... Pickleball?

[fatlazyless]

Besides the Meredith Community Center with its' three pickleball courts, and the Laconia Communty Center with two pickleball courts; are there any other lakes region towns that play pickleball?

www.newhampshire.sportsvite.com/sports/Pickleball is a big long list of NH pickleball venues.

Probably, pickleball seems to be way more popular than playing indoor winter tennis in the lakes region because these two local town recreation centers have made it very inexpensive to play.....plus it is probably much easier to get good fast with pickleball than with tennis. Tennis can be a difficult sport to get started in, and can seem pretty expensive at the local tennis club which is not really an apples to apples comparision....while pickleball is pretty reasonably priced to play.

What the Town of Meredith really needs and wants is an indoor-year round tennis facility with about six indoor courts, all air-conditioned and heated, and with a red clay court surface. Time to contact your Meredith town selectmen.......Meredith indoor tennis.....ace that....ho-ho-ho!

And....the Meredith Community Center has a super-terrific indoor gym that's big enough for three pickleball courts. It also has some type of synthetic plastic floor that does not attract black marks from black rubber sneaker soles as does a hardwood floor, and it has a number of translucent windows placed up high that work very well to allow a lot of diffused natural sunlight into the large gym.

Plus, when the temps outside are in the deep freeze, the pickleball gym is a good warm spot to go chill out.

[RLW]

OK, I'll bite. what the heck is pickleball. Here I'm 75 and have never heard of it. Is it a southern states type of game?:confused:

Where in heck do you come up with these weird subjects, do you sit up half the night thinking about stuff that you might think will amuse us all. I have to say you have been doing a dam good job at it. I get more chuckles out of them.

I had to put this in as I have seen the 0 responses for to long.

[onceMeg]

It's a popular sport in southern states, yes, but it's also played all over. In fact, it started in Washington (state). Yup, it's a goofy name. Basically I describe it as a cross between ping pong and tennis. Imaging hitting a whiffle ball over a net on a reduced size tennis court, using paddles similar to a ping pong variety. You can get a workout, but you don't have to run around as much as tennis (the ball doesn't bounce much, or travel too fast). Here's the Wikipedia page about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickleball Have Fun with it!

[webmaster]

Check this thread for more about Pickleball:

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13626

[Meredith AK]

We played it while visiting my in-laws in Florida.
Liked it so much, converted our paved basketball court and added the net.
Our teenage son and friends have some very competitive games.
They even shovel off the court in 40+ degree weather to play in the winter; try to get a teenager to shovel anything voluntarily....

[Lrpickleball]

There are lots of places to play pickleball around here all year round. I have a website: http://lrpickleball.jimdo.com
that lists many of the places to play around the lakes region.

[Slickcraft]

Thanks for the post says my wife who plays in Alton (central school and PMHS) and Laconia.