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♪ good evening. i'm andrew dymburt. tonight, a closer look at the controversy involving the sport of the summer. pickleball is known for bringing together players of all ages and abilities, and it's become big business with a-list investors and televised tournaments. for all the love is sport is getting, there are critics eager to silence the popularity. why? just listen. >> you can make a living playing pickleball. it's a dream. >> reporter: for thomas wilson, pickleball is more than the sport of the summer. >> i'm planning on playing pickleball as best as i can for as long as i can, for the rest of my life. >> reporter: he is one of the top professional pickleballers

in the country. >> so thomas wilson is right now sitting at the back of the court. >> reporter: competing in san clemente, a new hot spot for the professional pickleball world where pros battle for $5 million in prize money. >> the opportunity just feels endless. >> reporter: pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the country with almost 10 million players. and the demand for courts has doubled to nearly 11,000 over the past five years. >> during covid i think was really when people picked it up. something to do during the pandemic. i think everyone's seeing how fun and easy it is to learn. >> reporter: a sport so popular, even tiktokers are jealous. >> my dream is to rise in fame and popularity as quickly as pickleball did. like, who is pickleball? >> reporter: even bravo's "vanderpump rules" stars are hitting the court. fans and investors are pushing

for it to be an olympic sport. and big-name investors like tom brady and lebron james are buying into teams. but with the explosion of pickleball came the noise. residents on the other side of the fence are putting up a fight against the nonstop pops. some claiming the noise of plastic paddles and balls is upending their lives. >> like a machine gun with a never-ending barrel of ammunition tied to this gun. >> this is actually a really serious issue. we have to figure this out. the noise is dividing towns and dividing neighborhoods. >> reporter: but here at the tournament, pickleball is what brought fans together. >> so we came all the way from austin, texas. >> we made it happen, dream come true. >> how did you get into pickleball? >> i played college tennis back in the day. was working a normal desk job for seven or so years. not active, really. my mom introduced me. she got me aed about dell for christmas and i was like, what on earth is pickleball?

it's kind of a second chance to be a professional athlete. >> reporter: what attracts so many to this sport is anyone can play. >> whether you're 8 or 80, anyone can play together. i mean, i'm the top pickleball player in the world, and i train with my parents. they're in their 60s. >> reporter: major league pickleball was formed in 2021. >> i don't think we really filled all the stands back then. >> are you shocked that pickleball has grown to what it is? >> this is literally shocking. when i first started playing, my dad, who was my tennis coach, was not supportive of this move of mine to go to pickleball. and now he's just seeing the growth and he's so excited that i've been playing. >> this area right here in front of us is called the kitchen. >> reporter: i got to play pickleball myself, getting tips from pro pickleball athlete tyson mcguffin. >> you can only score while you're serving. the ball has to bounce on the serving side one time.

she's a natural. >> reporter: as the sport grows, so do the complaints about the incessant pop, pop, pop. and why is it so noisy? well -- at 100 feet, a good hit can reach 70 decibels. it's a bit quieter than a vacuum cleaner, but it is louder than tennis. sound experts say the pitch is different, and the courts are smaller, so the hits are more frequent. but these ongoing pops have been life changing for ernie barrows. >> my sleep has been hindered. my blood sugar from getting up -- i've acquired hypertension over this. it's adversely affected my health. i never had that before. i was always healthy. >> reporter: this quiet, idyllic town of mashby on cape cod was what ernie always dreamt of. >> you know, the peacefulness and serenity that i found here is what i searched for. >> reporter: ernie is a

mechanic. he saved every penny to build this home back in the late '90s and thought it would be his oasis. >> i worked my butt off to get here and to get this. >> reporter: but in the summer of 2018, the town built eight pickleball courts about 100 feet away from his home. and with it, ernie says came the noise. >> that is my property line. you can hear how loud it is now. i just remember a time when there was nothing. and i had my peace. >> reporter: it's become a heated topic among neighbors. >> pickleball brings joy, laughter, fitness, camaraderie. please don't close the courts. i have parkinson's disease. it's hard for me to express how important pickleball has been to my physical and mental health. >> i'm not fighting you. i'm not denying the fact that pickleball is a great sport and

has affected you. there are other avenues to play pickleball around here. this is not it. it's killing me. honestly. slowly killing me. >> reporter: it's a fight the nearby residents of falmouth know all too well. >> so if we're standing here, we can see the pickleball court over there. >> how far, what direction is your house? >> my house is in that direction. >> reporter: in late 2020, these pickleball courts were built about 350 feet away from rob mastriani's home. >> i didn't know what the sound was. i thought, wow, what are the crazy kids doing out on the courts? it will probably stop. flash forward two years. a year and a half. it hadn't stopped. it was driving us crazy. >> reporter: rob and his wife, stephanie, with four of their neighbors, ultimately decided to file a lawsuit against the town's zoning board of appeals in january 2022.

they alleged the injurious and obnoxious noise levels violated local rules, forced them to wear noise canceling headphones, and caused anxiety that contributed to sleepless nights. this video was taken from one of the plaintiff's bedrooms. this one from his deck 80 feet away from the courts. >> we had enough. we were all very reluctant participants in this. >> reporter: the town manager declined to comment on the ongoing case. since then, the mastrianis say they've spent $30,000 in legal fees. rob took matters into his own hands, buying his own equipment to test the pops and starting a coalition against pickleball. >> i never thought i'd be an activist. but here we are. we basically are connecting people across the country through our facebook group, and we are growing very quickly through our coalition work, helping each other. >> reporter: back in mashby, the pickleball courts were briefly closed on sundays in july but

are now reopened. what is your end goal? >> to get the peace and serenity back in my life that i had long before this park was here. >> reporter: in falmouth, the courts are closed for now after the residents won a temporary injunction. rob had enough. >> we decided to sell our house during that process. this is the house that we lived in for 20 years. it's not a house that we wanted to sell. >> two tennis courts -- >> reporter: despite leaving his old neighborhood, rob is not backing down. >> when you go through this and you bond with the people that are going through similar assaults, you do bond. and so you do, you have the most unlikely group of friends now. >> do we have some signs here? >> reporter: one thing for sure -- >> any pickleball playing in your future? >> no. that's the short answer. but i would like to see pickleball thrive and grow responsibly. i can't drive down my street

without my blood pressure going up, without my heart rate racing. so no, no pickleball playing in my future. >> reporter: but for now, the future of pickleball may be unstoppable. >> our thanks to megan. up next, get the cardboard out and turn up the boom box. as hip-hop turns 50, we take a closer look at break dancing then and now. ♪ ♪ ♪ if you have moderate to severe crohn's disease skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor that can deliver clinical remission and endoscopic improvement. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to. liver problems may occur in crohn's disease. control of crohn's means everything to me. ask your gastroenterologist about skyrizi. ♪ control is everything to me ♪

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it's little surprise that a sound so revolutionary would inspire a dance form all its own as we mark the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, also celebrating the moves that accompanied the beat from the pioneering breakers who paved the way to the future olympians. here's "nightline's" ashan singh. >> the story i'm going to tell is not storti do hear. this was a blessing. the dance has transcended around the world and is strong today. >> reporter: the story tony mr. wave, or just wave, tells us about the rise of a wildly popular dance form born out of economic disparity and inequity in the south bronx in the 1970s. >> they say the bronx was burning but that's not what really happened. what happened is that we would be, you know, no stores, no playgrounds, no parks. it was a concrete jungle is what it was. >> reporter: a new genre of music was emerging from the

streets that would eventually be called hip-hop. alongside it came break dancing. ♪ >> what actually is breaking? >> breaking is a term that they developed too. it was b-boy'ing. b-boys meant breakers, boogie boys, bronx boys, b-boys. you know, the bronx. we were b-boys. >> reporter: "wave" was there from the beginning. introduced to the scene in the housing projects. >> the projects, they'd come downstairs, set up their equipment. we would just travel by foot from project to project. there was the equipment, this was the deejays, there was the emcees. they needed the b-boys, what you would call the energy. >> reporter: "wave" says he was inspired by the king pop himself, whose dance moves with the jackson 5 were showcased on shows like "soul train." >> when i was a child, seeing

michael jackson do the robot, and "dancing machine," the song, took me down that road. i was a big fan of that. i was a fan of the mime. you know, the illusion part of dance. you know, so i combined those two. >> reporter: "wave" eventually joined a group called the new york city breakers, a breaking crew that was cemented in hip-hop history. what did that mean back then, to get a shot? >> we could get off the streets. the kids were so empowered. they wanted to be around us, and we gave them that. i danced so much, 20, 30 times a day. every time i walked. >> reporter: the 1984 movie "beach street" was one of the first to mvp breaking and hip-hop culture, putting both on the map. ♪ stop listening and out beat street ♪ >> reporter: promoting it on "good morning america." >> what the people in this culture have done is reached out to the world and said, we exist,

we're here. many of you have come, seen our plight, our problems. you've made promises. most of the promises have been broken. and we've left hbeen left, forg. we will find a way to reach out to the world and make you know we're here. >> he understood, but he also understood for it to get global, he had to add those other elements. he didn't do it for hip-hop per se, he did it for the world. >> reporter: the more people learned about breaking, the more it evolved. >> you have the electric boogie, the boogie, the boog-a-loo. they may be doing that deinn san diego, and in new york they're doing the boogie but the tick out in brooklyn. it's evolving so much that the olympics had to take a look at it. >> reporter: the art form that began in the streets has now become a competitive sport with a thick set of rules. at next year's summer olympics

in paris, for the first time ever, breakers from all over the world will compete for the gold medal. two events, one for men and one for women, consisting of one-on-one battles where dancers perform multiple throw-downs or sets that are judged on creativity, personality, technique, variety, performatiflt, and musicality. one of the olympic hopefuls right out of flushing, queens. sunny choi will represent the u.s. in the women's competition. when you first started break dancing, could you have ever imagined this art form could have ended up as an olympic sport? >> no, never imagined breaking being in the olympics. then it got announced officially. and even then i think there were so many people like, there's no way, someone's playing a prank on us. >> reporter: choi had been a lifelong gymnast but injuries forced her to find a new sport.

a popping dance class in college in philadelphia led her to breaking. >> what i ended up falling in love with was the aspect of self-expression and creativity. those are things that i hadn't had in my life before. i'd grown up with a very -- kind of strict academic background. this is the first time that i was able to actually go out there and figure out who i am and express that. ♪ >> reporter: a wharton school grad, choi left the corporate marketing world behind to pursue breaking professionally. >> with the announcement of the olympics i was like, maybe it's possible for me to do what i love to do, do something that makes me happy. >> you're a korean american woman performing a historically black art form. what does it say about the culture's growth and the heights that it's reached, and in that same vein, what do you feel like you owe the culture? >> i've actually always struggled with my place in hip-hop because i'm a korean

american woman, because i feel like i don't quite belong, i don't quite fit. what i've learned over time is, this whole culture has been so open. and actually warm and welcoming to me. it was really just me telling myself i didn't belong. because of everything i've gotten from it, i want to give back. i'm honored to be able to carry thissing hecy forward. honored to be able to stand on that stage and represent new york and the u.s. and breaking and hip-hop and all of that. >> reporter: history that began with an og like "the wave." now enshrined at the universal hip-hop museum in the bronx. what do you think about the olympics adding break dancing? it's going to be making its debut in 2024. >> i'm not mad at it. >> could you have imagined you'd be here today commemorating the 50th anniversary of a genre that didn't even have a name back then? >> no. but you know, i'm so humble and so pleased and so proud. you have to still preserve the

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