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Sounds great next time you are in the Portland area come join us for some games I am sure we could learn a thing or 2 from you guys! &it be lot's of fun too.Take care and have fun.
Enrique Ruiz
Thanks, Enrique. We rarely stay in Portland, as we like small towns in our RVing travels, not that Portland doesn't have some pretty parts for a big city. But where do you play there?
We just play for fun, singles only, as we like the excercise we get with singles play. Doubles is more strategy, but less movement, from what we've seen, both teams playing mostly just behind "The Kitchen" and doing lots of volleying. Nothing against that, as it's very fast, but we see very little singles play, likely due to the number of RVers who play pickleball in RV parks with it. We often play in the evenings or nights at courts with lights, to avoid the crowds of waiting pickleball players. Our favorites are Desert Pools WHR and Catalina Spa in Desert Hot Springs and Verde Valley TTN in Cottonwood, AZ.
That's where creating your own temporary court on an abondoned piece of flat concrete or using an unused tennis court came into play. At the RV park we are at now, if it weren't for the unused tennis courts less than a mile away in Hawthorne, we'd be using our portable net setup on a useable piece of concrete foundation at the torn down shopping center in Babbitt, NV.
We've seen some other very rarely used tennis courts in our travels in small towns of America. Michigan, ND's city park has 3 30-amp RV sites by donation, right beside their tennis courts. We never saw anyone playing tennis there.
Modern day kids seem more interested in texting and gameboys than playing tennis, it seems, so using the school's tennis courts is working fine here. It's been a good experiment and the 2" higher net is of no real significance to us. It's that, or not play at all, or set up our own net on the old foundation every day, with no fence to stop those missed balls. That's been the only real difference with using a tennis court - the fence is a long way back from "our" pickleball court, thus even more exercise :-).
Dave
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