Last Sunday I got invited to ‘church’with some friends.
No, not this kind of church…
But PICKLEBALL CHURCH! 🙂
One of my pickleball buddies, Gaylan, is the shop manager for an equipment repair shop. The shop is huge and deals mainly with over-sized farm equipment.
Gaylan (on the right in the picture below) is an excellent PB player and aside from the fact that he’s an excellent athlete, the reason he’s excellent is that he’s a student of the game. And he’s as addicted to PB as I am.
Gaylan sets up for indoor pickleball play each Sunday during the cold winter months.
Because it’s each and every Sunday morning, it feels like going to church… 🙂
Gaylan cleans the floor with an industrial floor cleaning machine so that there’s nothing to interfere with the ball.
He puts up three nets to stop the ball from travelling far and wide. They are hard to see in this picture, but, trust me, they are there. They are each about 60′ x 50′ and they are hung on cable.
And the cool thing is that he’s devised a special winch to retract the cable after church is over.
We played for almost four hours, taking turns with each game after game after game.
All of the players are very good, so the play was intense and highly skilled.
At the risk of being irreverent, it was a great church experience. 🙂
Can I come to your church? LOL. I play outdoors most of the time with the same group of people (which is free) but when the weather interferes we all go to Pearkes which is a community centre with 8 courts. We have to pay to play indoors of course. On Tuesdays if you get a receipt when you leave in the morning you can come back for free in the evening. So that day we play 6 hours and suffer for it the next day. Mike enjoyed that with me, he was here for two months and now he is in Yuma. I stayed home because I am due for an eye surgery, date unknown. So he is playing this morning in the sun and I will be playing inside because it’s stormy here. The difference between the outdoor and the indoor is that outdoor we play on tennis courts with tennis nets and the elements influence our game, as in wind and degree from the trees. So when we play indoors we are so much better and feel like we have all become advanced players because it seems so much easier to put the ball where you want it.
Love your blog. 🙂 Chris
Great to hear from you, Chris!
Come on down anytime! We’d have a great visit!
Hope all goes well with your surgery and that you have a quick and complete recovery!
Giggles on your improved pickleball skills indoors. I like playing indoors because I don’t have to put sunscreen on. 🙂
What an amazing PB set up! Enjoy your services… 😉
Not sure I’ll go back, Joanne. Services are too long.