Pickleball 30:00 [2]
Saturday morning pickleball. Good group of people, 11 in all, but I could tell that even with the "tennis elbow" strap on my forearm, my elbow wasn't real happy to be hitting the yellow wiffleball around. So I played two games and called it quits for the day. Fortunately, both games were quite good; Carole and I against Mike and Sandy. We won both games but by the narrowest of margins.
After that, I did actually play some more, but just hitting the ball around left handed (no games played). I found that I could pretty consistently hit forehands back over the net and into the court, but I had very little control over how deep or what side of the court the shot would land. My backhand was substantially worse -- I think I hit it over the net maybe 75% of the time, and with even less control than my forehand. My net play was actually halfway decent, better than I would have anticipated. My serve, sadly, was essentially non-existent. If I ever aspire to playing an actual game left-handed, I'll need to really work on my serve.
