A BIG heartfelt thank you to all the participants and volunteers in the UkraineAid Charity Tournament. You made this event a success. We collected over $6400 which will be donated to the Red Cross Humanitarian Fund to aid the people in Ukraine. From the very beginning it was our hope that other clubs will feel inspired and challenged by this to do something similar. More info here...
A team of American researchers from Western State Colorado University outfitted eight women and seven men between the ages of 40 and 85 with portable units designed to determine how much energy they expend during a game of pickleball. They also took a before and after snapshot of their cardiometabolic health to see whether pickleball had a positive effect on their fitness and health after six weeks of regular play.
A group of researchers from Brigham Young University in Idaho looked into the game’s physiological demands, hoping to discover how 30 minutes of doubles pickleball compares with a 30-minute walk. They gathered 25 pickleball players (15 men and 10 women) with an average age of 38 and equipped them with sensors to measure heart rate, step count and calories burned while walking and playing pickleball. Our experience has been that a couple of hours in a good rec game can burn anywhere from 800 to 1,000 calories. Full story and conclusions by Jill Barker in the Vancouver Sun as to whether Pickleball is a workout (as if we needed confirmation) here... The game is a testament to monotony as the mother of invention, in the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, when the Pritchards, the Bells and the McCallums enjoyed good living and good fun, and made up a game off the top of their heads. And do you know what? It might just last forever. See Eric Johnson, KOMO News Anchor's story here...
The District of North Saanich BC has hired a private security company to ensure pickleball players only use a local court during the prescribed hours. The district says the courts in Wain Park have generated noise complaints, prompting the municipality to restrict the hours the courts can be used on certain days of the week. See the CTV story here...
Story also covered by Kyle Stanton of Global News. See that story here... "Pickleball play has been banned from the town’s six outdoor courts in Virgil. A court in Welland ruled on Wednesday that the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake and the NOTL Pickleball Club violated the town’s noise bylaw by allowing pickleball games on six courts in Centennial Sports Park." Read the full article from Niagara Now here.
"To see the prize money actually getting there and more sponsors getting involved, it's just better for the players actually saying, 'Hey, you know what? There's money starting to come into this,'" Parris Todd, a former American tennis player turned pickleballer, told Yahoo Finance. Read the full article and watch the related video, from Yahoo!Finance here.
"A recent message to members from PICKLEBALLBC registrar Rod Williams said that as of May 30, the total active membership in Pickleball BC surpassed the 10,000 mark. In all of Canada, there are 33,000 members." Read the full article from Castanet here.
"Pickleball has been billed as a more accessible and a less intense tennis alternative, but experts say the popular pastime is still leading to a rash of injuries amongst the senior set. 'Obsessed' retirees are playing several hours per day, leading to overuse injuries. The older demo is also more likely to have weak bones, putting them at a greater risk for fractures." Read the full article by Kirsten Fleming of the N.Y. Post here.
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