Etiquette

Thank you for tuning in. I'm Greg. I'm Mike. And we are the Pickleballers Next Door. We are for the Joes and not the pros. Your courts, our court. Hey, welcome to the Pickleballers Next Door podcast. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Greg. I'm Mike. And we are the Pickleballers Next Door. So what's been up with you, Mike? Well, I didn't sound like Kermit the Frog today, but everybody right now is getting sick. And I thought, I thought I escaped it. I thought I'd been on the court, people throwing up on you, coughing on you everywhere I go. And my wife had the flu everywhere around me has been sick. And I just thought, I'm awesome. Yeah, as soon as I put that in my head. Yeah, boom. Oh, it hit me like a ton of bricks. That's karma. Yeah. And try to play as pickleballers. We'll play sick. Our broken foot, broken arm. I mean, we'll play whenever we can play. But I'll tell you this one, this got in my lungs and it's tough to play. I haven't been sick. 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So, well, I guess today we're going to talk about something. We'll go. Yeah, no, no, go ahead. Oh, you were going to, you were going to, we're going to get into etiquette. Etiquette. Yes. Yeah. We're talking about pickleball etiquette specifically for open play. Yeah. Um, so last week I was playing at Clement park and there was a lot of stuff happening that was really upsetting. So it's new people. It's people that know what they're doing and just don't care. Etiquette is a big thing. There's a lot of things that you should do and shouldn't do while you're playing in some open play, especially when it's busy. That's when it's bad, right? Yeah. When it's busy, we all want to play. I mean, at the end of the day, we all want to be on the court, but there's a reason we come off when you lose and it depends how it was set up there. If it's the winter, stay on all four, take off. It's a four on four or often, then that's what it is. As long as, and people, the ones that play all the time are very good at, we're about, we'll tell people, but it seems like they don't listen a lot of times. Yeah. Um, sometimes they get a little over the top. I call them the court police. Yeah. They're those, those are bad too. Oh my Lord. Yeah. That goes, that's all that's on the other side. I mean, you know, but yeah, you're right. I, this, I think this etiquette is probably the, the number one thing out there that makes pickle, it can take away from pickleball. It definitely can. Um, so when you think of etiquette, Mike, what do you, what's the first thing you think of? It's respectful to your other players and your partner. Right. I mean, etiquette to me is that you're respectful on the court, around the court, and, and you do what you, you want done what you wouldn't do to somebody else. Right. So when you walk onto a court and you're with this new group or even a group with one person that's new in this group, you should go up and introduce yourself. You should say, Hey, I'm Greg. And you know, how are you doing? He doesn't have to be much. It just, you know, a little introduction, give a name. You'll probably forget it, but just show that you're a little bit friendly because there's nothing worse than someone who's kind of Dickish on the court. Yeah. And this is what it makes the game. So special is the social part of it. It's a social game. Yes. You're not going to remember everybody's name. My head's into the game. You're going to say, Greg, I'm going to call you Craig. You're going to, I still call you different names on our board here. I got to still look up with an arrow right over my head. I am Greg, not Craig. So, so, uh, so again, but it's about this social part of this game. That's what makes this game great. It's it's, I don't care how good you are, how bad you are. If you make it fun and you introduce and everybody knows and let us know. I think another part, if you're a newer player, just say, Hey guys, I'm just kind of getting going. We're, we're going to, we should, you know, I'm not going to go now and just body bag you all the time. Okay. That brings to another point when you're on the court playing open play, you don't know what you're getting, right? Don't know what you're getting. So if you're better than everybody on the court, read the room, reel it in and play to that level. Don't, you don't have to kill them. Just play to the other, that level, work on a shot, work on mid court defense, you know, work on something, but don't be an asshole and kill them. Don't do this high speed serve spin that nobody, even, even the guys that like you have a great serve. I'm Tony. When you hit that sucker, right? Well, I know we, you want to tell him when we were out at the pickle con. I was close, but she didn't record my first one. I think I had it a measly 45 miles an hour. Exactly. Exactly. But again, you're putting it on somebody that's just learning how to hit the ball. Right? I mean, you don't do that serve, right? Let them play. Exactly. I can't get better. Right. So there's so many points instead of kid. I mean, we can, we can probably spend two or three episodes on this. Yeah. So what happened to me was really pissed me off. So they, a court opened up. So at Clement park, you have four courts in the front, six towards the back. We were on the very first court in the front, right. And where everyone paddle stacks. All right. Someone called for their courts open and it was the fourth court on the other end of where we were. So what does the guy do? He opens up the gate inward. So now the gate is on the court and he's standing there and waiting for his group to come in. Mind you, this is all midpoint. Yeah. And then casually walks, not even along the fence, but like kind of in between the baseline and the fence casually walks. Oh my gosh. And okay. Maybe I could have handled it a little bit better, but I was upset. Yeah. I kind of yelled at him and called him a dick. And, but like, he was just didn't give a shit one way or the other and walked across three other courts to get to his empty court, which interrupt, he interrupted every single court along the way. But I mean, where, where are these people's minds? Did, I mean, I guess they're just, they're one set minded on what they're going to do and whatever else is happening around them doesn't matter. Right. And you know, I'll be honest. I could have handled it better. Yeah. I didn't. And if you're listening, my bad, but you know what? Figure this out. We're going to, this is how we're going to learn. And this is what we, if all of us talk about this a little bit, if we're out here, we're going to put it out to all of you. We might be the bad guys, but we know you're thinking it. We know there's a lot of people. Cause I hear it under your breath. How you son of a beep. I hear it. And you know, I get it that you don't want to cause problems, but sometimes you've got to just say, sometimes you have to say something, say they're not going to learn or they'll keep doing it. Sometimes you got to let them motherfucking know. I get it. There you go. And the other thing that goes kind of along with that is when you go into a fence or a gate and you're all, your whole group's gone in, close the damn gate. Oh, close the gate. They're super dangerous too. Right. And especially if they're pointing into the court, someone can run into it, but nobody wants to hit a ball and then have to chase that ball out of the fence. Yeah. It's ridiculous. Just close the damn gate. Don't walk through the courts. Introduce yourself. Yeah. Okay. What else do you have, Mike? What else? How about, you know, the other one drives me nuts. If you're going to put your paddle up there, this is just drives me nuts. And then courts are moving. This is full courts. There's there's these courts, they're doubled up already. It's very busy. And we want to play pickleball. Some guys out there going to his car, checking his tires, taking his dog for a walk. And of course he's with a group. So they're waiting for him. So 10 minutes later, we could have played a game already. Pay attention. Oh my gosh. You want to get me hot? This gets me hot. Yeah. We probably shouldn't talk about etiquette today because I'm not feeling great. I'm on medicine. No, no, no. This is the best time, baby. This is the best time. No, definitely pay attention. That, that irks me too. So if, I mean, I understand that you're talking to people and whatever, and if someone's like paddles up and you're not paying attention and like, whose paddle is this? After the third time, you're done. You're on the back or your paddle sitting on the ground. Yep. It has a little note, like your car. When you hit there's somebody's car. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Three strikes. You're out, baby. Yeah. That's, that's it. I think, uh, you know, that's a big one to me. I just, I, it drives me nuts. Uh, I think the other one is, is, uh, you know, is that guy on the court that I get it. He's making some great shots. He's super excited about himself and he's just, there's, there's a good, like, Hey, good shot. Like, I mean, I, all the time, Hey, great. What are, what a serve? Yeah. And sometimes I use son of a, you know what I mean? But at the end of the day, I'm like, Oh, sorry guys. There it is. At the end of the day, I'm proud that you're doing it. What a great shot. I mean, we got to get drink. Yeah, no. And I agree with this. Um, don't celebrate someone's mistake. Don't celebrate someone's outshot. Celebrate everybody. Celebrate your good shot. Celebrate someone else's good shot, but don't celebrate something bad. Yeah. I think it's tasteless. Well, it gets in your head too, right? You know, it's, it's the, you know, a lot of, I think a lot of ladies feel this way and it's just a part of this game and I don't mean to do it myself, but if there's three guys in one lady, that poor lady is getting a lot of more of the balls than everybody. Here's my other point. Okay. Don't target the weakest player. And I'm in, and I'm not saying that the woman is the weakest player. Cause I just played in a, in a, in a game with where I was the weakest player by far, two women, one other guy, I was by far the weakest player. So I'm not saying women are the weakest player. No, just don't target one person period. And especially the weakest player. Well, and this is what I was going back to it is just that one fact that just happens. They, they've did a, they did a study on it. I've watched some stuff on this pickleball. It's just, it's not, it's just happens, but it's anybody. Right. And when I play with some of the younger guys and I'm tired or not feeling good or having a bad day, they pick at me. I mean, they will, or they it's not, I'm just going to go all over the place. The young guy also will just think now he's so good that he has to jump in front of me and everyone. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. I want to get me hot again. Hey, you know what? Yeah. Just take a quick swing and hit him in the back of the head. Oh yeah. Knockout pickleball. That's what we'll call it. Oh, Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were going to pop. I didn't. Yeah. But I mean, those kinds of things that would drive me crazy. But when you yell, go back to our original here was when you're screaming about it, what a great shot because you're going to the poor person. That's just a three Oh, and you're a four Oh, I wouldn't be so proud of that. I mean, yeah, I agree with you. It's not nothing to be proud of play against the four Oh, or up and they're going to get that ball. Yeah. So it, you know, I guess there's so much to this. I keep just, you know, so that's basically play to your left, play to the level of the people on the court. You know, if you know that there's two four Oh's and two three Oh's split them up a four Oh, and a three Oh, and a four and a three Oh, play harder with the, against the four Oh. And when you make a shot towards the three Oh, slow it down or just make a choice and slow everything down. Yeah. Pay attention to, you know, and I think this'll be another one. I mean, there's a lot to this is everybody wants to come in. They have a six people group that comes there. You know what I mean? And they really just want to play with them. I get it. You can make that work, but it's not going to work every time. You're going to have to go in sometimes with other players. Yeah. Well, especially those two. Yeah. The two we're going to have to, because then they start moving their paddles trying and it just throws the whole paddle rack out of whack. So when you're talking about moving paddles, okay. I'm going to tell you what really makes me mad because people don't know how to use the paddle rack. Okay. I've watched people as the people go onto court, people will shift all of the paddles down. Oh yeah. You don't need to do that. First off, don't touch someone else's paddle. Yeah. Okay. Without them, without them saying it's okay. You don't need to move all the paddles. That's why there's a slide in front of it. That's the next one. So when one moves, you slide it down and then people can stack behind that. And when you get down to the end and that person knows that group leaves, you slide the slide all the way back to the left and we start over left to right. Like reading a book. It's not difficult. Yeah. That's one that I have a pet peeve too. They'll don't move your paddle or move you out of place. You know, you're up, you're right back there just getting a drink or something. You come up and they've moved your paddle. I've been there, been there. Don't touch another man's paddle. That's what I say because they don't want to play with me or they want to have one of their other friends come in, but ask, but ask, I'll probably say go for it, but just don't do it. And don't tell me what if it's my last game, I got to be somewhere with my kids or something. I mean, it, that's not your fair for you to just decide that you, I guess you're the paddle King, right? You know? So yeah, yeah. I love that. They've tried to come up with some great ideas to make this better, but there's also, I also wondered every, I think a lot of people make up their own rules and all this stuff. I think there's a, there's a pickleball kind of common knowledge, pickleball rules, and then there's your own rules, right? And sometimes you don't know which, which, which pickleball company you're playing with. Right. Yeah, definitely. But I think one of the things that we could, that would probably help them is that if they were to get some of our seats, a sweet CBD drink, yeah, it would calm them down and they would, we would just have control. So much more even keel. Yeah. So, you know, grab your sweet sip at a sweet sip.com drink, a sweet sip.com and then it's going to be better than you can cool out when you're on the court. And then, you know, I'm lucky we have them because that's how the only way I can keep playing on the open play. And that way you don't have to be high strong when you're on the court. Yeah. Drink a sweet sip.com. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So, so anyway, yeah. Yeah. Etiquette is a, I think we're going to have a few shows. I'd like to actually call out and call in some people. Maybe in the next couple of shows, we'll do some call-ins and actually talk to some people. Cause I'd love to hear, I know it's not just us. I hear it all the time. And the sad part is there's a lot of people that play pickleball that are, uh, introverts. I'd call it. That's the easiest way to say it. They're just in, they don't want to have an argument. They don't, they just want to play some pickleball and they get kind of pushed around. And when that comes to those people always get the unsolicited advice. And I am not one to give unsolicited advice. And I, I feel weird when I'm watching people give unsolicited advice when they have no idea what they're talking about. And I've watched that multiple times. If you're, if you're playing and you're in an open play, your partner necessarily isn't going to necessarily be as good as you are, but that doesn't give you the right to tell them this is what you should do. Cause nobody likes unsolicited advice. Nobody likes it. Yeah. We don't need the coach out there either. You know what I mean? I get, if I ask you, I mean, I've asked you, I said, Hey Greg, can you watch my silly swing or something I'm doing? And you'll tell me, but I don't want to, I don't want you the whole game to tell me or to move up. Come on, man. Oh, come on, move up. I don't play. Everybody plays their own game. We all know those people. We do. That's another one that gets a little bit of like, yeah, I mean, unsolicited advice is just bad. Even when people I'm playing an open play and people are like, feel free to tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm still not going to do that. No, it's just not what I do. And it's not what anybody should do. Well, it throws your game off too, because now you're thinking about everything that you're doing wrong. And if you're playing with me now, I'm going to start throwing it into the net. I'm hitting my serves out. I get, once it gets in your head, this is like golf. Once it's in your head and pickleball, you've had to see me take a few walks off the court, you know, because my, I, you know, I just get so in my head that I, I, it's not, I'm not mad at nobody. I'm mad at myself. No, I get that. I totally get that. And I get getting mad at yourself and I, and I have, um, very outwardly vocally berated myself with multiple cuss words and F-bombs and stuff. And that also is probably not a good thing to do at open play. You know, I just, just, you know, I understand getting upset and I understand the whole thing. Cause it happens. I do it all the time, but in the end it's wreck open play. You're not winning a medal. You're not winning money. You're not winning. I don't know. You're not winning a piece of gum. You're not winning anything. Just chill out. Yeah. Yeah. Again, get a little bit of a sweet sip and you know, well, I'm going to put this out there for you. There's a couple, we have one of our new sponsors. It's the casual dinker. Yes. 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So I can, I can take the music, but if it's not too loud, even when it's my group playing the music, I always ask people to turn it down. I always ask them to turn it down. Can we turn this down a little bit? Yeah. Well, I mean, it's hard enough to hear the score half the time. Right. And if you're older, I mean, I'm not super old, but I'm old. Right. All right. A little bit older. My ears don't work as well anymore. So, I mean, it's sometimes it's very distracting and especially when they're blaring it, they'll put it right in the center court and you can't even hear the ball. Yeah. And then that, and then that bothers what two or three other courts. Yeah. So the other day I was playing with a group and one guy was playing Bob Seger. I wanted to slip my damn wrist. It was, I just don't understand why that music was playing. Cause it's just kind of like not music to keep you up. Yeah. So, yeah. And I mean, court etiquette is huge. Yeah. It's a big deal. And I think everyone should take the time to figure out something that they do wrong and fix it because it'll just make you a better all around person in the pickleball scene. I think so too. I really agree on it. So I'm glad you brought this up today. Cause it's a, it's, it's a, I know there's always somebody, there's a complainer too, right? There's always an issue. Oh, the wind, the sun, the clouds, the snow. Why are you here? Go home. Holy macaroons. That's the fun of being outside. You don't know what the circumstances are going to be. I always say it's character building. Yeah. And the reality is nine out of 10 tournaments. If you're going to play in the tournament are outdoors and they don't stop for wind. They stop for rain, but they don't stop for wind. And especially where you play out there, there's always wind. Oh, at Clement park. I mean, you're going to, you just learn how to play with wind. Yeah. It's just what it is. Sometimes it's a little too much and you just can't, but it's done, but I get it. But I just, the complainer, right? It's like everybody, everything, somebody smells the dogs. My grip wasn't right. The music's too loud. The wind's too hard. The wind's swirling now. Oh, the wind's going the other direction. My mom didn't make me dinner last night. I mean, come on. Yeah. I got four hours of sleep instead of five hours of sleep. I mean, David, I've heard a lot of BS excuse all the way. Ambulance. Yeah. Pick them up. Get them out of here. Get them out of here. Yeah. We're here to play. Gosh. But other than that, I mean, most of the time it's fun. I mean, you know, we deal with it, but I think that that's something that our podcast wants to talk about different things like this. Sometimes it's not the, this is always about the butterflies and, and the unicorns. I mean, sometimes we're going to talk about some issues out there because we know you're having them too, right? No, it's not just us. It's not just us exclusively. We know that there's stuff out there that you guys don't like. And if you want us to address this stuff, email us Greg at pickleballers next door.com or Mike at pickleballers next door.com or go on our Instagram pickleballers next door and leave us a DM. Yeah, please hit us up, man. We'd like to hear from you. So, uh, and we're going to talk, this is, like I said, this is going to be an ongoing subject. Uh, but yeah, it, it, you know, there's a lot of bullet points what we have in front of us right now, but I think that, yeah. And I think we're specifically sticking to the open play right now. I mean, there's other etiquette for, for, um, tournaments and, you know, and like duper open play there's other etiquette that we can do. We can deal with later on down the road, but I think these are major, like the biggest ones that I think for open play in general. Yeah, absolutely. Because this is where you're playing with people you don't know. Right. And don't you want to get to know them? I do. I do too. I do. I like, I like getting to know people. You don't want to be that guy. There's, I know people that come on the court and I feel almost bad for them. They always hear, you hear that and you'll go and you almost know who they are, right? Yep. You feel bad. Cause you're like, oh my gosh, you're right. They start to, I mean, that's bad, you know? And, and, and it's probably because they're doing half of the stuff that we talked about. A hundred percent. And if you think about this, right, if you can't find the guy, that guy on the court, it might be you. Oh shoot. That was happening the other day. I'm just kidding. Right. No, it happens. It happens. I've been, I've probably been there, but I know when to leave too. I'm having a bad day. I'm just, just not in my head. Got a lot of my mind. Just call it, call it done. Have a high five. You guys out on the way out and I'll see you later. I'm not going to ruin your game because, and you know that I have never tried to ruin your game even when I'm having a little mic fit. I agree. It has happened and you're very good. I don't, I, I just get a little quiet. I got to get back in my stuff and you usually slap me on my back or butt and say, come on, shake it off. Shake it off. Let's do it. So, uh, well, it's awesome. And, uh, yeah, keep listening. We got some great things coming around and we're going to be talking about, um, we're hoping to go live here soon. So you'll be seeing our pretty face. Um, we're going to put another challenge out there soon too, with, uh, you'll see us might not be live, but there could be some things out there and we're not going to say it right now, but, uh, they're going to look like us. They might not move a lot, but they'll sort of look good. It might even look better than us. Probably will look better, but you'll see us. And then, uh, we'll have some contest on that. Yeah. And so again, if you want any t-shirts, we have a black and a pink and we have them from small to double extra large. They're $30 each email us. I've given you the emails twice already, or go to our, uh, Instagram and DMS. We will send them to you. We'll bring them to you. Let's get these t-shirts out there, man. Let's, let's make this podcast blow up. High five us out there and see us wearing them and talk to us. We, you know, you, we might have a surprise for you, right? Might just high five you. I guess you'd be a hug too. Or you might take us to lunch. I don't know. It could happen. That could happen too. Hey, you did your, it's your turn to buy, or we might give you a t-shirt. You don't know what's going to happen. We might give you a paddle. Who knows? You don't know. So that's the fun of this because we're just two big fun guys out here playing pickleball. We're we're basically, we're kids at heart. We really are. We just love to play pickleball. We love to get out there and meet new people, make, you know, make people's day. Yeah. If I make you smile, then I had a good game at pickleball. Agreed. Agreed. And, um, I, there's something I want to do, Mike, out on the court one day. Um, I don't, you know, those little mics that you have for your phone. Yeah. I'd like to Mike up one person on each side of the court and video it and see how that goes. I would love to love it and play it back. So who wants to do that? Give us a shout. Let us know. Let's do this, man. Let's make this happen. Yeah. Come part of our life. We're part of yours. So I'd like to thank Mike Monroe, our editor without him, we would be dead in the water. You wouldn't want to hear our podcast without him. We'd be a hundred percent dead in the water. Thank you so much. Check him out. Um, on Instagram, Mike dot Monroe. Uh, he has a band too called suicide cages. That's unreal. My wife loves it. That's a little hard for me, but he's, he's what a great, very talented man. A really great guy as well. Big guy, big heart. Yes. I just give you a hug before he'd sock you a hundred percent. I might talk to you later, but he'll give you a hug first. And I'd also like to thank my wife, Kate, without her, there is absolutely no way I would be doing this right now. Oh, my wife too. She, uh, she, uh, this was a, there's a, we can have a podcast about this one, but, uh, she supports us and me. And, uh, I'm so thankful because I, I've been doing something for 40 years in construction and I get to do something that I've dreamed. This is a dream. It's a dream come true. So, and then I want to thank you. What a great partner. I agree. It's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun. I absolutely enjoy doing this and let's keep this going. Let's keep this going. I'm going to stop. And with your help, we can keep this going. So donate a million dollars today and we'll get this right off the ground or just 900,000 is fine too. We can start there. Um, honestly share, share the podcast, please. We can't grow without you liking us. So thank you so much for tuning in. I hope this helped a little bit with etiquette, you know, just think a little bit more as you're playing. Yeah. Think about it a little bit more, become a better person on the court. All right, guys. Thanks. Have a great day. We'll see you next week. I just want to say thank you to a sweet sip for supporting the podcast. A sweet sip is a very delicious CBD drink, non-alcoholic for great flavors. It helps me take the edge off when I'm going to play in a pickleball tournament. If you want to get some, check them out at drinkasweetsip.com.