02-25-13, 11:45 AM | #1 |
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New Olympic Game to replace Wrestling!
A game meant for kids certainly went WAY OUT of REACH, cost wise, of children.
$70 for a paddle.... So take a look at what your missing. http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/...1aakmfds&&tt=b Opps wrong video. Here's the right one. http://pickleball.com/pages/history It's nice to see CONGRESS actually accomplish something though! Oh, Joel Pritchard's dog was named 'Pickles' and used to fetch the balls...but refused to give them back. Sounds like Congress, TAKE and DON'T give back? Now that the cost is so high I think 'manufactures' will jump on this band wagon. Starter set with net costs like $500. A paddle for $70. This will bring the marketers RUNNING. Place in Madison converted a WHOLE in-door tennis complex into a Paddle Ball complex. Oh for newbies, heres a few pointers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6UiwfdpdmU How can you not take advice from a guy named, 'Dirty Dick'? Boomers beware. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1003517.html
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02-25-13, 11:45 PM | #2 |
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Pickle ball is the BEST!!!!
Freaking love it! My gym team got 3rd in the our gym class tourney! lol
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02-28-13, 03:15 PM | #3 |
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I've never heard of it before. From the videos I just saw it looks like a slow and more boring version of tennis, like badminton with a ball that you don't hit very hard.
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02-28-13, 03:42 PM | #4 |
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What I can't believe is that the Olympics are getting rid of Wrestling, the very first Olympic sport. A travesty.
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02-28-13, 05:21 PM | #5 |
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And kept badmitton and curling! Where the he!! did curling come from anyway? Anything a 90 year old man can beat me at is NOT a sport!
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02-28-13, 07:15 PM | #6 |
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Yeah would be understandable as its shuffleboard on ice.
No wrestling?That was the original sport,main content prior involving every game played by man in obscure places. But lets not cry to soon still have the Jamaican bob sled team,to egg them on and cheer them up lets send all the white stuff to Jamaica for a month. Dont send $ send snow.While at it send some to the middle east,and send Obama with it with a shovel.He can give them a snow job. |
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