Dink, Dink, Lob

Barb is very frustrated with the way the game of pickleball is changing.  Lobbing has become the most important strategy that players can employee.  It is very difficult for older players to get back to play a lob that goes over their head after they have been up at the net dinking.  Even if the player can get the lob back, they don't ever win the point.  Today she played a fellow who had mastered the lob game and when Barb did get the lob back over the net, he just hit a short dink and she couldn't get back up to the net to get it after being on the back line.  She wrote a notice on the pickleball forum about it and said that people shouldn't lob when the players are older.  They could get hurt running backwards. Most of the comments she got back said that lobbing was part of the game and she would have to get used to it.  Then later she got an email from Coach Maddy with a video attached talking about safety and he mentioned that someone had fallen going back for a lob and hit his head and later died in the hospital because of the injury to his head.  Still the old people keep lobbing.  Barb says not only is it dangerous, it makes the game no fun to play.  The only strategy you can use is to lob before the other team lobs.  There are no rallies anymore.  It is just dink, dink, lob.