Pickle is all about bending. Very irritating.
Unlike Pickleball, Padel is a Legitimate Sport !!!
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konstantinos kalfountzos
Hall of Fame
I agree the lower net is a joke! Normal tennis neight height would be great.
Do you happen to know if Padel rackets and Beach rackets do the job for Pop Tennis?
Padel and Pop rackets seems to be both 38mm thick and around 350-360 grams. Beach tennis are a bit thinner.
difference from tennis: the difference at the center of the net is only 2 inches, it can be 6 inches difference at the side-lines.
a10best
Legend
yep. if pb is irritating it's a good thing they're not on a tennis or padel court.
konstantinos kalfountzos
Hall of Fame
Will most probably play Padel on Sunday, for the second time.Padel is super.
Found out today that a guy at my tennis club who used to play here and coached his son and daughter to high school tennis is playing Pickleball now and never seen for tennis.
This is sadder than @ByeByePoly
This is sadder than @ByeByePoly
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
My friend (a tennis player converted to pb) commented that there is something especially satisfying about the feel of sticking a putaway volley in Padel. The extra mass of the Padel and ball give the collision a feeling of impact substance that is lacking in pickleball.
travlerajm
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Your city is in the opening stages of a fierce battle for paddle sport supremacy. Padel is gaining momentum there and fueled by San Diego’s ties to Mexican heritage, but it has ceded a head start to its ugly gringo-inspired cousin.
The CEO of Barnes was almost lured away to become the CEO of the world Padel body or something like that, but finally decided to stay. He is a former SDSU D1 tennis player who is now seen playing Padel there.
travlerajm
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I notice that at Barnes, the Padel courts are in the center of the campus. But the picklers are relegated to the outer edge.
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
It appears he played tennis with his UTR 11.x son in a father/son tourney recently. He has not been lost to the dark side.
tennis4me
Legend
Padel seems to be more physically demanding than pickleball. It also has a lot more freedom of movements compared to Pickleball with it's kitchen thingy which I've always found a little cringe. We will probably get a lot more exercise with Padel compared to Pickleball. As to whether it will spread like pickleball across the country, hmm - probably not likely as the pickleball courts are so much cheaper to "build".
Looks like currently Florida is the center of Padel with Texas experiencing significant growth. CA, NV, and NY are also developing new padel courts.
Looks like currently Florida is the center of Padel with Texas experiencing significant growth. CA, NV, and NY are also developing new padel courts.
Might be related to construction issues and what came first
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
Ben Johns, the World # pickleball player, did not start playing pickleball until age 17.
But he had extensive training from young age in both tennis and ping pong.
Is there a typo here?? Where is the "clear difference"?
Yeah looks funny but then I didn't write it
Problem with tennis in a nutshell, from a Facebook post:
Has anyone here taught themselves to play? I'm in my late 40's but I'm athletic and fit. I recently hired a coach but that was disappointing at best. I've played a lot for fun when I was younger, but I didn't realize how little I knew about proper swing mechanics until I met with the coach (he was great by the way). But I can't afford the kind of commitment he was going to require. So I'm left with the little instruction he gave+YouTube. It's hard because all the clubs near me have long waiting lists (or residence-restricted access) and I don't have access to public courts nearby. I live far away from all the good tennis centers with adult beginner programs. So time-wise, I can probably practice once or twice a week. Wondering if it's even worth the effort. I don't have any friends who play (thanks Pickleball), so I'd basically be practicing alone for a few months until I'm comfortable showing up at a tennis center to play with new people. I love the sport but never realized how hard it is to get into tennis as an adult. It's pretty disappointing.
Has anyone here taught themselves to play? I'm in my late 40's but I'm athletic and fit. I recently hired a coach but that was disappointing at best. I've played a lot for fun when I was younger, but I didn't realize how little I knew about proper swing mechanics until I met with the coach (he was great by the way). But I can't afford the kind of commitment he was going to require. So I'm left with the little instruction he gave+YouTube. It's hard because all the clubs near me have long waiting lists (or residence-restricted access) and I don't have access to public courts nearby. I live far away from all the good tennis centers with adult beginner programs. So time-wise, I can probably practice once or twice a week. Wondering if it's even worth the effort. I don't have any friends who play (thanks Pickleball), so I'd basically be practicing alone for a few months until I'm comfortable showing up at a tennis center to play with new people. I love the sport but never realized how hard it is to get into tennis as an adult. It's pretty disappointing.
SeeItHitIt
Professional
Paddle tennis/platform tennis - in the cold - great winter sport. Once the ball gets to 40-45* it’s wayyyy too lively, so playing in the south is out of the question. Nothing like starting a 90 minute court at 8pm or 7am sunrise league, with the thermometer hovering at 2*. After a half hour youve peeled off half of your gear and soaked with sweat.
Pickle is just horrible. It’s the racquetball of the ‘20’s. Will be dead and gone soon enough…free outdoor courts are the only reason you see the uncoordinated crowd give it a shot.
Pickle is just horrible. It’s the racquetball of the ‘20’s. Will be dead and gone soon enough…free outdoor courts are the only reason you see the uncoordinated crowd give it a shot.
I get the part about court access problems, but I don't really get the coaching part. Plenty of people have a great time playing tennis without much coaching. The poster played a lot for fun when they were younger - if it was fun then, it can be fun now.
He won't easily find people who are willing to play with a beginner
travlerajm
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those people are easy to find. They are called coaches.
WYK
Legend
Man, I loved racketball. WIsh they had it here instead of squash. I played on both the college racketball and tennis teams.
Another great alternative to that sorry pickle game is Touch Tennis.
You can play it as fast or as slow as you like.
MUCH less headache noises than pickle
AAATSportingGoods
Rookie
I meant for free. I was lucky to find oldies who needed a 4th for doubles and just needed a dink serve from him. I climbed the ladder of grandmas and grandpas to the dizzying heights that I am at today.
WYK
Legend
With touch, you can use the same strokes as tennis, similar racquets, and similar ball behaviour, just on a smaller scale. The whole idea is it is the same on a smaller scale.
All of this without the horrific noise of a plastic ball.
You actually would rather play pickle, feel free.
Good news is that Bobby Riggs "Tennis" club is in trouble @travlerajm
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onehandbh
G.O.A.T.
How much are the padel courts per hour?
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
More expensive than pickleball but cheaper than tennis.
onehandbh
G.O.A.T.
In my area there are 10+ times more padel courts and they are more expensive than tennis courts. Sometimes 2x as much.
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
Probably because it’s expensive to ship walls of plexiglas to the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Padel players look like animals trapped in cages in a zoo. I prefer an open setting.
onehandbh
G.O.A.T.
There is much more demand for padel here. Some tennis courts even got torn up and converted to padel. A soccer field was recently ripped up and is being turned into padel courts.
100s of courts have popped up in the last few years.
Many tennis instructors are switching to teaching padel as a result.
Some observations:
Also, it is 10x easier for a beginner to learn to play padel and have a rally.
More social because you are closer to each other and most people play doubles.
More males want to play because more females and models play than tennis.
For the same land size of a tennis court, you can build a few padel courts and generate 3x as much money.
When your doubles partner is naughty, your padel can be used to give your partner a spanking.
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
I should play more Padel.
onehandbh
G.O.A.T.
Another observation:
The egotesticle 3.5 guys who try and blast flat groundstrokes at females at the net does not encourage models to want to learn to play tennis.
This is a FB post from today @ByeByePoly :
If your neighborhood received an emergency evacuation alert and you had 5 minutes to grab your most valuable possessions how many of us would grab our pickleball paddle(s)?
If your neighborhood received an emergency evacuation alert and you had 5 minutes to grab your most valuable possessions how many of us would grab our pickleball paddle(s)?
travlerajm
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I would leave mine behind to drown or burn.
I always keep them in my car so the question does not apply to me.
At Costco, I ran into one of my son's former coaches (former D1 player) from @socallefty's club. He was limping bc he played padel and broke his leg. He was down in North county San Diego. Apparently, they have indoor plexiglass courts. Sounds fun (minus the broken leg).
Padel Haus is opening near me soon. After looking at the prices, I will stick to tennis and pickleball.
At Padel Haus, renting a court costs $65 an hour at peak weekend times, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Members pay $37.50 per hour; membership at one location is $140 a month. The lower-cost times are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays: $25 for members and $40 for nonmembers.
Another tennis/pickleball/padel club further away charges $125 a month and tennis and pickleball is included but the uncovered padel courts cost another $5-$7 an hour.
At Padel Haus, renting a court costs $65 an hour at peak weekend times, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Members pay $37.50 per hour; membership at one location is $140 a month. The lower-cost times are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays: $25 for members and $40 for nonmembers.
Another tennis/pickleball/padel club further away charges $125 a month and tennis and pickleball is included but the uncovered padel courts cost another $5-$7 an hour.
Was that King of Padel?
Not sure. In Oceanside
DropWideShot
Semi-Pro
Padel is cool and still demanding in its own way, but I always tell my tennis friends that want something fun and dynamic to try paddle tennis (or pop tennis). One underhand serve to start the point and the rest is all tennis. Courts are not so common but you can take over a pickle court and make it happen.
konstantinos kalfountzos
Hall of Fame
Singles Pickleball is very fun, quite demanding on footwork and is something everyone should try at least a few times. I find Pickleball much less stressful than Tennis. The major difference between Pickleball and Tennis for my level and for recreational level in general is that one can get into playing Singles Picklebal Matches almost right away, since the serve is super easy to start the games and the learning curve is just much faster than tennis which, in turn, makes Pickleball much more accessible to much more people on an instant.
The most difficult part of Pickleball for me is to find people to play. They just don't know about it and there are not Pickleball courts. I set-up my court with a portable pickleball net I got in the acrylic yard of a nearby Primary School yard. So, I actually have a Pickleball court available for me anytime I want, but very few people (yet interested) to play.
Padel is a but more demanding and one should have some short of athletisism in order to play a match, mostly to keep themselves out of a possible injury from the heavier pader racket, contact with the glass and contact with the side fences.
I've never played Doubles-Tennis, but I much more enjoy playing Padel with some of my tennis hitting partners and other friends that don't play tennis, but can hit the beach tennis ball with the wooden rackets.
The most difficult part of Pickleball for me is to find people to play. They just don't know about it and there are not Pickleball courts. I set-up my court with a portable pickleball net I got in the acrylic yard of a nearby Primary School yard. So, I actually have a Pickleball court available for me anytime I want, but very few people (yet interested) to play.
Padel is a but more demanding and one should have some short of athletisism in order to play a match, mostly to keep themselves out of a possible injury from the heavier pader racket, contact with the glass and contact with the side fences.
I've never played Doubles-Tennis, but I much more enjoy playing Padel with some of my tennis hitting partners and other friends that don't play tennis, but can hit the beach tennis ball with the wooden rackets.
ByeByePoly
Talk Tennis Guru
lol … I like the loud sound at contact. Some of the newer pickleball paddles are starting to have hollow sounding “boom”. It makes your 10 mph wiffle shots sound like 100 mph.
Building a Padel court is a commitment … don’t see those taking over park tennis courts like the wiffle virus.
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