Pickleball Therapy

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/

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 dealing with something out there, we want to address it. In this and every other mailbag episode we get to answer what ails you, what's going on in your game, what challenges are presented to you, and to hopefully help you improve your relationship with Pickleball, improve your perspective and how you enjoy this beautiful sport. Number one- How do you pick a pickleball coach?If you're trying to pick a coach, ask them for their philosophy and make sure that they have a framework component to what they're teaching you.Number two- Paying it forward to continue to give the gift of pickleballNumber three- How do we get in sync as partners and be able to work together as partners?In this episode I break it up for you a little bit on how you can effectively play together in terms of mechanical and strategic.Number four- Playing with your significant other  Number five- Devastating versus Patience. What works?  Spending time working on devastating shots that kind of wear off or being patient, disciplined and having fundamentally sound game?  Having questions gives us an opportunity to help you and also help lots of other players. Send us an email: therapy@betterpickleball.comJoin us during our November camps here: http://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-camps/Upcoming miniseries:  https://betterpickleball.com/miniseries/Join our September Pickleball System: https://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-system-waitlist/Play with your spouse or life partner? - Have Harmony - The Hackenberg Rule- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcX9o2hNdRATotal Pickleball- https://www.totalpickleball.com/?from=wepic

It's a myth that doing things simply is not the way to advance as a big old player. Just nothing could be further from the truth.As a Pickleball player, learning how to do the basics well and doing them over and over again is really how you play amazing pickleball.I'll give you one example. When you're returning serve, aim your shot 3 feet over the net. It is not going to look 'advanced' yet it's going to be highly effective and it's going to be safer.  Bruce Lee said, 'I fear not the fighter who has practiced 10,000 kicks one time. I fear the fighter who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.'In the riff, I'm going to talk about freeing your body and your mind when you play. This is an area that I see more and more as I coach, which is players feeling trapped inside their own bodies and minds. 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.Join our September 2023 Pickleball System Class- https://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-system-waitlist/BetterPickleball blog- https://betterpickleball.com/blog/Join us during at our Dallas and Tampa camps here: http://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-camps/Total Pickleball- https://www.totalpickleball.com/?from=wepic Getting Started Beginner Materials- https://betterpickleball.com/promos/beginners/Check out Tyrol shoes Use code BP10 at checkout (if you are a System member, use the code inside your course). 

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.When we play pickleball, we sometimes get hung up on metrics that are not helpful and that actually end up being potentially destructive to the game. The most common one is win-loss. In this podcast I get into two different types of metrics and give you some ideas to pick a metric that's right for you.The first grouping are big picture metrics. These are metrics that will help you greatly improve your relationship with Pickleball and make you that player that everybody looks forward to playing with. There's really nothing better than everybody wanting to play with you as their partner.In the riff I'm going to explain the mystery of the phone ring that we have at the beginning of every episode; why the ringer is in there and to make some suggestions on how to address the ringer, if it's something that you'd like for it to be something different.You can find the article here: https://betterpickleball.com/positive-pickleball-metrics/Join us during our November camps here: http://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-camps/Take CJ's 8-week challenge here: https://betterpickleball.com/academy/Register for the next class Pickleball System: https://betterpickleball.com/pickleball-system-waitlist/