The people that play it here are all retirees and young professionals and they take it incredibly seriously. They take up half the basketball courts and drive kids who want to shoot hoops out of the rec center. The wear patterns it puts on the courts are so concentrated they have to be resurfaced twice as often and once pickleballs been played on a court for two seasons you can’t play basketball or volleyball on it anymore because of the slick spots.
Pickleball is played on the nearest courts so new people wanting to play basketball or volleyball or whatever with their kids see fifty loud af boomers and elder millennials grunting and checking each other out and Abe Simpson on out of there.
The management of play used to be run by the rec center but they got tired of dealing with it and let the players run it so now there’s a hyper regimented schedule and even if you did want to play pickleball with your kid or solo, whoops it’s mixed doubles day, whoops it’s a league night, whoops this is clinic hours. All of those examples are scheduled during the 330-6 primo after school time too.
A decent portion of the out of shape crossfit ppl who were only into crossfit for the swinging are now pickleball people, so the benches are full of the grossest motherfuckers you can imagine trying to figure out how to fuck each other down.
It’s awful and I’d thanos snap the pickleballers out of existence if I could.
E: I’m sure it’s fine if you aren’t exposed to it ruining something you like every goddamned day.
I use to work in a situation that gave me access to the minutes of HOA meetings. Converting basketball courts to pickleball courts was always the hot topic of discussion at them. The boomers that wanted it done would preform all sorts of surveys and take samples of player counts per hour as evidence that no one plays basketball. They were never happy with the courts they had and always wanted more.
The people that play it here are all retirees and young professionals and they take it incredibly seriously. They take up half the basketball courts and drive kids who want to shoot hoops out of the rec center. The wear patterns it puts on the courts are so concentrated they have to be resurfaced twice as often and once pickleballs been played on a court for two seasons you can’t play basketball or volleyball on it anymore because of the slick spots.
Pickleball is played on the nearest courts so new people wanting to play basketball or volleyball or whatever with their kids see fifty loud af boomers and elder millennials grunting and checking each other out and Abe Simpson on out of there.
The management of play used to be run by the rec center but they got tired of dealing with it and let the players run it so now there’s a hyper regimented schedule and even if you did want to play pickleball with your kid or solo, whoops it’s mixed doubles day, whoops it’s a league night, whoops this is clinic hours. All of those examples are scheduled during the 330-6 primo after school time too.
A decent portion of the out of shape crossfit ppl who were only into crossfit for the swinging are now pickleball people, so the benches are full of the grossest motherfuckers you can imagine trying to figure out how to fuck each other down.
It’s awful and I’d thanos snap the pickleballers out of existence if I could.
E: I’m sure it’s fine if you aren’t exposed to it ruining something you like every goddamned day.
I use to work in a situation that gave me access to the minutes of HOA meetings. Converting basketball courts to pickleball courts was always the hot topic of discussion at them. The boomers that wanted it done would preform all sorts of surveys and take samples of player counts per hour as evidence that no one plays basketball. They were never happy with the courts they had and always wanted more.