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Its like tennis/pingpong... the court is a badminton court but they play "tennis" with a wiffle ball. My dad is 70 and hes so loving into it is insane. He's even a sponsor for the company that manufactures the paddles. He sells paddles to other olds. Has anyone even heard of it? We are doing a charity event for work on friday, I got them to donate to it a pair of paddles a couple wiffle balls and a carry bag. I was wondering if anyone would even bid on a set of paddles and a couple balls and a case to hold them in. We have a good amount of older people at my work site that stay active. Tell me goons. Have you heard of pickleball? Thoughts?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgljuzMdSh0
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Jul 21, 2016 02:23
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Your dads playing with your pickle and ball?
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Jul 21, 2016 02:23
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We had a whole month of pickleball in high school gym, pickleball owns.
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Jul 21, 2016 02:34
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shabbat goy posted:We had a whole month of pickleball in high school gym, pickleball owns. wow really? how long ago was this?
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Jul 21, 2016 02:39
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you enjoyed it?
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Jul 21, 2016 02:40
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my dads's dead
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Jul 21, 2016 02:41
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Like 10 years ago, and yeah, it was fun. I hope more goons can share their pickleball memories in this thread, thank you OP 😇🎾💯
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Jul 21, 2016 02:44
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we used to play it in middle school but I was surprised to learn in my adult life that it wasn't played in the locker room showers while the gym teacher sits in a La-Z-Boy
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Jul 21, 2016 02:46
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It's funny that they named a sport after a medical condition the olds are facing.
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Jul 21, 2016 02:53
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Good input keep it up
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Jul 21, 2016 02:53
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Pickle ball is a middle school game not an old people game. Played that poo poo until 5th grade then it was uncool.
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Jul 21, 2016 02:54
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My grandparents play pickleball at the local senior center, which my grandpa is one of the board chair members of. Welp, that's all I got, thanks for reading.
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Jul 21, 2016 02:58
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Pope Mobile posted:Pickle ball is a middle school game not an old people game. Played that poo poo until 5th grade then it was uncool. WRONG My friend's grandpa taught us how to play pickleball (it was in an old folks community, they all played it). I can confirm that it's a very fun and cool game.
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Jul 21, 2016 02:58
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literally this big posted:WRONG gotta say... this game is legit popular with olds right now.
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Jul 21, 2016 03:00
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I would rather assassinate my own balls with a pound of c4 than learn about pickleball
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Jul 21, 2016 03:03
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i am very interested in this
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Wendigee posted:gotta say... this game is legit popular with olds right now. Yes, I went to look at the community center where I am to teach an Aikido class in the fall, and when I asked about using the gym, the director laughed and told me the gym is only for pickle ball.
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Jul 21, 2016 03:07
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it does sound fun. cant wait till im old
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cloven hoof posted:Yes, I went to look at the community center where I am to teach an Aikido class in the fall, and when I asked about using the gym, the director laughed and told me the gym is only for pickle ball. yeah its gaining popularity like you wouldn't beleive. I'm really surprised so many people touched it in middle school! It was not part of my middle school gym. If anyone actually wants a set of awesome paddles, https://www.selkirk.com/, i can get you a really good price through my dad I bet. Since he retired he golfs every morning and pickle balls a couple matches every afternoon and sells selkirk paddles and equipment between games. He even teaches classes in pickleball every week for the local park and recreation dudes.
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apparently the best guys in the world right now are from europe and they are 35 and 40.... lol. wow how are you beating people who are 70 years old it is a mystery!
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Jul 21, 2016 03:15
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What if a fit 22 year old tennis player joined pickle ball for giggles?
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Wendigee posted:What if a fit 22 year old tennis player joined pickle ball for giggles? all of the olds would hit on them and grope them and then deny it and act all feeble and poo poo
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Jul 21, 2016 03:24
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I've thought about this for a while and I decided that I would like to play pickleball with your dad
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Jul 21, 2016 03:25
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shabbat goy posted:I've thought about this for a while and I decided that I would like to play pickleball with your dad my dad is a great guy. I've listened to his jokes for over 30 years so they might make you grin. I'm done though.
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Jul 21, 2016 03:33
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Has anyone heard of spikeball?
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my college offered pickleball for one of its required "go outside you nerds" phys ed classes. fun fact the sport was named after a dog. the dogs name was pickles
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Jul 21, 2016 04:27
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how many players on a pickle ball team?
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Jul 21, 2016 04:28
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Wendigee posted:Its like tennis/pingpong... the court is a badminton court but they play "tennis" with a wiffle ball. seems cool & good for old people to stay active
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Jul 21, 2016 04:58
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shuffleboard is the ultimate old man's sport
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Jul 21, 2016 05:50
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My hometown in Florida is about to host the Finals or Worlds Series of Pickleball or something. I hadn't heard about it before, but your OP makes it sound great.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:58
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No. You should gently caress your gay dad op. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Pickleball is cool. A place my dad was living for a while had a court and we played a few times, kinda like a fun half way between table tennis and real tennis. Would recommend for olds and non-olds alike.
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Jul 21, 2016 07:13
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literally this big posted:WRONG I never said kids are smart.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:my college offered pickleball for one of its required "go outside you nerds" phys ed classes. fun fact the sport was named after a dog. the dogs name was pickles  ?
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Jul 21, 2016 07:22
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A buddy of mine who plays tennis plays pickle ball with a bunch of old people. It's very much an old man sport, but so is tennis.
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Jul 21, 2016 08:02
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Is there a Wii version?
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The thing about pickle ball is it's significantly harder to seriously hurt yourself with the equipment than many cases of sportsball, which means you can almost kinda sort trust dipshit middle schoolers with it.
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I played pickle ball in jr. high and high school and it was a good game. Biggest downside was chasing the balls across the gym when they went out of bounds.
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reignonyourparade posted:The thing about pickle ball is it's significantly harder to seriously hurt yourself with the equipment than many cases of sportsball, which means you can almost kinda sort trust dipshit middle schoolers with it. We were idiot children that would try to scissor jump the net and faceplant on the gym floor. Good times.
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