Getting started in pickleball

• Videos to help you get started and understand the game
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF5RyCh7GNc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTvPYdKZqO0
• https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/how-to-play-old/basics/tips-for-new-players/

• You can buy a paddle in lots of places these days and you should be able to find one for ~ $50 (or less if you shop around).  There are nice tennis shops in Boulder that are now carrying a large selection of pickleball paddles in addition to all their usual tennis stuff.  And while you are buying your paddle, buy a couple of cheap balls (onyx perhaps).

  A pickleball doesn't bounce like a tennis ball and the paddle is shorter than a tennis racket.  It will help immensely to find a tennis backboard (or solid wall) and hit balls against it.  This will help you get used to actually hitting the ball and significantly reduce frustration on the court with actually being able to hit the ball.

  
  

• Sign up for our skills and drills events

• Rules Summary
  

What's been happening

• Our potluck pickleball social was well attended but was interrupted by rain.  Glad that some cam out on May 25th
• Dave Weinbach Clinic April 8, 2023
• Faith Point Paddle Battle 23  March 4, 2023
• Annual Meeting/Potluck Social with PB Play 1/19/23
• LPC Shirts delivered
• Perkins Pie Fundraiser - did not raise too much money but thank you to all who participated.
• Members tournament was great fun with 19 teams playing on 10/08/22
• 4 courts taped at Left Hand Creek Park, lockbox with nets available 
• Potluck Social on 09/22/22 had a small turnout due to weather
• Awesome kickoff event held on 08/10/22
• 8 courts taped at Clark Centennial Park
• Lockbox with 8 nets made available to LPC members
• Divider created and hung, and another in the box
• 2 courts taped at Roosevelt Park available to use personal nets
• Club legally formed