36 Trial Lawyer • Spring 2022 Pickle Ball Continued from p 35 is, basically, free exercise. You are having fun so you don’t realize how much you are moving. People often play pickleball for two to three hours at a time, not just 75 minutes like a tennis time at a club. So you move a lot. I regularly have over 15,000 steps and in many tournaments I will have over 20,000 steps in a day. Pickleball also gives players has the opportunity to have fun and play even though their skill level ranges from beginners to pros. You can still enjoy it even though you are learning. Tournaments have age and skill brackets. So, just like USTA tennis, you can play against people your own rating or people your own age — 19 and over, 35 and over, 50 and over is senior. The bigger tournaments break down the age categories every five years. The tournaments are all over the country and you could play one every weekend if you wanted. I also find pickleball to be easier on Paulson at the Pickleball Nationals 2019 with Steve Paranto (a legendary Oregon player and a member of the national Pickleball hall of fame).
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