Save the Date for 2025. Excited to Announce This Incredible Women's Weekend...Made Just for You!!
Ladies, last year was so much fun, let's do it again! Save the Date for 2025 Sport + Spirit Women's Retreat Weekend.
At Sport + Spirit Retreat, we offer a clinic that is the perfect way to kickstart your game in a fun and supportive setting or take your game to the next level.
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Pickleball
Pickleball is a low-impact form of exercise and game for all ages and skill levels. It is best described as a combination of badminton, ping-pong and tennis and can be easily learned and enjoyed by many after just a couple of games.
Guests can register to play based on your level with two registration options;
Option #1 - Let's Learn The Game Of Pickleball
Whether you've heard of pickleball or played a few times, this clinic is the perfect way to kickstart your game in a fun and supportive setting.
We will guide you through a 90 minute session, covering the fundamentals, rules, key strokes, and strategies essential for playing and improving in this exciting sport.
By the end of the session, you'll have an understanding of the aspects of the game and ready to play. Bring your own equipment.
We will also have equipment available.
Option #2 - Ready To Move Up:
Are you ready to move to the next level? This 90 minute session is meant for players who are looking to improve their game through repetition and reinforcement of techniques, skills and strategies via a variety of drills and drill-based games.
Building on our Growing Your Game program, players should have a very solid grasp of the game and are focused on improving their quality of shots, the strategy of placement, the importance of pace and their court movement.
Come to Play, Come to Learn, Come to Have Fun!
Want more Pickleball during the weekend? We will have a fun tournament to sum up your weekend. We will guarantee you 3 games. Pick your partner or we will help you find a partner. Let's put what we learned into play.
Pickleball Instructors Jim and Lorna retired in 2013 and decided to move to the Lake House on Bella Lake. Jim was sure of this plan, but I was not 100 percent sure if I wanted to leave my friends and family to live at the lake. I thought I would give it a try, but there was one stipulation, there had to be Pickleball.
We started seeking out Pickleball in our town of Huntsville. What was sadly offered, was one room in the Summit Centre, with 8 feet ceilings and alot of lines on the floors for shuffleboard etc. This was not going to work, so we continued to look at different buildings that we could possibly play in. After looking at many options, we got access to the rink surface (with no ice) at Jack Bionda Arena.
The town ordered 4 nets, 20 plastic paddles and balls. For two years, Jim and I would go to Canadian Tire buy green painter's tape and tape the lines. We had to tape the lines every time we were scheduled to play and take the tape off each time, because the arena got used by the Lacrosse Players at night. The sport was slow in taking off and we would be lucky to have 4 to 6 players show up. After a couple of years and many trips to Canadian Tire to buy the tape, we asked the town if we could get the lines painted. They put it in their budget, it got approved and we got lines painted.
The sport was slowly growing, so our next request was to have the lines painted outside on the Tennis Courts. Now we were outside playing and the sport was starting to really pick up. We offered free clinics to promote the sport. Next step, we asked for 1 tennis court to be converted into 4 Pickleball courts and we got it. A few hip cups on the way, but we got our new courts in the forest. We have grown to 350 members. I have met so many new friends and I love our Pickleball Community, you can't ask for a better group.
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