PPA Tour Champion: CIBC Finals 2024 in San Clemente

Coach Dao Ho made acquaintance with racket sports by being selected into the badminton youth team at the age of 13 in Vietnam to train professionally and get ready for the next generation of badminton professionals. However, he decided to leave the sport for college after four years of training. After migrating to the US, he switched to playing tennis in 1995.

When Pickleball started to boom in 2021, Coach Dao found a new passion for the sport. With his background as a professional badminton player, along with years of playing tennis at a high level, he quickly excelled in Pickleball. He started competing in tournaments at level 4.0 after six months trying this new sport. After a year and half, he got his first medal at a PPA tournament. Since then, Coach Dao has been collecting medals in every tournament he has played in.

Feeling obligated to train people properly, he decided to get certified coach from PPR in 2023. With a background of a teacher in Vietnam, along with his experience teaching Aikido since 2014. Coach Dao has been training Aikido since 2007, is a certified Aikido instructor and holding a 4th degree black belt. He feels very comfortable training all ages and levels.

He is still maintaining his training with Pickleball along with Tennis, Badminton and Aikido. He is happy to help players from Beginners to Advanced, from Kids to Adults. With a mix background in Tennis and Badminton and teaching a strong mentality of a martial artist, his training methods can be seen has dynamic, practical, direct to the point and easy to the understand — yet fun!

To schedule a lesson, please contact Coach Dao directly at 714-317-2183