Saturday, November 14, 2015

Passionate about pickleball: Game beloved by Peninsula locals both young and old [* Photo Gallery *] -- Peninsula Daily NEWS



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"What is pickleball?

What's pickleball?

Well, toss together tennis and badminton and ping-pong.

Actually, imagine yourself standing on a 20-foot-wide, 44-foot-long ping-pong table, wielding an oversize paddle and batting at a wiffle-like plastic ball that travels at about a third the speed of its fuzzy tennis counterpart.

Richard Cary has started today's session by squeegeeing the courts with a sort of giant spongy roller that eliminates the worst of the puddles.

Then it's time for a few warm-up swats before the doubles matches begin in earnest.

“Here, we're what they call slammers,” Cary confides as he balances on the balls of his feet and awaits his opponent's serve."












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  1. Pickleball is a paddleball sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton, and table tennis.
    If you want to play Pickleball in Toronto then Canada Elite badminton and sports is the best.

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