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Wally Green

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
258 total appearances

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Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And they would come and take our course. And I'm like, this is not a pickleball course, a paddle tennis course. And it was so just it being such an obnoxious sport. It just made me go on like this rampage of hate for the sport. So whenever it popped up on my feed, I would just trash talk it. And then people would be like, oh, you're talking about some great sport.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And I'd be like, man, this sport was created for 70-year-olds. That's the original reason the sport was made, right? And yeah, so I really hated the sport. My sponsor, they are now the number one pickleball company for equipment, my table tennis sponsor. So they jumped into pickleball a few years ago, and they became the number one right now, the number one selling

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And I'd be like, man, this sport was created for 70-year-olds. That's the original reason the sport was made, right? And yeah, so I really hated the sport. My sponsor, they are now the number one pickleball company for equipment, my table tennis sponsor. So they jumped into pickleball a few years ago, and they became the number one right now, the number one selling

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And I'd be like, man, this sport was created for 70-year-olds. That's the original reason the sport was made, right? And yeah, so I really hated the sport. My sponsor, they are now the number one pickleball company for equipment, my table tennis sponsor. So they jumped into pickleball a few years ago, and they became the number one right now, the number one selling

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

racket is from my table tennis sponsor which is wild um and who is that yola yola yola okay so spelled j-o-o-l-a yeah they're number one now and they mentioned to me four years i think like four years ago maybe i should play pickleball i was like you're crazy i'm never playing this and um i'll give you a sneak peek of why i'm playing it i'm actually gonna film the unboxing and this and i will tell the story in my unboxing of

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

racket is from my table tennis sponsor which is wild um and who is that yola yola yola okay so spelled j-o-o-l-a yeah they're number one now and they mentioned to me four years i think like four years ago maybe i should play pickleball i was like you're crazy i'm never playing this and um i'll give you a sneak peek of why i'm playing it i'm actually gonna film the unboxing and this and i will tell the story in my unboxing of

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

racket is from my table tennis sponsor which is wild um and who is that yola yola yola okay so spelled j-o-o-l-a yeah they're number one now and they mentioned to me four years i think like four years ago maybe i should play pickleball i was like you're crazy i'm never playing this and um i'll give you a sneak peek of why i'm playing it i'm actually gonna film the unboxing and this and i will tell the story in my unboxing of

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

But like I said, I hated the sport, really didn't like it, didn't care for the people in it. And in the ending of December, I had surgery on my right hip. On your hip, yeah. I'm sorry, left hip, in the ending of December. So I have a full bionic hip right now. And I was riding a city bike to PT, physical therapy, and I took a different route. I took way, way on the east side.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

But like I said, I hated the sport, really didn't like it, didn't care for the people in it. And in the ending of December, I had surgery on my right hip. On your hip, yeah. I'm sorry, left hip, in the ending of December. So I have a full bionic hip right now. And I was riding a city bike to PT, physical therapy, and I took a different route. I took way, way on the east side.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

But like I said, I hated the sport, really didn't like it, didn't care for the people in it. And in the ending of December, I had surgery on my right hip. On your hip, yeah. I'm sorry, left hip, in the ending of December. So I have a full bionic hip right now. And I was riding a city bike to PT, physical therapy, and I took a different route. I took way, way on the east side.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And as I was riding, I saw... a park where there were pickleball courts. Now, I've never seen a real pickleball court. I've only seen videos. So I started, so I was like, oh, the pickleball court looks a lot like my paddle tennis courts. That's why these guys keep jumping on the courts.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And as I was riding, I saw... a park where there were pickleball courts. Now, I've never seen a real pickleball court. I've only seen videos. So I started, so I was like, oh, the pickleball court looks a lot like my paddle tennis courts. That's why these guys keep jumping on the courts.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And as I was riding, I saw... a park where there were pickleball courts. Now, I've never seen a real pickleball court. I've only seen videos. So I started, so I was like, oh, the pickleball court looks a lot like my paddle tennis courts. That's why these guys keep jumping on the courts.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And so I got down, I pulled over, walked down the stairs, like these little stairs that go into a smaller park where the courts are. And I sat down and I watched it for a little while. And then I could appreciate, okay, I can see why people like this. Because there's a low learning curve, right? It's very easy to play. It's very easy to start.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And so I got down, I pulled over, walked down the stairs, like these little stairs that go into a smaller park where the courts are. And I sat down and I watched it for a little while. And then I could appreciate, okay, I can see why people like this. Because there's a low learning curve, right? It's very easy to play. It's very easy to start.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And so I got down, I pulled over, walked down the stairs, like these little stairs that go into a smaller park where the courts are. And I sat down and I watched it for a little while. And then I could appreciate, okay, I can see why people like this. Because there's a low learning curve, right? It's very easy to play. It's very easy to start.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And maybe people who normally don't get exercise can now do something fun and get exercise, right? So I was having some small appreciation. Then I look over. There's a guy sitting next to me. And I says, hey, do you play pickleball here every day? And the guy goes to me, what? I'm a 4'5". You're what? Okay, I know what a 4-5 is now. It's, you know, pretty high level.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And maybe people who normally don't get exercise can now do something fun and get exercise, right? So I was having some small appreciation. Then I look over. There's a guy sitting next to me. And I says, hey, do you play pickleball here every day? And the guy goes to me, what? I'm a 4'5". You're what? Okay, I know what a 4-5 is now. It's, you know, pretty high level.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And maybe people who normally don't get exercise can now do something fun and get exercise, right? So I was having some small appreciation. Then I look over. There's a guy sitting next to me. And I says, hey, do you play pickleball here every day? And the guy goes to me, what? I'm a 4'5". You're what? Okay, I know what a 4-5 is now. It's, you know, pretty high level.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

But at that time, I didn't know what he was talking about. I was like, what do you mean 4-5? I said, bro, I didn't ask you what you were, right? And I said it more intensely than what I'm saying now. You know, but I said, you know, I didn't ask you what you were. I just asked you if you played. So, yes or no question. And then he did what he did.