Tag: Pickleball Club

Pickleball Club news – March 2015

David Lawell What do you do when an uninvited guest shows up at your party? Mike Rains and MJ Wong were faced with that dilemma on the second day of the annual resident pickleball tournament. Besides, the guest had not paid the entry fee! Just kidding! The guest wasn’t a real person but her presence…

Pickleball Club news – January 2015

Dave Wong’s Training Crew from left: Steve Arthur, Paula Steger, Dawn Grout, Richard Shine, Bob Burton, David Wong and David Lawell. Missing from photo is Larry Kraus. Picture taken by Sue Sherwood.

David Lawell Training is always one of the biggest issues of any endeavor in a person’s lifetime. It starts almost at birth, and it is always a big dilemma as to which path is correct. Parents, bosses, any leader agonizes over the correct way to train a new participant in any of life’s activities. Proper…

Pickleball Club news – December 2014

Paula Steger and “Best in Class Baked Beans” winner Jean DeChristopher

David Lawell “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year” is a song that you will soon be hearing quite frequently. However, in the Southwest part of the USA it can have a different meaning when it comes to serious pickleball players. This is especially true in the states of Arizona and Utah where some…

Pickleball Club news – October 2014

Charlie Forbush’s (far left) Inter-community mob.

David Lawell Once again summer is winding down, and cooler temperatures will return. High temperature and humidity does not deter pickleball players around the Eloy – Casa Grande communities causing them to hibernate and wait for cooler temperatures. Starting early in the mornings six days a week, a collection of players (sometimes large and sometimes…

Pickleball Club news

David Lawell The pickleball tournaments scheduled in Arizona have pretty much run their course by late April. Future sanctioned events will occur in the northern and eastern areas of the U.S. where the weather is starting to change from winter to spring, then summer. So the full time residents of Robson are looking to play…