Paraguay Pickle Perspective

[travlerajm]

I was talking with a tennis friend here in paraguay today about which sports are popular in the US and which are popular here. She agreed with me that tennis is number two here after fútbol.

Of course pickleball came up. I told her it’s the fastest growing sport in the US, but that as a tennis player I wasn’t a fan.

“What’s pickleball?” she asked?

I pulled up some pictures on the internet of the ball, the paddles, the court, and people playing. I explained the rules. I told her that within 3 years, pickleball would probably arrive down here in paraguay.

She was incredulous. “No! There is no way. It doesn’t look fun. I know my people! They will reject it!”

I told her that when the pickleball folks arrive, they will start trying to take over the public tennis courts.

“No! It won’t be possible. The tennis players at NuGua will not let them. They will fight them to the death with knives before they give up their courts.”

 

[Purestriker]

I was talking with a tennis friend here in paraguay today about which sports are popular in the US and which are popular here. She agreed with me that tennis is number two here after fútbol.

Of course pickleball came up. I told her it’s the fastest growing sport in the US, but that as a tennis player I wasn’t a fan.

“What’s pickleball?” she asked?

I pulled up some pictures on the internet of the ball, the paddles, the court, and people playing. I explained the rules. I told her that within 3 years, pickleball would probably arrive down here in paraguay.

She was incredulous. “No! There is no way. It doesn’t look fun. I know my people! They will reject it!”

I told her that when the pickleball folks arrive, they will start trying to take over the public tennis courts.

“No! It won’t be possible. The tennis players at NuGua will not let them. They will fight them to the death with knives before they give up their courts.”

Live by the pickle, die by the sword.

 

[Dartagnan64]

I was talking with a tennis friend here in paraguay today about which sports are popular in the US and which are popular here. She agreed with me that tennis is number two here after fútbol.

Of course pickleball came up. I told her it’s the fastest growing sport in the US, but that as a tennis player I wasn’t a fan.

“What’s pickleball?” she asked?

I pulled up some pictures on the internet of the ball, the paddles, the court, and people playing. I explained the rules. I told her that within 3 years, pickleball would probably arrive down here in paraguay.

She was incredulous. “No! There is no way. It doesn’t look fun. I know my people! They will reject it!”

I told her that when the pickleball folks arrive, they will start trying to take over the public tennis courts.

“No! It won’t be possible. The tennis players at NuGua will not let them. They will fight them to the death with knives before they give up their courts.”

I felt this way in Canada as well, but the PB wave is starting to arrive. If your country has any well heeled old people, PB is a seeming certainty.

But it's certainly a craze in the US, a country that has made a living out of making every thing "convenient." I'm not sure PB will ever get to that level in other countries.

I tell most of my American friends down here in the Desert: There are 3 things I'll never understand about America - gun culture, pickle ball and your politics.