One year in the making, the Pickleball Rocks team is proud to launch the new website HelpingPickleballGrow.com.
We love the time we spend on the courts and hanging out with our pickleball friends. But the one thing we enjoy more than any other is helping communities grow this great sport all across the country.
It is so much fun to be a part of the great growth that pickleball is experiencing everywhere.
As much as we’d love to, we simply can’t be everywhere, so we spend a great deal of our time building programs that will help players and communities grow even faster than normal.
Our latest 3 programs, all available through HelpingPickleballGrow.com, have all been built and tested to help pickleball grow anywhere, anytime.
They are:
The Pickleball Mile: Offering people the gift of good health through playing pickleball for exercise. Track your pickleball playing and win rewards. Introduce new players and win rewards. The perfect tool to introduce and use in any community and/or club to help your numbers grow.
The Pickleball Champions Club: Offering people who champion this sport, the tips, tools and specific techniques that will help grow their club and their community.
The Pickleball Rocks Paddle Foundation: Providing free or extremely low cost equipment for schools, YMCAs, and parks and recreation departments.
We hope you will join us in the cause to double pickleball in 2015.
Though some wonder whether doubling pickleball would be a good thing, one thing we know for sure is that if we can get everyone to introduce pickleball to just one new player this year, we would double the number of players and in doing so we would attract the attention of sponsors as well as parks and recreation departments, YMCAs, and community and town leaders all across the country. Rest assured this type of attention would bring more courts and more support than ever before. #doublepickleball2015
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Hello Folks. My name is Matt, and I am a Pickleball ambassador in North Idaho,city of Hayden. Your message on the USAPA Forum resonated in a big way with me.
January 2015, I have started indoor PB classes at a local elementary school,(Hayden Meadows Elementary), through the city of Hayden’s Parks & Rec. I also am beginning a PB program at another pair of elementary schools,(Borah Elementary and Bryan Elementary), both in close proximity to each other. Through Parks &Rec., there are two groups of varying ages,that come to the classes and play on a Wednesday and a Monday evening. The group is growing and seem to be getting a lot of fun and benefit out of the program.The youngest participant is 10 years old,we have several teenagers, and folk in their 20’s;30’s; up to their 70’s! I have purchased all the equipment myself, to date: that includes nets, balls, paddles for all, and even the specific velcro lines, specially made to use on a carpet surface.Not a cheap exercise, at all.I have requested a grant from USAPA, which I hope will come my way. It would be very useful.
The elementary schools have a total of 550 students,(about 30 children per class)I have the opportunity of running PB classes during PE. It’s a wonderful chance to teach PB to groups of kids, who by and large have a pretty poor socio-economic standard of living. Most children at the one particular school, are on subsidized school lunches,many have one parent families. I need twenty paddles and some balls, to make up the compliment of enough equipment for these groups.These classes are pro-bono, and the Parks and Recreation classes are non profit.Please let me know what I need to do, to purchase some equipment. Many thanks, Matt.