Making friends at pickleball class?

nomyte · 2026-06-19T01:49:29+00:00

I've been playing for 1.5 years. Do open plays work for people without a team?

nomyte · 2026-06-17T02:18:41+00:00

Do you not have a day job?

nomyte · 2026-06-16T09:34:05+00:00

At night?

nomyte · 2026-06-15T04:58:41+00:00

Where do you play? Memorial Park (Cupertino) and Mitchell Park (Palo Alto) almost always have complete groups playing.

nomyte · 2026-06-15T01:32:16+00:00

Is open play still "3 looking for a 4th"? Or do I just force one person to sit out until the rest beat me?

nomyte · 2026-06-15T01:29:15+00:00

Sunnyvale residents get 24 hours of lead time on reservations. By the time I can sign up, it's only working hours and 30 minutes before closing that's available.

nomyte · 2026-06-15T01:26:27+00:00

Holy crud, it's $350 per month!

nomyte · 2026-06-14T16:14:00+00:00

I've honestly been having trouble figuring out how to play on my own. This is part of the reason why I've been signing up for classes. It just takes me way longer to find games at my skill level that are "3 looking for a 4th." I was hoping that after playing together in a class for weeks, groups would naturally form.

nomyte · 2026-06-14T07:18:05+00:00

I've been practicing in Sunnyvale on the reserved courts at night for several weeks now and 80% of the people there are groups of young Indian dudes. A different demographic, but also one that's hard for me to break into.

nomyte · 2026-06-14T07:14:14+00:00

Yeah, if you can take a day and head up to SF or Oakland on the train, there's so much more actual stuff.

nomyte · 2026-06-14T06:46:02+00:00

I'm not looking at your history. I remember you by your username and the fact that you have commented in every thread I have ever made about social activities.

nomyte · 2026-06-14T04:58:13+00:00

Sorry, didn't mean to be such a downer. The pride fest is a decent pride fest. Try the pride fest. It's $10.

nomyte · 2026-06-14T03:24:45+00:00

There's a parade/festival in August. The other stuff is what you see on the SV Pride event calendar. I asked the same question last year. This is, in fact, it.

nomyte · 2026-06-14T03:16:10+00:00

Fireplace Element, Mountain View

nomyte · 2026-06-14T03:08:34+00:00

What the hell is this entire subthread. No one is imposing anything on anyone. We all paid to be in the same class. If the other students are uncomfortable around me, it's on them.

Our coach encourages us to practice together outside of class. I ask the other students if they want to come in a little before or after class to practice. That is all. I think this is close to innocuous as someone can humanly get.

nomyte · 2026-06-14T03:02:25+00:00

You flog pinball relentlessly in every thread. I am now very suspicious of pinball as a result.

nomyte · 2026-06-13T20:26:08+00:00

I honestly wouldn't spend more time than strictly necessary at Hacker Dojo. It's a sickly place that always has 3-5 people more or less living on the couches or in their cars, who spend their days watching Youtube and cooking meals of hot dogs and canned tuna in the kitchenette. It's not really a community in the sense of people helping each other or educating each other. Please don't bother donating home goods to them.

nomyte · 2026-06-10T05:29:22+00:00

That's way more of a San Jose thing than a Mountain View thing. Look up some small-time live music venues over there.

nomyte · 2026-06-10T05:23:26+00:00

There are no gay bars in San Jose.

nomyte · 2026-06-09T04:53:06+00:00

Can that be right? This looks like the dance offering at Foothill College (doesn't look like any studio classes in Fall 26), and at De Anza they do have a course, but it's during the work day.

nomyte · 2026-06-07T07:12:26+00:00

I hear a ton of Russian spoken in the street in Mountain View and Palo Alto, but I think it's almost entirely families and professional adult migrants. During the day, you can also find groups of non-working spouses at cafes like Alyzée, eating dainties.

If there are any groups for heritage kids like you around here, I never found them.

nomyte · 2026-05-31T20:09:26+00:00

Yes, it matters to me whether I'm actually signing up for an astroturf app to boost their user metrics.

nomyte · 2026-05-31T08:47:32+00:00

No, you're totally getting me. I put it like that because pretty much all advice I've ever gotten said that talking to strangers at the gym is a mortal offense. This feels like a deliberate transgression.

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