Pickleball craze

It’s fun. It’s exactly what you think. More physically demanding than ping pong, less physically demanding than tennis.

I will say, I played with an ex D1 line man who’s a trainer now and very athletic. Because of the rules against spiking and the small court, he could essentially just charge the 10ft line and make it very difficult to hit around him

Sounds like an Aggie orgy gone amok and awry.

I think it's like tennis but you don't need to spend years mastering technique in order to enjoy it. Learning curve is very rapid.

Whatever gets people outdoors and moving around!

Tangentially, A buddy of mine in my neighborhood died of a heart attack recently while playing pickleball with his family.

It’s fun and good exercise. What’s the problem?

pickleball is for those too poor for golf and too unathletic for tennis

no one here fits that description

It's the new disk golf.

Great sport for boomers

There is a tussle goin on in my parish's rec dept. right now that involves them converting some gyms into fulltime pickle ball courts. They have eliminated 2 gyms from the CYO basketball rotation causing them to have to start some games after 9pm. Some of the local codes call for select gym locations to be closed and lights off by 10pm on weeknights.

The last council meeting was a pickle ball shite-show.

It was fine. Felt like an easy way to tear something in my middle aged knees though.