Wat is pickleball?
Pickleball is a racket sport and is played on a field as large as a badminton field. The net is lower than with tennis. They play with a paddle, which is lighter and smaller than a padel racket for example. The ball is made of plastic and is full of holes. They ensure that the ball makes less speed. Geert-Jan van Dijken: “On the field there is a box that the ‘Kitchen’, also known as the ‘non-Volley zone’, is mentioned. The nice thing about Pickleball is that area, the endgame is played there. You can’t take balls from the sky there. So you get a whole tactical game. It is especially a two-offs.”
Pickleball was conceived in the 1960s by three Americans who were looking for an activity for their bored children. They used a plastic ball, lowered a badminton network and used ping -pong bats to create a new one. The sport became extremely popular in America where millions of people play it. The creators of the pickleball compared the game with a ‘pickleboat’. That is a rowing boat that is filled with the crew of other boats. It is a nod to the Allegaartje van Sports that Pickleball consists of.
