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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- You could say their accommodation to attempt in the pickleball articulation of the Beatrice Victor Senior Olympics was a ad-lib one for Lisa Lubarsky and Janice Salerno.
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The aboriginal time they anytime played the bold was Monday, aloof 24 hours afore the anniversary antagonism got beneath way at the Greenbelt Recreation Center in Sea View. They brought forth paddles purchased on Amazon and had advised the rules on YouTube.
Though amateurs, the brace accustomed at the challenge in top concrete form. Lubarsky is a nutritionist for the Center for Life Continued Development at the Bernikow Jewish Community Center and Salerno is the program's fettle manager.
Watching the added 18 well-practiced pickleball competitors balmy up, they agreed not to calculation on a gold badge this time about and instead achievement for a little beginner's luck.
"But abutting year, they bigger watch out!" laughed the colleagues, who concluded up with a argent badge in their age accumulation of 50 to 54.
It was a alive third day for the Senior Olympics, with added contests in cornhole, croquet, checkers, chess and basketball shoot. The amateur abide through Friday back closing ceremonies will booty abode at 9:30 a.m. in the JCC, 1466 Manor Rd.
The Staten Island Senior Olympics is called for Beatrice Victor, who was motivated afterwards a affection advance in 1987 to animate her neighbors age 50 and beforehand to get alive and breach active.
["582"]More than 500 apple participants this year responded to the event's motto, "Use it or lose it."
PICKLE WHAT?
Still beneath the alarm in some circles, the action with the funny name has been accepting acceptance beyond the country.
Legend has it that pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, a abbreviate bear ride from Seattle, by three dads who capital to accumulate their kids alive during the summer.
The name came about because one dad's dog, called Pickles, generally chased the brawl and ran off with it.
The bold is a mix of ping pong, badminton and tennis, explained Bill Miller of Westerleigh, who co-chaired the Senior Olympics pickleball antagonism with Sue Dietrich.
["606.25"]It's a little easier than tennis, he explained, because the cloister is abate at 20 anxiety advanced by 44 anxiety long.
"It's a action for all ages," Miller added. "And it's advancing this way" to added accessories in the busline area.
CORNHOLE AND CROQUET
Tom Joyce and Toni Cavalenes-Joyce were on duke beforehand in the day for the Senior Olympics cornhole competition, which drew added than 50 contestants. The West Brighton brace has been arena the bold in their backyard for three years.
Turns out they're not the alone ones in the adjacency who adore it. They generally apprehend the appropriate "thump" and "woosh" of bean accoutrements hitting board platforms advancing from adjacent yards, they said.
After cornhole, it was time for croquet.
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With six decades of acquaintance beneath his belt, Bob Kurpiel is a baron on the croquet court.
"When I was 8 years old, my dad bought me a croquet set from Davega's" in Bay Ridge he recalled, apropos to the above antic appurtenances store.
He able his croquet abilities in Prospect Park and back he assuredly exhausted his ancestor in the sport, he knew he had baffled a acceptable technique, he reminisced.
As croquet captivated up, Pat Stillitano was in a blitz to get over to the YMCA in West Brighton for the basketball shoot competition. She was additionally registered for bowling, pool, darts, horseshoes and shuffleboard.
"I didn't get a gold yet," she said, "but there are a lot of competitions left."
For a complete schedule, appointment beatricevictorseniorolympics.com.
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