{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pickleball Therapy","title":"Ep. 304 - Tap Your Flow","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1088,"description":"PICKLEBALL THERAPY  ·  SHOW NOTES\n\nEpisode 304 – Tap Your Flow\n\n What this episode is about\n\nFlow is not something you go out and acquire. It is already in you. This week I make the case for that, and then I show you what the work for finding your flow actually is.\nDo you already have flow? Yes.\n\nPicture yourself waiting to return serve. The serve gets hit. What happens next is remarkable, and you do it without thinking about it:\n•     Your brain tracks a ball spinning through space\n•     It calculates where that ball will be at a moment in the future\n•     It moves your body to that place in space\n•     You hit the ball\nYou were doing that before your first lesson. Before your first pickleball YouTube video. Nobody taught you. That is your supercomputer running software that came pre-installed.\nSo what is the work?\n\nRemoving interference. Taking away the noise. Clearing out the distractions and obstacles so that you can stop trying to think your way through the rally and start feeling the rally instead.\nPlaying by feel more than by thought.\nOne example of interference: trying to read paddle angles\n\nPlayers ask about this a lot. How can I learn to read my opponent’s paddle at contact so that I know where the ball is going? It’s a fair question.\nTo be sure, some coaches teach it. But think about what you are actually asking yourself to do. You are moving. You are tracking the rally. And now you want to also read a paddle face at the moment of contact.\nThere is a better way. When the ball travels to one side of the court, you start to sense where it is likely to go next. Will you get surprised? Sure. Once, maybe twice. Then your brain adjusts. That is flow doing the work instead of your conscious mind.\nWatch the pros. It looks like they are gliding. They always seem to be where they need to be. They are sensing the rally.\nPickleball is music\n\nThere is a rhythm to a rally. Learn to hear it and move with it, and you are in flow. That idea sits at the center of what...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/iDTey2-80na-9J2STIk9eypfXCFZMooGvju_gM84J4k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYTM1/MTQzYzU5NDI0ODU5/MWNhNzRiODA0Yzlh/MmIwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}