America's Pickleball Craze Has a New Winner | Next in Sports

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  • Опубликовано: 20 янв 2025

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  • @digitalreporter
    @digitalreporter Год назад +5

    0:01 Intro
    2:29 Anna Leigh Waters #1 Women's Pro Pickleball Player In Singles, Mixed Doubles, Doubles
    4:27 MLP/PPA
    5:43 Rules
    6:46 History
    7:21 COVID
    7:55 Pickleball Courts
    9:18 Brian Levine, MLP CEO
    12:48 Drew Brees/Larry Fitzgerald
    15:20 Pickleball Terms
    15:42 James Blake, Retired Tennis Pro
    16:42 Easy Of Use/Growing TV Audience
    16:25 Josh Walker, President Sports Innovation Lab/Fluid Fan
    18:25 A-Listers/Gary Vaynerchuk
    20:42 The Jersey 5's/Anna Leigh Waters
    22:38 Future

  • @TheTomtah
    @TheTomtah Год назад +7

    This reminds if the padel craze we had here in the EU during the pandemic. A lot of the padel courts where I lived went bust when the pandemic was over and people returned to working. Who will win out, padel or pickleball?

    • @edgeprobability
      @edgeprobability Год назад +1

      Padel has newfound traction in Miami. They are very similar, but the low barrier to entry will allow PB to thrive as a sport. I’m not very bullish on the media product of PB as a professional sport.

    • @rayschoepfer2921
      @rayschoepfer2921 Год назад +5

      Pickleball is a far better business opportunity than padel. Padel is very expensive in that it requires courts with walls and astro turf as well as requiring more surface area per court. The price of the infrastructure per padel player served is 4 to 6 times the cost of pickleball. As well, the time required for a player to go from new to having fun on the court is much, much longer in padel (as it is in tennis). Here is Uruguay, they are just starting to reach the "bust phase" of padel. I actually talked to a court builder and asked how many people does he see playing padel and he said not many but there is lots of interest in building courts because the owners "heard" that everyone is playing padel. I currently play pickleball at two abandoned padel courts. In business, you go with the numbers and the numbers clearly show it is pickleball.

    • @RichardsWorld
      @RichardsWorld Год назад +2

      Pickleball is growing and growing in the US. It's not slowing down anytime soon. COVID stopped it for about months, then started to pick up slowly. Now it's picking up fast again. I've seen lots of tennis courts disappear and get converted to pickleball courts. In pickleball it's easy to go to random strangers and mix in and play with some people. I can't think of many other sports that you can do that.

  • @cageynerd
    @cageynerd Год назад +4

    Dude, played for the first time yesterday. So fun. The only curious thing is that it took me about 15 minutes to learn and after that I beat all my friends at 11-point matches. Even beat them playing 1v2. I'm a skilled tennis player. I think there is a cross-over there that makes it TOO EASY for tennis players to take advantage of pickleball tournaments.

    • @cageynerd
      @cageynerd Год назад

      Recreationally though -- it is genius...

    • @KneeDownFPV
      @KneeDownFPV Год назад

      Too easy for high level tennis players to beat low level players, sure. 😂

  • @ClaytonCarroll
    @ClaytonCarroll Год назад +2

    I don't know if a single person commenting here has ever played this game seriously or is thinking critically about this "fad". Just try it with people that can sustain at least a 5 shot rally and you'll see why there's only two types of people in this world, those that don't play and those that are addicted.

  • @tomzphone
    @tomzphone Год назад +7

    they are shutting down our indoor soccer leagues to convert the field to pickleball. Hopefully this is a short term thing.

    • @lt4374
      @lt4374 7 месяцев назад

      Sorry, this is just the start. Before you know it, your bed will be turned into pickleball court too.

    • @thejuicerr
      @thejuicerr 2 месяца назад

      It's only the beginning. Pickelball is an addiction.

  • @thedanishmalik1
    @thedanishmalik1 Год назад +3

    i was thinking it a tennis for old people than they sad game was first exclusive to retirement homes

  • @rmb_dev
    @rmb_dev Год назад +13

    Basically, it's tennis for less fit people - you don't have to run for the ball and to have great cardio and flexibility...

    • @r3dp1ll
      @r3dp1ll Год назад +1

      it's between ping pong and tennis so more accessible

    • @edgeprobability
      @edgeprobability Год назад +1

      Go play singles. Funnily enough the fatter people at my club play tennis bc they can just chill at the net.

    • @KneeDownFPV
      @KneeDownFPV Год назад +2

      Obviously said by someone who hasn’t seriously played, especially singles.

    • @thejuicerr
      @thejuicerr 2 месяца назад

      That is a fallacy. Try playing singles 4.0 >

  • @cavezol
    @cavezol Год назад +2

    Awesome❤

  • @lt4374
    @lt4374 7 месяцев назад

    Just saying, why not build more concrete outdoor ping pong table? You could fit 4 ping pong table on 1 pickle ball courts.
    And you could play until you’re 90s and on wheel chair

  • @kleanish
    @kleanish Год назад +2

    No way they showed converting a tennis court to a pickleball court..
    sigh

  • @DavidSchilter
    @DavidSchilter Год назад

    How is 36 million 14% of the US population?

  • @MrMRGamer1010
    @MrMRGamer1010 Год назад +2

    This will go bust in a few years. Doesn't have any of the staying power or viewer fun of any large pro sport.

    • @tmo8385
      @tmo8385 Год назад

      You are so wrong... I started playing a year ago and now there are twice the numbers of people playing than when I first played at Chicken n Pickle. It's very hard to reserve a court here since they're always full.

  • @SoCalFreelance
    @SoCalFreelance Год назад +4

    Obnoxious hype to boost a wall streeters get rich quick scheme. -_-

  • @fouur
    @fouur Год назад +1

    this is def covids fault

  • @johnsmith1882-x2i
    @johnsmith1882-x2i Год назад +2

    Vocal fry 😫😫

  • @Napstone
    @Napstone Год назад +3

    i worked at a sports goods/racquet store in CaIgary 2013 summer and I can teII you this right now, pickIebaII paddIes were our highest seIIing items mostIy shipped to FIorida retirment homes!
    I see it's finaIIy diffused into mainstream society

  • @dreaming_fox163
    @dreaming_fox163 Год назад +1

    So basically table tennis and tennis combined. Less movement is easier. Basically, american lol

  • @huckfin1598
    @huckfin1598 Год назад +3

    If a 13 or 16 year old can be a Pro, it's not a very difficult sport

    • @munaq-jp
      @munaq-jp Год назад +4

      There are 13-year-old grandmasters. Would you say Chess is not a "very difficult sport"?

    • @huckfin1598
      @huckfin1598 Год назад +1

      @@munaq-jp This is about sports. The physical athletic realm. Please try to keep up.

    • @munaq-jp
      @munaq-jp Год назад +3

      @@huckfin1598 I don't think you understand what sports are.
      But, all right. Both of the Williams sisters became pros at 14. Same age as Freddy Adu, the youngest player to sign for a pro soccer team, and Wilfredo León, youngest volleyball player to compete internationally.
      This happens in almost every sport.

    • @edgeprobability
      @edgeprobability Год назад +1

      Considering her mom was a collegiate tennis star at USC, I’m not too concerned about her athletic gifts

    • @misobeast8047
      @misobeast8047 Год назад +2

      @@huckfin1598 Gymnastics?
      You're not wholly wrong, but you should have phrased it 'Not Physically Demanding'. Even then, singles PB can be quite exhausting when you play a similar player (particularly rally types).
      Its almost always your opponent that makes something 'difficult' (or not) anyway. The particular Sport is more often than not, irrelevant.

  • @monee2006
    @monee2006 Год назад +2

    lol what a ridiculous sport. Geared towards those with a pension and loads of time.

  • @Hアッシュ
    @Hアッシュ Год назад

    私が言ってた新しいゲームってそういうのじゃないんだけど…
    ( ´⌓` )はぅ…

  • @chrisaguilera1564
    @chrisaguilera1564 Год назад +1

    Never heard of it. Sounds like a scam.

  • @theredhall-thisisfootball
    @theredhall-thisisfootball Год назад +2

    Americans keep creating unnecessary sports that the World obviously reject😂... They saw how football was so popular and decided to create a sport that has nothing to do with the foot and called it Football, they wanted their own version of Cricket so they started Baseball now this...😅

    • @tmo8385
      @tmo8385 Год назад

      Pickleball is played all over the world now. So many more young players are coming into this sport, more than older people... I know this since I have been playing at Chicken n Pickle for over a year now, and it's very hard to reserve a court here because the courts are always fully booked.