I have just found out that you can play Pickle ball at my local community centre (not the Senior's Centre) for free 4 days a week. I tried it today for the first time and found that my tennis skills transferred quite well to the pickle ball court. In fact I had to work harder than I do at tennis.
It is very popular and only the first 24 to sign up get to play. There are three courts and you play for 12 minutes before switching with the next group. So, in theory, it's 12 minutes on and 12 minutes off although I had to sit out two sessions as there were some extra players allowed in.
The coach let me borrow his raquet and gave me a brief lesson but I will have to buy my own if I plan to be a regular. They are not as expensive as tennis raquets. The scoring is tricky but I won't have to worry about that until I improve somewhat. I will probably only play once a week as I am going to fitness class on two days and playing tennis (indoors now) occasionally as well.
Chris that sounds like fun. I've seen some notices around our little village to start up a pickle ball group - I had no idea what that was, at first I thought it was a group going to make pickles while in fancy dress ....
ReplyDeleteHa ha! You made me laugh, Mary Lou! Seemingly it caught on here very fast. First they gave up one badminton court for Pickle Ball but soon all three courts were being used.
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