Calendar

Friday, July 24, 2026

• 6:15 PM

  🥒🎾Let’s play pickleball! Crazy Rules, then Glow-in-the-Dark

  Mount Tabor Tennis Courts East, SE Taylor St. and SE 71st Ave.

  Courts are up a flight of outdoors stairs just southwest of the intersection

  Al S.

  

  Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 6:15 PM

  Meet at 6:15, play at 6:45, ride, play again

  9:45 PM

  End location: Laurelhurst Park Pickleball Courts

  Ride length: 0-3 miles

  2nd Annual Pickleball Ride Let’s play pickleball! Bring your best self and your most creative trash talk, big swings, even bigger misses, laughter, and high-fives. Last year we had a ton of fun at Mount Tabor tennis courts while the sun was up, then rode to Laurelhurst to play in the dark with a bunch of portable lighting, and will do the same this year. Please show up early to help set up our courts. I can’t set up everything quickly. Thanks to everyone who helped last year! This year we have a twist to our daylight session at Tabor -- crazy rules! I have a list of about ten rules, and we’ll introduce a rule or two once every ten minutes; this way everyone can get used to the rules and play a bit before learning new ones. Examples: - The “no volley zone” (NVZ), also known as the “kitchen,” is still NVZ if you use your normal paddle, buuuuut … if you use a kitchen utensil or frying pan, you CAN volley in the kitchen. Using a cookie sheet is highly encouraged, and is worth 2 points if you hit a winning shot while yelling, “Baker’s Dozen!” Do you know how loud it gets when a cookie sheet slams a pickleball? Well, some of us don’t, and can’t wait to find out. - Bicycles form the net. If you “call it”, then hit a basket, handlebars, or bike seat with the ball, your team wins the point outright; if you hit a ball into a basket and it stays in, that makes it a basket ball, hence 2 points. - “Body parts rule”; one can only guess, unless one joins this ride… - and other rules for max silliness and hopefully lots of laughs I’ll bring 2 or 3 pickleball nets, line markers, and a few paddles like last year, but pls bring paddles and balls if you can. Even better is if you bring KITCHEN utensils, cookie sheet, pots, pans, etc. I’ll also bring lots of lights: LED paddles, LED pickleballs, glow bracelets, EL wire to mark the net, UV reactive tape and UV lamps to make court lines glow, and lots of other lights including disco lights.

  213-394-9081

  Share

  • Sharable link
  • Export to calendar
  • Add to Google Calendar