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Pickleball is a good game, and it’s getting more popular.
I have a quick story about racket sports and I’ll try not to bore the shit out of you. My junior year in high school. I’m ranked really high up in the district. Wrestler. So’s my best bud. It’s off season and we get challenged to a Badminton game from the head coach, a fucking ex DI that everyone hated, and the assistant head coach who was an old drunk Indian.
Holy fxck. Those two old guys had us running into each other. It was fucking embarrassing. Worst of all we had a student body cheering us on. We got our asses kicked. The DI became my father in law a couple years after that. A Marine to the end.
It’s ping pong without a table. It’s finesse over strength. It’s a legitimate sport.
I have played racquet ball twice a week for close to 18 years. I have always thought it looks easy but it is way harder than it looks, still. And that includes making slow lob shots when needed.
Fun game. One of my fav old tennis pards took it up and we played a bit. Sorry but I’m a tennis player and pickleball is good for practicing your net game but there is nothing in the world like standing baseline and hitting a perfect topspin forehand.
The ball is dead compared to a tennis ball and the spin you can put on a tennis ball is wonderful.
Why isn’t Pickle spelled Pickel or Nickel spelled Nickle?
Ohh I just had an idea, Nickelball! Line up a bunch of progs and beam them in the head with a ball made of nickel. 1 point when one falls to their knee, 2 points for 2 knees, and 3 points when you lay one out flat. It’ll be an educational sport, pounding sense into heads of progs. Don’t any of you pricks take my idea. lollol
Brad, your story reminded me of a similar old High School story of mine. I played football, while several of my friends played water polo. We would get into heated arguments over which sport was tougher.
So one day they got me in the pool during one of their practices. Now, I’m a good swimmer, but as I found out, swimming has little to do with the game. The kicking and grabbing under the water, away from the referee’s eyes is intense.
I conceded a little, although I never got them on the football field to defend my sport and claim. It’s okay though, cuz I know that I would have cleaned their clocks. Each sport has it’s skill requirements.
MMinWA, that’s exactly why I like Wacketball (I hate that name), played on the same sized court but with a racquetball racquet and a dense nerf ball. I’m convinced that game hasn’t taken off because of its stupid name.
@joe6pak – “…I’m convinced that game hasn’t taken off because of its stupid name…”
How about Wallyball? It best describes the game strategy.
Too close to WallyWorld or Volleyball?
stirrin the pot
Oh My Gawd. Played that game. We told them meet us in the wrestling room. My coaches were, and please Google, Pat Lovell, and Ron Edwards. Enough said.
its nice that Brad isnt as long winded as SNS. That short story woulda been a novel.
pickel ball was created by a guy named Marvel Pickel.
Brad – I DDG’d Pat Lovell, and I’m glad I looked three or four results down the list because the first two were for Patricia Lovell (LOL!)
He wrestled at Sequoia High School in Redwood City and Cal Poly in College. I assume that you attended one of those schools.
stirrin the pot
He was a Olympian in 1964, came in fourth, and an Olympic Coach in 68. A very large man that moved at the speed of a Cobra. Played many of hours of iron man with him. None of us ever won. But we did learn.
I used to play the shit out of some tennis. I was never very good at the baseline, but I could forehand or backhand accurately with either hand. I was a plodding runner, though. Which is weird because I could do 50 and 100 yard dashes faster than anyone at my schools. I was 6 foot and 135 back then. I had a long stride and didn’t need to worry myself with breathing.
But at the net I could change the game. Long reach and reflexes that astounded me. And I used wooden racquets. There’s some fine shit you can do with a sloppy racquet. I preferred them to the weird big-head fiberglass stuff.
Then I got a Wilson T-2000. It was a wood racquet, but made of steel. I split my eyebrow open with it one time. “QUONK!”
Blood everywhere, but I got the point.
Tennis is an exhilarating sport. I miss it. I miss playing with Dad, Uncle Paul, Jennifer, and my Brother Anthony.
I’ve got the sads now, Good night.
Brad
Yeah, I saw his picture. He was a big, thick man.
It’s funny, in High School wrestling was the next season after football and many players wrestled. Although I started three out of four years in football, in hindsight I wish that I had wrestled too. But our school called them “Grapplers” back then, and there was something about that name… I know better now.
It was my Uncle Paul who said the T-2000 was good shit. It was heavy and perfectly balanced. In comparison to a wood racquet.
It had no sweet spot. You could play it like a guitar. Make a mistake, take a 90mph ball that twists the thing in your hands and the ball goes over the net at about 14mph. Backspun and goes 7 feet into the air. Loping and slow.
But that is the point of net play. Take the energy out of it and confuddle them. Or bang it past them.
stirrin the pot
1972. THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARE NOW JOINING THEIR WRESTLING TEAMS. WE’RE WRESTLING A CROSS TOWN RIVAL. I’m WRESTLING 178 VARSITY AND MY OPPONENT CLEARLY WEIGHS ABOUT 205. Lovell says, man, I didn’t catch this one. Your gonna have to move to survive. I did. In the third period I was behind in points and started in the referees position. Sat out, text book. My over confident opponent came in straight up. A stronger man. Trapped that weak arm. And the over confident larger man rush straight in come hell or high water. Launched his ass with a Lat Drop. Pinned his ass. The crowd went wild. My hay day. LOL. Good coaching is not replaceable.
You know what’s funny, a Pickleball post turns into a wrestling discussion.
Brad,
It’s fun, and maybe even healthy, to reminisce about our glory days. I’ve got more, that I won’t bother to bore others with, but I feel better and I hope you do too.
stirrin the pot
I do brother. Great times. They can take almost everything from me. But they can’t take that
Amen
It looks like a lot of effort. I like sports where one can imbibe, like fishing or horseshoes.
Ha! I accidentally awoke at 0400 or so… crap! I used to enjoy tennis with Erik and others.. shoulders no longer lend themselves to racquet sports nor golf.
It’s a fun game.
I can either be played very aggressively or very relaxed, like an old person’s game.
I watched a documentary on how it was created. Worth the watch. Someplace on youtube.
Racquetball for the White Claw crowd.
Human Ping Pong where you are playing ON the table, not behind it.
IGTOFTS I’m Getting Too Old For This Shit
That’s about as boring & silly a game as any other game played with a ball.
Where’s Pinko…
How about BIDEN BALL??? Let’s Go Brandon!
I hate sports. I don’t care. It’s Joe’s opinion. why is is important?
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About them shoulders, that product , Relief Factor, that Gorka and other conservatives advertise for. Yea, it works. Try it. I just finished my first month. Got rid of a lot of little aches and pains.
Busy playing Pickleball 😉
Tennis, boring?
That’s pitiful dude. If you can get an opponent at your skill level or a little bit better. And if you hit ~4.5 or better, you play the game 1 or 2 or 3 strokes ahead.
Strategy combined with skill & speed. Hardly boring.
Plus it’s also a great game to watch the pros play. The shots they can make are other worldly. And seeing them live as I have in Australia is unreal. When I first saw them hitting topspin, the ball looked like it was for sure going out and it would drop like a rock, just amazing.