Pickleball will be a popular participant sport but will never be a big spectator sport. It's just not that compelling to watch. Like racketball. The real appeal is instant mediocrity. Tennis is far more difficult to learn and master and requires a lot more movement.
*most high end paddles don't last for years, they will start to break down for sure -- better to think of how long a paddle will last in terms of how many hours of play time it has on it. fantastic vid!
I belong to a racquet club that is primarily tennis oriented but has 12 pb courts. Talk about noise, the tennis players need to stop grunting at 120 dB every time they hit a shot.
One, change the ball material instead of the paddle to reduce the sound and to control how fast the ball CAN move. Two, like tennis, do not let the major take over, players should be their own bosses.
4:34 People complain about the sound? Really?. People buy houses next to freeways and subways and on flight paths all the time. If you don't like the sound, move! Many fingers should instead point towards gas powered leaf blowers 80-100db Those should be outright banned across North America. The carbon emissions are equal to 23 cars! and modified car exhausts 90db
There is a MASSIVE DIFFERENCE between CHOOSING TO move into a house beside an Airport or Freeway that is already there, and having an Airport go up after living in a home for 20 years. CHOICE, one had a CHOICE.
@@stevie1748 Lots of homes to choose from. If things change, move! I once had a toxic neighbour who was abusive to her Doberman dog. I just moved! Problem solved.
@@stevie1748 Wrong assumption. bought my first house at 24. In my third house. after the first house I had some great neighbors, most neutral, but I've been lucky
@@I..cast..fireball Thats kind of the problem. People should care a little what others think especially when its such an annoying activity. Zero awareness. You're those people. LoL
I am a tennis player. I always have been. I don't play golf and I don't play pickle ball and I never will unless, at an advanced age, I end up in a wheel chair. Pickle ball is tennis without the ballet.
It's like racketball, which was hyped just like pickleball back in the 70s and 80s. The appeal is instant mediocrity. Tennis is far more difficult to attain proficiency at. But pickleball, like racquetball, will never become a popular spectator sport. It's just not that engaging or compelling. If I get to where I can't handle tennis physically I might give pickleball a try, but honestly I think I'd have more fun at table tennis.
And none of the latest and most popular fitness software have added Pickleball. Apple Watch? Nope. Everfit? Nope. Fitbit? Nope. They are stuck on Badminton and squash. I guess Techie nerds are not playing Pickleball?
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Pickleball will be a popular participant sport but will never be a big spectator sport. It's just not that compelling to watch. Like racketball.
The real appeal is instant mediocrity. Tennis is far more difficult to learn and master and requires a lot more movement.
It’s for mediocre suburbanites
*most high end paddles don't last for years, they will start to break down for sure -- better to think of how long a paddle will last in terms of how many hours of play time it has on it.
fantastic vid!
I belong to a racquet club that is primarily tennis oriented but has 12 pb courts. Talk about noise, the tennis players need to stop grunting at 120 dB every time they hit a shot.
Most club tennis players don't grunt.
False equivalence.
I’m trying to go pro at pickleball and let me tell you the noise is definitely a the biggest issue for the sport in terms of growth
One, change the ball material instead of the paddle to reduce the sound and to control how fast the ball CAN move.
Two, like tennis, do not let the major take over, players should be their own bosses.
I agree with not having enough places to play around Pittsburgh!
Why do they need sound barriers? The sport is still developing, why not just formulate a lighter pressureless tennis-type ball?
I feel like pickleball is like fidget spinners, overhyped and it will deflate quickly.
4:34 People complain about the sound? Really?. People buy houses next to freeways and subways and on flight paths all the time. If you don't like the sound, move!
Many fingers should instead point towards gas powered leaf blowers 80-100db Those should be outright banned across North America. The carbon emissions are equal to 23 cars!
and modified car exhausts 90db
There is a MASSIVE DIFFERENCE between CHOOSING TO move into a house beside an Airport or Freeway that is already there, and having an Airport go up after living in a home for 20 years.
CHOICE, one had a CHOICE.
@@stevie1748 Lots of homes to choose from. If things change, move! I once had a toxic neighbour who was abusive to her Doberman dog. I just moved! Problem solved.
@@canadude6401 You sound like a renter.
@@stevie1748 Wrong assumption. bought my first house at 24. In my third house. after the first house I had some great neighbors, most neutral, but I've been lucky
But if you ban leaf blowers the leaves can be wherever they want. We can't be having that.
Love this!
How can people play and spend money on this.
It's embarrassing. 😂
White people
because they are don't care what you think of them and are having fun.
@@I..cast..fireball
Thats kind of the problem. People should care a little what others think especially when its such an annoying activity.
Zero awareness. You're those people. LoL
I am a tennis player. I always have been. I don't play golf and I don't play pickle ball and I never will unless, at an advanced age, I end up in a wheel chair. Pickle ball is tennis without the ballet.
Found the salty tennis player
It's like racketball, which was hyped just like pickleball back in the 70s and 80s. The appeal is instant mediocrity. Tennis is far more difficult to attain proficiency at.
But pickleball, like racquetball, will never become a popular spectator sport. It's just not that engaging or compelling.
If I get to where I can't handle tennis physically I might give pickleball a try, but honestly I think I'd have more fun at table tennis.
@@kentstallard6512 What is wrong with racquetball? And what you mean "instant mediocrity"?
@@sterlingnorth114 Nothing wrong with it.
It's much easier to become decent at it than tennis.
@@kentstallard6512 And that is bad?
Just change the ball. Improve it.
And none of the latest and most popular fitness software have added Pickleball. Apple Watch? Nope. Everfit? Nope. Fitbit? Nope. They are stuck on Badminton and squash. I guess Techie nerds are not playing Pickleball?
Yes they do. Apple Watch does.
Apple Watch has it.
badminton and squash? must be somewhere in Asia, right?
I thought the fastest growing sport in America was identifying as trans