Pickle Ball is the New Snowboarding

[jasonwx]

Heh
Pickleball

It is fun
And at a high level it is a real work out

 

[jasonwx]

Yeah yeah I know everyone thinks it’s an old persons game. Golf is an old persons game.
Play real pickle for 2 hrs. You hurt like someone beat ya with a stick.
Also it’s great for your hand eye.

 

[Brownski]

Most of the people I saw on the courts were middle aged and the class we were doing seemed to be all people in their forties and fifties. And I did work up a modest sweat.

 

[MarzNC]

Yeah yeah I know everyone thinks it’s an old persons game. Golf is an old persons game.
Play real pickle for 2 hrs. You hurt like someone beat ya with a stick.
Also it’s great for your hand eye.

Happened to catch a pickleball tournament on TV . . . for money . . . that was held near my house a few weeks ago. Like table tennis and badminton, the sport version of the game (think Summer Olympics) is very different from the "backyard/basement" version.

My BIL switched to pickleball a while back. He used to play tennis regularly. Became a lot easier to find people for pickleball. When he visited us in NC during the winter for 4-5 weeks, he was playing 3-4 days a week going to local community centers. Just wandered in and easily joined in pick up games.

 

[Tjf1967]

Yeah yeah I know everyone thinks it’s an old persons game. Golf is an old persons game.
Play real pickle for 2 hrs. You hurt like someone beat ya with a stick.
Also it’s great for your hand eye.

I giggled.

 

[sig]

orthopedics love the sport. they are seeing a ton of old people with pickleball related injuries. cha-ching.

I actually enjoy the sport. would love to play more.

 

[Andy_ROC]

I don't play often but find pickleball to be a lot of fun. It reminds a lot of ping pong (which I used to be pretty darn good at) except with pickleball you're standing on the table I plan to play more this summer. They converted tennis courts near me to pickleball last year and they've since been packed with people.

The nice thing about pickleball is the skill barrier is rather low (compared to tennis) and beginners can start having fun rallies quite quickly.

LOL at the thread title about pickleball being the new snowboarding. Snowboarding is way more obnoxious and should be banned... I kid, sort of...

 

[x10003q]

orthopedics love the sport. they are seeing a ton of old people with pickleball related injuries. cha-ching.

I actually enjoy the sport. would love to play more.

My nephew just did a med school rotation in an ER - pickleball is pumping the number of visits. He said lots of people in the 40-70 age range come in with knee and ankle injuries plus a smattering of concussions from people running into each other.

 

[gorgonzola]

Yea my ball sport days with lateral movement is way back in the rear view mirror

 

[tirolski]

Yeah yeah I know everyone thinks it’s an old persons game. Golf is an old persons game.
Play real pickle for 2 hrs.

How come ya never hear any good tennis stories & even fewer pickle ball stories...?
At least dang snowboarding has some good stories.