Team A serves the ball and team B returns it short. A player from team A then softly hits the ball into the NVZ and the ball barely clears the net and before it can hit the floor, it hits the center base of the portable net on team B’s side and rolls away without anyone making a play.
Does team A or team B score a point? If not, what happens? Is there a pickleball rule that covers this?
Let us hear form you in the comments section. The answer will be provided in a follow up post!
“Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak.” — Juvenal
“Remember no man is a failure who has friends.” — Frank Capra
“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’” – Eckhart Tolle
“Without engineers, science is just philosophy.” — Unknown
Trees have always been magical or should I say mystical to me. My first true relationship with a tree was with that of a large chestnut tree in the Bronx, NYC. It was near our elementary school and grew tall alongside a hill we used for sledding in the winter and for rolling down in cardboard boxes in the spring and summer.
I was very young, perhaps seven years old. It was a very large tree as I remember and the chestnuts were a beautiful; a rich dark brown and so very smooth. Each Chestnut pod held two rather large half-domed seeds that were shiny and precious.
I was in further awe of nature when I realized that a huge oak tree could be brought forth from the growth of a small, seemingly innocuous acorn.
I agree with Joyce Kilmer. Trees are very special. The video below is an ode to trees. It ushers forth many of the feelings I have toward these living sentinels who retain their footholds at the behest of man.
NOTE: The reader has an accent which may make it difficult to understand all of the words, but I don’t think words are needed.
The Silent Friends
The Silent Friends from Kauri Multimedia on Vimeo.
NOTE: I first came across this video via an article, The Silent Friends: A Beautiful Short Film Celebrating Our Abiding Bond with Trees, from the brainpickings website. If you are in search of intellectually stimulating and far reaching topics, you might enjoy stopping by.
“I want someone to look at me and say ‘because of you I didn’t give up.'” — Unknown
“Don’t stay where you are tolerated, go where you are celebrated.” — David Avocado Wolfe
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Some people miss the message because they are too busy checking the spelling.” — Maynard C. Carney
“Better an ‘oops’ than a ‘what if.'” — Beau Taplin
“You’ll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.” — Cynthia Copeland Lewis
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou
“You’ve got to remember that common sense is not factored into the intelligence quotient.” — Greg Gabriel
Padel is a relatively unknown sport and although I get many blank stares and “huhs?” when I mention pickleball, I find that less people know about padel which is popular in Spain and other countries around the globe. Watch the video below and decide if you would like to try it.
See (below) how some of the best players in the world play the game. Notice how they can go outside the court and hit the ball back into the court to keep it in play!
For more information, contact:
USPA – UNITED STATES PADEL ASSOCIATION
5535 Memorial Drive, Suite F-603. Houston (77007) Texas
Tel. 713-539-3110
info@padelusa.org
So…what do you think?
“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.” — Spanish proverb
“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.” — Nelson DeMille
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.” — C.S. Lewis
“Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he’s in trouble.” — Dennis Fakes
Photographs have the power to transport the viewerback to times gone by. All of the shoe boxes, cigar boxes or drawers full of photographs contain a lifetime or many lifetimes of memories. Flipping through a photo album or passing old pictures around enables us to re-live memories we declare personally precious.
Below is a video that reminds us of the ability of photographs (or videos for that matter) to help us recall our past.
“Very few of us are what we seem.” — Agatha Christie
“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.” — Alexander Pope
“Find someone you can dream with. It can turn a wish into an adventure.” — Unknown
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.” — Bill Watterson
