Learn / Improve

New Players:

  • New player lessons:
    • If you’ve not tried this fast growing sport, we have city sponsored lessons on Saturdays from 9:30 am to 11:30 pm at Meadow Park.  See Play in SLO for location details.
    • Sign up at the SLO Parks and Recreation website is required.
    • Before coming to the lessons, we recommend you view this short video describing the basics of Pickleball.
    • We will have all the equipment for you to start playing.  Just come to learn what the game is about.
  • History of Pickleball video.
  • If you are interested in buying a paddle, see some options on our Links page.

Pickleball Rules

To see the most current USA Pickleball Association rules, click here.

Existing Players – Skill and Strategy Development:

For pickleball rules, skill development and strategy development tutorials plus play analysis of tournament players we suggest that you search Youtube.com.

Tutorial Examples

Below are somewhat random examples of some of those tutorials.  

YouTube Channels

  For more tutorials and examples of play you can search from several groups have created YouTube sites with various videos.  Here are a few of them: