Inside The Game: The Madness, Metrics, and Methods of Winning Pickleball

by Steven Pustay

Only the 2nd book to be endorsed by the USAPA, Inside the Game breaks new ground and brings the power of statistically significant data to help players understand what makes and breaks their game. "Inside the Game is a facinating read full of important and useful information designed to help those looking to improve their game" - USAPA ​ Based on a yearlong study, the first of its kind for Pickleball, hundreds of professional and amateur games were mapped for stroke errors, ball-strike accuracy, ball speed, court position advantage and dozens of additional metrics. The results of the study provide a definitive picture of what fails when games are lost and establishes clear goals to be met for winning play. The study frames a statistically significant portrait of the game, and for the first time establishes a baseline for winning play. Interviews with professional players add perspective from their on-court experience and expand the narrative with practice tips and match strategies to help improve the level of any player's game.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 2, 2019

About the author

Retired after 40 years of teaching in high school and college classrooms, you’re now likely to find Steve on a pickleball court somewhere. He is quite simply addicted to the game.

His B.A. in British Literature from Akron University led him to Donne, Browning, Milton, and Shakespeare, to Middlemarch and Far from the Madding Crowd, though his more likely muses run to Steinbeck and Hemmingway and he still owns a dog-eared Nick Adams Stories paperback that he bought in high school.

Writing and its discipline and craft bring him joy. A good read or a good movie are always worth sharing. Steve and his wife Patti share a passion for travel and have made memories in places new and revisited memories in places old.