It’s tennis wiffle ball. Fun to play? Yes, it is. A fad? Likely.
This country is aging and this game gives elderly people a decent activity to do that’s also social and not physically taxing. I think it’s here to stay.
I smack wiffle golf balls in my backyard, I used to watch my nephews play wiffle ball at a ballpark in wiffle league play that was actually kind of fun to watch. But pickleball? I used to play tennis, I had some injuries to various joints that come into play as a right-handed man, a knee for one. shoulder for the other and to be honest I really don’t play golf except to smack wiffle balls in my backyard these days but as the knee comes around back to semi-normal maybe I’ll get a little bit of tee time happening.
When somebody “wiffles” around here it can clear a room, especially if it’s a crop duster.