Lately, there has been a heated back-and-forth accusation involving a pickleball coach named Mike Tsorn from the East Mesa area in Arizona.
Recently, someone who lives nearby has come forward with some strong accusations, saying that Tsorn acted like a real bully during an online argument that started because of the constant noise coming from pickleball courts.
The resident shared his accusation on a Facebook page named Pickleball Is A Plague. The person posting about this explained how the loud pops and thwacks from the paddles hitting the ball have been driving them crazy for a while.
The frustrated person feels like the repetitive sound has worn down people’s patience, including their own, and maybe even affected mental health in the community.
He wrote:
Pickleball coach Mike Tsorn is a bully. Wanted to put him on blast because his unhinged nonsense is quite troubling, it does seem to be an example of what happens to someone’s psyche when they have been exposed to repetitive pickleball noise.
According to the account, Tsorn kept pushing buttons all day long in the comments or messages, being rude and showing zero empathy about how disruptive the noise can get when courts are active for hours.
In fact, things got ugly very fast, according to the post. The frustrated resident admitted they stooped to a low point themselves by threatening to call ICE on Tsorn and his wife.
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Right after that exchange, Tsorn apparently blocked them on the platform.
The person who made the claims sees the block as fitting, especially since they say other pickleball coaches on the same page have threatened or demeaned them before when they’ve tried to talk about the noise issue.
The complaint points out a bigger pattern in pickleball culture, at least from this perspective.
The frustrated resident describes players and especially coaches as lacking empathy, being rude, and sometimes outright mean when anyone brings up the downsides of the sport, writing:
It’s not a one off situation, pickleballers are some of the most vile human beings on the planet. Mike really showed me that, over and over, until I couldn’t take it anymore and I turned into what he was like.
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