HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (March 1, 2023) — The Skilled Pickleball Registry (PPR), the most important world group of pickleball instructing professionals, has reached a landmark of 5,000 members, paralleling the meteoric progress of pickleball.
“PPR has reached a ‘tipping level’ by way of membership with curiosity in changing into educated and authorized to show pickleball skyrocketing,” in keeping with PPR President Dan Santorum. “Greater than 90 p.c of our PPR certification workshops at the moment are bought out—some inside simply days after being posted.”
The variety of PPR workshops held yearly has grown from 45 in 2018 to a projected 250 in 2023. Host amenities notice the advantage of educating and certifying their pickleball teaching workers. Operators are opening up their amenities to host workshops to allow them to determine future coaches, expose their amenities to exterior coaches, and get advertising and marketing help.
“My facility at Queens Faculty in NYC hosts a number of PPR certification workshops yearly. Nearly all of them promote out,” says Hemel Cosme, chair of the PPR. “Internet hosting PPR workshops is an incredible profit to our pickleball program. We plan to host eight PPR workshops this 12 months to satisfy the elevated demand.”
