Challenge (pikleball), 4/26/2024
| court#4: level 3.75 | Court #5: level 3.5 | court#6: level casual |
| court#3: level 4.0 | court#2: strong 4.0 and above | Court #1: challenge (professional sometimes) |
This morning, I felt a litter bored playing at court 4, 5 and 6.
Not knowing anybody at court#1, 2 and 3, I went to #2. Interesting enough they knew my name so one guy demanded to play with me. Obviously, he was a strong 4.0+, so I was a little nervous since I never played with him before.
During the game, I made a few mistakes on the left (dominate side) so he asked me to “slid”, a word I did’t quite understand. After I saw him rushed to my side I realized that he was asking me to change side for him to dominate. Too late, we lost a point. He was pretty upset then.
We finally lost the game, 8 to 11.
He looked upset and I was feeling a little embarrassed. Then he said since we lost we had to play on court #3. Being polite, he accompanied me to court #3 and paired with me again. He warned me at the beginning that we need to win or we have to go back to court#4, a lower level—3.75.
He made me feel like taking an exam. So intimidating is this man. Fortunately we won, 12 to 10.
Then he left to play on court#2 and court#1. I stayed on court 3.
I won 2 more games on court #3 and I quit for today.
Will continue to play at 3 and 2, because I like challenge. i like to play with people whom I could lose because I want to learn and improve.