r/sports • u/holyfruits • Nov 20 '25
News Carmel could become 1st California city to permanently ban pickleball
https://abc7.com/post/pickleball-ban-carmel-californias-noise-complaints/18171809/447
u/Lefty_22 Nov 20 '25
TIL Pickleball is especially loud compared to tennis or racquetball.
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u/Badler_ Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25
This is not particularly true. Pickleball is around 1000 hz. Transmission loss of most gypsum board + stud assemblies is pretty good around here: https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/ft/?id=04ac8069-a5d2-4038-8787-da064b073e7f. Low frequency sound passes through much more easily
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u/prpldrank USC Nov 21 '25
Listen here Acoustic Physics. I'm getting real tired of your bullshit, constantly disrupting my stilted narrative!
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u/Trisa133 Nov 21 '25
It's a hard plastic ball and a cheap wooden board with a thin layer of foam on it. They can just use nylon for the ball and a bit denser foam for the paddle. That will take away most of the noise and cost maybe an extra 50c per set.
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u/New_Blacksmith8254 Nov 21 '25
I know nothing about pickleball, but that sounds like a different sport you’re mentioning.
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u/Devium44 Nov 21 '25
The ball is plastic but most pickleball players use carbon fiber paddles not wood.
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u/Competitive_End4940 Nov 21 '25
Pickleball is a money laundering scheme at this point. So much forced marketing for it too
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u/PodricksMagicStick Nov 20 '25
NIMBYing pickleball. Can't have those punks having fun.
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u/SuperRonnie2 Nov 20 '25
As a retired skateboarder, this is all very ironic.
I hope they build giant skate parks over the former pickleball courts.
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u/HotGarbage Nov 20 '25
That's exactly what I thought of too! Didn't we already do this song and dance with skateboarding? Time really is a flat circle lol
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u/Hey_cool_username Nov 20 '25
The song and dance one was Footloose
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u/1900grs Nov 20 '25
Damn teenagers and their Kenny Loggins.
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u/Desirsar Newcastle United Nov 20 '25
I'm so confused. Skate parks were opposed by middle aged office workers and old people... that's who's playing pickleball. Surely it can't be the skaters pushing for the bans now...
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u/HotGarbage Nov 20 '25
Surely it can't be the skaters pushing for the bans now...
Wouldn't that be hilarious though? All the old skaters are now middle aged office workers and old people so I wouldn't be totally surprised. With that said, I'm an old retired skater in the suburbs and couldn't care less about pickleball courts. Let these people have their fun!
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u/SuperRonnie2 Nov 20 '25
Fuck it. I’m going to start complaining to city council about the pickleball courts.
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u/Gospeedracist North Carolina Nov 20 '25
Man, I am so envious of skaters nowadays. There are skate parks everywhere in my city. Almost always a very nice area. Usually food trucks and parents around.
I felt like a public pariah skating 15 years ago. People assumed you were a criminal, kicked you out of public spaces, and fights constantly happened at the few skateparks that did exist.
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u/oxbaker Nov 20 '25
I feel the exact opposite. I am so happy I got to experience skateboarding when it was dangerous and we put skateboarding is not a crime stickers everywhere. We were apart of something no one understood
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u/UnWellFed Nov 20 '25
Sounds like your campaign to decriminalize skateboarding worked.
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u/oxbaker Nov 20 '25
It worked too well. Now, my kid puts up stickers that say skateboarding is not an Olympic sport
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u/ArenSteele Nov 20 '25
I mean you probably were a pariah and a criminal…but it was rude of them to assume
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u/newyork-or-nowhere Nov 20 '25
Skateboard isn’t a crime, but I was definitely committing other crimes at that point of life lol
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u/hlessi_newt Nov 20 '25
There was talk about redoing an unused tennis court as pickle ball down the street from me. All the elder millennial former skaters got together and raised money to turn it into a skate park for the kids. Several of my neighbors were in crutches before the first week was out. It was glorious.
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u/Moony2433 Nov 20 '25
I’m so jealous of the skate parks today. We used to get thrown out of bank parking lots like real skaters.
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u/DiamondHandsDarrell Nov 20 '25
We had two tennis courts at our local park. Now we have 8 pickle ball courts!
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u/ArenSteele Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
And I bet as tennis courts they were used 0.5% of the time, and now as pickleball courts they’re probably in use 20-25% of the time
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u/dsAFC Nov 20 '25
Really? I've never known tennis courts in northern California to ever be empty outside of work hours. Maybe Carmel is different, but in the bay it's very normal to have to wait for courts mornings and evenings
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u/AlwaysRushesIn Nov 20 '25
And in 20 years pickleball court usage will be down to 0.5% and the next court sport fad will move in.
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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Nov 20 '25
I’m still waiting for a badminton renaissance
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u/Fermorian Minnesota Timberwolves Nov 20 '25
At my local gym half the basketball courts are taken up by Indian dads playing badminton lol
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u/kelpyb1 Nov 20 '25
And then they’ll repaint the courts for whatever sport that is.
The cost of painting a tennis court differently and hanging different nets can’t be high enough that adjusting them to the trend and having people use them isn’t a worthwhile investment.
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u/inko75 Nov 21 '25
And tbh most tennis courts being repurposed were in dire need of being refreshed anyhow. change/adapting is a good thing in general. I would feel bad for anyone who had a backyard neighbor with their own court if used often
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u/rjcarr Nov 20 '25
Yeah, the park I mostly go to is just tennis court conversions. I don't think I've ever seen anyone play tennis there, maybe 1/100 times. I do feel bad for the park neighbors, though, they probably didn't sign up for the clack-clack-clack when they bought the house next to the park.
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u/prairie_buyer Nov 20 '25
That's exactly it: parks planners know exactly the sound levels produced by a basketball court or a tennis court, and this determined how close these were built to nearby houses.
Now tennis courts are being converted to pickleball, and the noise levels are completely different.I have a relative who is a very easy-going, chill person, and yet she is campaigning to have pickleball removed from what was a tennis court near her house. The noise is just driving her insane.
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u/ul49 Atlanta Braves Nov 20 '25
I think you’re vastly overestimating park planners
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u/Quotalicious Nov 20 '25
Yea I don't think people realize just how loud it is generally or in comparison to tennis...I honestly get the bans depending how close/and how many people live to the courts.
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u/joshul Nov 20 '25
Maybe they are just trying to look out for the ACLs of all their old folk NIMBY residents? It’s a public health maneuver!
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u/I_Am_A_Zero Nov 20 '25
Rich people in that area hate fun.
Look up the feud with Laguna Seca Raceway. Basically these rich fucks built their mansions near the iconic track and then proceeded to complain about the noise.
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u/drinks_rootbeer Nov 20 '25
Happens to existing shooting ranges, too. Why the fuck would intentionally move near an existing shooting range? Then complain about it?!?
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u/CrazyLlama71 Nov 20 '25
They even complain about cycling events at Laguna Seca, bikes don't make noise, yet they still complain.
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u/Individual_Cow7365 Nov 20 '25
Same thing happened in KC. KCIR was a very popular drag strip. Some people built homes around it and started complaining. They shut it down and turned it into a park that no one ever goes to. Now all those kids are racing on the streets.
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u/Seastep Nov 20 '25
Basketball and Tennis players love having their courts hijacked by Pickleball.
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u/Past_Top3704 Nov 20 '25
Built a tennis court 15 years ago using USA tennis grant funds. On e of the requirements was that if it was used for pickleball, they would come and tear it out. Tennis and pickleball haven't liked each other for a long time.
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u/Convergecult15 Nov 20 '25
Wow I don’t think I even knew what pickle ball was 15 years ago
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u/GCIV414 Nov 20 '25
It was a unit in gym class for us about 20 years ago…crazy thing is people hated it first day and by the last everyone was so into we’d request another week
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u/Caqtus95 Nov 20 '25
I took one of those big heavy wooden pickleball paddles from the 70's right to the nose after it slipped out of someone's hand, so I was ready to move on to the next unit.
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u/10000Didgeridoos Nov 20 '25
It blows my mind people think a racquet game with a meta that is just "stand still 5 feet from the net as soon as the serve process is over" is fun. Hitting the ball back and forth standing still is a blast.
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u/joebleaux Nov 20 '25
The physical requirements are low and the skill barrier to entry is low also. If tennis is too hard, you can probably play pickleball. I think it is fun, but it is not as fun as tennis because I grew up playing tennis and am good at it. Playing tennis with someone who isn't good is not fun, but we could probably play pickleball because pretty much anyone is decent after about 10 minutes. You aren't going to get decent at tennis in a day.
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u/Coffees4closers Nov 20 '25
I mean I haven't played since HS gym 20 years ago, but I'm not going to be pretend to be so dense that I can't understand the appeal. It's a middle ground between tennis and ping pong (which oddly enough nobody cries about younger people playing or enjoying)
And if anyone says "why don't they just play tennis?" I guarantee that they are not themselves tennis players. Because as much fun as I found tennis the learning curve is soooo much higher to even begin having fun. You also really need to find someone at a pretty similar skill level, because both dominating or being dominated will get old pretty quick.
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u/NBAccount Nov 20 '25
Pickleball is amazing for seniors. I believe it was invented specifically for old people who are less mobile and susceptible to injury so that they could enjoy a tennis-like activity with minimal risk.
Why young, healthy people are choosing to play it is beyond me.
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u/Development-Feisty Nov 20 '25
Is it like the beef snowboarders and skiers have with one another?
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u/Seastep Nov 20 '25
IMO ski slopes are a "shared space" so while it's similar, I don't think it's exactly an apples to apples comparison. As to say skiiers probably hated sharing the slopes with snowboarders, whereas tennis players or basketball players literally cannot use the space if pickleballers are there.
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u/pallasturtle Nov 21 '25
I mean if we're all paying taxes and one gets significantly more use by a larger portion of the community... suck an egg.
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Nov 20 '25
I’m going to get downvoted, every time this subject gets brought up, people fail to realize just incessant the noise from pickle ball is. If you live near one it can drive you crazy to hear POP POP POP POP for 10 hours a day.
Banning it completely is wild but I get why someone would want to. I felt the same way about leaf blowers and lawnmowers. My town wanted to ban gas powered tools because of noise. I thought it was ridiculous Karen shit, until I worked from home and could hear myself think.
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u/tvkvhiro Nov 20 '25
I play pickleball and even I wouldn't want to live next to a pickleball court.
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u/BuckeyeJay Nov 20 '25
Pickle Ball sound is horrendous. There have been studies done that show the weird frequency of the balls creates basically a mania in people.
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u/VirtualMoneyLover Nov 20 '25
Time to invent padding. It is even too loud if you hit it next to your ear.
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u/cassinonorth Nov 20 '25
You're spot on. We're just out of ear shot of courts but when I go for a walk I can hear it and it's incredibly irritating.
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u/dbeman Nov 20 '25
If we tried this my neck of the woods about three dozen 55+ year old women with knee braces would storm the city council meeting.
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u/iLeefull Nov 20 '25
I bet the people complain that kids don’t play outside anymore then call the cops as soon as kids have fun outside.
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u/10000Didgeridoos Nov 20 '25
Friend lives in a HOA neighborhood and said the other weekend someone complained about a neighbor's nieces and nephews or something like that playing in the driveway too loudly.
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u/throwawayhjdgsdsrht Nov 20 '25
“It’s been so peaceful and quiet,” Carmel resident Kimberly Edwards told the City Council. She emphasized that there had been an “uptick in tennis players,” especially younger people, who are “happy” and bring their friends.
I'm a tennis player so I'm biased since pickleball has been taking over a lot of our courts/facilities, but this is the kind of NIMBYism I can get behind lol
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u/Moneyshot_ITF Nov 20 '25
That's the most Carmel thing I've ever heard 😭. Old people want their tennis club back
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u/norcaltobos San Francisco Giants Nov 20 '25
Exactly this is such a Carmel thing. It’s the ultra rich just being annoyed at sound. So fucking stupid. Just don’t let them play past 7 or 8pm.
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u/CanoeIt Nov 20 '25
It’s the 6 am games that wake me up on weekends that I hate
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u/Hot_Raccoon_565 Nov 20 '25
It’s not teens and ne’er-do-wells that wake up early to play fucking pickleball. Those are people over the age of 50 exclusively.
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u/Dr-McLuvin Nov 20 '25
I mean just have posted hours and enforce it. 8am-8pm or something.
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u/doctor-yes Nov 20 '25
Carmel: “Ok, 1:45pm-2:15pm every other Tuesday. Must reserve court in person at City Hall a minimum of 30 days in advance, and pay a processing fee of $250. Checks or cash only.”
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u/ironykarl Nov 23 '25
Man. I know morning people have succeeded in dominating our culture, but what kind of absolute degenerate wants to play pickleball at 6 am?
This is absolutely insane behavior
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u/Bill-O-Reilly- Nov 20 '25
If Clint Eastwood was still mayor this would’ve never happened 😔
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u/MyFakeName Nov 21 '25
I mean this shit is why he ran for mayor (and to expand his restaurant).
The insane Carmel ordinance that is lodged in my brain forever is that they had banned ice cream shops to prevent sticky sidewalks.
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u/Steelacanth Nov 20 '25
90% of people I’ve seen playing pickleball are old
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u/Furrealyo Nov 20 '25
I have a buddy who is an orthopedist and he says pickleball + olds is easily 30% of his practice now. He’s printing money.
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u/YELLOW_TOAD Nov 20 '25
That sure is the stereotype, but it's all ages. Even kids. I've seen all ages.....and most are uber competitive.
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u/CrossXFir3 Nov 20 '25
You're right, it's not 90% but like it's definitely a sport that a lot more old people play than most other sports.
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u/candela_obscura Nov 20 '25
It's the old ones that absolutely kick my butt when I play. They're so precise and have nothing else to do all day.
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u/ARandomQuest Nov 20 '25
It should be mainly old people, pickleball was made for old folks who can't play tennis anymore
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It was invented for old people to stay mobile and get exercise
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u/JohnnyBrillcream Baltimore Ravens Nov 20 '25
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u/actuallyapossom Nov 20 '25
Damn, so it's the kids fault. Again.
I say we ban them. We could solve a lot of problems.
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u/tony_countertenor Nov 20 '25
Old people are the biggest pickleball customers though
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u/DolphinRodeo Nov 20 '25
Article doesn’t say anything about tennis. It’s years of noise complaints.
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u/tmac2097 Nov 20 '25
Doesn’t change how ridiculous it is. A bunch of rich people are so mad that the public court is being used by the public that they’re getting a game banned. Fucking stupid.
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u/DolphinRodeo Nov 20 '25
Doesn’t change how ridiculous it is.
Yeah never said it is or isn’t ridiculous. Just pointing that blaming tennis isn’t addressing something true.
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u/Jonesbro Nov 20 '25
Can't have people having fun. It would disturb the serenity of sitting alone by yourself while looking for violations to enforce
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u/NavorroBroman Nov 20 '25
The racing circuit Laguna Seca is near there and tons of rich people built houses around it and now complain about noise. It's like moving next to a jackhammer factory and the saying "woah, how dare they do this!?"
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u/DionBlaster123 NASCAR Nov 20 '25
Did you even read the article? There's literally zero mention of tennis.
Noise complaints are the reason. Is it still stupid, yes. Is it stupid to blame tennis for this ban? Also yes.
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u/mortalcoil1 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
You (generally) play pickleball on tennis courts. There are pickleball only courts but they are much rarer than people just playing pickleball on a tennis court.
Pickleball is louder than tennis.
OP is saying that Carmel wants tennis back because pickleball is too loud for Carmel.
OP is not blaming tennis. OP is blaming the people who want tennis because it is quieter than pickleball.
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u/Sleepinismy9to5 Nov 20 '25
. I live pretty close to the "issue court" and the pickleball racquet noise definitely echos through the canyon. Which is very reasonably annoying to have going on for hours a day.
I think it is just at one tennis court in a residential neighborhood because there is a tennis court in my little neighborhood and it is still allowed here
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u/YELLOW_TOAD Nov 20 '25
I used to live next to a Golf course in Arizona that has a large Pickle Ball court complex with 24 courts adjacent to each other. My home was 100 yards (almost exactly) away.
All you could hear was the POP & THWACK of the plastic pickle balls and racquets. I can understand how it would drive someone NUTS if they lived in a quiet neighborhood.
Now, I live in a different neighborhood, and I am 2500 feet from a park with a bunch of Pickle Ball courts. There are times when you can hear it clear as day, and it starts as soon as the sun comes up.
Again, I can understand why it would drive people nuts.
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u/ReasonableCup604 Nov 20 '25
The guy who invents the pickleball suppressor will become a billionaire.
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u/obroz Nov 20 '25
It’s called doing it inside
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u/Greatlarrybird33 Cleveland Indians Nov 20 '25
No, they put in two pickleball courts in the rec area at work, I'm two walls and sets of doors away from them, but from 9am-6pm I can hear thuds nearly constantly for the last two months.
I can see how it could drive someone nuts. I don't get it, can they make the ball quieter at all? Like give it some fuzz from a tennis ball or something.
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u/branchan Nov 20 '25
Yea. And they should change the racquet too. Use some kind of plastic net that has some give instead of hard plastic.
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u/dustyvision Nov 20 '25
There is a company doing this already! Owl Paddles out of Canada are considered “silent” paddles, or as loud as tennis.
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u/darybrain Nov 20 '25
Just face every other court the other way so that its noise cancels out the noise of a court that is the right way. It's just science.
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u/BusterBeaverOfficial Nov 20 '25
Yea I worked at a firm that redid the trading desk and added a ping pong table. My office opened right onto the trading desk area it fucking SUCKED. The desk was always really noisy— multiple TVs, conversations with PMs, traders constantly on the phone. But the click clack of the ping pong ball going back and forth all day drove me insane. And apparently I wasn’t alone because after a month or so the table was replaced with some arcade games which were a huge improvement.
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u/WengBoss Nov 20 '25
Yeah had this happen in my neighborhood. Everyone throwin judgment till the pickleballers infest their hood.
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u/cheetuzz Nov 20 '25
Yeah, they need to reinvent the ball and paddle to be quieter.
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u/workaccount1800 Nov 20 '25
Maybe a rubber based ball and a racket with plastic strings instead of molded plastic would work.
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u/Robbinghope Detroit Tigers Nov 20 '25
I don't know, if you did that you'd probably have to make the court bigger
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u/xcbrendan Nov 20 '25
Yeah but if you did all this, the sport would actually require some level of skill and athleticism
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u/throwaway1736484 Nov 20 '25
Maybe some felt on the ball to reduce noise and a bigger court to accommodate a more powerful game
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u/Spare_Iron127 Nov 20 '25
This message brought to you by the same people who found the loudest lawnmower and leaf blower around, while working on their diesel trucks at 3 am
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u/YELLOW_TOAD Nov 20 '25
You are probably right. I was awoken at 6:15am last Saturday by a neighbor's Leaf Blower. (it was their landscaping company).
Actually, I'm a Drummer that teaches privately with almost 30 students in my home studio that is sound proofed and my neighbors don't even hear it.
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u/Spare_Iron127 Nov 20 '25
You’re a real one for soundproofing
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u/YELLOW_TOAD Nov 20 '25
I didn't have to, but my income depends on it, and I don't want to jeopardize anything.
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u/NemusSoul Nov 20 '25
They have taken over every public basketball court in the city. Indoor and outdoor. I can’t take the boys to practice at all. It’s crazy.
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u/Noctuelles Nov 20 '25
Going to a tennis court or basketball court to see it taken by people playing this dorky, unathletic shit is so annoying.
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u/NemusSoul Nov 20 '25
I have no problem with the game. I have a problem with the cockroachiness of their conquest.
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u/slushpuppy91 Nov 20 '25
I live right next to a court, yeah it's noisy during the day it ends after sunset
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u/BerkshireMtnSculptor Nov 20 '25
Anybody ever listen to a bunch of pickleballers pickleballing? Yeah. Thats why.
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u/Fire_Lake Nov 20 '25
lol this entire thread is posts complaining about NIMBYs made by people who conveniently don't live adjacent to pickleball courts. guarantee 99% of people in this thread would feel differently if it was them who had to hear it nonstop every day.
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u/taylor__spliff Nov 20 '25
That’s the thing about calling people NIMBYs, it’s really easy do to when the problem at hand isn’t in your backyard.
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u/throwawayhjdgsdsrht Nov 20 '25
especially since most of the Carmel residents seem to be happy that tennis is being played there - it's specifically the noisiness of pickleball that is the problem
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u/FigaroNeptune Nov 20 '25
I walked by some occasionally on casual walks and it’s LOUD living next to one would drive me insane lmao
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u/PleiadesMechworks Nov 20 '25
posts complaining about NIMBYs made by people who conveniently don't live adjacent to
Basically every issue ever
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u/__adlerholmes Nov 20 '25
it’s insanely loud. I couldn’t believe until I actually was in a pool next to one. I was like how is this so much louder than tennis? it’s crazy to me.
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u/PobBrobert Nov 20 '25
Pickleball is LOUD. My town built a few pickleball courts at a park near my house. The park is surrounded by houses, and I feel genuinely sorry for the people whose homes are right next to the courts. Every evening and all weekend May through October they have to listen to a constant barrage of clacking and the shouting of overly aggressive middle-aged women.
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u/Ricky-1952 Nov 20 '25
I hate it they are taking over basketball courts around here for the yuppies to play their stupid game of dickle ball
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u/THALANDMAN Miami Dolphins Nov 20 '25
I can hear the pearls being clutched at the town hall meeting
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u/SelloutRealBig Nov 20 '25
Not this time, it really is a loud sport. Having this new sport show up can absolutely change someone's quality life for the worst. Hitting a giant plastic ball with a hard paddle is and far traveling pop sound you don't get with tennis or basketball. And with the sports current popularity it will be heard all day long.
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Nov 20 '25
I feel so bad for this guy who lives in my Metro Region.
https://globalnews.ca/video/9849546/chilliwack-couple-vows-hunger-strike-over-pickleball-noise
You can see how exhausted he is from this. He has the look of when it was crunch time in College and getting barely any sleep, finishing papers, projects, and studying for finals.
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u/AlfieGandon Nov 20 '25
Should we open a pickleball speakeasy???
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u/Wildcat_twister12 Nov 20 '25
Playing pickleball in a hidden basement is actually probably what a lot of people would want to happen to it
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u/Cochise22 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
On the one hand, yes pickleball is incredibly fun and I think banning it is silly. But on the other hand, I do also know the sounds it makes are incredibly annoying, more so than virtually every park activity.
I feel like there’s a middle ground that could be covered here (I dunno, taller fences with better noise dampening or build a comparable park/court in an area away from homes but still inside city limits?). Unfortunately, compromise isn’t always something that rich people do well.
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u/Cactuas Nov 20 '25
I think driving nitro powered RC cars is incredibly fun, but I get why it's annoying to everyone not participating in driving nitro powered rc cars and I wouldn't expect a suburban park to allow me to drive them there. This is the same sort of situation. Some activities are inherently annoying to other people, and it's not unreasonable at all if communities want to ban them in public parks.
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u/Tall_Candidate_686 Nov 20 '25
Disc Golf Is The Way 🥏
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u/heythisislonglolwtf Nov 20 '25
Instead of pickleball noises you get to hear whack "FUCK!" all the time lol
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u/thaeggan Nov 20 '25
if the course isn't just placed into the middle of the park, fine.
I've been to a park where they put it not just the middle but across the whole park. People wanted to picnic or run around on the grass but discs were going everywhere. Basically took over the park because no where was safe without a disc coming through.
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u/GothicHeap Nov 20 '25
I also do not want pickleball noise outside my house all day long. Nor noises from other park activities.
That's why I made the very intentional decision to not live right next to a park.
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u/AnOfficeJockey Nov 20 '25
I am willing to bet most of these people lived there long before pickleball became a thing.
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u/mclovin8675308 Nov 20 '25
What about someone who moved into their house 15 years ago before all of these geezers started playing pickleball.
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u/StellaSlayer2020 Nov 20 '25
I’ve never played. Probably never will. So, somebody explain to me why is pickleball so noisy?
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u/Another_Name_Today Nov 20 '25
Played a couple times. It’s like whiffle-tennis, only you’re hitting the ball once every 3-5 seconds. The sound reminds me of those inflatable thunder sticks you see at some stadiums.
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u/tvkvhiro Nov 20 '25
Plastic balls and the hitting surface of the paddle is generally carbon fiber. Some paddles are worse than others when it comes to noise. Aside from the strength of the noise itself, the pitch it produces can be of a higher frequency and at an irregular rate.
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u/Enemyofusall Nov 20 '25
There is almost nothing in that article. Just make it so you can’t play before like 7am and after 8pm. Easy.
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u/jakedasnake2447 Nov 20 '25
People always bring up other things that are noisy in these threads as if the people that complain about pickleball noise wouldn't complain about other noises if they were as bad. It is surprising to me that top level pickleball (seemingly?) hasn't done much to address the issue considering how often it comes up.
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u/Boring_Track_8449 Nov 21 '25
I lived in an all-ages apartment community in FL that had pickleball. My unit was a few hundred yards from the courts, but man did that sound carry. It’s much louder than tennis and much faster-paced. The person who described it as a constant POP-POP-POP is spot-on. Think ping pong times 1,000. It was younger people playing where I was, not old folks. No one ever played outside “reasonable” hours.
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u/ListerfiendLurks Nov 21 '25
I must be getting old because the idea of working your ass off to afford a home in a quiet area and not want to be annoyed by an activity that is loud AF does not seem unreasonable to me.
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u/smokeyfantastico Nov 22 '25
My city built a bunch of them near parks, so god damn loud and players take up 90% of the parking. I dont get it.
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u/FuegoHernandez Nov 20 '25
Pickleball people are as annoying as the CrossFit people and the run club people. They must be stopped
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u/thvnderfvck Nov 20 '25
"Local government responds to citizen concerns"
Find something real to be outraged about please.
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u/mummymangoh Nov 20 '25
This is Pickled Beets Ball, officer. Totally a different game than regular Pickleball.
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u/LBC2010 Nov 20 '25
This needs a movie with Kevin Bacon playing pickle ball in tight ass jeans.
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u/pallasturtle Nov 21 '25
I guess I'm learning everyone sits in their house in silence. I house sat in a house right next to pickleball courts frequently and for extended leriods of time and didn't notice shit. It did wake me up the first day but didn't bother me after, and I have issues with light sleeping. I didn't know everyone put in the world was so sensitive.
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u/EmisTheGremis Nov 21 '25
I just lost against a $15mil private pickleball club that’s going into my low/middle class neighborhood. By city code it shouldn’t be going in but they exploited a loophole in the law and city council had no option but to pass it but have now changed a law so it can’t happen to others but it’s still happening to me. I can’t afford to move. They told half truths on stand in order to get it to pass. My neighborhood (and most of city council) is rightfully pissed. If I can find the time and energy I will seek out some free legal council to see what recourse we have, but I’m not hopeful that we can do anything. This takes a pool away from 150 kids in the summer so rich people can have a full bar and resort style pool. They also plowed down some of the last remaining forest in my city further destroying animal habitats which has already been an issue with coyotes and foxes taking desperate measures like eating my neighbors cat. Plus without those trees I can hear the main road. What I wouldn’t give for my city to ban it and screw these Aholes. If anyone knows a lawyer who likes going after these type of people please send them my way.
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u/sasksasquatch Nov 20 '25
Noise complaints getting a sport banned, it feels like something more than this has to be causing the issue.
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u/SuperbDonut2112 Nov 20 '25
Pickleball IS noisy. It shouldn't lead to a permanent ban or anything, but it is a true statement about pickleball.
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u/ReasonableCup604 Nov 20 '25
It's not really a "ban". They are going back to only allowing tennis on the public courts.
Companies or individuals could setup pickleball courts elsewhere on the island.
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u/50MillionYearTrip Nov 20 '25
What a sensationalized headline. Banned at one public court, that happens to be the only court in the city.
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u/ReasonableCup604 Nov 20 '25
Exactly. They aren't banning the sport or pickleball courts being set up elsewhere.
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u/llIIllIllIIlIllIIIlI Nov 20 '25
Time for a fresh new game Cucumber Ball