Enjoy a healthy, active lifestyle. Join the fastest-growing sport, and have fun playing pickleball. Pickleball may eventually become an Olympic sport. You don’t need to have played tennis or any racquet sports to excel at pickleball. Tennis pros of all ages and abilities are moving to pickleball. See this video “Pickleball Basics”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vk-c8TdC28&t=7s
Easy Pickleball Rules
Singles or doubles: Pickleball is played on a 20' x 44' court with a net. Paddles are made up of composite materials, which may include polymers, fiberglass, aluminum, and graphite. They are smaller than tennis racquets and larger than ping-pong paddles. The game is played with a plastic ball with holes, similar to a wiffleball.
Games are played to 11 points, and many of the rules are the opposite of those in tennis. These include only getting points when you (or your doubles partner) are serving, no second serve and the service return must bounce before being hit. Here is a video on how to avoid the Top 10 beginner pickleball mistakes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDfcoJG-pQ
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Pickleball Lingo:
Flapjack: For each serve and return of serve, players must allow the opponent's ball to bounce before they hit it. Those bouncing starters are called flapjacks, for some unknowable reason.
Dillball: An incoming ball that has bounced once, and is thus available for you to thwack.
The kitchen: A 7-foot zone on either side of the net, where you’re forbidden to hit the ball unless it has bounced first. This rule prevents smashes from the kitchen, which are dangerous at close quarters.
Dink shot: An annoying shot in which the ball is plinked from your kitchen into your opponent’s, with little hope of return.
Opa! After two bounce-hit sequences, players may shout “opa!” to signify that from now on it’s OK to hit a ball out of the air (unless you’re standing in the kitchen, in which case you need to review your pickleball rules).
Pickled: If you fail to score any points in a game, you have been pickled. But that will remind you: It’s time for cocktail hour with your new pickleball besties. Order a dirty martini, with pickle juice. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTvPYdKZqO0
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Winter Weather in Your Area? Go South to Play!
Many players from northern states, Canada, and Europe travel to Mexico, such as La Ventana, Baja California, Mexico.
The new pickleball courts are just 2 hours from Cabo airport (or 45 minutes from the La Paz airport). If you stay in La Ventana it is a quick drive or walk from the Tango Azul vacation apartments. The courts overlook the Sea of Cortez and are open to members and the public from October to April. Members only on Tuesday & Friday. Public drop-in Mon, Wed, Thur, Sat, and Sun. Drop-in Fee - 200 Pesos, cash only!
For more information go to:
https://www.facebook.com/p/Tango-Azul-Pickleball-Resort-100082970300231/
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