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Pickleball Therapy

The podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. We are here to help you achieve your pickleball goals, with a focus on the mental part of your game. Our mission is to share with you a positive and more healthy way of engaging with pickleball. Together let’s forge a stronger relationship with the sport we all love. With the added benefit of playing better pickleball too. No matter what you are trying to accomplish in your pickleball journey, Pickleball Therapy is here to encourage and support

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20:15

Are We There Yet? - Avoid Progress Frustration

Pickleball Therapy ·

2025/01/03

Happy 2025! Let's think about our progress journey through pickleball as worth experiencing and enjoying to see the game better. Because here's the fact, there's really nowhere to arrive at and there's no magic place to get to.Embrace the infinity of your journey and try and avoid pestering yourself with the, 'Are we there yet?' question.Take a minute to imagine yourself as the player you want to be in the future. It could be a six months from now player, six years from now, however long

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24:27

The Perfect Partnership - for Ben Johns and You

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/12/27

Ben Johns is no longer going to play with his brother, Collin, and is looking for a partner for 2025. It's a little bit sad in the sense that they're brothers, they play together and I imagine they love pickleball.There's been a lot of opinions about who would be the best partner for Ben for 2025 and I thought it was a good time to talk about picking a perfect partner. In this episode we'll also talk about your journey, getting ready for the new year and what you want for yourself in 2025

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19:44

Framing Adversity and Bite-Size Chunks

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/12/20

Think of a perfect world as one that includes adversities because things will occur to us that are not in line with what we would hope or like. That in and of itself is the perfect world. How do you deal with adversity when you're working on your game or when you're playing? i) If you're working on your pickleball improvement, let's say you're working on your serve and you have a tendency to pull your paddle across your body (a very common mechanical flaw in players' games), understand that

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3:15

Our 2025 Trends Class and Pickleball Central...

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/12/16

You can register for the class and find the Pickleball Central link and code at BetterPickleball.com.Have a great week and we will see you this Friday for our regular episode - Pilling: It is a thing :).

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21:06

Fighting Variability

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/12/13

Obstacles will naturally arise and are the reasons why you cannot reasonably say that you will not miss a single shot the next game you play. If obstacles are unavoidable and they generate the percentage, then that percentage is unavoidable by extension. This week we drive home the conversation we're having last week about 15% volley and setting reasonable expectations as we try to figure out the best way for us to approach the invariable situation where we miss a shot. If you understand

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16:38

Mistakes Aren't a Failure

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/12/06

When we're playing a match and we miss a shot, particularly one that we consider 'easy', we can get down on ourselves. Missing shots is usually the most negative feeling that we have besides losing.How do we process when we miss a shot when we play? This week I'm gonna share with you a technique of dealing with misses because they are going to occur .And it is a normal part of overall execution and strategic decision making in pickleball for us to miss shots when we play, even the easy

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14:49

Reframe Your Frustration: Ditch the Struggle by...

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/11/29

This week we dive deeper into a recent episode by Tony on a very powerful perspective that had me reflect on my journey about learning. What I discovered about the reality of the struggle during practice is that, first of all, it's unavoidable. The absolute only way to master a skill to proficiency is through repetition where you will inevitably face both success and failure, no shortcuts.Now practice is about finding joy in the process and being fully present in that moment. There is just

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12:18

Turn Distractions Into a Positive

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/11/22

A distraction pulls our attention away from the main thing that we're trying to focus on and it could either be physical or mental. For instance, if you're trying to paint something, and somebody keeps tapping your paint brush right on the end, it becomes hard to paint because you're distracted by it. Same thing happens when we play pickleball and we're trying to focus on the shot or we're trying to focus on ourselves and what we need to do better the next rally but we're distracted by a

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12:59

2 Secrets to Pickleball Success

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/11/15

I got to play in one event at the USA Pickleball Nationals in Mesa, Arizona, that I'm going to be using as the centerpiece for today's conversation- How do we play better pickleball?It was a mixed doubles match where me and my partner, Ken, got to play hybrid which is one standing player and one player in a wheelchair. We were going to play Troy and Ryan in that Bronze Metal match where they won the first and second game. In the third game, we're getting hammered but we put on a run and

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14:24

Pickleball Mastery - A Click Away

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/11/08

Let's talk about the concept of clicking when it comes to knowledge acquisition. How do we acquire knowledge and how do we know that we've acquired it? Sometime there's frustrations of not acquiring knowledge as quickly as we would want it to. So things may not be clicking for us and there's something that we're missing right now. i) Something as simple as listening to the podcast is a click, because you didn't do that before, and now you listen to the podcast.ii) Looking back and knowing,

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17:33

Factor A is the only Factor you control

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/11/01

On a pickleball court, there are four factors that affect the outcome of the game; us, our partner, and our two opponents. We'll use an analogy where factor A is going to be us, factor B is going to be our partner then factor C and D are our opponents-the two players across the net. The input in a pickleball game is going to be the game, the rules, the ball, the wind conditions, the court size which is standard and all the things that are happening to play a pickleball game or affecting the

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22:45

Play Net Positive Pickleball

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/10/25

Pickleball, in its essence, is a zero-sum activity because it's built around the concept that there's going to be one winner and one loser. In a zero-sum world, our opponent's victory is our loss. Their positive is our negative. But it doesn't have to be that way. Think about your losses as simply learning opportunities so now you have a positive and a positive. Let's go into an analogy metaphor where you, or a loved one or a partner of yours, drops a dish that means something to you and

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28:49

The Best from our Archives Part 5 - Our BEST Episode...

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/10/18

In this episode we're going to re-up one of our most popular episodes by talking about how do you deal with approaching a new group of players, or maybe you're visiting a town. The idea of doing a second accountability concept or being a therapist is a commitment to yourself that you commit to listening to a certain number of the podcasts and doing other things which include starting some mental training with a book. Think of your journey as a customer experience and treat it that way to

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13:28

Successful Pickleball - Your Way

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/10/11

You can be successful as a pickleball player with different types of approaches, both hard and soft game strategies, and being a proponent of the soft game, doesn't mean that I'm an opponent of the hard game.Most pros have both a good soft game and a good hard game, because they'll mix the two depending on what's working in that moment and their overall strategy. The analogy/metaphore I like to think about in terms of the approach to pickleball is mixed martial arts or MMA which is a format

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10:54

Constructive Pickleball Play With All Levels

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/10/04

Sometimes we'll play in situations in open plays where there's really no gathering of levels. So it's basically a free-for-all. How do you keep the game fun? How do you keep playing productively with players who you've known for a long time when you, or they, get to different levels of the game? This is a common question or situation we encounter and that's what we're going to be talking about in this new format of a Walk and Talk episode.i) Work on your game and when you're playing outside

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42:08

Special Episode: Therapist Edition - What is Pickleball?

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/10/01

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20:48

The Ratings Game PLUS Gaining Focus When You Play

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/09/27

Let's talk about ratings, one of those double-edged swords that really don't say anything about how you play. While there's definitely a place for ratings in our sport, the only reason you need the rating is if it's consistent with what you want. Always ask yourself;1) Why do I need the rating? 2) What's the rating doing for me and what I want with the game? So if you want to play tournaments and it requires a certain type of rating, then you're going to have to comply with that

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18:21

Don't be a Pickleball Vampire PLUS Middle School Antics

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/09/20

As a pickleball player, I want to feel good and play without doing that at the expense of my opponent. Taking advantage of my opponent and paying attention to my opponent's negative feelings to expand my confidence should not be something to look forward to or to work towards.The idea that our tank of confidence will be filled by our opponent's misery, them being upset at their partner or some negative thing for our opponent is way of thinking like a vampire or a parasite.Why? Because a

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11:45

Two BAD Words that Are Holding Your Back

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/09/13

Good pickleball, and the best pickleball you'll ever play, is built upon a foundation of sound FUNDAMENTALS.I was reminded of the 'imagined' bad word, fundamentals, during a pro level match that I was watching because as pickleball players we often shy away from that word and dismiss it as only applicable for beginners.The truth is, executing everything really well, including those fundamentals, is what separates pro players from the other teams that they play against is their focus on the

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6:06

Special Episode: System Class Starting Soon PLUS Our...

Pickleball Therapy ·

2024/09/12

How to learn more about our upcoming course: ThePickleballsystem.comTo sign up for our Virtual Clinic: BetterPickleball.com (click at the top header)To join us for our System tour, send us an email to Support@BetterPickleball.com and put in the Subject Line: "Tell Me More"Hope to see you in classTony

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