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Pickleball Fundamentals offers detailed descriptions, drills, gamelike activities, and photos so readers can quickly master the sports essential techniques: groundstroke, serve and return, volley, dink shot, overhead smash, lob, and drop shot.
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Littlewood, Mary L.
Pickleball fundamentals / Mary Littlewood.
pages cm
"USA Pickleball Association."
1. Pickleball (Game)--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.
GV990.L58 2015
796.34--dc23
2014047773
ISBN: 978-1-4925-0413-9 (print)
Copyright 2015 by USA Pickleball Association and Mary Littlewood
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Thank you to the Ahwatukee Recreation Center Pickleball Club, who provided the courts for the photos; Sandra Stultz, who assisted the author with numerous tasks in the writing of this book; and Jim Hackenberg, who served as a technical advisor to the author.
Thanks also to the following players who devoted their time and energy to be the models for the photos in this book: Jaimi Foster, Rena Han, Gigi LeMaster, Patrick Leonard, Ron Robinson, David Zapatka, and Dianne Zimmerman.
If you are not already involved in the sport of pickleball, youre probably wondering what it is. It is an easy-to-learn game that can be played either indoors or outdoors on a badminton-size court. A seamless perforated plastic ball the approximate size of a baseball, such as a Wiffle ball, is hit with a solid, smooth paddle either after one bounce or in the air. The object of the game is to hit the ball over the net, which is approximately 3 feet high, to the opponent in such a way that it cannot be returned successfully. While singles and doubles are both played, doubles is currently more popular.
Because of its popularity, this book focuses more heavily on pickleball doubles play than singles play. Similarly, instructions and photos are based on play by right-handed players; the assumption is that left-handed players will reverse the instructions.
Pickleball, enjoyed by players of all ages and skill levels, is soaring in popularity. Courts are springing up in backyards and public parks regularly, and the game is now being taught in many schools. This book provides you with information about the skills and strategies of pickleball so that you, too, can enjoy this exciting game.
The game was created in 1965 by Joel Pritchard, congressman from the state of Washington, and Bill Bell, a successful businessman, at Pritchards home on Bainbridge Island as a means of entertaining their respective familiesin particular their kidsduring a family barbecue. An old outdoor badminton court on the property provided a place to play. Family members used Ping-Pong paddles to volley a plastic ball (unearthed during a search through rusty implements and gardening tools on the property) over an improvised net that was 60 inches high. The players soon discovered that the ball bounced nicely on the asphalt, so they lowered the net to 36 inches. Barney McCallum was introduced to the game the following weekend while visiting the Pritchards. Pritchard, Bell, and McCallum created simple rules, staying true to the original goal of creating a game that the whole family could play together. The game the three devised proved to be so much fun for all of the family members that it soon became a regular weekend activity at the Pritchards.
Accounts of how the name pickleball originated vary. A July 16, 2013, article in the Wall Street Journal says this: The name comes not from the family dog, Pickles, as popularly related. According to a newspaper column by Pritchards wife, Joan, it was so heavily based on other games it reminded her of the pickle boat in crew, where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats. Popular belief as related over the years is that the game was named after the dog, Pickles, who chased after the ball. Others claim both accounts may actually be true. Regardless of where it came from, the name pickleball has endured.
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The game gradually caught on, and the first known pickleball tournament in the world was held in the spring of 1976 at the South Center Athletic Club in Tukwila, Washington. Many of the participants were collegiate tennis players who knew very little about pickleball. In fact, they practiced with large wood paddles and a baseball-size Wiffle ball.
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As more people played the game, liked it, and wanted to continue playing, the need for consistent rules, established tournament formats, and equipment standards became more important. Consequently, the USA Pickleball Association was organized in 1984 and published the first rule book in March of that year. The USAPA continues to serve as the national governing body of the sport. Detailed information about all aspects of pickleball is available on their website, www.usapa.org. The International Federation of Pickleball (IFP) was formed for the purpose of standardizing pickleball competition and rules worldwide and produced its first rulebook in 2010. The USAPA now recognizes the IFPs
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