Pickleball Therapy

Our most popular episode! A new look at what “winning” means in pickleball and how this re-framing can improve your relationship with pickleball. Share the “bowl of ice cream” metaphor with your friends. Are you winning? In this episode we suggest you may already be winning. Improve your results as well as your relationship with pickleball by eating some more ice cream. What could be better?In the riff, I share some thoughts about pivot points. These are the points that change a game. Are you hunkering down when they are yours? Hunkering down when the other team is looking to capitalize on theirs?As always, thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.Focusing on the score can distract you from obtaining the best results for your game. Focus instead on the next rally or, better yet, the next shot. The results - the score - will come.In the riff, I share some thoughts about the multiple facets of pickleball - there is more than just the third shot.

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.Maximize your advantages and minimize your disadvantages. Then take time to work on your disadvantages during drilling and practice.When you play keep in mind that there are benefits you are receiving that well exceed the score of the last game. Maintain perspective and you will increase your enjoyment of the game.This is a rebroadcast of our Episode 4 from way back. There is a lot going on in this episode - use it for a holistic approach to your improvement and play.

Fundamentals & consistency are what win pickleball games. You don’t need a double topspin reverse shot with a pike finish to win in our sport. This Episode 2 rebroadcast is more important than ever!Also learn about the 80-10-10 rule in Tony's weekly riff.This is a rebroadcast of our Episode 2 from way back. The message is more important than ever with the increasing noise players are subjected to on the courts and in videos.As always, thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.In this special episode we had the pleasure to host Jim Ramsey, the statistician at the PPA (Professional Pickleball Association). Jim's a fan of numbers because he spends a lot of time analyzing them. He shares with us what he's doing with the statistician role at PPA, how he is studying matches and how we can start using data to help our game because numbers don't lie.   As a recreational player, one of the things Jim enjoy doing is seeing what are some of the statistics that he can get from the pro game to better his own game and help other recreational players. We discuss the four metric- your serve, your return, the third, and the fourth. Getting the foundation of those first four shots as rock solid as you can to open up your options.Listen to this episode to learn much more including Jim's take on enforced errors! Facebook group: Pro Pickleball Stats

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.It's really important to make sure we're using that long lens as we move through our Pickleball journey, instead of the short lens, to check ourselves and our progress. The long lens helps you with the big picture, understand where you are along your path, and help you avoid potential frustrations as you are moving forward.How do we use the long lens? What can we do?In this episode I explain to you how you use the long lens as well as the limitation that you have when you're the one evaluating yourself.The word of the week this week is GROWTH. It is natural to want to grow and growing as a pickleball player means a lot more than just winning. During the riff, I am going to switch it to the short lens because there's a place for the short lens and a place for the long lens.Send us an email at therapy@betterpickleball.comSeptember Pickleball System Class- http://thepickleballsystem.com/Check out Tyrol shoes Use code BP10 at checkout 

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.Everything matters and nothing matters. In this week's podcast I'm going to give you a little bit of a Kansas City shuffle, a little bit of looking left and going right. Now, the YouTube algorithm creates and rewards content that might seem pretty cool, or unicorn, at first. Ask yourself these questions; is the content right for me where I am right now? is this what I need right now in my pickleball journey?The word of the week is UNICORN and in this podcast episode I explain to you the real unicorn in pickleball. In the riff, we're going to talk about a concept that was in a movie that I saw a little bit ago now.  There's a phrase in that movie that I think we can apply to our pickleball experience in terms of both the positives and the negatives that sometimes happen.  Send us an email:  therapy@betterpickleball.com September miniseries: https://betterpickleball.com/miniseries/September Pickleball System Class- http://thepickleballsystem.com/Pickeball Therapy YouTube Channel

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.In this special episode of the podcast, we interview Jenna Spears. Jenna is a pickleball player, coach and a pickleball promoter. She shares the AHA moments, her journey as a pickleball player including her background before she started playing pickleball and how she got into pickleball.We also talk about that micro journey within her bigger journey on the mental side of pickleball and how that changed her approach.Jenna describes herself as a peacekeeper at heart and a little bit strong willed while on the court. Listen to this episode as Jenna shares the process of understanding herself on the court and much more! Find Jenna at: https://www.promotionpickleball.com/Join us during at our Dallas and Tampa camps here: http://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-camps/Coach Pete's book- https://betterpickleball.com/resources/

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.If you're feeling frustrated with your Pickleballs development, there is a way out. That way out is through understanding the picture of Pickleball, understanding that Pickleball has a design to it. There's a beautiful puzzle that is created by the rules and the court that we play on.What is your puzzle box cover? What's your approach to solving the puzzle? The word of the week this week is puzzle and the FOSS approach is a way to navigate that puzzle to put those pieces together.In this episode I explain why the FOSS approach is so helpful and why it's something that you should add to your thinking about pickleball and to your approach to this game.  In the riff, I'm going to vent a little bit as a coach from my vantage point as a trainer, as a Pickleball coach, and share with you some frustrations that I've experienced as a player and a person who wants other players to do the best they can in their game. September miniseries: https://betterpickleball.com/miniseries/Join our September Pickleball System: https://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-system-waitlist/

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.This special episode is an interview with travel influencer and pickleball-obsessed player, Alexa West. She is the person behind solo girls travel guide and it's a really interesting interview on passion for travel plus new found passion for pickleball. She tells us some of her story that perhaps will inspire you to relook at travel as part of your life and resetting how you live and also bringing pickleball into it, her biggest challenge as a player and her new book.  One of Alexa's favorite games she ever played happened in Mexico. Listen to this episode to find out what happenned and why it was her favorite game.  Alexa is going to be turbocharging her experience here soon with the pickleball system.Join our September Pickleball System: https://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-system-waitlist/Alexa's website: http://alexa-west.com/