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.....The areas on strategy, instruction, and drills are intended to give you some ideas on how to practice and to get you to think about different strategies that might be employed against different types of opponents. .....An item appearing on the 2nd menu line, for example 'dinking', might appear when 'Instruction', 'Strategy', or 'Drills' is clicked on the top menu line. In each case, 'dinking' would refer to a different topic. (Dinking Instruction, Dinking Strategy, Dinking Drills). .....If you have found an error on this site, or would just like to leave me a comment, click here and fill out the form. June 2009 Pickleball Trips to Las Vegas, Sun City Roseville, Sun City Lincoln Hills, and Vacaville.My wife Loretta and I are going to try and play pickleball sometime in June of 2009
at the Las Vegas and Vacaville Pickleball sites
listed on the USAPA website, and to at least visit the Lincoln Hills and Roseville Dell Webb communities
and observe whatever pickleball is going on in those communities. I will report back here after the trips on whatever we learn about Pickleball in those communities. As of January 1st 2009, I am no longer entering points for USAPA sanctioned events. I will sometimes answer email sent to the USAPA about rankings and ratings that may be forwarded to me. This may happen only until such time as they have a replacement take a seat on the USAPA board. I have been and probably will continue to provide programming support for existing programs when needed, but will not be setting any policies on the systems. Since I have more free time now, I will begin going over this site and making some changes and additions. This area will have information pertaining to the USAPA including links to certain areas of the website and occasional comments or surveys about current pickleball practices. Click here to see if you have been given a USAPA player rating. Entering a sanctioned rated tournament in a rated event lower than your rating could result in loss of ranking points for that tournament or more! Go to the usapa.org ratings page for instructions on how to file an appeal if you disagree with your rating. Players without a rating may self rate themselves for a tournament, but require approval of their rating by the Tournament Director. January-February 2009: Pickleball at Vacaville, Lincoln Hills, Johnson Ranch, and Meadow VistaOn our 2nd trip to the Sacramento area, my wife and I made a point of arriving
in Vacaville, CA on a Sunday so that we could join the pickleball group that
plays indoors on Sundays at the Georgia Duke Center. This is a public gymnasium where
they have up to 6 badminton courts that are set up for pickleball on Sunday nights.
This happened to be Super Bowl Sunday, but they still managed to fill 3 courts
for the evening with a couple of extra players rotating in. I was told that they had 21 players the previous Sunday. If you
play pickleball and happen to be in the area, I would highly suggest you give it a try. It will be well
worth your time. I almost forgot, that we did drive up to the town of Meadow Vista to inspect their 4 outdoor pickleball courts which are public. They were nice courts, and the contact name given on the USAPA web site was willing to play one afternoon with us, but we were not able to do so as we need to go home a week earlier than planned. These courts were located in a big public park which had many other activities available for the community. I heard that some of the players from Lincoln Hills were planning to go up and play one afternoon which sounded like fun if we had more time. These are the first public courts that I have run across, although I know that there are others around the country. December 2008: Pickleball in Lincoln Hills, CA My wife Loretta and I visited the Dell Web Community in Lincoln Hills recently. We arrived
about 4:00P.M. on a Wednesday and of course had to check if their was any Pickleball courts
in the community. We found 2 courts set up for play on a basketball court next to the tennis
courts and a game in progress with a few players watching. Everyone was extremely friendly and
invited us to play which we did with borrowed paddles for a couple of games. Click here to see the USAPA Ranking System Documentation for 2008. Read about changes in Senior Pickleball tournaments by age that will bring Pickleball more in line with the Age Rules followed in many other senior sports! Click here to read the USAPA Rating System Documentation on the USAPA web site. |