Pickleball: The Fundamentals

Pickleball is easy on your elbows, shoulders and joints. It has the same size court as a badminton court, and its paddle is lightweight and small, similar to table tennis. Like tennis you can play single or doubles, and you can both volley the ball, let it bounce and hit ground strokes. Many of pickleball's rules are an advantage to seniors: it's an underhand serve, and the ball has to bounce twice on your opponents' court and once on yours before you can volley the ball. Since the serving team has to let that ball bounce once on their side they can't initially come up to the net. Once you learn the rules, pickleball is fun and addictive.

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