TAMPA, Fla. — This sport has been part of St. Pete for more than a century.

Once a retiree’s activity, it now inspires players of all ages. We’re talking about shuffleboard!

The St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club opened in 1924, and other clubs sprang up in true Florida fashion.

The sport has undergone a modern, vibrant resurgence.

Case in point: Shuffle in Tampa is celebrating seven years in business.

It's one of the few places in the states with indoor regulation-size shuffle board courts.

Co-owner Jennifer Evanchyk says they’ve worked hard to build a social community.

“And just good vibes all of the time,” said Evanchyk, of their Tampa Heights neighborhood stop.

The vibes are all biscuits and tang.

A tang is the apparatus used to push discs, or biscuits, across the shuffleboard court.

Your goal is to push the discs into a triangle divided into seven sections — with scores of 10, -10, eight or seven.

“Anything on the line is a zero,” Evanchyk said.

Worse than zero — sliding into the base of the triangle — called the Kitchen.

“So anything that lands inside the Kitchen is a negative 10,” Evanchyk said.

But the best part is the “strategery.”

“And you are encouraged to knock your opponent out,” said Evanchyk.

Or knock them into the Kitchen!

Evanchyk says the seventh anniversary is both amazing and unbelievable, considering some things the world endured — the COVID-19 pandemic, economic issues, social concerns and political uncertainty.

“It sometimes feels like 20 years ago, and sometimes it feels like a year,” Evanchyk said.

In that spirit, Shuffle is using the celebration as a fundraiser for Ukraine.

Evanchyk’s grandfather is Ukrainian.

“We are just on the side of the oppressed,” Evanchyk said.

Evanchyk and her co-owner, Danielle O’Connor, have built a community strong enough to help one another.

All done with a tang and biscuit.       

Weekend celebrations include live entertainment, a drag show, an art showcase and shuffleboard tournaments.