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Brad checks out Espire Sports and all of the various stations available to the public! This massive facility offers Pickleball, Tennis, Pool Tables, Gym Equipment, and more ways to get active. To learn more, visit espiresports.com
Transcript
00:00 So much to do up here in Prescott.
00:02 I'm telling you.
00:03 Well, I'll say one place that's really fun to do
00:06 and that is Indoor Sports.
00:08 Check this place out.
00:09 Okay, we found a really cool place here
00:14 in the Prescott area and it's called E-Spire Sports.
00:17 And Jim, who is the mastermind behind this,
00:20 said, "Hmm, people love pickleball.
00:22 "They love getting outside, they love doing things,
00:23 "but Prescott's kind of cold.
00:26 "What do we do?
00:26 "Well, we bring it into a mall."
00:28 Which is kind of cool.
00:29 And this is, you're saying, one of the largest
00:31 and only indoor pickleball facility around,
00:34 but not just pickleball, am I right?
00:36 Right.
00:37 It's got, we've got everything.
00:38 We've got a full-size basketball court.
00:40 We have bowling.
00:41 We have golf simulators.
00:43 We have a full gym.
00:45 You know, activity room for cornhole and ping pong.
00:48 I mean, there's 26 sports underneath this roof here.
00:53 Oh my gosh.
00:54 All right, let's walk through here
00:54 because this is so amazing to see
00:57 how you have put the love of pickleball underneath one roof.
01:00 And you're saying there's tournaments, it's fun,
01:02 but the best part is it's open to the public.
01:05 This isn't a club so much,
01:06 but it can be a club too, right?
01:08 That's right, yeah.
01:09 We have a membership that, you know,
01:11 we have a lot of people here that are members,
01:13 but it's also, people can come in,
01:16 the public can come in on a daily basis.
01:19 $20, you can pay and you can play all day.
01:23 And you can do whatever kind of sports you want.
01:25 So come get out of the heat,
01:27 come up to beautiful Prescott, right?
01:29 And enjoy some indoor sports.
01:31 We'll hook you up.
01:32 If you come up here and you're alone with your paddle,
01:35 we'll hook you up in a game.
01:36 I like that.
01:37 Okay, I did say, you know, this was your love of pickleball,
01:40 but it's also your love of the community.
01:41 And is that why you're doing it too, right?
01:43 I absolutely, Prescott, Arizona is amazing, right?
01:47 We get four seasons.
01:48 It's beautiful up here.
01:50 The hiking, the mountain biking, it's just incredible.
01:54 And it's only an hour and a half from the Valley.
01:57 Oh my God, this is so great.
01:58 And once again, how many courts?
02:01 There's 19 pickleball courts.
02:03 And like I said, full-size basketball court.
02:06 We've got a putting green, you know,
02:09 but we're hosting tournaments, clinics, leagues,
02:12 you name it, we do it.
02:15 Oh my gosh, this is so cool.
02:17 What inspired you to do something like East Byer?
02:20 Well, I was starting to play in tournaments
02:23 outside and they were putting,
02:25 they were taping lines on a tennis court
02:27 and wheeling in the bathrooms and going, here you go.
02:30 And I'm saying, come on, this can be done much better.
02:33 And then the other thing is, is just weather is just,
02:36 we have extreme weather that are just,
02:38 it's difficult to play pickleball outside
02:40 and people want to get out of the sun and all this stuff.
02:43 So it just makes sense to do it indoors.
02:46 I like it.
02:47 Okay, so how's it work coming here to play
02:50 and be a part of East Byer?
02:53 Like I said, you can come up from the Valley.
02:56 It's only $20 for the day and you can play,
02:59 you can get involved in everything that we have,
03:02 including, you know, golf simulators and bowling
03:06 and, you know, pickleball is our big thing,
03:08 but we play basketball, we play volleyball,
03:11 we do futsal, indoor soccer on the basketball court.
03:14 We do it all.
03:15 So dodgeball, we're playing dodgeball
03:18 on the basketball court.
03:19 That's amazing.
03:20 Yeah.
03:21 And as we walk through, there's more and more here.
03:22 There's golf simulators, there's so much going on.
03:24 This is so awesome to be in this.
03:26 And again, it's all one room
03:29 and what you can come and check out.
03:30 And what I love too, you decide, let's put in the mall
03:32 because you know what?
03:33 A lot of people love to come.
03:34 They walk the mall, they like to be there,
03:35 but it's also revamping the mall back,
03:38 which is so important, isn't it?
03:38 100%, right?
03:40 So you've got all these malls across the country
03:42 with these big box retailers that are going out of business.
03:44 This was an old Sears building, right?
03:47 So this has been out of business for six or seven years,
03:50 sitting there empty.
03:51 And I said, come on, let's go in there,
03:53 pull all the stuff out of there
03:54 and make it a huge sports center.
03:56 And it's revitalizing the Gateway Mall.
03:59 It's amazing.
04:00 I like it.
04:00 Well, there it is.
04:01 It's eSpire Sports right here in the Prescott area
04:04 at the Gateway Mall.
04:05 You gotta come check it out.
04:06 If you don't play pickleball, if you love golf,
04:09 you love bowling, you love all that, it's all here for you.
04:12 So while they're playing pickleball,
04:13 you can do some golfing.
04:14 There you go.
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