What’s your adult sport?

It was my first game and everything my body knew was wrong. It's not that I was trying to play tennis, it was just that my eye and brain could not make the jump in racket length easily. Sorta like growing up on water skis and then getting on snow the first time. It wasn't pretty.

And all the post exercise peeps cooling off with a glass of juice were sitting there watching me corkscrew into the floor through the glass back wall, which wasn't a help.

 

If a gym still has racquetball it most likely is going to have the glass back wall, although not all do. Some just back up to basketball courts, some to the main lobby (weird for sure). Our gym used to have the latter until they remodeled and turned the courts into office space! Still have two by the basketball courts, but they have solid back walls. You get used to it. I actually don't think people care much outside the curious glance. Not sure the point other than spectating (good at tourneys). Some people prefer them to play on, but don't really know what kind of advantage that is.

 

This place had multiple courts, eight if I recall, with two in the lobby. I found it hard to judge anything off the back wall (although to be fair, that didn't come into play much), but mostly I was just self conscious about playing so poorly.

 

I know nothing about pickleball other than my mom started up when she retired, got addicted for a few months then quit after falling and breaking her arm. Could someone please explain it?

 

Oddly enough, I can snow ski but not snowboard, and I can wakeboard but not waterski.

 

You know what I'd really like to do that I used to? Skateboard, downhill cruising, cutting lines. Two problems. I'd prolly spend $150 or so on a board and still need pads, and my wife's gonna smack me in the head because I'm stupid enough to go out and break some elderly bones.

As to skis, I was decent on a slalom ski, but I was never on snow enough to even start to get competent. My experience was that the weight shifts were opposite, water and snow and made me bust my ass, but it may have been as simple as I sucked on snow. The obvious difference is the tow rope, which gives you a fixed point to leverage against. I've never tried a snowboard.

Not a big snow guy, I guess. Not enough to go seek it out. The lake, the beach, the river instead.

 

Basically... Think tennis, but a smaller court. You use ping pong paddles and a larger whiffle ball. It's an active game, but not quite as active as tennis. I haven't played it for about 20 years though - Oddly, it was a gym class game in the early 2000s for us.

 

About 20 years ago, my wife and I skied about every other weekend during the season. I loved it. As time passed, the time and expense (when lift tickets exploded) just didn't seem worth it. I sold our gear this past winter. It's pretty much the same way with golf now. I tossed out my shoes last year when I realized the uppers and soles had separated, and I'd probably take a reasonable price for my clubs. I haven't played in 6-7 years maybe.

 

It's like ping pong on a makeshift tennis court. The ball is bigger. Ball off paddle makes hollow sounds.

It's the fastest growing "sport" in America.

 

I think of pickleball the way I used to think of shuffleboard.

 

Fat mans tennis.

 

What happened to squash?

When I went off to university in 1990, all the city prep kids played it. Even when I started working as a lawyer in the later 90s it seemed popular.

Every health club/gym back then advertised that they had courts. Now I never hear it mentioned.