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Related: About this forumPickleball popularity exploded last year, with more than 36 million playing the sport
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/pickleball-popularity-explodes-with-more-than-36-million-playing.htmlPickleball now boasts the support of LeBron James, Tom Brady and more than 36 million other Americans.
The rapidly growing sport is easy to learn and inexpensive.
The pickleball restaurant-entertainment model is also gaining steam. From Chicken N Pickle to Camp Pickle, entrepreneurs are hoping to capitalize on the craze.
hlthe2b
(106,246 posts)I don't get it.
Joe Cool
(1,011 posts)hlthe2b
(106,246 posts)bullimiami
(13,984 posts)ProfessorGAC
(69,748 posts)Everyone started wearing goggles because of all the eye injuries.
Floor burns, smashed fingers, broken noses, head cuts...
I played in a league for a few years, and every week someone was out because they got hurt last week.
I was lucky in that I got one floor burn and one nasty calf bruise.
bullimiami
(13,984 posts)ProfessorGAC
(69,748 posts)I quit before I was 30! I played basketball in a couple leagues for another 7 or 8 years, and quit before I hurt myself!
I play golf & pool now. Unlikely to get hurt that way.
ProfessorGAC
(69,748 posts)They actually went into the history of the game and the guy who invented it was interviewed.
Pretty fun 7 minutes.
GreenWave
(9,128 posts)and everyone relished the explosion. I got an inside the parker too as they couldn't reassemble the pickle fast enough to tag me out.
True Dough
(20,141 posts)the "GreenWave".