Pickleball for Beginners

Everything You Need to Know About Pickleball!

OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK

The problem for the beginner, who wants to learn how to play, is that there has been so much written about pickleball it is virtually impossible to know how to get started with the sport. That’s the beauty of this book. It is the first book solely dedicated to the beginning pickleball player.

Have you ever done a search on Google for “pickleball”? You would be amazed at the number of results. The last time I typed in “pickleball” there were 17,000,000 results. It’s worse if you are looking for videos because on YouTube you’re going to find over 1,000,000 results. So if you’re a beginner, and don’t know a lot about pickleball, how do you wade through these videos to find the right ones for you?

The reality is that if you want to learn how to play pickleball, you are lost in a sea of information with no one to guide you. That’s the beauty of PICKLEBALL FOR BEGINNERS. With this book in hand, you can cut through all the noise and follow a step-by-step plan that will help you avoid the mistakes most beginners make when trying to learn how to play pickleball.

The book includes a large number of links to videos, giving you instant access to practical demonstrations of playing and practicing pickleball. It guides you through a natural progression of learning everything you need to know to play pickleball.

This isn’t just a ‘how-to book, it’s also a valuable resource that starts you off with the videos you should be using, and it guides you from one video to the next in an orderly fashion so that you can learn the sport incrementally and build one skill on top of the other. This is the way you learn any sport: one skill at a time. Learn, practice, learn, practice… There’s no mystery to how it works. The book guides you through the learning process and provides a seamless road map for anyone who wants to learn how to play pickleball.

What makes PICKLEBALL FOR BEGINNERS stand out is this use of videos. When you pick up a new hobby, you always want a beginner’s book, because looking on the internet gives you vast amounts of information, but it is mixed up and hard to judge what will be really helpful, or what is good advice. But you still want to watch videos that show you the skills or techniques in action, so a book like this one, which points you towards the best videos to watch, is extremely valuable to the beginning pickleball player.

Bob Savar, a PPR-certified professional pickleball instructor, has been teaching pickleball since 2020 in Delray Beach, FL. His background includes teaching varsity tennis at the high school level, playing and winning championships in the Palm Beach County Senior Pickleball League, and winning a gold medal in mixed doubles at the Delray Beach Pickleball Classic in 2019. You can learn more about his background and coaching philosophy on the homepage of this website.

Bob has taught hundreds of people how to play pickleball from scratch and has guided them through the challenges of learning how to advance from beginner to intermediate. He wrote this book, PICKLEBALL FOR BEGINNERS because he knows how hard it is for people to get started in the sport. The book is filled with advice, instruction, and links to hand-picked, valuable internet sources, including dozens of YouTube videos. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn how to play pickleball.