Pickleball in Costa Rica Guanacaste
After countless hours posting on Facebook, Whatsapp, email, text and other venues, I decided to start a blog to help keep account of our pickleball activities in Costa Rica. There were a few clubs in the area when we moved here several years ago, both about 40 minutes away, but we noticed there were no local folks playing pickleball. We decided to change that, if possible, maybe through the children or teens. As we were building our house, we realized we could fit a pickleball court in front of the house. It turned out beautiful. We started teaching pickleball to our neighbors at Mar Vista in Brasilito and to our local friends. Within a few weeks, the court had about 20-25 folks rotating through it at various levels. We bring in a coach every so often to make it interesting. Chris Powers stopped by for a few days. Yoyo was here.We still noticed we were not attracting local folks so we went looking for local courts and luckily we ran into Ron Kir...