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| quote: Originally posted by TannerBoyl:
My girlfriend and I started playing a few months ago. We started with a cheap set off of Amazon and some YouTube videos. She’s recently taken a class with our local Parks & Rec, but it’s at an inopportune time for me.
It’s been tough for us finding a group that plays after work hours. Thankfully, I discovered a couple of friends that play so we have some doubles matches set up on weekends.
We’re not at the competitive level, but it has been a blast learning.
I started with a cheap $20 paddle from Academy and just upgraded. There’s an app called pickleball finder that shows groups in your area that play. It should list a contact number for the person who runs it. |
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| I have been playing for a while at my local YMCA. At least until I got Plantar Fascitis in my right foot. Then covid hit and I still have not played yet. I do enjoy the game though.
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| Yes I do. Less now than in the past but occasionally. We have a court in our back yard that has been a gathering point for friends and neighbors, during the unfortunate unpleasantness of the recent pandemic neighbor kids asked if they could play so we had noise in the yard again. In fact the game was invented on my island paradise. And lots of people play here.
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| My wife is an avid player since she retired.
She plays almost every day. |
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| quote: Originally posted by corsair:
Never heard of it until I visited friends in Park City about 10-years ago. The whole neighborhood and then some were all playing.
Seems like lot of seniors have taken it up, since it requires less base-to-base line movement than tennis; just get your first good step-in and you're there.
The group I play with is a mix of young and old. The older folks are funny- some will barely move from where they are standing. They’re lethal in that one spot but won’t move much. I don’t mind having a partner like that since it makes me move more and I get better cardio exercise that way running around a lot. |
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| Wife broke her wrist first time out. Ironically, the surgeon that she had scheduled to repair her wrist shows up the day of the surgery to introduce his partner who will now do the surgery because the original doc is in a leg cast - tore something up playing pickleball a couple days after the wife went down. Tough game, I guess. She's mending and out of physical therapy. Don't know about the Doc.
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