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 Life of a pickleball.  The durability and longevity of pickleball balls varies from brand to brand and how often you play. Some say outdoor pickleballs should be replaced in 3 to 10 games depending on how often you place, others say about 100 hours. Rule of thumb, if the ball starts to show cracks and loses its bounce, it's time to replace the ball.

It is a strategic position, not a rule, the receiver’s partner should stand behind the kitchen line (or non-volley line) to keep an eye on the serve and help call the ball if it's out of play.  You can also defend the line.  In doubles, there’s no rule on the position of any player with the exception of the server, which must serve from behind the line.  Players can position themselves anywhere as long as they are on their respective side of the court.

WHAT IS A VETERAN? You can't tell a veteran just by looking. He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating 2 gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loud-mouth whose frat-boy behavior is outweighed in the cosmic scales by four hours of unparalleled bravery near the 38th Parallel in Korea. She is the nurse who fought against futility in Da Nang and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another. He is the white-haired old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket, aggravatingly slow, who helped liberate a Nazi death camp. A Veteran is an ordinary and extraordinary human being who offered his life's most vital years in the service of his country. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known. We will never

An idea has been floating among real estate developers to build pickleball courts inside struggling shopping malls. Question. Would you go out to the mall just to play pickleball ?

 Pickleball has exploded in popularity The popularity of pickleball exploded in 2022. Now more than 36 million people are pickleballers and it continues to grow. In fact, pickleball has attracted sports legends like Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, LeBron James, and others investing millions of dollars in the sport, and across America, tennis courts are being replaced with pickleball courts.

Differences in indoor and outdoor pickleballs: Indoor pickleballs have larger holes, about 26 compared to 40 for outdoor balls.  Indoor pickleballs are softer and lighter and designed for indoor court, if used outside, they will not hold up to windy conditions. Outdoor pickleballs are made heavier with thicker plastic, they have smaller holes (40), which are more effective in windy conditions.

Pickleball has been around since the 1960s, is a paddle/racket game played outdoors and indoors where typically four players, two on each team hit a hollow perforated plastic ball (40-holes outdoor ball – 26-holes indoor ball) using solid-faced graphite or fiberglass paddles over a 36-inch-high net. Teams on each side of the court hit the ball back and forth until one commits an infraction. Two can also play the game, one player on each side of the net. Pickleball was invented in the summer of 1965 by three dads, Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum in Bainbridge, a town outside of Seattle, WA. The three dads got together to discuss possible games for their kids to play during the summer, and Voilà, pickleball was born.