Tickled to talk pickleball

(September 18, 2014 Coeur d’Alene, ID, www.cdapress.com)

Pickleball players know to only hang out in the “kitchen” if they happen to be “dinking.” “Dinking” refers to hitting the larger-than-average perforated plastic ball softly over the net and the “kitchen” is the 7-foot, no-volley zone near the net where players cannot enter until the ball has bounced. Players remind themselves and others to “stay out of the kitchen.” North Idaho and the Inland Northwest are seeing an influx of interest in the game as more people learn about it and pickleball courts are added to local parks. Read More…