Gear & Accessories

Pickleball lead tape changes power, stability and feel for a few grams. Where to put it, how much to add, what the rules allow, and 4 tapes to try.

What a pickleball paddle eraser removes, which paddle faces it is safe on, how to use one without wearing down the grit, and 4 erasers worth a look.

Pickleball court tape turns a driveway, parking lot, or gym floor into a playable court in an afternoon, and it peels back up when you are done. For anyone without a dedicated court nearby, it is the difference between waiting for open play and playing tonight. PaddleBrief is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC ... Read more

A pickleball rebounder is a framed net that sends the ball back to you, so you can hit dinks (a soft shot that drops just over the net into the kitchen), volleys, and drops with nobody on the other side. For players who only get court time a couple of nights a week, it is ... Read more

Pickleball is harder on your knees than it looks. The court is small, so most of your movement is quick lateral shuffles and sudden stops rather than long straight sprints, and that side-to-side loading is exactly what stresses the ligaments and cartilage around the knee. Add in the sport's skew toward players in their 50s, ... Read more

A worn-out factory grip makes a pickleball overgrip an urgent buy. Your hand starts sliding at 4-3 in the third game, you choke up on the handle to compensate, and suddenly your third shot drop (a soft shot that lands in the kitchen so the serving team can move up to the net) lands three ... Read more

A good pickleball paddle cover is cheap protection for a paddle that spends more time getting knocked around than most players realize. It rides loose in a gym bag, bounces off a car floor mat, sits in a hot trunk between matches, and gets tossed on a bench between games at the rec center. None ... Read more

A pickleball ball machine is the most expensive piece of gear we cover on this site, and most people buying one have never touched one. That's a bad combination. You're comparing spec sheets full of numbers (ball capacity, mph, hours of battery) without knowing which ones change how a practice session feels. Some of them ... Read more

A portable pickleball net looks like the simplest thing to buy in the sport. It's a frame, some mesh, and a base. Then you set one up in a driveway for the first time and discover that "portable" covers everything from a net that holds regulation height through a windy afternoon to one that sags ... Read more

Most players buy a paddle first and figure out how to carry it later. That usually means a spare gym bag or a repurposed backpack, and it works fine right up until a paddle face gets scuffed against a water bottle or a wet towel soaks into the only pocket holding your spare grip tape. ... Read more