Gear & Technology Episodes

Pickleball doesn’t just test your reflexes anymore. It tests your patience with wind that hijacks a perfect drop, crowds that eat your whole Saturday, and a paddle-stacking system that can feel like its own competitive sport....

A 60 mph speed up is coming straight at your chest at match point. If your paddle feels “stuck,” that might not be nerves or slow reflexes, it might be geometry. We dig into the real physics behind pickleball paddle shape and...

Cut open a $20 pickleball paddle and a $300 paddle and you might find the same cheap-looking plastic honeycomb inside. That’s the trap. What makes one feel like a dead cutting board and the other feel like a tuned weapon is h...