Anyone else not get pickleball?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like every other day another friend becomes obsessed with pickleball or another place I go to installs pickleball courts.

I don’t get it. It’s just hitting a ball around, right? Like I get that might be fun sometimes but I don’t get the obsession.

This describes many sports…tennis, baseball, ping pong…it’s just hitting a ball around.

[Anonymous]

Pickleball is for LOSERS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For most people it’s a hit and giggle sport. I’ve played tennis for 50 years and when I hear people say “you’d be great at pickleball because it’s so easy” I barf. The injury risk is huge as it requires quick twisting, bending and sudden moves and people aren’t ready for that. Orthopedics love it as it fills up their waiting rooms. It’s exercise which is good but that’s about it.

Silly. If injuries were such a concern nobody would be running, ever.

[Anonymous]

Thwack thwack

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I get it. It's for nonathletic people to socialize and pretend like they're getting exercise.

It is exercise. Non athletic people need a lower level of intensity.

The games I see are very intense!

+1 I played for an hour today in 90 degrees. Not quite a low energy workout. Plenty of cardio.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I get it. It's for nonathletic people to socialize and pretend like they're getting exercise.

It is exercise. Non athletic people need a lower level of intensity.

The games I see are very intense!

+1 I played for an hour today in 90 degrees. Not quite a low energy workout. Plenty of cardio.

Now Imagine if you played a real sport in 90 degrees

[Anonymous]

99.999% of PB players play double, which does not require much movement. Single PB, on the other hand, is very intense, and it requires a lot of movement. You can get a superb workout in PB single, not so much with PB double.

The social aspect of PB can not be understated. There are so many young people playing PB, and it is a great way for them to meet each other and to socialize. My 25-year-old DS was a former D1 tennis player, and he is now playing PB 80% of the time and tennis 20% of the time. It is because there are many single women in the PB league. He also asked a few of them out on dates after meeting/playing with them in PB leagues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I get it. It's for nonathletic people to socialize and pretend like they're getting exercise.

It is exercise. Non athletic people need a lower level of intensity.

The games I see are very intense!

+1 I played for an hour today in 90 degrees. Not quite a low energy workout. Plenty of cardio.

Now Imagine if you played a real sport in 90 degrees

The only sport that gets me as good of a workout is basketball. What sport gives you a better workout?

[Anonymous]

Why pickle ball and not doubles tennis? This is what I can't figure out.

[Anonymous]

you don't have to get it.

it is fun and a social outing as well. you do not have to be an expert at sports to play it, thus lots of people like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:99.999% of PB players play double, which does not require much movement. Single PB, on the other hand, is very intense, and it requires a lot of movement. You can get a superb workout in PB single, not so much with PB double.

The social aspect of PB can not be understated. There are so many young people playing PB, and it is a great way for them to meet each other and to socialize. My 25-year-old DS was a former D1 tennis player, and he is now playing PB 80% of the time and tennis 20% of the time. It is because there are many single women in the PB league. He also asked a few of them out on dates after meeting/playing with them in PB leagues.

Must’ve been a bum tennis player who’s resorting to beating up on yuppies

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:99.999% of PB players play double, which does not require much movement. Single PB, on the other hand, is very intense, and it requires a lot of movement. You can get a superb workout in PB single, not so much with PB double.

The social aspect of PB can not be understated. There are so many young people playing PB, and it is a great way for them to meet each other and to socialize. My 25-year-old DS was a former D1 tennis player, and he is now playing PB 80% of the time and tennis 20% of the time. It is because there are many single women in the PB league. He also asked a few of them out on dates after meeting/playing with them in PB leagues.

Must’ve been a bum tennis player who’s resorting to beating up on yuppies

What a strangely odd take. The kid is using it as a social outing. It’s the same as claiming a bum baseball player is playing in a softball league in order to “beat up on yuppies”.

BTW, are you a thousand years old using the term yuppies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why pickle ball and not doubles tennis? This is what I can't figure out.

Pickle ball is easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why pickle ball and not doubles tennis? This is what I can't figure out.

Because tennis is harder? Is this really so difficult to understand? Do
you do anything just for fun?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why pickle ball and not doubles tennis? This is what I can't figure out.

It’s harder to find tennis partners at the same level.