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18 thoughts on “Pickleball is overrunning us”

  1. peterlorre

    They have speed holes. They make the shoes go faster.

    You want my advice? I think you should buy these pickleball shoes.

  2. ScentOfViolets

    Heh, when I take a couple of weeks off to vacation in Florida in January I'm a total (well, in the 60+ age category) badass at pickleball and I don't wear no stinkin' fancy shoes. Then again, most of the people I play against aren't cranking out sub-eight-minute mile seven mile runs three days a week.

    1. Ken Rhodes

      Oh, you youngsters are always showing off! I remember just a couple of decades ago when I was in the 60+ group, it was a contest who could do the most, the fastest, and look good doing it. Now I'm more relaxed; if I buy a pair of pickleball shoes it will be because they're comfortable.

      My badass tendencies these days tend towards reading and understanding Kevin's numeracy charts, so I can be the badass putting down the smartass youngsters who don't know the difference between the number of something and the rate of the thing.

    1. Kevin M

      I do. I loved racquetball when I was in college. Probably the most fun sport I’ve ever played. I tried again in my thirties and hurt my shoulder pretty bad, and got whooped 15-0 by a guy nearly twice my age.

  5. jimshapiro

    I play pickleball 3 or 4 times a week, but only outdoors. The trick, if you can call it that, is not to wear shoes with gum rubber soles. They'll wear out quickly. I just wear sneakers (sorry, that's what I call them) that grip on hard surfaces, but are not too "sticky". Costco works for me. Oh, and I've never fallen in 5+ years.

      1. KinersKorner

        I wear sneakers as well. Standard fare sneakers. Would not waste my money and “pickle ball shoes”. It’s amazing how great sports that are socially fun get taken over by psychopath's. Pickle going the way of paddle tennis. Wonder what’s next?

        1. Jasper_in_Boston

          It’s amazing how great sports that are socially fun get taken over by psychopath's

          It's a symptom of being a rich country. Americans above a certain income percentile have more money than they know what to do with, and so new trends present a nice opportunity to flaunt their wealth—or indulge in adult toys. Works the same way with the gym: clearly many people are far more interested in wealth/status signalling (via very expensive workout gear) than they are in actually working out. Ditto cycling: my brother's racing bike cost near 10 grand, I think.

          1. ScentOfViolets

            God yes! I only go down to Florida because my best friend lives there; they are always offering to buy me pickleball shoes as a souvenir (they're the only ones who can reliably beat me and that's always offered up as a gibe after losing.)

  6. cld

    Pickleball shoes are this lovely dill-green color with little green tassels on the laces, --'the balls'.

    That's why they're called that.

  8. FirstThirtyMinutes

    What you shouldn't do is wear running shoes. The tread on running shoes is for forward motion, and doesn't allow you to pivot on the balls of your feet. Tennis shoes are fine though. Not sure why you would need pickle ball specific shoes.

    I tend to resist things that are popular, but in this case, it's been great: there is always someone at the courts to play with. I could never find enough people for meet-up when I played tennis.

    1. erick

      That’s what I was thinking, wouldn’t pickle ball shoes just be tennis shoes? Same court surface and basically same motions.

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