AMATEUR PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION 2023 SoCal GOLD CUP TOURNAMENT

the thing that I think is interesting 0:06 about pickle ball is that it's very 0:09 inclusive everybody looks at everybody 0:11 is the same on this court for instance 0:13 if I went out to this court right now 0:14 and even though I'm not an avid pickle 0:16 ball player these individuals out here 0:19 would be quick to say hey let me show 0:21 you how to dink let me show you how to 0:23 hit come and join our game that is 0:25 what I think pickle ball is building a 0:27 stronger community and getting to 0:30 provide a little bit of escapism 0:31 throughout the day my name is Matt Hale 0:33 and I am the director of marketing for 0:35 the amateur pickleball Association the 0:37 amateur pickleball Association put 0:39 on amateur tournaments for pickleball 0:41 players across the country for instance 0:43 this weekend we're here in Southern 0:45 California coming to a tournament like 0:47 this for instance what would make it 0:48 successful the majority of pickle ball 0:50 players have 9-5s you know they're not 0:53 on the PPA or the PPA tour regularly and 0:56 getting paid I would introduce myself as 0:58 Jill Sharkey and I'm Denise Tisdale or 1:00 better known as hammer and shark 1:02 from Santa Barbara California I've never 1:04 had a sport where I've had so much fun 1:06 with girlfriends to the point where I 1:08 have so many more friends from playing 1:09 pickle ball you go out in that 1:11 pickleball court and we're laughing 1:12 we're joking we have text groups we go 1:15 out to dinner after we just all enjoy 1:17 each other so it's fun cause you can 1:19 compete and battle but at the same time 1:21 just making incredible friendships from 1:23 a lot of different walks of life ages 1:25 from 19 to almost 70 and it's like a 1:28 chess game an athletic 1:30 event a social game it teaches you 1:33 life lessons it gives you everything you 1:35 need we got gold and it was a fun venue 1:38 to be on top of a you know parking 1:40 structure I didn't know where it was and 1:41 it's pretty fun to be here Warner Center 1:43 pickle ball was really best kept secret 1:46 for so long hi my name is Leslie Maltz 1:48 and I am the director and owner of 1:50 Warner Center pickle ball the Valley's 1:52 number one largest outdoor pickle ball 1:54 facility this is our first official 1:57 APA tournament. Pickle ball it is a sport 2:00 and people do love the community but 2:02 they want to compete and so your 2:04 competitive players want to know where 2:06 they are on that scale of you know 2-5, 3-0 2:10 4-0, and they're all aspiring to get 2:12 better and I'm watching my beginner 2:13 players that started in April are now 2:15 competing and they're feeling really 2:17 empowered by this and they're going to 2:19 start competing more and more and I can 2:20 see that they're going to Skyrocket in 2:22 the sport so my name is Juliet Fedoroff 2:25 this is my first time doing like an 2:26 organized tournament like this I was 2:28 just hoping to not get last place so I'm 2:30 pretty pleased with myself one of the 2:31 people that I was playing with she 2:33 actually was the first person who taught 2:34 me how to play singles so she was my 2:36 first game and so the last time I played 2:38 her was when she was teaching me how to 2:39 play singles so the reason I come here 2:41 is like because we I've met probably 2:43 like 50 60 new friends who like we know 2:46 by name like looking back or 2:47 hearing someone Cheer and you look back 2:49 and you see like five six people that 2:50 you know that you didn't know were here 2:52 felt really good so it was nice that 2:54 they were all there to watch me take a 2:56 win so we have a couple of cool things 2:58 that are happening at this event 3:00 today one of the big things is the 3:02 introduction of maybe using a new app 3:04 I'm Mark Tenney I'm the founder of the 3:06 swish app swish does automated 3:08 pickleball tournaments so round Robins 3:11 MLP format all sorts of tournament 3:13 formats swish automates the entire 3:15 process from creating the brackets the 3:18 scorekeeping court assignments 3:20 calculating results so we're here with 3:22 the American pickleball Association 3:23 helping run the different divisions on 3:25 swish when the players arrive for the 3:27 tournament as they check in scan the QR 3:30 code and now they can be tracking every 3:32 single round so we're really excited to 3:33 be doing our first of hopefully many 3:35 tournaments with the APA the APA always 3:38 does very large events so you see all 3:40 the skill levels you'll see men's 3:42 women's mixed divisions doubles singles 3:44 and so it's really nice to just see 3:47 the entire spectrum of pickle ball 3:49 players all gathered together at one 3:50 event hi I'm Matthew Williams I'm here 3:52 to support my mom who's playing in the 3:54 tournament right now her name's Reena 3:56 she's always wanting to win never 3:57 settling for less and just seeing that 3:59 she's able to translate into 4:01 something that she's passionate about 4:02 it's just inspiring to see hopefully I 4:04 get to play a couple tournaments with 4:06 her and see if I could help her win 4:08 anybody can be good no matter how you 4:10 know fit they are to their Fitness level 4:12 it's always good to just see like all 4:13 age groups playing I'm Ron Pobuta 4:17 from West Lake Village California and 4:19 I'm Dr Daniel Zucker from Porter Ranch 4:22 California we are not Partners in real 4:24 life but in pickleball we are 4:25 partners and we have an amazing 4:28 tournament today everybody wants to play 4:30 and everybody wants to experience the 4:33 beauty of competition it kind of Stokes 4:35 our fire for competitiveness which you 4:37 know once you get past 50 you're kind of 4:39 looking for something to do but the real 4:41 thing that I admire most about pickle 4:43 ball is the social element of it you can 4:44 play with young people and old people of 4:46 equal skill and it's just as fun I 4:50 used to be a baseball player and this 4:52 is my new way to stay fit and stay in 4:53 shape and it's a great social game I 4:55 can even play with my wife which is 4:57 awesome our players want to play pickle 4:59 ball it's not necessarily all about 5:01 winning the medals or oh we can go here 5:03 and win 500 bucks we want them to engage 5:06 with other people that that are on the 5:08 courts we want them to be able to win 5:10 some matches maybe win a medal and the 5:12 t-shirt and that's all fine and dandy 5:14 but as long as we create a better 5:16 Community among people in general if 5:19 we're leveraging pickle ball to do that 5:21 that's all that we really hope for 5:23