November 2025

In a previous article, we discussed how it might not be appropriate to rate pickleball paddles into the mutually exclusive categories of “power” and “control”.  We then developed an alternative technique to categorize paddles, where a paddle’s “power” rating is independent of its “control” rating. It is reasonable to separate “power” from “control” because a […]

Dichotomy (noun), dī-́ʹkä-tə-mē – A division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or parts.  In common pickleball parlance, paddles are classified according to the amount of power or control they exhibit when striking a ball.  These classifications may be overly simplistic because they imply that paddle power and control are mutually exclusive.  That