There was one time I did find some
peace and it was when I was playing
pickleball on the beach with my kids
and you may recall that this past
March when pickleball was named
as our state's official sport.
While a lot of people are clamoring
to cover the sport now,
but team new day thought we'd want to go.
You know, we wait for all those
posers to get off the courts.
Executive producer Joseph Suttner and I
thought it was the right time for us to
check out what the sport was all about.
Or avoiding the rain out here.
Gonna play some pickleball with
Joseph and Amity and hopefully
show him a thing or two.
Yes, it's true that I've never
played pickleball before,
but you know how? You just sometimes know
when you're gonna be really
successful at something.
For me I think pickleball
is that I have never played.
Pickleball in my life I don't
even know the rules yet,
but I did play CSGO antennas in high
school so I think I've got this.
We'll see and Martina are
going to be partners.
You know, she's pretty competitive.
You probably seen on the show,
so I need to really step up
my game as what I'm thinking.
First of all, I want Amity and
Joseph to have a great time and
fall in love with pickleball.
Like I have and #2.
I wanna grind them into dust. Why
don't you just give us the
rules just so we know generally how it
all works. The most important rule
is to always let us score points.
I don't know that no, no OK.
Basically it's just like tennis or ping pong,
right? You just volleying or hitting the
ball over the net and you get one bounce on
your side and then you have to return it.
Or you can take it out of there as
long as you keep hitting that ball.
Over the net, the rally continues and
whoever wins the rally wins the point.
There's two probably quirky rules
that you should be aware of,
and the first most important one.
Quirky is standing here in the kitchen.
The no volley zone, the Green Zone.
Yeah, this Green Zone right here.
You cannot come into this zone right
here and volley the ball out of the air.
That's why it's called the no volley zone,
but we like to call it the kitchen, right?
Stay out of the kitchen.
You can come into the kitchen,
but you really have to let the ball bounce
before you can hit it over the net.
Got it? That's the the biggest,
quirkiest rule about pickleball.
We love OK.
The other one is on the serve and the return.
It's what we call the two balance rule.
If I serve it to you,
you have to let it bounce and
then return it to me or Brent.
We have to let it bounce a second
time before we can come up and
hit the ball out of the air ball.
Yet right?
Got it. Are you ready? Yes,
I am ready you ready.
That is a great serve. Look at that.
Here we go. Ohh now I should have it.
Joseph. Sorry, you are not
a beacon. We scored a point.
Alright pressure's off for us.
Very nice, you didn't hit Joseph with it.
That was good good.
You got it toward that improvement.
Almost one Frank and I get up here.
Two of you want to work your
way up and essentially have
everybody up here on the kitchen
lines playing more in this area.
Just get into high,
sustained kind of dinky rally rattle.
So as with every great champion
there's a bit of a learning curve
and we are going to now take
what we've learned and switch
partners and see how we do.
Pros by our side.
Think about which
way you're like.
Belly button is pointing.
That's where kind of aim.
Ohh, I don't think any amount
of coaching by Brent is gonna
get Joseph prepared for this.
Here we go. Joseph,
Are you ready? I sure alright.
Well, at least I hit the ball.
We scored a point and you give me
give me some gap high 5 for that.
Yeah yeah. Alright, here we go.
Are you ready? I'm ready
for here we go 10.
Go get an Emmy. Go get it.
Go get it. Yeah, nice good job.
Stay here. Stay here with me.
Stay here with me.
Yeah, there you go. Look at us.
Stay there, stay there.
No you did Ohh tried to
sing me and I got it.
Ready I am alright.
Perfect come on now come
up come up come up come up.
Oh, that's a real point.
That's it. That's good me nice
go get that you yeah that's good.
Come on, let's get up you
let's get up to this kitchen
yeah there you go. Nice job.
Thank you Joseph Ohh so close I didn't know.
Should I should I?
Should I give her the bad news?
Ohh no. We have a kitchen fall when
you hit that ball out of the air your
toe was on the line and
that's the kitchen you hate
to see it. I can't even touch the
line you can't even touch the line
so that went about as I thought
it would but I would say I had a
lot of fun learning how to play
pickle ball. But I'm not going to be
quitting my job as the game went on.
We became better and better in our champions.
Just emerged more and more.
So don't be surprised if y'all
see me on the pickleball court
or maybe in the championship.
Forget something, it could happen,
yeah so came out. They took the court.
They had fun. Hopefully
I love seeing people step on the
pickleball court for the first time and
then how quickly they take to it and then
start laughing and having a great time.
And I'm glad we stopped when we did
because it was just a matter of time
before they started crushing us.
Not true at all, but that
was it was so fun. Honestly.
Yeah, I'm not sure about the crushing.
Were those tennis courts or
pickleball courts? So pickleball.
Courts are a little bit smaller
and because the sport has
become more and more popular,
you're starting to see more and more
pickleball courts being creative.
Yeah, that was actually just a
practice area for the tennis courts,
and they raised the money.
Frank and the association raised
the money to make it a pickleball
court because the lines are
just a little bit smaller,
it's just a smaller court and
then the net for pickleball
is just about 2 inches.
I think shorter than
yeah. I feel like I really saw
some emerging champions there. I'm
not gonna lie. I think that I
have a lot of raw talent that I
can't wait to share with you.
Pickleball world.
Overall, actually yesterday we were.
We were hanging out in my neighborhood,
my friends and I've got these
neighbors Don and Carlos and they're
just like the best tennis players ever.
And I was like,
have you ever played pickle ball because
I know thing too about it now so we can play.
I think we've got some crackers.
Let me go get my rackets.
I go inside and come back out there
setting up their own pickleball
net in the middle of our street.
We've never played before Carlos.
I see
you. I'm guessing the champion
didn't emerge right there.
It was not emerging.
I feel like there's some power though
in those sweat bands that you were,
I think the sweat bands are like you know,
the Wonder Woman, wonderful power,
you know, I don't know.
Overall, I mean, here's the
thing I like about pickleball.
Though overall I'm really into
this now because it is something
that I think everybody can do.
Yeah, tennis is really hard.
You're going back, you're hitting it
the the rackets really heavy these feel,
but these are really.
It's almost like when you're playing
on the beach, you know and you're
like oh I got this I'm just saying.
Y'all should try it.
I had a blast.
Maybe you should just maybe
not brag until you find out.
I mean I love that more.
Listen listen I've gotta give myself
a standard to hold myself up to.
So here you go.
There you go so anyway,
no it was a lot of fun.
It was fun. What, by the way?
So I told you that I was playing
pickleball and fireworks things yesterday.
What were you doing this weekend?
We had a kind of a fun flag raising at
the church and that was always fun to see.
The kids do the color guard and
go up but and sing the songs.
It gave my heart, you know,
a little emotion to feel all the feels
there and then we saw some fireworks.
But we spent most of our time making
sure our dog wasn't freaking out. Yeah
no. The poor doggies and the kitties.
My cats were acting so strange
yesterday. I felt so bad
but the fireworks were beautiful.
It was a good day. The Sun came out.
Sun virtually came out. It wasn't too hot.
It was very goodness cause I really
worked up a sweat playing pickleball.