This is the start of something fabulous!!

This is the Pickleball CHIX first episode of the Pickleball Diaries where fun and laughter abounds, while the CHIX kick-off their first podcast.

The CHIX introduce the "word" of the day, (can you guess what the word of the day is) and the "in the kitchen cocktail (a different one every week), a favorite pickleball training tool, and of course the CHIX talk about their favorite paddle, the PikNinja Sports, Assassin Pro - in pink!

Fun convo looking at the start of pickleball in the Minneapolis Suburban Metro area with the OG of pickleball, Bob Lanzi of Mega Pickle and Pong in Chanhassen, Minnesota .

Bob has so much knowledge, and a variety interesting stories, and valuable tips to share. You can find the tips on the Pickleball CHIX blog or in the show notes.

And, did you know pickleball originated in 1965? Do you know the pickleball story? Stir up the fun with the CHIX - on and off the court. Laughter is the best medicine, and pickleball is the best sport. And, don't forget to watch the bloopers!

 This is the start of something fabulous!!

This is the Pickleball CHIX first episode of the Pickleball Diaries where fun and laughter abounds, while the CHIX kick-off their first podcast. The CHIX introduce the "word" of the day, (can you guess what the word of the day is…) and the "in the kitchen cocktail (a different one every week).

Today’s “Word of the Day”

BOB (you guessed it)

Today’s In the Kitchen Cocktail

The Pickleback is Jameson Whiskey with a back of “pickle juice”. Really...who doesn't love pickle juice?

History of the Shot:

The Pickleback shot originated from The Bushwick Country Club bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Reggie Cunningham is thought to be the originator of the popular shot back in 2006.

Pickleball Training Tool and Pickleball Paddle

Favorite pickleball training tool, the Vulcan V100.

And of course the CHIX talk about their favorite paddle, the PikNinja Sports, Assassin Pro - in

pink!

Upcoming Tournaments

Pickleball CHIX EXTRAVAGANZA at Mega Pickle and Pong (full event - we are so excited) on November 19th we have 18 teams for our first event with a lot of fabulous surprises planned.

Click here for the Calendar for Chicken and Pickle

Let’s get to our treasured guest, Bob Lanzi.

Fun convo looking at the start of pickleball in the Minneapolis Suburban Metro area with

the OG of pickleball, Bob Lanzi GM, of Mega Pickle and Pong in Chanhassen, Minnesota .

Mega Pickle and Pong

2929 Water Tower Pl

Chanhassen MN

952-300-8752

Mega on FaceBook Mega on Instagram

Mega offers:

• leagues
• open play
• events
• pro shop
• and more!

Bob compliments owners, Rick and Andrew in creating such a great space. And, we agree. Mega Pickle and Pong is a beautiful club featuring 6 professional grade cushioned courts, with all of the amenities you seek. We've enjoyed our ladder leagues, open play and events at Mega. Mega has a sincere interest in making pickleball a wonderful experience for players of all ages and skills. What's your DUPR?

Bob has interesting stories, and valuable tips to share. You can find the tips on the

Pickleball CHIX blog.

Bob's Tips:

“Don’t try to hit a winner, instead try to hit a non-loser to a good location”. 

And, when looking for answers whenever you make a mistake on the court, Bob says, ask yourself “Where is my paddle and where are my feet”. 

Thank you Bob for the great advice!

Bob as a former educator, and park and recreation director made a move to the private sector at Mega. He is well known in the area, and an all around fabulous, positive encourager who takes an active interest in the players that walk through the doors at Mega. And, we know first hand, Bob was instrumental in helping us learn more about the game that we started to love so much just last January 2022 in Marco Island, Florida.

Bob shares fascinating information about the history of pickleball in the Minnesota area as pickleball enthusiasts drove the change from tennis to pickleball. He also speaks to the need to move pickleball "inside".

When did pickleball start?

And, did you know pickleball originated in 1965? Do you know the pickleball story? Click

here to read the entire story on USA Pickleball. Watch a video here.

Some of Bob's favorites:

Men - Riley Newman

WHY? Here's one reason:

"I liked more about it is he had an unorthodox style for holding his paddle. He's

doing two handed forehand, two handed backhand.

Women - Catherine Parenteau

WHY? "I just love watching her game. I mean, to be quite honest. It's like poetry in motion.

She's working so hard. She's trying so hard. But there's just a gracefulness about her game.

And someone to watch for FUN! - Bob's Choice is:

Sydney Steinaker

She brings the fun, and is a pretty good pickleball player. She is super fun. That's what I love. I love when someone doesn't take themselves too seriously and have fun with the sport of pickleball, that always resonates with me. Not to mention she has access to a lot of the pros, in fact her boyfriend is Colin Johns. He is our number one player in the world, and he's not always initiating, but he always seems to be in the right spot. It's very seldom that you see him scrambling.

Some Key Moments

Average age of pickleball players - much younger than we think. Bob says, " in the year 2020,

over half the people learning how to play pickleball are in the 20s or below. "

Thank you for joining us. We hope you enjoyed the show, and look forward to you joining us for our next podcast on November 23rd where we will once again stir up the fun.

Podcast Schedule

We will drop new episodes every other Wednesday. Watch for our short podcasts for motivation, lifestyle and other topics on our mind!

Laughter is the best medicine, and pickleball is the best sport.

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Pickleball Diaries Podcast

An Introduction to Pickleball and the Girls Who Love it with special guest, Bob Lanzi.

Bring me the next shiny new thing. The pickleball chicks are obsessed with America's fastest growing sports pickable. Get ready for on and off the court hot topics, lots of last cocktails and champagne with your hosts, Annie and Rebecca.

Hey, I'm Rebecca.

And I'm Annie.

And we're the pickleball CHIX.

Welcome to the pickleball diaries. So, we should probably tell our listeners just a little bit about ourselves. So Annie, who are you?

I'm a mom. I have a fabulous son, a wonderful stepdaughter, lots of special nieces and nephews, and I'm a business owner, Rebecca, and I'm crazy about pickleball. I love it. Love it. Love it.

She took my words.

Oh, shoot, I'm addicted. I thought you were obsessed?

I'm a photographer. And I have two kids in college. And I am obsessed with pickleball.

So we've been talking and people have been asking us why we're doing this podcast or what's going to be about. We just had to do something, we had to have a place to talk about the game of pickleball, and all the fun that comes with it. And our husbands had had it. And they told us that they couldn't listen to us anymore because they were too busy washing their hair. So we decided we find our own friends. Here we are.

So adding a bit of excitement to our podcast, every time we meet we're going to have a in the kitchen cocktail. And so today with Bob, our first guest of our podcast, we're doing one and I can't tell you what it is yet, but it's going to be a good one. And then we're also going to have a word of the day. Yes. So Annie, give the scoop on that word of the day.

So fun. Each episode we will have a word of the day, and when you hear the word during the podcast. Pick up your cocktail. Have a little sip,

because you want to for sure participate on this one with us.

I recommend a little Moet Chandon, but of course have whatever you love. So today's word of the day, is

BOB

in honor of our guest, Bob.

We are so excited to talk about what came in the mail for us yesterday. We used it before our ladder league here at Mega pickle and Pong, shout out to the girls at Mega pickle.

Oh, I love the league. It's so fun. We've met so many new friends.

I know. They're awesome. The girls are awesome. And Beth with her line drive shot is spectacular.

Okay, so this came in the mail yesterday, and we used it yesterday before we played and it made such a difference. Don't you think, Annie? Absolutely! Okay.

But um, bom bom.

It's the Vulcan v 100. It's so awesome. So I really thought this was a cool, cool item. And it's a hand eye pickled trainer. We used it yesterday. And we just went back and forth for I don't know half hour before we played. And in our game you actually have where you need to stop before you hit the ball when you're playing with your regular racket because this is so small that your eye hand coordination makes you stop and get set up correctly. So if nothing else, you say this for like a half hour before you played really did make a difference and the shots that I might not have gotten in past games I got I mean I rocked it. What do you think any?

That's fun? I know. I mean, we all know in pickleball one of the things that I think we all love about the game is when you have that great shot, it feels so good.

It does and when it's solid

It has the sound, that's fun. And our favorite paddle is the assassin pro by picked ninja shout out to PikNinja.

Upcoming tournaments. Annie, I've been looking a lot and you've been looking a lot. So what did you think about what was your favorite one in November because we want to just cover the November.

Well, that's the pickleball CHIX Extravaganza. And what's the date? November 19th.

Okay, and it's the pickleball chicks extravaganza. And you'll see a lot of it on social media. It is sold out!

Another one that we were really excited about that we're hoping to get to is the chicken and pickled next generation and that's November 18 through the 20th in Kansas City

The problem is it's my anniversary on the 24th.

And you know, I love that area. My son went to college at Mizzou! Love it shout out.

I know.

So if I can get out of that. We might move we might be in that one.

I would love an our first guest. We're so excited. Is Bob Lanzi. He's the manager at Mega pickle and pickled Bong.

It's so fun. We're in two leagues at Mega.

I love it. I love it too. So much fun. Yes, it's been the highlight of our whole summer.

I know. Anyway, before we ask you any questions, Bob, we want to make sure we do our in the kitchen cocktail. So in honor of you today, we're doing the pickle back. Yes, we are. And he's never done it. I found out about it in Marco when we were down last winter when we started playing pickleball. And we were in this cute little bar. Oh, what was it the what was it? Oh, my!

The Boardroom.

Yes, the boardroom. And so some young gals came in and they were telling us all about the shots that we're going to do. And I don't like doing shots. So they were like, Oh my gosh, you have to do with us. You won't taste the shot. It is Jameson and pickle juice.

Oh boy is that the shot?

I know. Right?

And so um you don't taste the Jameson after the pickle juice that cancels it out. So let's I'll grab our paddle. Nice. Thank you. Here you are.

Thank you, Rebecca,

and your backup of pickle juice.

Everybody grab that right away. All right. So cheers to our first podcast. And thanks so much for joining us, Bob. Here we go. Cheers.

Cheers.

Okay, everybody's doing the shot from the paddle shot board.

Wow, okay it really works, I mean, truly does. Isn't that great? Yeah. A lot of pickle juice. A lot of pickles. I love pickle juice. Yes, I do.

So Bob, tell us kind of your background and how you really got into pickleball

Well, first of all, ladies, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here, here at Mega pickle and Pong as we were talking about before, and it's been great over the past few months to get to know you.

It's been super fun. Yeah, we love it. Thank you. And you were repping years ago. I was when I played volleyball.

Yes. So Rebecca was high level volleyball player played high school at Columbia Heights. Yeah, yeah. And believe it or not, I actually was one of her volleyball officials way back in the day.

Yes. It's so fun. That's crazy. Just small world.

It is some 30 Some years later, I'm still blowing the whistle.

Now these guys love it.

So getting back to my story. I actually was a high school teacher for a little bit and then I got into parks and recreation was city of Eden Prairie. And I was in charge of all the adult athletics. So I always say softball, volleyball, basketball, broom ball, bocce ball, anything with a ball. I was working with it had over 10,000 adults participating in the sports at Eden Prairie. And then we also I worked with youth athletic associations, all the ones you can imagine, and over 10,000 youth.

So that's cool.

Yeah. So we were really busy. And I did that for 17 years. And then in 2003, I was asked to come over to the Eden Prairie Community Center, and to be one of the management team over there. So in particular, working with the ice rinks. Well, that was kind of the beginning of my community center journey. And then along with that, in 2008, the Community Center did a big expansion, including a gymnasium, and we had some court space, basketball courts and volleyball courts. We still didn't know in 2008 that there was such a thing in pickleball. Spring of 2011, we had some seniors that actually came back from Florida and Arizona, in particular, Florida, they had been playing pickleball.

And my parents play. I mean, they've been playing for years to in Texas, and I was like, okay,

So this was in 2011. So they were telling us about it and said, Well, we've been playing down south we'd like to play here in Minnesota. Of course, we all had to look up what pickleball was, we had no idea what it was. So as soon as we found out what it was, was like, okay, we can do that for you.

So it actually started in our senior center court. We had some outdoor courts, and they put some tape down and they would just tape daily, and then they would play on the course. So all of a sudden fall came and they're saying it's getting kind of cold out here. We need to do this inside. So we had just poured a new tartan floor. And we did not have pickleball lines. And so the very first year of pickleball, inside the community center in 2011, we have blue painters tape. And wow, it was awesome. After the first year, it was so popular that we said, let's go ahead and let's, let's invest in lines. So the community center starting in 2011, we started we had pickleball lines. So then since I did adult athletics, I said, Well, I can do some stuff for these guys. So we started offering along with how to play pickleball, which I didn't know how to play. We also started having some drills session, people were asking about that. And then we did our first pickleball leagues. Actually, the version that we play here and mega pickle and Pong, the very first version of that was at the Eden Prairie community center in 2011. So these ladder leagues that we do are over 10 years old.

Oh, wow.

And I'm sure people did it previously. But it was something that we found that worked out really well. We knew that they were pretty successful, because we only had four quarts, so we would have 290 minute time slots, and we would put a leak out there. And literally in less than five minutes. All of our leaks would fill back in 2011

2011. Wow!

We had people coming from Forest Lake. We have people coming up from Mankato. There was really no one during that time running pickleball leagues, so people were really excited to play.

Oh, that is cool.

So that was a fun beginning. So I started operating these leagues and running these leagues. I said, Well, it would be a good idea. If I would play. Bob, you gotta play. You guys will laugh because I'm 63. Well, I was 52 at the time, and I said, I'm way too young for this.

Did I know in 2020, that over half the people learning how to play pickleball are in the 20s or below. The dial has spun, the seniors that asked us in 2011 were all in their late 60s and 70s. And that really was the average age of most of the pickleball players. What we've seen throughout the years is obviously the age has gone down significantly. Now. So I believe they average age is in the mid 40s.

Wow.

And so with a good chunk of those players being significantly younger, which is really fun to see.

Yes.

Now you were talking about the tips Bob had told you for our blog.

Yes. So Well, first of all, thank you for being so encouraging.

Sure

You have made pickleball so fun for us. We fell in love in Marco with pickleball. But it really wasn't until we came back to Minnesota that we started to understand pickleball which makes them more fun.

Right.

I mean, again, we're addicted. We're obsessed. We love it. So as far as the tips go, you mentioned two tips, and we've shared those with our blog or on our blog. And we'd love for you to share those with our listeners.

Sure,

I'd be more than happy to, I think the two tips that I've learned from myself, and it really seems to help me. Part of it comes from my officiating background. Because I've 38 years I've seen lots of officiated lots of sports. So I've watched lots of softball games, lots of volleyball matches, lots of basketball games. And the thing that I find in also now delving into pickleball, the thing that I find is, most of the time when people are losing a point, it's because of a mistake that's been made. So what I usually say is instead of trying to hit a winner, to that corner on the left side, try to hit a non loser to a good spot.

Yeah. That really helped me in particular, even when I'm playing players that are stronger than myself, I'm just noticing, going for that line and you miss it by three inches. And it's still out, right. So if you can keep the ball in play, try to hit non losers, you're going to be really successful.

It really connected with me when we first started playing a at Mega Pickle and Pong. That was the one thing that when you said that I was like, Oh my gosh, my whole game is going to be different. No. I mean, truly, honestly.

Kind of takes the pressure off.

I know. Don't feel like you have to hit winners, right?

Yes, yes.

And then what was the other tip because the other one was really good, too. I mean, there were two things that I love. What was the other one?

The other one, which I really love, is take note when you make a mistake, watch where you're standing.

What I always say to players, and myself included, I said it yesterday morning at six in the morning. Whenever I make a pickleball mistake. I ask myself, where are my feet and where's my paddle? And I really don't need a coach to help me with that. That will answer most of the questions I have that if I wasn't ready and someone drove it and all of a sudden they I hit it to that chicken wings spot that I wasn't able to get to. Well, where was my paddle? And likewise, a lot of the time when they're hitting winners, it's because my feet weren't where they were supposed to be, right? Maybe I'm taking I'm guarding an area of the court that doesn't even need to be guarded. And so now I've left both my partner and I more susceptible, right, and that spot down the middle because I was guarding the line that I didn't need to guard. Those have been two things that I feel that that really helped me. And there again, it seems like when you look at the players, even around the world, our number one player in the world Collin John's, he's not always initiating. But he always seems to be in the right spot. It's very seldom that you see him scrambling.

That's what I was going to ask you is who is your favorite professional pickleball player?

Okay, well, I've actually got two. I've got a guy and I've got a gal.

So Riley Newman's my favorite male player. And I think the reason that I like Riley is because he came from a different sport. He did tennis, but he was also he did basketball and volleyball. So variety of sports that really intrigued me. And the thing that I think I liked more about it is he had an unorthodox style for holding his paddle. When you watch Riley he does he was really the first pro male that I saw. That was exclusively when he's in the kitchen beforehand and backhand. He's doing two handed forehand, two handed backhand. Yeah. And it was just really unique. It wasn't a traditional tennis style.

Right.

And that resonated with me because I don't necessarily I played with a couple fingers on the paddle don't like it, so I'm gonna go with that. And so seeing Riley do something different. really resonated with me.

Yeah.

And then as far as on the female side, Catherine Parenteau. I just love watching her game. I mean, to be quite honest. It's like poetry in motion. She's working so hard. She's trying so hard. But there's just a gracefulness about her game.

Yeah, that is just really, really fun to watch.

And I've really seen actually, throughout the years, being a fairly high level sports official doing both high school and college and in basketball, doing high school and college. A lot of times with some of these games, and actually Pickleball has become one of those games. Quite often the ladies game is more enjoyable as a fan to watch them in game.

Yeah, yeah.

Volleyball in the Olympics is a really good example. The guys volleyball players in the Olympics. It's fun to watch them. But the bumps the sets, and the spikes are just really vulnerable. The ladies game is just it's more fun. There's more teamwork involved. Yep. Energy, the finesse added to it. You know, gymnastics, I think most people say well, I like ladies gymnastics versus guy. So there's sports that are like that. Volleyball really is that way. And because that's really, I've got a place in my heart with that Pickleball has become kind of the same thing. And then also, the beautiful thing about pickleball is the fact that along with guys, pickleball and ladies pickleball. We have a lot of mixed pickleball going on where it's great opportunity for couples to get together or friends to get together. And it brings a different dynamic to the game.

So who was it that you were talking about? Your Favorite pro Pickleball's girlfriend?

Okay, Sydney Steinaker.

Oh. Of course!

Well, of course, she would like her, you know, but really, to be quite honest. The thing that I liked about her was she is somebody to follow.

We should all follow her on Instagram.

Yes, in fact we do!

And the thing that she has, is she has access to a lot of the pros. So her boyfriend is Colin John's, who's part of the number one men's team. And so it's just been interesting as whether she's down in Austin, Texas, where they train out of or wherever. She's a fairly good pickleball player herself, but she's not a pro. And so, but because she has access to the guy pros and the lady pros, when you watch her whether it's on Instagram or podcast, she makes it funny. She is super fun. That's what I love. I love when someone doesn't take themselves too seriously. Yeah, and they have fun with the sport of pickleball that always resonates with me.

Yeah, I just love that. Okay, so what do you think is the future of pickleball with women? But I guess really pickleball in general.

Great question. So coming from the city of Eden Prairie, within our state, the state of Minnesota. I was asked several times over the past several years to speak to our state organization. So we would have an audience of Parks and Rec directors. So Sports organizers, we would go to the MRP state convention, I actually the first time I spoke about pickleball was in 2014.

Wow.

And there was a group of about 100, maybe seven or 80, but close to 100. The next year was in 2016. And you could tell here in the Twin Cities, it was really starting to catch on, where all of a sudden we did another state thing. And now there was over 150 people, communities that said, we'll never have pickleball there, right. They were starting to be interested in it. And I was originally a history major. And that's what I was teaching in school. So I always like the history of the sport. Yeah. And I know that everybody's heard about the dog named pickles and started on the island in a 1965.

Share the story in case someone doesn't know,

Right…wink wink. Really wasn't the dog, and it was the boat.

That's not the stuff that interests me. I think the thing that's more so that interests me is to see where has something been? And where is it going to?

Yeah, yes.

And I think the thing in particular that I've been intrigued with pickleball was you could see in the very beginning, when people were coming to our park and rec departments, and our department in Eden Prairie was one of those.

At first, they were just saying, you know what, just tape some lines just give us something on a tennis court and we'll make do. And then now, as you've seen the progression through the years, one of the things that I said, and I was saying this in 2014 and 2016, the day will come, that there will be individual fenced pickleball courts. Now the park and rec departments that I was speaking to, they weren't really having it because it was really hard for them, because usually when they think of a park, like a neighborhood park, they think well let's have a basketball court and a volleyball court, maybe there's a little soccer field, and there's a place for kids to play. But when it comes to something, there'll be one tennis court, maybe two if you're lucky. But when it comes to a large gathering spot where people want to gather, they just didn't have it in their five-year plan, their 10-year plan or their 20-year plan, really. And so, what happened was is all of a sudden, as pickleball enthusiasts were going to their communities and saying, What about us? We really, really want to play and didn't you notice we're on a couple of tennis courts, we've turned into six pickleball courts and look at all the people waiting? And oh, yeah, by the way, there's a vacant tennis court that nobody's on.

And now you come here, and all the leagues fill up, like we had to run out while we were playing to sign up for a league, that was going to start up in the fall.

Right.

That's the interesting thing about it. So the thing that I talked about was is that eventually, the Parks and Rec departments would catch up. And so it's been fun. I mean, even one good example was Chaska, they originally kind of gave the Heisman said they weren't going to do it. Well, they've got beautiful courts now. Chanhassen where we play, we've got a couple sets of courts where people play. Now the small community of Victoria has one, there's hardly a community that you can come across, that either doesn't have their own private pickleball courts. Or if they don't have that, then there's got they've got it in the making, or they're going to be creating. Yeah, I think where the next phase is, and this is something that I spoke to, would be eventually there would have to be indoor courts. And I think that's where the rub is. For myself as a sports official. I know that I'm inside those gyms, and all of a sudden, November hits, and us pickleball players the same gym space court space, we're looking for basketball needs it, volleyball needs it, wrestling needs it and after school activities needed it and little kids' gymnastics needs it. And so, what would happen is the sport would grow throughout the summer. Now there's a whole bunch of players, and now Minnesota winter hits, and it's like, where do we go. And so that's why for us at the community center at the time, people were coming in droves, because there was really nowhere to go. Yeah. And so literally, if it wasn't a church basement, I would be on carpet floor tile floor. We had a tartan gym floor, a wooden floor, none of the things that are really desirable. We were actually playing with an indoor ball, which us pickleball players, as we all know, right? You would not like it. Well, so but that was the choice, even though that's what you did. And so then everybody as soon as they could, well, I'm going down south so I can play on real pickleball courts, whether on a tennis court, but then the final progression of that was to have a hard surface indoor court, and then it wouldn't be coming through private enterprise because there again, park and rec departments, community education's really at the time and even to this day, they really don't have the bandwidth to have a building with something like we have here at mega Pickle and Pong. Yeah, we've got six beautiful unit cushion, court surface. People love to play on their fully fenced and it feels like you're outside. And here in Minnesota a lot of times it's better than being outside. They're air conditioned, so all of the elements go away.

it's a whole different game from outside. And we know because we thought we were rocking and we went outside. I was like, oh my gosh, I can't even get the ball in the wind.

Yeah, we do love it here. We love. Just such a beautiful facility.

Yes. Well, really, thank you.

Well, thank you to our owners, Rick and Andrew. The two owners, and they've done a great job with creating this space. And they've given me an opportunity to be here.

Yes. Well, we so appreciate you joining us on our first podcast. Anybody affected by the pickle back.

Oh, not yet.

Another time.

Well, thank you so much. It was so much fun. Ladies. Thank you for having me. Such a pleasure.

We could speak with you for hours.

I know, I know and we'll see you at league on Wednesday, tomorrow morning.

Thanks, Bob. Thanks, Bob. Thank you.

And if you have any questions, send us a message if you have any ideas for upcoming show. Oh, we would love to hear from you. Remember, we're all-over social media, Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram, whatever it is, we're there! Yes, we are. It's actually pickleball CHIX with an "X"

Okay.

Okay.

Cheers! Until next time. See you on the court. Oh, yes and make sure you're wearing something fabulous.

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