Started playing pickleball during the pandemic and I’ve been obsessed ever since. Probably play 3x a week now. It’s completely true that someone new will start enjoying this game after only 30 minutes
Went to the gym for basketball and picked up pickleball and haven't looked back since. FUN SPORT!!! Can't believe it's been around so long and is just catching on.
As a nation we wasted decades on the aristocrat spectator sport known as tennis. Tennis has done very little to the physical fitness of the mass. Here is a fun game that can improve the health of the nation.
Me too hahaha. I used to love basketball and I used to coach as well. Now all I do is Pickleball hahahaha. Let’s play sometime if you are ever in New York.
Please don't let Joan Pritchard's contribution to the game go unrecognized. In 1965 when the game was invented Joan came up with the name “pickle ball” -a reference to the thrown-together leftover non-starters in the “pickle boat” of crew races. The dog story was invented in 1968 by a newspaper journalist because he thought naming the game after the dog was a better story. However, Pickles, the dog, was born three years after the game had been named.
Yes, Joan is recognized in the history of the sport - In fact, The Name has a whole chapter in my book: History of Pickleball - More Than 50 Years of Fun!
All the retired folks in Florida play pickleball. Causes a huge number of knee and ankle injuries (and lots of surgery) but it’s stays popular regardless.
I grew up in Seattle and we played pickleball for PE. I also took for my PE credits in community college and university. Now I am in an adult league in Portland.
The segment was very well done but it didn't emphasize the social aspect of it (most play is doubles) and how much fun it can be, with lots of laughter after crazy shots, etc.
I just learned how to play 9 short months ago after playing tennis for almost 40 years. It's a great game and very addictive once you get the hang of it. If you haven't tried it, you are truly missing out.
Thank you for covering the background on this wonderful game. Though I am am an avid paddleball and racquetball player, no doubt this is growing all over and is a great sport.
I used to play tennis and recall the energy of a tennis ball strike. Pickle ball has the same dynamics but with less energy in the ball, I see why folks have taken to it.
Here in Tucson over the past few years they've been changing tennis courts at parks to pickleball courts and literally every evening every court is filled.
Glad to see the sport getting more publicity. Our area is seriously lagging in providing enough courts for public demand and I get the feeling we're not alone.
Yes, you're not alone. L.A. where I live is totally Pickleball ignorant. The first government official (mayors, council members, supervisors, etc) who will take PB seriously and start building courts will be a sure winner in an election.
Never heard of it until about 10 years ago. Always played racquet sports so why not? A lot of complaints about the sound from neighbors living near the courts.
I think it's because it's a lot lot lot easier than regular tennis. Tennis is a very demanding sport technically just to hit the ball over the net requires skill without going into rallies and games, this looks a lot easier. I'd say with the amount of tennis courts in the US people should play pop tennis
Ha!, i played that at school with a tennis ball in New Zealand back in the 70's, we called it Patterball. That made me take up tennis and table tennis, which i became a rep on both.
Kudos to CBS for doing this story! Just like the rest of the Country, we sure do love and are addicted to pickleball here in Charlotte, NC! #NeedMoreCourts
I played tennis for many years and still love it... but, pickleball is more fun! Pickleball surprises most people, including me. It is a unique game, not tennis lite.
Great for rehab business; older people are wrenching their knees and their wrists. We intend to add staff to accommodate patients for this thing as it takes off. Some people don't realize the demands of the sport.
@@Cathy-xi8cb I've seen people fall, one guy hit himself with the racket, had to get stitches, and people get hit in the eye. So, open your rehab business near the largest Pickleball courts! Set for life! 🤣
I learned how to play in 1987 at a sailing camp called Four Winds - Westward Ho on Orcas Island in the Puget Sound of Washington! Being from California, I never hard of it again until many years later when the largest retirement community in Santa Rosa was having major controversy because they wanted to install a court 🙄
@@oraach people always find something to complain about… 🙄 if I remember it was because some people were opposed to losing the regular tennis court space but I could be wrong about that - they even wrote about it in the local paper I think
@@robin212212 in this case it was the tennis people vs the pickleball people - the courts in this senior community are kind of spacious and at the far end - not sure how many seniors are partying after 8 or 9 p.m. 😆
Fun fact... when Bill gates was a kid, he was involved in this circle of original pickleball players! His father was friends with the 3 guys that invented the game!
Jones Beach, on Long Island has had small 'tennis like' courts since at least the mid 1960's. We played with wooden paddles and a sponge ball. So, if these guys on Bainbridge Island think they 'invented' this game, ....... Kinda Not. P.S.: 1968; on the side of my house, with my friends, fooling around, I tossed a tennis ball across the yard and then we rolled croquet balls to see who could get the closest to the tennis ball. Later, I'm telling my father about the game we invented and he said, "Oh, Bocce Ball." Point being, so much for 'inventing' stuff.
I love this sport. We’ve been playing for almost 6 years. Our club now has 3 Pickleball courts along with many many grass courts and clay courts. Manchester by the Sea just built 6 courts. Everyone should try it. Easy to learn hard to master.
"Easy to learn and hard to master" is the very definition of a really well designed game or sport. Chess, Go, Tennis (several racket sports) Soccer... Pickleball. Yep. Pickleball changed my life in a very positive way, my health, my social life, and my ... joy. Awesome game.
I’m performing for the second time at a Pickle Ball tournament here in Memphis and psyched. One day soon, I plan to play. Maybe I’ll play my sax while playing Pickle Ball 🤔
Looks fun, might try it. But more likely I will stick to disc golf(another fast growing sport) and Golden Gate Park has a terrific disc golf course too!
What is the difference between Paddle tennis(Deaden Tennis ball, Wooden Paddle, on a Badminton court) which I played in the early 70's and pickle Ball?
People just play pop tennis , it's basically the same (but better) and you can play it normal tennis courts. The USTA or USPTA don't remember which one is pushing to paint the lines on tennis courts so you can play pop tennis
@@Allpickleball I’m sure he was so incompetent in the demonstration that they used any footage that he made contact with the ball. But it’s the most fundamental rule of pickle ball regarding no volleying in the kitchen.
Buy a home near a pickle ball court and prepare to lose your mind. The thwack thwack thwack of balls from sun up to sundown is much worse than tennis. someone actually used a device to measure it.
Just me, counting the number of ageist, ableist, elite tennis players in the comments screaming, "But the tennis, though!" Get over yourselves, folks! Not everyone can or wants to play tennis (at any level). And complaining about kids playing and [gasp] never taking up tennis? Are you the same people who bemoan kids on their phones all the time? At least they're being active. Why does it matter to you that some people enjoy a different way of getting outside, and being active and social? I used to play tennis all the time, but I've recently become partially disabled. I have heard of pickleball and maybe that's an option for me... seems fun. People having different hobbies is not a zero sum game: If you like tennis, great... why come and crap on others' joy?
Jones Beach, on Long Island has had small 'tennis like' courts since at least the mid 1960's. We played with wooden paddles and a sponge ball. So, if these guys on Bainbridge Island think they 'invented' this game, ....... Kinda Not.
L.A. where I live is totally Pickleball ignorant. The first government official (mayors, council members, supervisors, etc) who will take PB seriously and start building courts will be a sure winner in an election.
If the story of naming the game after a dog named Pickles is wrong, I don't wanna be right! Let's just make this part of the pickleball origin myth, like Washington and the cherry tree.
It is great for senior citizens. It is like tennis-Ping pong. Of course, nothing beats like the sound of the tennis ball. Still playing tennis at 70 years albeit slower.
It is part of our unfortunate tendency to rank things and have to compete in everything that a fun backyard sport has become yet another competitive slog shutting out the uncoordinated.
@@beanie0026 nobody plays tennis all the time, that is. It’s always been a weekend sport for any that aren’t using a paid club to play. If a court is truly unused and crappy, take it over by all means, but I do like how some places create a separate pickle ball court all together
I saw it on espn4 (didn't even know it was a espn4 at the time) but started watching it during the pandemic and have been hooked ever since
It's contagious. It's invasive. And I'm a victim 🤣
Started playing pickleball during the pandemic and I’ve been obsessed ever since. Probably play 3x a week now.
It’s completely true that someone new will start enjoying this game after only 30 minutes
Let’s play sometime if you are ever in New York. I have a Pickleball court
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Sorry but “3 times per week” is not “obsessed”. My friends and I play every day and sometimes twice per day - now THAT is obsessed! Or sick!🤪
Great job Sunday Morning! I was thrilled to be part of your segment and to share the love and FUN of pickleball with the world! Best sport ever.
Went to the gym for basketball and picked up pickleball and haven't looked back since. FUN SPORT!!!
Can't believe it's been around so long and is just catching on.
As a nation we wasted decades on the aristocrat spectator sport known as tennis. Tennis has done very little to the physical fitness of the mass. Here is a fun game that can improve the health of the nation.
Me too hahaha. I used to love basketball and I used to coach as well. Now all I do is Pickleball hahahaha. Let’s play sometime if you are ever in New York.
Nice to see cousin Joel’s game known world wide!
Hellooooo Bill, thanks again for the family invention :-)
Pickle ball players give such band kid energy
Fantastic! Finally a media story that shows people really playing, rather than people who look like the extras in that godawful Ozempic ad😄
Patricia I agree, they did a great job showing all ages and skill levels, thank goodness :-)
Please don't let Joan Pritchard's contribution to the game go unrecognized. In 1965 when the game was invented Joan came up with the name “pickle ball” -a reference to the thrown-together leftover non-starters in the “pickle boat” of crew races. The dog story was invented in 1968 by a newspaper journalist because he thought naming the game after the dog was a better story. However, Pickles, the dog, was born three years after the game had been named.
That's an awesome backstory. Joan's name should definitely be part of the founding story.
Yes, Joan is recognized in the history of the sport - In fact, The Name has a whole chapter in my book: History of Pickleball - More Than 50 Years of Fun!
All the retired folks in Florida play pickleball. Causes a huge number of knee and ankle injuries (and lots of surgery) but it’s stays popular regardless.
I grew up in Seattle and we played pickleball for PE. I also took for my PE credits in community college and university. Now I am in an adult league in Portland.
We played pickle ball when I was in middle school in the 80s. I loved it!
I didn’t hear about pickle since 3 months ago
Emma Watson was right, “ Pickle Ball is life”. There is nothing else I would rather be doing.
I was just down in Delaware and Sea Colony in Bethany Beach just opened a bunch of Pickleball courts. So many people are going crazy over this sport!
Your comment reminded me of Sea Colony-I spent so many summer vacations there as a child.🙂
Let’s play Pickleball if you guys are in New York.
Addictive and fun. Great game... great workout. And a lot of fun people!
I loooove Pickleball soooo much!!!!
I love the sound of the paddle hitting the ball.
The segment was very well done but it didn't emphasize the social aspect of it (most play is doubles) and how much fun it can be, with lots of laughter after crazy shots, etc.
I just learned how to play 9 short months ago after playing tennis for almost 40 years. It's a great game and very addictive once you get the hang of it. If you haven't tried it, you are truly missing out.
I am not missing out anything. I will miss tennis when this "weed" takes over all the tennis courts.
@@tomsd8656 You sound like you’re not even from this country.
@@mindright9771 Originally not.
@@tomsd8656 I've played tennis for the longest time but Pickleball is more fun. I won't miss tennis at all.
@@Vista114 I'd rather people like you stick to PB and no longer play tennis than to play both.
So thankful for these people!!!!
4:10 "few victories" in the kitchen volleys lol
lol!
Thank you for covering the background on this wonderful game. Though I am am an avid paddleball and racquetball player, no doubt this is growing all over and is a great sport.
Awesome story. Never heard of the game until now.
Ball Pickle
I am for any sport that encourages people to get in shape and stay in shape.
I used to play tennis and recall the energy of a tennis ball strike. Pickle ball has the same dynamics but with less energy in the ball, I see why folks have taken to it.
Here in Tucson over the past few years they've been changing tennis courts at parks to pickleball courts and literally every evening every court is filled.
I enjoyed this little history lesson. Thanks!
I love Sunday Morning CBS 🌄 ☺
Glad to see the sport getting more publicity. Our area is seriously lagging in providing enough courts for public demand and I get the feeling we're not alone.
It's our city planners who would rather build new tennis courts than pickleball because they don't understand anythint about their community.
Yes, you're not alone. L.A. where I live is totally Pickleball ignorant. The first government official (mayors, council members, supervisors, etc) who will take PB seriously and start building courts will be a sure winner in an election.
Great reporting Luke!!
Never heard of it until about 10 years ago. Always played racquet sports so why not? A lot of complaints about the sound from neighbors living near the courts.
Looks so fun!
My local firefighters have been playing pickle ball during down time. It looks very fun and I would join a game if invited!
Play with us here in New York!!!!
Can’t wait until I’m 75 years old to start playing.
I don't get what's so revolutionary about it. It's tennis with a wooden paddle and a wiffle ball.
My thoughts exactly. Basically tennis with a wiffle ball.
I think it's because it's a lot lot lot easier than regular tennis. Tennis is a very demanding sport technically just to hit the ball over the net requires skill without going into rallies and games, this looks a lot easier. I'd say with the amount of tennis courts in the US people should play pop tennis
Pickleball looks like great exercise and a fun sport to play.
Robert, it is! I would guess there is place to play in your area. Give it a try
At around 4:10 in the video he volleyed from the “no volley zone” (kitchen) twice!
lol!
Ha!, i played that at school with a tennis ball in New Zealand back in the 70's, we called it Patterball. That made me take up tennis and table tennis, which i became a rep on both.
Love this promotion of Pickleball! haha, I spy footfaults in the kitchen (NVZ)! Bravo!👏
I had all of my pickle ball questions answered, thank you!
I just signed up for a pickleball clinic hosted by my local parks and recreation department
I would never have known this is that you didn't post it thank you
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Y'alls 🙌 ❤️ 🙏
Kudos to CBS for doing this story! Just like the rest of the Country, we sure do love and are addicted to pickleball here in Charlotte, NC! #NeedMoreCourts
Especially up here in the Lake Norman area.
Same here in San Diego, CA!
I played tennis for many years and still love it... but, pickleball is more fun! Pickleball surprises most people, including me. It is a unique game, not tennis lite.
Yes! Cheers fellow Pickleball lover! I love the game so much that I made a music video 😂
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Thongs change scent from one end to the other. Knowledge is power. God bless
Doug! Our good neighbor showing us the way. What great sport-
Great game to play between generations! Everyone can compete!
Great for rehab business; older people are wrenching their knees and their wrists. We intend to add staff to accommodate patients for this thing as it takes off. Some people don't realize the demands of the sport.
@@Cathy-xi8cb I've seen people fall, one guy hit himself with the racket, had to get stitches, and people get hit in the eye. So, open your rehab business near the largest Pickleball courts! Set for life! 🤣
I feel 10 years older just talking as bout pickleball
I learned how to play in 1987 at a sailing camp called Four Winds - Westward Ho on Orcas Island in the Puget Sound of Washington! Being from California, I never hard of it again until many years later when the largest retirement community in Santa Rosa was having major controversy because they wanted to install a court 🙄
Why would opening a court have been a major controversy?
@@oraach people always find something to complain about… 🙄 if I remember it was because some people were opposed to losing the regular tennis court space but I could be wrong about that - they even wrote about it in the local paper I think
@@oraach Mainly the sound; imagine living next to pickle ball courts where they start playing at 7am till 12pm.....
Oakmont??
@@robin212212 in this case it was the tennis people vs the pickleball people - the courts in this senior community are kind of spacious and at the far end - not sure how many seniors are partying after 8 or 9 p.m. 😆
Ok this is poor mans tennis like enough
Great to have a sport used by so many - just keep the lines and play off my tennis court. Make your own.
looks fun, gotta try it
Foot fault at 4:08 :)
I came here to look for this comment :)
Fun fact... when Bill gates was a kid, he was involved in this circle of original pickleball players! His father was friends with the 3 guys that invented the game!
Funner fact: They called him Dill Gates.
I’ll see myself out, happy Sunday!
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Yes, that is mentioned in the History of Pickleball book :-)
Jones Beach, on Long Island has had small 'tennis like' courts since at least the mid 1960's. We played with wooden paddles and a sponge ball. So, if these guys on Bainbridge Island think they 'invented' this game, ....... Kinda Not. P.S.: 1968; on the side of my house, with my friends, fooling around, I tossed a tennis ball across the yard and then we rolled croquet balls to see who could get the closest to the tennis ball. Later, I'm telling my father about the game we invented and he said, "Oh, Bocce Ball." Point being, so much for 'inventing' stuff.
@@bloatedsodium7301 Sour Gates? Stretching it toooooo far?
I love this sport. We’ve been playing for almost 6 years. Our club now has 3 Pickleball courts along with many many grass courts and clay courts. Manchester by the Sea just built 6 courts. Everyone should try it. Easy to learn hard to master.
"Easy to learn and hard to master" is the very definition of a really well designed game or sport. Chess, Go, Tennis (several racket sports) Soccer... Pickleball. Yep. Pickleball changed my life in a very positive way, my health, my social life, and my ... joy. Awesome game.
i love the silent artwork at theend of these stories. why? i dont know!
I've been to Bainbeidge Island! If I only knew...
I’m performing for the second time at a Pickle Ball tournament here in Memphis and psyched. One day soon, I plan to play. Maybe I’ll play my sax while playing Pickle Ball 🤔
They just installed two pickleball courts here in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
wait I thought it was 8
anyway the tennis courts there are the slowest things I’ve ever played on so it doesn’t matter
Looks fun, might try it. But more likely I will stick to disc golf(another fast growing sport) and Golden Gate Park has a terrific disc golf course too!
Looks like fun
"...... pickleball hall of famer.."
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
What is the difference between Paddle tennis(Deaden Tennis ball, Wooden Paddle, on a Badminton court) which I played in the early 70's and pickle Ball?
I would say the size of the crt and rules.
How do you know if someone plays pickeball?
Don’t worry they’ll tell you
Points take forever. Don't make plans and expect to be on time anywhere after a match.
I started last summer and now I am very very good.
Finally some news I’m actually interested in
Pickle ball is huge in Naples.... for dang sure.
I didn't realize it's been around this long.
I've never heard of it before, and I went to school in Washington
People just play pop tennis , it's basically the same (but better) and you can play it normal tennis courts. The USTA or USPTA don't remember which one is pushing to paint the lines on tennis courts so you can play pop tennis
4:12 foot fault in the kitchen. Will take more time to learn the rules!
Luke hit volleys in the kitchen. Can’t do that.
True... but it's Luke :-)
@@Allpickleball I’m sure he was so incompetent in the demonstration that they used any footage that he made contact with the ball. But it’s the most fundamental rule of pickle ball regarding no volleying in the kitchen.
I’m going to use that high school pictures to keep away the bad spirits👻👻👻👻
So it's a cross between tennis and ping-pong/table tennis?
Necessity being the mother of invention.
I like tennis. Though this looks kinda fun
Buy a home near a pickle ball court and prepare to lose your mind. The thwack thwack thwack of balls from sun up to sundown is much worse than tennis. someone actually used a device to measure it.
Hmm, how is it different from Tennis?
We have an English version called BollockBall.
Imagine just inventing a sport!
It's tennis for people who don't like to move much. It's a fad that won't last. Like disco.
Its really popular in The Villages, FL
Yes! My uncle Rick plays there and picks up chics every weekend!
So is Hep C.
@@dt90210 that too 😂💀
I thought this originated in the south. Lol the word pickle made me think that
Just me, counting the number of ageist, ableist, elite tennis players in the comments screaming, "But the tennis, though!" Get over yourselves, folks! Not everyone can or wants to play tennis (at any level). And complaining about kids playing and [gasp] never taking up tennis? Are you the same people who bemoan kids on their phones all the time? At least they're being active. Why does it matter to you that some people enjoy a different way of getting outside, and being active and social? I used to play tennis all the time, but I've recently become partially disabled. I have heard of pickleball and maybe that's an option for me... seems fun. People having different hobbies is not a zero sum game: If you like tennis, great... why come and crap on others' joy?
4:10 you're in the kitchen bro that's a violation
Jones Beach, on Long Island has had small 'tennis like' courts since at least the mid 1960's. We played with wooden paddles and a sponge ball. So, if these guys on Bainbridge Island think they 'invented' this game, ....... Kinda Not.
I consider this game "weed" in the rose garden, with tennis being the rose. Sadly, many now prefer weed.
Great. Finally I see it, not just hear about it. Question: Do children ever get to play?
L.A. where I live is totally Pickleball ignorant. The first government official (mayors, council members, supervisors, etc) who will take PB seriously and start building courts will be a sure winner in an election.
If the story of naming the game after a dog named Pickles is wrong, I don't wanna be right!
Let's just make this part of the pickleball origin myth, like Washington and the cherry tree.
I want to spread the sport, but can you guys make your own courts instead of stealing courts and space from tennis players
I don't get it. Its tennis.
It is great for senior citizens. It is like tennis-Ping pong. Of course, nothing beats like the sound of the tennis ball. Still playing tennis at 70 years albeit slower.
2:40 is that Johnny Depp?
Pickleball or Tennis for the slow as I like to call it
Tah Taah. No Taah Tah.
Great marketing ad, CBS Advertisement (news)
It is part of our unfortunate tendency to rank things and have to compete in everything that a fun backyard sport has become yet another competitive slog shutting out the uncoordinated.
It just bothers me that he is volleying in the kitchen. 😂
I hate that tennis courts are being taken over for this. Yet, I’m going to now go find a dedicated court to play.
It’s because nobody is playing tennis. Why let the courts sit empty
@@beanie0026 nobody plays tennis all the time, that is. It’s always been a weekend sport for any that aren’t using a paid club to play. If a court is truly unused and crappy, take it over by all means, but I do like how some places create a separate pickle ball court all together