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

Name: 🥒🎾 Let’s play pickleball! Crazy Rules, then Glow-in-the-Dark
Start: 2026-07-24T18:15:00
Location: Mount Tabor Park

Friday, July 24 Meets 6:15 PM · Back by 10:00

Mount Tabor Park SE Taylor St. and SE 71st Ave. · Mt. Tabor

Al S. leads

3 past rides on our calendar since June

Who said they’d go

I went

Distance: 0–3 mi

About the ride

From the Shift calendar: Sign up sheet posted - see description

2nd Annual Pickleball Ride Bring your best self and your most creative trash talk, big swings, even bigger misses, smiles, and high-fives. We can fit a max of 16 people onto 4 courts. Please sign up here and let me know if you can bring some of the listed items: https://tinyurl.com/PPDXpickleball Last year we started by getting playing at Mount Tabor tennis courts under daylight, then rode to Laurelhurst and had lots of fun playing in the dark with portable lighting set up. We’ll do the same this year, except we’ll add a twist to the daylight session: Crazy Rules! I have a list of rules, and we’ll introduce a rule every 10 minutes; this way everyone gets to play a bit and get used to the rule before learning the next one. Examples: - The “no volley zone” (NVZ), also known as the “kitchen,” is still NVZ if you use your normal paddle, buuut … 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 drop shot while yelling, “Baker’s Dozen!” Do you know how loud it gets when a cookie sheet hits a pickleball? I 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 rules” - you’ll need to show up to find out what these two hilarious rules are. What happens on the pickleball court … stays on the court. - And other rules for max silliness and lots of laughs. I’ll bring line markers, a few paddles, and pickleballs like last year, but pls bring your own paddle if you have one. Even better: please bring KITCHEN utensils, cookie sheets, pots, and pans that can withstand pickleball hits. Please show up early to help set up our courts (I can’t set up everything quickly enough by myself). I’ll be at the courts at about 6 pm. Thanks to everyone who helped last year! At Tabor we’ll start packing up a bit before sundown, then ride to Laurelhurst and set up glow-in-the-dark courts. We should have two portable nets for the two “lines only” courts, plus the two courts that have permanent nets. Nighttime play will follow normal pickleball rules. For visibility, I’ll have lots of lights like last year: LED paddles, LED pickleballs, glow bracelets, EL wire to mark the net, UV reactive tape and UV lamps to make court lines glow, and other lights including a few disco lights. And probably some music, yeah music. Show more