52 it'll be a more interesting fan
5:54 experience and it'll create a better
5:55 atmosphere. And actually, I think
5:57 players are going to get less distracted
5:59 to be quite honest. Okay, so now is
6:01 where we start to get a little bit more
6:03 out there. We changed the dreamer in
6:05 Major League Pickleball. I know we love
6:08 the Dream Breaker, but currently each
6:10 player plays four points before the next
6:12 player comes in. The Dream Breaker is
6:14 played at 21 and win by two. Dream
6:17 Breakers are already electric, but I
6:18 think they could be even more electric
6:21 if the first player from the away team
6:23 only plays two points and the first
6:25 player from the home team plays four.
6:27 After that, it's 444. Everybody plays
6:29 four. This would naturally stagger
6:31 players and it would also guarantee at
6:34 least two male versus female matchups.
6:35 This was actually suggested by my buddy
6:38 Joe Slo from Pro XR, so I think it's got
6:41 to be referred to as the Sazzlo Super
6:43 Dream Breaker. Next up, I'm all about
6:46 weaponizing the serves, but we got to go
6:49 to drop serve only. I hate uninforcable
6:51 rules. We've had so much controversy
6:54 over illegal serves for years, and it's
6:55 another problem that just isn't going to
6:58 go away. USAP now allows drop serves in
7:00 competition, and there are two main
7:03 complaints with the drop serve. First, I
7:04 hear all the time that players can hit
7:07 wicked spin serves with them. Yes, you
7:09 can hit a solid slice serve out wide
7:12 with a drop serve, but as somebody that
7:15 knows a lot about spin serves, anything
7:17 you can do with the drop serve, you can
7:18 also currently do with the out of the
7:21 air serve. There is no spin advantage
7:24 with the drop serve. Zero. The second
7:25 argument against the drop serve is that
7:28 it looks dumb on TV, guys. We play
7:31 pickle ball, right? We already serve
7:33 underhand, so how dumb could it really
7:35 be? Padell uses the drop serve, and I
7:37 don't think it looks dumb there. And
7:44 I don't think that the drop serve looks
7:46 dumb or would diminish the effectiveness
7:48 of the serve, and it would be completely
7:50 enforcable unlike the current serve
7:52 rules. But this is a controversial
7:53 topic. Let me know what you think. Major
7:55 League Pickball substitutes. We have six
7:57 players on a team now. It feels strange
7:59 to me that we still can't sub them in
8:01 and out. If I'm playing like men's
8:02 doubles, let's let the other guy get in
8:04 there. All right, that's it for now. I
8:05 think those are all relatively
8:08 implementable. I have two more takes,
8:10 but I think they deserve a much deeper
8:11 dive. So, make sure to subscribe to the
8:13 channel because I'm going to explain why
8:15 pickle ball should widen the net posts
8:17 on the court and why pickle ball should
8:19 implement a quadruple bounce rule in
8:22 singles. So, let me know what you agree
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