What happens when you sit down with a Hawaii-based coach, player, and all-around pickleball brain who also happens to coach his PPA-playing girlfriend? You talk about… pretty much everything.

Eland Tsubata joins us for one of those conversations that somehow manages to cover the entire pickleball world without feeling like we’re checking boxes. Coaching, competition, training, the mental side of the game, DUPR, what players actually need to improve, and the things we all tend to overthink on and off the court.

What we loved most is that Eland is incredibly knowledgeable without taking himself too seriously. He’s the kind of person you can actually talk pickleball with, not just talk at pickleball with.

It’s an honest, funny, surprisingly deep conversation about the game we all spend way too much time thinking about.

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