INTRODUCTION

 PICKLEBALL 

 

Pickleball, a paddle sport that mixes aspects of tennis, badminton, and Ping-Pong , is one among the fastest growing sports in America. The sport is particularly fashionable older adults because it provides a way for both competition and exercise. Limited research is available on the motivation and perceived benefits of participants in this unique and growing community. A whole total of 3012 participants completed a survey instrument that included items from the sport Motivation Scale, the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire, and therefore the Quality and Importance of Recreational Services. 

Participants reported being founded more task oriented than ego oriented, suggesting that pickleball may effectively satisfy the necessity for persons to be engaged in physical activities that leave the continued development of personal mastery. However, participants cited competition because the top perceived benefit to their participation.   

Pickleball originated at the house of Joel Pritchard within the Seattle, Washington, area in 1965. The game began as a family activity when Mr. Pritchard and his house guest, Bill Bell, discovered that there wasn't enough good sports equipment for the 2 families to play. After modifying rules and equipment that is, replacing rackets with wooden paddles, they developed this new game. The name came from the Pritchard's English cocker spaniel , “Pickles”, who kept running off with the ball whenever it landed off the court. Slowly, pickleball spread among neighbours and friends, and in 1972 a corporation was formed to protect the new game. During the 1970s the recognition of the sport grew within the Seattle area, where it had been utilized in highschool and college physical educational programs and therefore the park and recreation association take place.
 
Though it's been around for about twenty years, the last five has seen tremendous growth. The America Pickleball Association is that the official promoter and administration for the sport .

WHAT IS PICKLEBALL? 

The real great thing about the sport is that any age or gender can enjoy pickleball. Mainly and more specifically because it's not an outsized court and strategic thinking is a crucial a part of the sport . Couple this with players that are rated around the same skill level and you have a fun and challenging game on your hands.

 

Played with a light-weight plastic ball that has few holes in it that's slightly larger than a ball and a light weight paddle, it's easy to swing the paddle and hit the ball for both youth and old alike. While you'll play singles, the choice preferred by many is to play doubles pickleball. When played with a partner, your playing field is sort of small so within a couple of steps you'll be within the able to hit zone with some rallies lasting 10 or 15 more hits going back and forth over a net until somebody puts the shot away to win or alternatively somebody messes up.
 
What is pickleball - it's hitting, playing, laughing and having an honest time and it comes pretty easily to most of the people once they get on a pickleball court and within no time at all you get to pick-up and learn the basic rules and move quickly on to becoming addicted to the game. Teenagers have taken to the sport with enthusiastic gusto and like their seniors also get the social benefit with a rather more competitive approach.
 
At the professional end, pickleball is fast becoming an enormous attraction to tennis, racquetball, squash and ping pong players because the sport are often haunted a notch to be a really competitive activity which those at the highest of their game really enjoy. It is a damn lot of fun for 99.9% of the people that at first pick up a paddle and try this game with a strange sounding name that incidentally has taken 50 years to become an overnight sensation sweeping the world by storm one country at a time.