We're two 50-something pickleball players travelling the world, chasing better games, better courts, and better versions of our own game.

We chase the best pickleball courts, wherever they are.

Two paddles, one carry-on, and a habit of finding the best pickleball in every city we land in. We play, we film every match, and we run it through AI to see what the footage won't tell you at first glance.

Follow the journey New courts, new footage, most weeks.
Dave and his partner courtside at The Edge Pickleball

Every stop gets the same treatment: find the local players, get on court, roll camera, and break the tape down afterward.

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Algarve
Portugal — on court now
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Side
Turkey — next up
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Pickleball City Guides

Real courts, real details, from the stops we know best. More get added as we go.

Seattle

USA

Sideout Tsunami is genuinely one of the best indoor venues in North America — 26 courts, gated 4.2+ sessions, six nights well spent.

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Vancouver

CANADA

A decent destination, not Canada's best — but Ipop in Burnaby is a fantastic 9-court indoor facility right by a metro stop.

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Edmonton

CANADA

Surprisingly good, with options at every level — three weeks here covered free outdoor courts, indoor open play, and coaching from Ava Weeks.

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Montreal

CANADA

Pickle Montréal was our base — an indoor facility that's easy to book into as a visitor, and solid year-round.

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Burlington

USA

Vermont's first dedicated indoor facility, Vermont Pickleball at The EDGE, is well built but membership-only — Catamount and the city parks are the easier drop-in options.

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Boston

USA

One of our most closely analysed stops — the full AI breakdown of a match played here is on the guide page.

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Da Nang

VIETNAM

One of the best surprises on the route — G4 Pickleball delivered a strong 3.5–4.0 game with none of the membership friction found at the bigger resort clubs.

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Hua Hin

THAILAND

T Rex hosted the 2026 Thailand Open — competitive open and graded play at 150 THB a session, let down only by badminton-surface courts.

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Goa

INDIA

Night sessions under lights at the Aguada Pickleball Arena, right on Sinquerim Beach — a scenic stop while the local competitive scene is still finding its feet.

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Bengaluru

INDIA

Go Rally on Old Airport Road is one of five locations the chain now runs across the city — an easy, well-run indoor booking in one of India's fastest-growing pickleball scenes.

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Pune

INDIA

Ace Alley Pickleball in Viman Nagar has playable courts, but getting onto them as a visitor took more patience than the game itself.

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Rota

SPAIN

Played the ReBALLution Cup across two venues — ReBALLution Pickleball Rota and Hotel Playa de la Luz — including a 15–13 quarter-final win we broke down with PBVision.

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Málaga

SPAIN

Played a Pickleball Pro Retreats session at Daryl Collins Tennis Academy in Mijas, coached by Tom Corfield — 8 dedicated courts and a genuinely competitive game.

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Algarve

PORTUGAL

Played as part of a touring group session with Leigh Pickleball — a sign of how active the touring scene is on this coast.

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Wrexham

WALES

A regular UK stop for us — Wrexham Tennis & Padel Centre has grown to 8 courts since pickleball landed here in 2025, with great value and coaching on tap.

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Leeds

UK

Home club — Game Set Match at John Charles Centre for Sport is where we learnt to play, and still where we measure everywhere else against.

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Sheffield

UK

Peak Pickleball in Attercliffe is a small, friendly club run by two local enthusiasts — easy to drop into, with games for every level from beginner to 4.0+.

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How we play

The brand rests on three habits we don't skip, wherever we are in the world.

Pickle Montreal signage, a stop on the route
Passport stamped

Travel

We build our route around pickleball, not the other way round — chasing the game to wherever the courts and the community are strongest.

Content shot, Algarve court
Rec ● rolling

Film

Every match gets recorded, end to end. Not highlight clips — full games, so there's something real to study when we're done playing.

Training session with coach Ava Weeks
AI reviewed

Analyse

The footage goes through AI analysis after every session — shot patterns, positioning, what actually won or lost the point.

Courts we've chased

A running line of where the paddles have been. It only ever gets longer.

Toronto
CANADA
Puerto Vallarta
MEXICO
Bangkok
THAILAND
Chiang Mai
THAILAND
Hua Hin
THAILAND
Penang
MALAYSIA
Ipoh
MALAYSIA
Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Ho Chi Minh City
VIETNAM
Dalat
VIETNAM
Bursa
TURKEY
Antalya
TURKEY
Algarve
PORTUGAL
Wrexham
WALES
Cardiff
WALES
Macau
CHINA
Negombo
SRI LANKA
Goa
INDIA
Pune
INDIA
Rota
SPAIN
Malaga
SPAIN
Da Nang
VIETNAM
Montreal
CANADA
Edmonton
CANADA
Vancouver
CANADA
Algarve
PORTUGAL — NOW
Side
TURKEY — NEXT

Scroll to see the full run — from Toronto to Side, with a stack of stops across Southeast Asia, Turkey, Iberia, India and North America in between. Underlined stops have a short guide — tap the name.

The footage does the arguing

Two parts to every stop: what we shoot, and what the AI finds in it afterward.

On camera, every point

A fixed sideline camera runs for the full match — no editing mid-game, no cherry-picked rallies. It's the same setup whether we're on a rooftop court in Bangkok or a converted tennis court in Portugal.

Session with coach Ava Weeks in EdmontonEDMONTON
Pickleball Montreal courtMONTREAL
Algarve court, ball-eyes momentALGARVE

Edmonton session with local coach Ava Weeks — one of many local players and coaches along the route.

Then the AI takes a pass

Every recorded match gets run through AI analysis — shot selection, court coverage, where points are actually being won and lost. It's how the travel doubles as training.

DUPR rating 3.6 → 4.0
CURRENT: 3.6 TARGET: 4.0

Different scales, worth knowing: DUPR above is our official skill rating. The score below is PBVision's own AI assessment of one specific match.

Boston · analysed match WON 11–7
4.27Overall rating
88%Shots in
27/50Rallies won

Model's top growth signal from this game: speedups — only 20% of rallies finished with one were won. Dinks are the strong point, at 69% consistency.

Watch the full breakdown on PBVision →

29 Pickleball Games: AI Match Analysis

One match tells you how you played. Twenty-nine tell you what's actually going wrong. Filter the shot-level data from every recorded game, Dave & Louise — by player, game, date, shot type, even which shot number in the rally.

Read the story: what 160 filmed games taught us →

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Breakdown by shot type

How to read it: success% is the rate a shot landed in play without a fault; win% is the rate the rally was won when that shot occurred. Only Dave's and Louise's shots are included — other partners' data isn't shown here.

Partner with us

Clubs, brands, and gear makers along the route — here's what working together looks like.

What you get

A featured stop on the route: real match footage, an AI-analysed breakdown, and a shoutout to your court, club, or gear — shared with a following that spans continents, not just one city's scene. No staged content, we actually play there.

How it works

Reach out before we're in your city, or before your product ships out. We work out what a feature looks like around the stops already on the route — a match, a clinic, a gear review, whatever fits.

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