# Pickleball Jamboree

> Jamboree is built on the belief that the most compelling athletes aren’t prodigies who peak at 21, but those who choose to return to sport after life has taken a bite out of them.

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## Posts
- [Les Deux](https://pbjamboree.com/p/les-deux-two-handed-backhand-badge): A merit badge for the stroke you don't hit so much as conjure — two hands, one shadow.
- [The Tennis Coach: Our Saturday Morning Zoom Chat Rescheduled on a Friday night ](https://pbjamboree.com/p/the-tennis-coach-our-saturday-morning-zoom-chat-rescheduled-on-a-friday-night): Wayne Elderton has trained 1,500 coaches and is helping create a blueprint for how Canada now teaches pickleball. Five months ago, he shared an emphatic message with Jamboree.
- [Stacking Cap: A Revival](https://pbjamboree.com/p/stacking-cap-a-revival): Turn it backwards when something needs to change. 
- [Saturday Night Assignment: The  Jamboree Never Stops](https://pbjamboree.com/p/saturday-night-finals-the-pickleball-jamboree-never-stops): Rookie of the Year, new merit badges, idols and mulligans with dangerous new powers, half wins, enormous trophies, pure unfiltered pickleball style, a sealed white envelope, and puppets that will haunt your dreams. Everything you need to know before The Finals at Fairgrounds this Saturday night.
- [The Trophy That Sleeps Beside Your Bed](https://pbjamboree.com/p/pickleball-trophy-ideas-diy): Sandra Herd created pickleball's Stanley Cup from some cracked balls and a trip to her local thrift store. This is the Jamboreenie origin story. And the story of how it has begun to mutate.
- [Game Recognizes Game](https://pbjamboree.com/p/how-to-give-a-pickleball-merit-badge): On the art and ritual of giving a Jamboree merit badge
- [Exhale](https://pbjamboree.com/p/pickleball-serve-visualization): On flow, instinct, and the one moment that's entirely yours | A guided visualization for servers who think too much and sometimes not enough.
- [A love letter to summer pickleball — and the public spaces where strangers become friends](https://pbjamboree.com/p/outdoor-pickleball-vancouver-queen-elizabeth-park-jericho-beach-pandora-murdo): Court Studies: Why Queen Elizabeth Park and Jericho Beach are Vancouver's most vital public spaces.
- [Cartography](https://pbjamboree.com/p/messi-soccer-pickleball): Messi walks. Miles Davis rests. And somewhere in Vancouver at 6am on a Saturday morning, a pickleball player is learning to read the game before it happens.
- [Find Your Basement Bookcase](https://pbjamboree.com/p/constraint-led-approach-pickleball): Inside the seemingly absurd games and impossible problems that produce more adaptable players.
- [SATURDAY NIGHT ASSIGNMENT: Partners & Rivals | Close your eyes and imagine the one person in Jamboree you want to take down.  ](https://pbjamboree.com/p/pickleball-rivalry): Merit Badges, Fan Club, Game Recognizes Game, Civil Wars, Troop Wars, Mulligan Stew, the best tater tots in Vancouver, Margaritas and Tacos at Tacofino, Red Envelopes, Yellow Envelopes, and Jamboree officials who will NOT take bribes — your field guide to Saturday Night Jamboree x Fairgrounds.
- [Fan Club: Founding Member](https://pbjamboree.com/p/fan-club-founding-member-july-assignment): Given to that person who let you in before you knew how to ask
- [The Longest Day Shirt](https://pbjamboree.com/p/longest-day-pickleball-shirt): Limited Summer Issue + Photo Challenge 
- [Is the World's Most Relevant Pickleball Academy in East Borneo?](https://pbjamboree.com/p/rangkong-pickleball-academy-borneoa-small-group-of-kids-in-east-borneo-a-master-mariner-and-the-most): Saturday Breakfast Call | July 4, 2026 | Captain Harris Sibuea, M.Mar. | Rangkong Pickleball Academy & Club | Balikpapan, Borneo
- [The Things We Can’t Measure](https://pbjamboree.com/p/the-things-we-can-t-measure): Why do high-performance athletes spend precious training time making bracelets, telling jokes and creating rituals? Maybe they're training something we can't chart.
- [Breathwork, Nervous Systems, Cool Downs, and the “Invisible Side” of Pickleball](https://pbjamboree.com/p/breathwork-nervous-systems-cool-downs-and-the-invisible-side-of-pickleball): Q + A with Jamboree Wellness Coach Colleen Mallett
- [Nobody had answers. So he took out a ruler and a pencil and started counting.](https://pbjamboree.com/p/pickleball-analytics-jim-ramsey): Saturday Breakfast Chat | Jim Ramsey, PPA Head Statistician
- [Saturday Night Assignment: One Battle After Another](https://pbjamboree.com/p/saturday-night-assignment-one-battle-after-another): Bangers, merit badges, trades, civil wars, mulligan soup, envelopes stuffed with trouble, fried pickles and poutine served in punchbowls — your field guide for Saturday Night Jamboree x Fairgrounds
- [Rock, Paper, Scissors Is Not Just Rock, Paper, Scissors](https://pbjamboree.com/p/rock-paper-scissors-is-not-just-rock-paper-scissors): What a simple hands game reveals about confidence, pattern recognition, momentum, and the hidden battles that begin long before the first rally. 
- [What are People Really Communicating in the Three Seconds After Someone Gets Hit in the Face?](https://pbjamboree.com/p/what-are-people-really-communicating-in-the-three-seconds-after-someone-gets-hit-in-the-face): Saturday Breakfast Call | June 6, 2026 | Mariko Wakefield & Dr. Trudy Adam
- [Hello Reset Banger](https://pbjamboree.com/p/reset-banger): It was never about hitting hard. It was about changing the emotional climate of the court. 
- [Saturday Night Assignment: Create the Greatest Team in Jamboree History](https://pbjamboree.com/p/saturday-night-assignment-create-the-greatest-team-in-jamboree-history): Chemistry, mulligans, the opening sprint, troop scoring, cold plunge, sauna — a field guide for your first Saturday night at Fairgrounds