Everything you need to know (and more!) about pickleball.
When you’re in the middle of the hustle and bustle of city life, you learn to manage it all.
I was in LA for four days and each night, I took off on the freeway to hang out with my friends who I met through this blog. We hit up the best burger joints and went to all the best museums. While I was busy seeing all the best things, I also had a chance to enjoy one of my favorite summer pasttimes: Pickleball.
Pickleball is an absolute blast; it’s fast, it’s physical, it allows you to work on your skills, and it’s totally social. Pickleball is very similar to other team sports like volleyball (volleyball is played almost exclusively indoors!). It’s a pretty easy sport to pick up and to play.
Pickleball is played on a court made up of two tables. It’s divided into two teams, each which has one player on each table. The player can jump, hit the ball over the net, or drop a ball. The player on the table can catch the ball with their hand or with a pickleball, and then use the pickleball to score points by lobbing the ball back and forth to their partner on the same table. In Pickleball, the more lobs and the faster the player throws the ball back to their partner, the higher they score.
It’s really a simple game, but it’s a lot of fun!
Pickleball is played in several different locations all over California and in many different cities throughout the world. It is extremely popular in places like the LA area, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, and many other cities around the world. In fact, in the San Francisco Bay Area, it’s one of the top two picks after beach volleyball.
Here are a few things I learned when I tried to catch up with two of the most influential pickleball players in the world today:
The first pickleball player I ever met and played with was a guy from Ohio. Mike Riggs helped us find an off-campus apartment for our first pickleball trip to