If you were beginning to worry that your friends who play pickleball might be running out of excuses to talk about their favorite pastime, we have some good news: Reebok is teaming with the niche Texas pickleball company Recess on a limited-edition capsule, which includes variations on Reebok’s Club C Revenge and Nano Court sneakers designed expressly for the fast-growing court sport.
Pickleball’s rise to prominence over the last several years has made it all but unavoidable in major urban areas. If you live in a city, there’s a good chance that you either love playing pickleball or that it’s driving you insane. Either way, the burgeoning American sport is clearly on the verge of becoming big business, but has so far been catered to mainly by boutique speciality brands like Recess, which was founded by childhood friends Maggie Brown and Grace Moore as “a celebration of good old-fashioned fun.” The collaboration with Reebok represents a big leap forward for pickleball as a whole.
Both the Club C Revenge and Nano Court in this collection take the same basic silhouettes from Reebok’s tennis line and reimagine them with several distinctive design elements—including, obviously, the pickle-green sole and sock liner that’ll make it abundantly clear which sport the wearer is interested in. The capsule also includes a sleek-looking co-branded paddle set, also in striking pickle green, and which reportedly features “a Honeycomb polypropylene core with fiberglass surface, condensed foam and faux-leather grip.” The shoes retail for $100 and $130, respectively, while the paddle set goes for $98. But who could put a price on pickleball supremacy?
The Reebok x Recess Pickleball Collection drops August 7th at reebok.com and recesspickleball.com.