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# Ian Golembeski, TYPTI

Community Growth Development Coordinator, Colorado

October 28, 2026

Ian Golembeski has spent his career putting new sports in people's hands, from Spikeball in 2012 to RampShot, PaddleSmash and pickleball. Now he is building TYPTI in Colorado, teaching club pros for free and hosting the first TYPTI tournament in the state. We talk about what makes a new racquet sport catch on, Stakes Scoring, and how to turn curious players into regulars.

## Key Takeaways

- What TYPTI is, explained without calling it a mix of three other sports.
- Why tennis players pick it up fastest, and how a Spikeball player can still compete with college players in doubles.
- Stakes Scoring: three straight points to win a game, and why one game can take 12 minutes.
- The 20 minute timer he is using to keep tournament days from running 10 hours.
- What he runs when a club gives him one court, and the question that tells him a demo worked.
- His advice for turning ten curious people into ten returning players.

## More episodes

Episode 0

May 13, 2026

### Evan Dechtman, TopSpin Digital

Founder

A short introduction to CourtSide: why we are building a long-form interview series for the people running racquet sports, what each episode looks like, and how to be considered as a guest.
https://topspindigital.co/courtside/ep/introducing-courtside

Episode 1

May 15, 2026

### Andy Zodin, Columbine Country Club

Director of Racquet Sports

Andy Zodin on 15 years running racquet sports at Columbine Country Club, what a director actually does day-to-day, the ownership conversations that never go away, staffing teaching pros in 2026, and how private clubs are handling pickleball.
https://topspindigital.co/courtside/ep/andy-zodin

Episode 2

May 22, 2026

### Julius Gavin, Tennis University

Independent Tennis Coach, Founder

Julius Gavin, known online as tennis.god, has nearly 90,000 Instagram followers, charges $1,000 for six hours of coaching, and claims he can build a complete tennis game in 40 hours. We get into the math behind the program, the fraud accusations, the real economics of driving thousands of miles with a trunk full of balls, and how short-form content converts a viewer into a paid client.
https://topspindigital.co/courtside/ep/julius-gavin

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