Mark Renneson

Pickleball Problems

Solving the world’s PB problems one question at a time…

Third Shot Pickleball coach Mark Renneson takes your questions and answers them each week on Pickleball Problems.

Record a voice memo and send it to mark@thirdshotsports.com.

Pickleball Problems

Ep 35: Pickleball and Covid-19 – What You Need to Know

What’s safe? What’s not? On this episode of the show, Mark talks with Dr. Anne Matlow about playing pickleball in the time of COVID-19. She’s Professor of Medicine, Paediatrics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She is a retired infectious disease physician who was on Ontario’s provincial advisory committee during the SARS outbreak of 2003.

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Ep 33: Teaching Pickleball in Prisons with Roger BelAir

Parks, community centres, country clubs. When you think about where pickleball gets played and taught you probably imagine these kinds of facilities. But when Roger BelAir thinks about the sport, he’s more likely to think about razor wire and surveillance cameras. That’s because Roger teaches pickleball inside America’s prisons.

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Ep 32: Pickleball Rule Changes for 2020 (Part 1)

New ways to indicate “not ready”. Hydration breaks re-defined. Sneaky serves and more! There have been some significant changes to the official rules of pickleball that go into effect January 15, 2019. Mark Renneson speaks with referee Don Stanley about some of the key rules that will impact rec and tournament players alike.

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Ep 31: Mark Answers Tim’s 6 Questions

On this episode of the show Mark tackles 6 questions from listener Tim Boggess. Tim wants to know why he’s making mistakes on his forehand, how to stop being frozen out of rec games, and why the pros seem to have a “fetish” about one particular ball.

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Ep 30: Adam Stone on His Weird Ready Position

In this episode of Pickleball Problems, host Mark Renneson talks to Adam Stone about this image below. It was taken from a video posted on the Pickleball Instructor’s Forumon Facebook and shows Stone in a rather upright position, with his paddle quite low.

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Ep 27: Bob’s Pet Peeves

In this episode Mark talks to Bob about some of the things that drive him crazy in pickleball and what he can do to overcome it. More at thirdshotsports.com

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