Kenora Pickleball Club

Kenora, Ontario

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$40.00 per registrant

All prices in CAD $

Renewing Club Memberships

Please remember that by having your Kenora Pickleball Club membership fees paid by December 31 of each year, you could benefit from the Injury and Liability Insurance coverages through Pickleball Canada. See our link at top of page called Member Benefits for further information.

Also, note that if your membership is not paid up by March 31 of each year, you will no longer receive informative emails from our club.

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Winter Schedule

The Kenora Pickleball Club is now playing indoors at Saint John Paul school. Due to the lack of court space this fall/winter, we will not be able to offer the Learn To Play program. Please contact us next spring once we are back playing outdoors and have lots of room.

Monday 630pm to 930pm - Advanced Play - 3.5 medal winners and above

Wednesday 630pm to 930pm - 3.0 to 3.5 Novice players welcome

Saturday 9am to 1pm - Two groups 9 to 11 and 11 to 1 - Emails sent weekly for times for Advanced and Rec Play

Sunday Ladder 9am to 1pm - weekly sign up kpcwinterladder@gmail.com capped at 30 players. Play is in two groups at 9 and 11 am. Sign up deadline is Friday at 7pm for following Sunday.

If you are unsure about which sessions you should attend contact Derek at kenorapickleball@gmail.com

Tournaments 2024

Save the Date - Future tournaments (Details not available at this time)

2) May 7-9, 2024 - 7th Annual Beausejour Tournament, Beausejour, MB

Registration and details at beausejourpickleball@gmail.com

3) May 10-12, 2024 - 3rd Annual Smash into Summer Sanctioned Tournament, Brandon, MB

4) May 24-26, 2024 - Spring Viking Pickleball Tournament, Gimli, MB

5) May 25-26, 2024-Kenora Pickleball Club Spring Tournament

https://secure.pickleballcanad...

6) May 30–June 2, 2024 -Pickleball MB Provincial Tournament

, Winnipeg, MB (membership in PCO/PMI required)

7) June 18-20, 2024 -Manitoba 55+ Games, Brandon, MB (this is a qualifier tournament for the Canada 55+ Games in Quebec City on Aug 27-30, 2024). Registration opens March 18th and closes May 20th. To register go to: https://activeagingmb.ca/55gam...;

**NOTE: To participate in the Canada 55+ Games, players will first have to qualify in their respective Provincial 55+ Games. However, beginning in 2024, the age categories for the Pickleball Event at the Canada 55+ Games will be limited to two age categories: 55+ and 65+. However, the Manitoba 55+ Games will continue to offer age groups in 5 year increments. (55+, 60+, 65+, 70+, 75+). If players wish to try to qualify to play in the Canada 55+ Games, they must enter one of the two age categories that Canada 55+ Games recognizes (55+ or 65+) in the 2024 Manitoba 55+ Games.

8) Aug 27-30, 2024 - Canada 55+ Games, Quebec City, Que

For information on the NEW age categories for the Pickleball Event See attachments or go to: https://canada55plusgames.com/index.php/games/events/

9) Sept 6–8, 2024 - Stonewall Pickleball Tournament, Stonewall, MB

10) Oct 11-13, 2024 - Arborg Pickleball Tournament

ALL questions related to tournaments must be directed to individual tournament directors.

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Pickler's Paradox By Dave Schwartz

Pickler’s Paradox
The great pickleball rally started with blistering spin serve answered with a long slow return just inside the baseline followed devastating third shot drop resulting in a fantastic get/dink followed by a cross-court dink which was dinked back over the net. Then dink, dink, dink. Finally, someone someone pops it up too high. Smash! Returned. Smash! Returned again. Lightning reflexes and amazing finesse on full display by all 4 players The rally goes on and on. Finally, a beautiful lob just inside the back corner is lobbed back too short. Head high at the kitchen line, half the opponents’ court uncovered. It’s a gift. Smash!…. Straight into the net! We’ve all been there in some variation. A great rally is ended by a colossal flub. Sometimes the easiest shots are the hardest. To me, hat’s the Pickleball paradox.

A few years ago when I first found out that Pickleball was being played in Kenora, my reaction was, “Pickleball! The game must really suck to deserve a name like that.” Eventually, curiosity got the best of me. Not wanting to show up unprepared, I went downtown and bought myself the cheapest wooden racquet available and showed up ready to play. When I stepped onto the court one of the club organizers ripped the racquet out of my hands, saying something to the tune of, “You can’t play with that” and replaced it with a more modern snazzy ball-whacker reputed to be able to go out and play all by itself if only the rules would allow it.

Properly shamed, I headed for my favourite source of mediocre stuff and purchased a Head Extreme Elite… a hyperbolic title for the cheapest paddle that I figured wouldn’t get ripped out of my hands. Maybe if I fell off my wallet and shelled out the big bucks for the latest in miracle titanium-coated graphite, spidy-silk, proprietary miracle-goo embedded paddle with flex system technology, I might make the occasional better shot.
On the other hand, I have never been able to blame my paddle for a missed shot, although a good excuse would have been warmly welcomed on far too many disastrous flubs. Disaster takes on a whole new meaning in pickleball. The worse the screw-up, the louder the laughter!

I can’t say enough good things about the Kenora Pickleball Club. They welcome drop-ins at any of their open play sessions. Just show up and you will soon be out on the court regardless of your experience. The club has sessions for lessons and skill development as well as advanced play, They also host ladder play in which players are ranked and compete with others of similar ability. The club’s open and competitive play sessions use an ingenious player rotation system which gets everyone involved, playing with different partners, meeting new people and having great chats when its your turn to sit out. Thanks to the people who work hard to make it all happen.