Our garbage gym Lifetime Centreville is ripping out the indoor basketball courts and replacing it with all pickleball

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are lots of outdoor basketball courts- why not use those?

I am not a pickleball fan (it's like twice as loud as tennis!) but our outdoor courts are packed.

It sounds like they're not interested in appealing to kids or teens.

People went to play pickup games, there aren't other people to play outdoors. Also, weather? Also, many people have basketball as part of their gym routine, play basketball, lift weights, etc. Its a sport and exercise.

Why can't the pickleball people just play outdoors? Lots of outdoor courts!

Uh weather! Duh

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I am happy for it. Good move.

Why?

I plan pickleball, I don't play basketball?

My kids play basketball, but I don't begrudge a gym taking some basketball space for pickleball, yoga, pilates, etc. I want a healthy community and I like to see the old people out there enjoying themselves. (I guess the old people didn't like seeing kids playing basketball).
Honestly, yu sound very self-centered.

Stop calling people old

[Anonymous]

I don't know anything about pickleball (its like easy tennis I guess?) but tearing out a climbing wall and two full basketball courts seems really dumb when you could keep the space multi-use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are lots of outdoor basketball courts- why not use those?

I am not a pickleball fan (it's like twice as loud as tennis!) but our outdoor courts are packed.

It sounds like they're not interested in appealing to kids or teens.

People went to play pickup games, there aren't other people to play outdoors. Also, weather? Also, many people have basketball as part of their gym routine, play basketball, lift weights, etc. Its a sport and exercise.

Why can't the pickleball people just play outdoors? Lots of outdoor courts!

Uh weather! Duh

Exactly! There is nothing about either pasttime that lends itself more or less to being indoors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I am happy for it. Good move.

Why?

I plan pickleball, I don't play basketball?

My kids play basketball, but I don't begrudge a gym taking some basketball space for pickleball, yoga, pilates, etc. I want a healthy community and I like to see the old people out there enjoying themselves. (I guess the old people didn't like seeing kids playing basketball).
Honestly, yu sound very self-centered.

Stop calling people old

Old is not an insult. Old is just a fact. We only saw old people ever playing pickleball.

[Anonymous]

Lifetime everywhere has gone steeply downhill in the past 5 years.

[Anonymous]

LA Fitness used to have basketball courts. Anyone know if they still do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lifetime everywhere has gone steeply downhill in the past 5 years.

The Centreville location is the grubbiest, dirtiest one I have seen, also. Surprising they aren't doing everything they can to try to keep anyone willing to pay to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I repeat Lifetime Centreville a lot in my comment, will this thread show up on google results? I don't know how the algorhythms work.
Lifetime Centreville hates families.
Lifetime Centreville hates the Centreville community.
Lifetime Centreville is a gym for senior citizens only.
Lifetime Centreville does not ask for or listen to customer feedback.

They did. You lost. Maybe try a Y if you're looking for catering to kids/"families".

[Anonymous]

Vienna Community Center has both basketball and pickleball

[Anonymous]

Doesn't every park in America have a basketball court.

[Anonymous]

Onelife says they have basketball in Sterling and Brambleton. I know they have it in Tysons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I repeat Lifetime Centreville a lot in my comment, will this thread show up on google results? I don't know how the algorhythms work.
Lifetime Centreville hates families.
Lifetime Centreville hates the Centreville community.
Lifetime Centreville is a gym for senior citizens only.
Lifetime Centreville does not ask for or listen to customer feedback.

They did. You lost. Maybe try a Y if you're looking for catering to kids/"families".

I certainly never receive any kind of email or request for feedback. Did you? I didn't know all the customers were supposed to just be sending in comments unasked on a plan no one knew about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't every park in America have a basketball court.

not indoors. and obviously playing on an indoor court is much better in every way. And they aren't reducing the membership fees to reflect the lack of basketball. In fact they are telling people if they want to keep the basic amenity of court space, they have to drive 30 minutes to go elsewhere AND pay a whole lot more. Hence the unhappy customers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I am happy for it. Good move.

Why?

I plan pickleball, I don't play basketball?

My kids play basketball, but I don't begrudge a gym taking some basketball space for pickleball, yoga, pilates, etc. I want a healthy community and I like to see the old people out there enjoying themselves. (I guess the old people didn't like seeing kids playing basketball).
Honestly, yu sound very self-centered.

Stop calling people old

Old is not an insult. Old is just a fact. We only saw old people ever playing pickleball.

Your world view and information is pretty out of date. There are more than 100 college campuses with pickleball now. It’s increasingly popular with the “kids” in their 20s. It’s one of the few athletic activities that appeals to people age 8-80. Lifetime clearly has done their market research.

There are plenty of parks with basketball courts - send your kids there.