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Your Pickleball Starter Kit: How to Actually Enjoy It

The gear, the etiquette, the shots — and the injuries — nobody warns you about before your first day on the court. A friend of mine took up pickleball at 62. Two weeks in, he pulled his Achilles reaching for a lob and spent the next four months in a boot. His first words back at the courts: "I wish somebody had told me." This piece is…