Rally for Pali: Protecting Pacific Palisades

In less than 24 hours, thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed and families displaced in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. Many of us across the country have close connections to “Pali,” as it is often called, and want to support the men and women fighting to protect these communities.

This GoFundMe will “Rally for Pali” with liveball tennis events and auctions. Donations will go to the Los Angeles Firefighters Foundation, which equips LAFD members battling wildfires with tools and supplies.

It could be said that there is nothing more Pali than Liveball. Pacific Palisades, California, is the birthplace of “Liveball.” The popular, fast-paced, social format is faster and sweatier than normal doubles tennis, with 5-8 players typical in a liveball (and a coach feeding). Born at the Palisades Tennis Center, the game was played often at The Riviera Country Club, Rustic Canyon, Palisades Tennis Center, and throughout the hills, bluffs, and Highlands of Pali. Palisadians with private courts threw fun liveball parties as tennis pros bounced from court to court along Sunset Boulevard.

I played in my first Liveball event at the Palisades in 2018 and was hooked. I continued playing and began teaching liveball classes throughout Pali for the next six years and created pro liveball, where coaching pros play one another and rotate feeders, and pickleball live!!!, which makes adaptations from the tennis version.

My family moved to Northern California in 2024, where I am now the Director of Court Sports at Tiburon Peninsula Club, growing the love and art of liveball tennis. TPC packs the house with six full courts during our Friday Night Live!!! This is where we will host our first Rally for Pali event on January 17th, 2025. I am asking all liveball tennis enthusiasts to participate in the protection of the games’ sacred ground in Pacific Palisades and the greater Los Angeles area by donating to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.

Collin Braun