“B = f(P, E)”
Behaviour is a function of the Person and their Environment
Jamboree × Fairgrounds is a season-long training environment shaped by early mornings, raucous Saturday nights, shared travel, and friendships that quietly rearrange your life.
This season we’re working inside a liminal space — not just drills, not just games.
Something in between. And much bigger.
Jamboree × Fairgrounds is a new kind of practice culture.
Gather Your Troop
Troops are what form when pickleball stops being an activity and starts becoming a practice.
They begin as WhatsApp threads — people you never imagined as friends, slowly becoming the ones you check in with first.
Troops travel together. Across neighbourhoods. Across bridges. Sometimes across seasons.
They share rides, impromptu sessions, quiet rituals, and the unspoken agreement that this matters more than convenience.
Pickleball doesn’t just improve inside a troop. It deepens.
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good.
It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
Saturday Morning — The Early Session*
On Saturday morning — once a month — while most of the city is asleep, troops gather for something unusually focused. There’s a clarity that only exists at this hour. No ego. No comfort zones. Nobody cares about your DUPR rating.
We lean into 6am on purpose.
This is where little epiphanies sneak up on us. This is where habits change. This is where we surprise ourselves.
The 6-8am practice session is a rare opportunity to participate in a tightly orchestrated masterpiece. An ode to practice culture.
*Are Saturday morning or evenings tricky? Can’t make every session? There are other opportunities to participate in a troop.
High performers can elevate the environment around them by 15%.
Toxic behaviour can drag it down by nearly 30%.
Toxicity spreads faster than excellence.
Positive environments matter.
Friday Night — Visualization Drop
On Friday night, each troop receives a short visualization drop — a prompt to focus attention, set intention, and dream about the kind of decisions the Saturday Night Jamboree will demand.
Quiet. Personal. Deliberate.
A way of arriving already oriented — not rushed, not reactive.
“True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are;
it requires us to be who we are.”
Saturday Night — The Jamboree
On the third Saturday night of each month, our tone shifts.
Saturday night is for Jamboree — loud, unpredictable, and joyfully competitive.
This is where the early mornings get tested. Where intention meets pressure. Where habits reveal themselves.
It’s raucous. It’s social. It’s earned its reputation.
Jamboree is where names are made.
Morning sharpens the blade.
Jamboree lets it swing.
“Whether I’m playing, drilling, coaching, waiting for the next rotation, or just trading messages, I hear versions of the same thing: ‘I can’t find people who want to train the way I want to train.’
Between Sessions — Video, Analytics, Goal Tracking
Between Saturdays, the work continues.
Players film their games and practice. With guidance, they learn to review their own footage and track the patterns shaping their journey. Troops meet monthly with coaches and will have opportunities to gather for salons with global pickleball leaders.
When we can see our own game clearly, improvement becomes self-sustaining.
The goal isn’t perfect technique — it’s habits and literacy.
“What is happening with El Camino and Jamboree is not incremental growth — it is cultural innovation within pickleball. These projects blend high‑level coaching with a deliberately designed community framework, creating one of the most intentional and compelling training cultures emerging in the sport today.“
Monthly Debrief
Once a month, each troop debriefs together with the coaching team. Small intimate group discussions. What shifted? What held up under pressure? What surprised you? How can you reconfigure your training for the week ahead? This is where merit badges are awarded. Revenge schemes are hatched. Troop practice plans are set.
The season coheres.
The Troop Field Kit
Not a merch drop or a run-of-the-mill welcome package. This is a proper field kit — small Jamboree artefacts, prompts, and objects that accompany the work of the season.
Some are practical. Some peculiar. Some only make sense after the third or fourth meeting.
Part of the fun is not knowing what will arrive next.
Troop Leaders
Once a month, each troop sends out one of their leaders to meet on court with the coaches to actively shape their troop’s next set of training sessions.
“I love that you think like this! There is no one that combines your skill with such a high level of insight and creativity. 6 am may make me dry heave, but I’m definitely in!”
By Invitation and Application | May - August
Most of you already know where this is heading.
Jamboree Practice Culture isn’t about doing more. It’s about finally doing things in the right order. Making every second count. This is a meticulously curated, seasonal training environment — a hero’s journey governed by a 9×9 map, troop grit, unbridled spirit and imagination.
If you’ve trained or competed with us and want to be considered, reply to this email or message us at [email protected]. If your numbers are off, we can help you complete your troop.
There are a limited number of spots. Let us know ASAP if you’re interested.
There will never be another first season.
FAQ
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When does it start?
What does it cost?
What levels are this for?
All your questions answered here.
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that they remake it in their own image.”
TL;DR
It’s four-month team training program where small squads ("troops") practice together and compete in monthly Jamborees.
