There's a wall that players can sometimes run into when trying to improve. But there's a wall that some players spend a lot of time standing in front of that they're not able to scale it. This week I'm going to talk about the mindset that you want to bring to your improvement. This is an improvement episode where we talk about big picture improvement. The term fundamentals is a turn off to some players but the irony of it is it's what exactly the players need in order to scale that wall or break...
Mar 22, 2024•13 min
Players often struggle to recognize what occurred in the rallies they played. It’s through recognition that we can make adjustments as we move forward in our play. A lot of times players have difficulty recognising or relating to what just occurred in the rally they just played. For instance, who hit what shot, where was the ball hit and things like that. It even includes sometimes players having difficulty remembering that they hit a particular shot. Start working on recognizing what's going on...
Mar 15, 2024•14 min
This episode focuses on our Pickleball System course. Is it right for you? If you’re on the fence, this episode will help with the decision as to whether it's the right time to join. The Pickleball System course is a big deal from our end because we only do this two times per year. This is the spring opening of our course. If you would like to join us here are two questions to ask yourself in making the decision: 1. Are you genuinely interested in making real improvement in your play? We're talk...
Mar 12, 2024•8 min
Protect yourself from the buildup of negative mental habits (mental plaque). In this episode, we’ll look at signs that plaque has built up in your mind and how to remove it. For example, when a game finishes and the reaction of a player on the court is that the game sucked, sometimes it's because the player who's saying that is the losing player. You want to spend some of your mental bandwidth on protecting yourself from such potentially negative mental habits. Because the cleaner our minds are ...
Mar 08, 2024•14 min
5 tips to prepare for a game and the struggles that often occur. Like navigating a ship, in a game the wind shifts, the water gets rough and we have to tack in a different direction. 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 pickleball was easy and always a calm sailing wind at your back, you probably wouldn't enjoy it as much...
Mar 01, 2024•13 min
Our March Win-More Series got me to thinking about…winning. We talk about it a lot because it takes up a lot of our mental bandwidth. Winning is fine, and it is A-OK to want more of it. And based on that, here are two areas worth exploring: 1 - How do we win more? In actuality not just conceptually 2 - Does winning become the end all and be all? Keeping our eye on the real importance of pickleball to us Join us for the Win-More Series here: https://bit.ly/4bRLvYp See you on Friday Tony...
Feb 28, 2024•12 min
In today's episode, my partner CJ Johnson is taking over the pod. She talks about how to develop a growth mindset wherever we are on our pickleball journey. A great episode for all of us. 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. Growth and development are usually not linear. It requires patience, time, and really, faith in the e...
Feb 23, 2024•14 min
In this special episode we talk about taking care of our bodies. This includes preventing or reducing the chance that we're going to potentially get injured in the future. One of the most important things that you can do to take care of your body is wear the right shoes, designed specifically for pickleball. Now how and when does injury happen? Injury is really common when we're using muscles that we don't regularly use. There are a few things that you can do to minimize the chances of injury. F...
Feb 20, 2024•13 min
In this episode we take a recipe approach to pickleball. There's nothing wrong with following a recipe but if you're going to use this approach, you would need to have the recipe in front of you in order to be able to bake a cake. If you're like me, you'll have to look back at the recipe probably several times while baking just to make sure you cover all the steps. This explains why the recipe approach is a very limiting way to develop your skills as a pickleball player because situations change...
Feb 16, 2024•16 min
We are output-oriented creatures based on our efforts. And in this episode, we talk about input and output to help you understand the process of improving our outputs in our pickleball play. We'll use an illustration of baking a cake. If you're trying to bake a cake and you don't have a good recipe, it will not be a suprise to get a cake that tastes terrible. It's not because you're a bad baker, you simply don't have a good recipe. Same applies to your pickleball game, if it's not where you want...
Feb 09, 2024•15 min
In this special episode we cover the three spheres of the pickleball. These are perspective, play, and progress, to help you further deepen the understanding of your mental process & growth as a more complete, big of all player. Perspective is your big picture, your relationship with pickleball, and it radically changes how you interact with the sport. It's an area that I think players don't spend enough time on. No matter what your relationship or engagement with pickleball is or what you w...
Feb 06, 2024•13 min
The 1 Thing at a Time concept can’t be overemphasized in our sport. This week, learn how to be the boss of your pickleball journey and avoid the frustration of feeling lost by locking in your 1 thing. A lot of times how we view our pickleball is we want to do everything at the same time. We want a third shot, to win more games, deal with bangers, all at the same time. It's very hard to do some things at the same time and by doing that we actually don't end up doing anything. That's why this epis...
Feb 02, 2024•12 min
Do you evaluate your performance based solely on your results? If so, check out this special episode on the importance of evaluating your thought process as you make decisions on the court. If you find yourself evaluating everything based on results, step back for a minute and ask yourself, was it the right shot or strategy from a process standpoint? In this special onsite episode I talk about results and the obstacle that we place in front of ourselves because we measure the success of strategi...
Jan 29, 2024•5 min
Listen for 5 steps you can take every time before you even start playing. Recorded on-site at the court; bookmark (save) this week’s episode so you can re-listen any time you’re headed out to play. Step number one is to get ready for your day out on the pickleball court. And as I make my way over to the courts, we're going to talk about step number two- be clear on WHY you're heading to the courts. If you can remind yourself why you're going out to the pickleball courts, you got that, you're com...
Jan 26, 2024•15 min
You can lose a rally and not have made a mistake that needs your attention. You'll make mistakes without having done anything wrong, no way to avoid that. Even the best players make mistakes. And 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. Give yourself a break when you think you might have made a mistake. Sometimes it's not always...
Jan 19, 2024•16 min
How do we deal with imbalanced situations in open play when a partner is getting targeted? There's a couple of things you can do as you put yourself there and protect a player. And 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. Number one, avoid targeting yourself when you're in these situations and then make it harder for ...
Jan 12, 2024•17 min
Dylan Frazier is one of the top professional pickleball players in the world. Having started as a 3.5 player, Dylan shares with us his journey, how he thinks about shots and mental approach. You may be surprised to know that you too can hit like Dylan. Dylan is one of the few top players who does not have a tennis background. So if you do not come from tennis, know that you can play great pickleball too. Listen to this episode as Dylan shares a couple of tips including the two biggest things tha...
Jan 08, 2024•32 min
Goals are great, but sometimes players frame goals in a way that leads to frustration. This week I suggest how to use goals in a more positive and constructive fashion. And it starts with framing those goals. How we define the goal is key to whether it works for us and whether it helps us avoid potential problems later down the line. There's a difference between short-term and long-term goals. Short-terms goals are finite while long-term goals are about always, there's nowhere to arrive at it, i...
Jan 05, 2024•14 min
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. As we move into 2024, keep your journey from being hijacked for a much better 2024. Be careful about the information that you let into your journey, whether it's an online source on YouTube or another player of the court. Because when you think about your journey, not only do you own it, ...
Dec 29, 2023•13 min
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. You can develop an amazing pickleball game and relationship with this game, regardless of what your background, age or history is. You are a capable human being, on and off the pickleball court! While it's important to understand what you bring to the table, your background is not going t...
Dec 22, 2023•14 min
We want to know what shot to hit, or what to do in a game situation. How do we get the right answer? With so many variables, you need a framework or structure you can use to answer your own questions. The thing about pickleball is that there are lots of variables in any point or game situation, but the sport is static, and that's what keeps us challenged out there. It's a beautiful aspect of pickleball. That's why, In our teachings, rather than just simply answering the specific question, we try...
Dec 15, 2023•11 min
Everything revolves around that ball & there's calmness with focusing on it. Everything else around you becomes irrelevant so we're diving into the subject to help you play better and focus when you're out there on the court. And 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. The topic is- Where is the Pickleball? It's t...
Dec 08, 2023•9 min
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. As we enter this season of gratitude, think about the importance that pickleball has in your life. How can you share pickleball (or parts of it) as a gift to strengthen someone who's already playing pickleball? In this special episode I talk about the season and gifting this beautiful spo...
Dec 06, 2023•8 min
You need to be playing in an environment where there's a chance of losing. If you're playing in environments where there's a 0% chance that you're going to lose, you're not playing at level. And to my way of view in the game, you're not really doing anything. 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. In this week's epi...
Dec 01, 2023•17 min
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 been Thanksgiving week! This week we're going to talk about how the holiday relates to pickleball. How can we use gratitude to play our best pickleball? Gratitude is all around us in sense of the items that we can be grateful for when we're on a pickleball court or everywhere. I shar...
Nov 24, 2023•19 min
As you grow and improve as a player, struggle will be a part of the process. In this episode, we talk about struggle and how it can lead to a deeper relationship with the game of pickleball. Whether you're trying to improve or not, you're going to struggle as a pickleball player. Struggle is what happens to us whenever we are trying to grow in anything in life, including our pickleball game. There's going to be moments where you're out there on the court and you're wondering to yourself, 'Why am...
Nov 17, 2023•15 min
We divide the playing experience into 3 phases: pre-play, play, and post-play. Each phase has its own purpose, and paying attention to each phase will help you get the most out of your day on the court. The first phase is pre-play which is the phase before you step out onto the court. This phase pays dividends when you actually get out there as you hit the ball. The second phase is while you're playing the game and in this podcast episode I explain to you two things you can do while you're playi...
Nov 10, 2023•19 min
Today we talk about messy pickleball and how we can use that to our benefit when we play. When we look at folks who are successful, we see the result of a lot of messy steps they've taken. They've embraced the fact that pickleball is going to be messy and they use that in their improvement along the way which ends up with some level of success in their field. As always, thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscri...
Nov 03, 2023•19 min
How you think is how you will perform, whether you are an athlete or not. And as human beings, it's so much easier to say and believe something that's negative vs something that's positive. 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. I've been mulling over the idea of self-talk for the past few weeks, specifically the im...
Oct 27, 2023•16 min
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 h...
Oct 20, 2023•15 min
