Pickleball Therapy

Slowing the game is not just a strategy for play. It is a mental approach to your play where you remain in control out there. In this podcast we share with you several tips to help you slow your mind and play better. In the riff, we help you identify the right questions to ask. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your game. Get the Three Pillars of Pickleball here ....

We all want to play to the best of our ability. These 3 tips can help you do that. They will also help you maintain your focus on the court. The third tip is a bit outside the box - let us know what you think. Pickleball Tip No. 1 - Keep things simple out on the pickleball court. Over complicating your game is increasing the errors in your game. Simplifying things out there will help you win more...

Intentionality can change your game - not just how you play, how you interact with the game. Hear how these 4 pros use intentionality as part of their games. Apply them to your pickleball and see the results. In the riff, we share with you a powerful concept if you want to improve your game. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your game. Get the Three Pillars of Pick...

Not knowing why you are missing shot after shot can leave you frustrated and confused. In this episode we address one of the most common (if not your most common) sources of errors. In the riff, we talk about giving your best - it may not be what you think. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your game. Get the Three Pillars of Pickleball here . WeArePickleball immer...

Click here to get your no cost ticket to THE 2022 Pickleball Summit . The largest gathering of pickleball professionals anywhere. You are not going to want to miss it. To fix something you first must know what is wrong with it. To do this, you have to "see" it. You can learn to see the game by focusing first on a shot, and then another shot. And so on. Until it all becomes clear. In the riff, we t...

Failure is a prerequisite to improvement. Not an option. Required. Only when you fail will you have the fuel it takes to want to get better. Not sure about that? Listen to the podcast and let us know. In the riff, we talk about a common problem that is causing you to lose games. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your game. Get the Three Pillars of Pickleball here ....

How do we avoid distraction when we are on the pickleball court? In this episode we give you some tips to help you maintain your focus when you are in the heat of the moment. Is hitting a winner the optimal strategy when you play. BONUS - how do you deal with a player who targets your face - it happens! Click here to get your no cost ticket to THE 2022 Pickleball Summit . The largest gathering of...

Want to play better pickleball that day AND be recovered in time for your next time on the courts?  Then you will want to hear CJ's tips about preparing for your day and then getting your body ready afterwards. Remember, injury = no pickleball. So let's minimize that injury risk. You can get our Dynamic Stretching Guide here. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your...

You only have so much time (and focus) to dedicate to your pickleball improvement. Any time spent on non-productive aspects of the game is time not spend on productive aspects of the game. Example: working on the Erne when the punch volley is what you need. Prioritize your work and you will see greater gains.  In the riff, we help you avoid the potential frustration from ebbs and flows in your imp...

The obvious: you need your body to play pickleball. It is a physical activity and how your body performs will dictate how well you play on the court. The not so obvious: there are things you can do off the court that will help improve your body and get you ready to play when you are back on the court. Pay attention to those and you will play better pickleball and, more importantly, enjoy a better...

Losing is within your control. Not losing a game - that is just a series of numbers. But you can control your behavior on the court: the thing that will actually determine whether you lost the day. In the riff, we discuss sportsmanship. Mistakes vs intentional. It's all about perspective. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your game. Get the Three Pillars of Pickleb...

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...

When you step onto the pickleball court you are out there battling your opponent. Understanding this can help you navigate your next game. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your game. Get the Three Pillars of Pickleball here . WeArePickleball immersive pickleball camps at https://wearepickleball.com/camps/  Get the same visual training that CJ and I use to improve...

Bookmark this Episode. Play it whenever you are on your way to the courts and get ready to play your best pickleball. Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your game. Get the Three Pillars of Pickleball here . WeArePickleball immersive pickleball camps at https://wearepickleball.com/camps/  Get the same visual training that CJ and I use to improve our vision, our game,...

Picking the right shots when you play is important. Part of that decision making is making selections that are not too risky. That get the job done without needless chance for error. Think of the shots in terms of their marginal advantages. Some shots offer high advantages relative to the risk they create. An example is a deep return of serve that is aimed 4 feet inside the baseline along the cent...

There is a reasonable chance that you might be wasting your time. And perhaps even wasting a lot of it. If you are working on shots, tactics, or strategies that only provide limited benefit but require lots of work, then you are not using your time well. In this week's episode we share a concept - marginal advantage - that will change how you go about your improvement work. Determine what mechanic...

Want to win your next pickleball game? Of course you do. We all want that. The trick is how to do it. In this week's episode we share with you how to win Pickleball games. Lots of them. It is not what you think. We also share with you the ins and outs of improvement - how are you going to finish that huge chocolate elephant? Click here to Join us inside THE Pickleball System. It will change your g...

There is only so much information you can take in at a time. Less even once you think use “apply it” as compared to just taking it in. To get the most out of your work, make sure it is actually becoming part of your game. Reading a WeArePickleball blog post is good. But applying that same knowledge to your game and yourself out there – now that is awesome. That is where the magic happens. In this...

Sherlock Holmes made “elementary” cool. The most seemingly complex situation is rendered elementary once you have the right perspective on it. Pickleball is much the same. It is a complex interrelationship of rules that create a framework in which we play the game. But, once you understand them, then navigating the game becomes elementary. What happens to many of us is that we try to match perceiv...

A lot of our frustration when we are trying to improve stems from not seeing the big picture. Pickleball is deceiving. It is a “simple” game .You just go out there and bat the ball around. Right? What you are seeing is the portion of the iceberg that is above the water line. Most of pickleball (its big picture) lays underneath the waves. And this is what frustrates us. We should get it – we know t...

If you were to build yourself a home, you would probably want it to have: a.  A solid foundation b.  Completed wall and c.  A roof to keep the elements out. You may also want it to have some plumbing and electrical. So … if you were learning how to build your own home, would you not need to learn how to do all of the above? But what about crown molding, and paint selection, and finished carpentry...

“Forehand takes the middle.” How many times have you heard it said on the courts? Even though it is uttered innocently enough, this “truism” is unhelpful and oftentimes will lead you to the wrong answer. There are multiple scenarios where a player may incorrectly conclude that “forehand takes it.” In this week’s episode we reveal the fallacy of this well-ingrained “rule” and provide you with an al...

Bangers are gonna bang. What to do about it? You can try to out-bang the banger. That is an option sure. But is it the best option for you? Another option is to use your best weapon against the banger: the out of bounds directly behind you. Let some of the bangers' balls go and see what happens. You have agency over what you do on the court. And letting balls go is part of that agency. In this epi...

Pickleball offers a paradox: the best players in the game use a strategy that is available to all players. This is different than most other sports, where the top performers do things that us mere mortals are simply unable to do or which we would have to dedicate every waking moment to perhaps master. The strategy used by the best players in the game, when all the chips are in the middle of the ta...

The soft game is No. 1. There is just no other way about it. If you are not playing the soft game you are not using the most important part of a pickleball court. In this week’s episode I share with you four specific uses for the soft game: (1) getting out of trouble, (2) serve side (subset of getting out of trouble) (if you do not know the difference between serve side and return side, you need s...