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  How many times have you said or heard someone else say, “Pickleball changed my life?” So it’s not surprising that a pickleball group on Facebook  is called Pickleball Changes Lives. A good name, and so true. Its co-founder uses the screen name “ Pickleball Rich,” and is an interesting guy.    Walsh visited Cape Town in his native South Africa in March.  - Thirty-five-year-old Richard Walsh is a South African native who lives in Santiago, Chile, has been an English teacher in that South American country, and in Thailand, South Korea and Argentina. He’s been a personal trainer, fitness instructor and sports massage therapist who studied sports science and marketing. “I started Pickleball Changes Lives [in late 2023 with co-founder and Chief Writer Matthew Callcott-Stevens] because I noticed a change in my personal life, using pickleball as a therapy and an easy way to make new friends and socialize more after the pandemic,” Walsh told me. “I quickly notice...