A large group of foreigners make up “el club pickleball“which is an activity very similar to tennis that is gaining strength due to tourists and residents of other countries, who come to the Poliforum to play, while they are involved in helping the Mexican community, in public schools so that the little ones are involved in a sport and do not fall into crime.
The Poliforum sports unit that is in the Ejido colonyhas become the space where tourists and foreigners who reside in Playa del Carmen arrive, who despite the sun’s rays are practicing pickleball, which is a paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, paddle tennis, badminton and table tennis. table, in which two or four players hit a ball over a net, seeking to score points and win sets.
The constant hitting of the light ball, very similar to the tennis ball, attracts Mexican athletes and citizens, who when looking at what was a fast soccer field, today you can see on the floor of the field the marking that delimits the small courts, which are used to practice pickleball.
In this regard, Jeffrey Blakewho has been one of the main promoters del pickleball in Playa del Carmen reported daily For this! That this discipline is practiced in the world by around three 1,700 people and that in Mexico there are several clubs where people can learn to play pickleball.
He said that by only needing a small racket and a ball that is made of plastic with small holes, which are very lightanyone can practice this sport, including senior citizens, and it is very affordable cost.
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The American from Las Vegas highlighted that at the Playa del Carmen club there are people who come to visit the United States, Canada, Scotland, Nigeria, Colombia, “but since December, January, February and March, 670 people come and occupy six courts per Today, we are a large group that plays pickleball in Mexico, because number 1 is in Puerto Vallarta,” he revealed.
Jeffrey Blake noted that pickleball is a popular sport in USA y Canada. Although many do not know it, the main objective of these foreigners, who play pickleball, is to build a community, doing social activism with donations to the players’ children, so that they can attend school, since throughout the three years they This club has been in Playa del Carmen and have been able to donate 120 thousand pesos to the community.
Lourdes Gómez commented that they are managing before the City hall that a pickleball academy can be opened for children in the afternoons. Children arrived from the Church ‘The House of Faith’some Sunday afternoons, where we would serve them marquesitas or ice cream, which was sponsored by the members of the pickleball club, which also benefited the merchants.
Lourdes Gómez pointed out that on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, at 8:00 in the morning, there will be a tournament with other pickleball practitioners on the Poliforum courts in Playa del Carmen, which are from Puerto Morelos, Puerto Aventuras and Akumal. .
