1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,800 Hello, and welcome to pickleball therapy. 2 00:00:06,825 --> 00:00:11,520 This is the podcast dedicated to your pickleball mind to helping you navigate 3 00:00:11,545 --> 00:00:14,860 the mental aspects of pickleball. 4 00:00:14,885 --> 00:00:16,040 My name is Tony Roig. 5 00:00:16,065 --> 00:00:18,360 I am your host of this weekly podcast. 6 00:00:18,385 --> 00:00:24,240 I wanna thank my co coach, CJ Johnson, for jumping in last week and talking with 7 00:00:24,265 --> 00:00:27,100 you about, the improvement journey. 8 00:00:27,125 --> 00:00:30,640 This week, we're going to shift gears back to the play part of the 9 00:00:30,665 --> 00:00:32,940 mental aspects of pickleball. 10 00:00:32,965 --> 00:00:37,180 Specifically, I'm gonna share with you a way of thinking about 11 00:00:37,205 --> 00:00:39,300 the game when you miss a shot. 12 00:00:39,325 --> 00:00:43,535 Because what happens is when we miss shots, that's usually the most negative 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,520 feeling that we have other than losing potentially, and we deal with winning 14 00:00:46,545 --> 00:00:48,420 and losing it on some other podcast. 15 00:00:48,445 --> 00:00:53,480 But you know, when we're playing a match or a game and we miss a shot, particularly 16 00:00:53,505 --> 00:00:57,255 1 that we consider to be quote unquote easy, you know, we can get on ourselves. 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:58,720 Right? We can get down on ourselves. 18 00:00:58,745 --> 00:01:00,215 We can spiral perhaps. 19 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,280 And so the technique or the way of thinking about it that I'm gonna share 20 00:01:03,305 --> 00:01:07,410 with you this week should help you with that process. 21 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:12,900 As we jump into the podcast, I wanna let you know that CJ and the, 22 00:01:12,925 --> 00:01:18,335 Better Pickleball coaching team have come up with some really, nice packages to let 23 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,080 you join the Better Pickleball Academy. 24 00:01:20,105 --> 00:01:21,695 It's super easy right now. 25 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,720 You know, this whole Black Friday, Cyber Monday, basically everything 26 00:01:24,745 --> 00:01:26,460 before Christmas kind of a thing. 27 00:01:26,485 --> 00:01:31,260 And we've also set up some programs that are that allow you to gift the, Pickleball 28 00:01:31,285 --> 00:01:33,100 Academy Better Pickleball Academy. 29 00:01:33,125 --> 00:01:37,100 So if you have loved ones or friends who love pickleball, 30 00:01:37,125 --> 00:01:40,880 you know, instead of getting them like a pair of socks or, something like that, you 31 00:01:40,905 --> 00:01:44,615 know, get them the best education out there, the best pickleball improvement 32 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,460 available with a Better Pickleball Academy. 33 00:01:46,485 --> 00:01:47,280 And you can go to betterpickleball. 34 00:01:47,305 --> 00:01:51,680 com and check out those offerings for you to join the academy or 35 00:01:51,705 --> 00:01:53,760 to gift the academy. 36 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:54,040 Alright. 37 00:01:54,065 --> 00:02:01,060 Let's dive into this concept of, you know, how do we process when we 38 00:02:01,085 --> 00:02:02,895 miss a shot when we play? 39 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,120 And let me ask you a couple. 40 00:02:04,145 --> 00:02:08,015 We're gonna we're gonna explore a little bit first so that you get comfortable with 41 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,580 where we're going, and then we're gonna go deep into this. 42 00:02:10,605 --> 00:02:15,400 But at the end, again, you're gonna have a tool that will help you better 43 00:02:15,425 --> 00:02:18,420 navigate those misses when you play. 44 00:02:18,445 --> 00:02:21,780 So let's start with this basic premise. 45 00:02:21,805 --> 00:02:26,890 Can we agree that when we play, we are going to miss some shots? 46 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:27,540 Right? 47 00:02:27,565 --> 00:02:31,480 Even the ones that I mentioned are like quote unquote easy shots or those shots 48 00:02:31,505 --> 00:02:34,380 that we quote unquote should not miss. 49 00:02:34,405 --> 00:02:42,240 Can we agree that it is a normal part of pickleball for us to miss shots when 50 00:02:42,265 --> 00:02:45,260 we play again, even the easy ones? 51 00:02:45,285 --> 00:02:48,400 The answer should be yes, that we should be able to agree to that. 52 00:02:48,425 --> 00:02:51,980 We understand that as human beings, we are gonna have 53 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:54,640 some, there's mistakes that we make. 54 00:02:54,665 --> 00:03:00,160 There's there's, errors that we make even in the best of circumstances and even with 55 00:03:00,185 --> 00:03:04,420 the quote unquote easy ones or the ones that we should not miss. 56 00:03:04,445 --> 00:03:06,680 So the answer to that question should be yes. 57 00:03:06,705 --> 00:03:10,920 We do expect that we're going to make mistakes when we play. 58 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,680 In the article that I wrote that relate, you know, that relates to this, I I 59 00:03:14,705 --> 00:03:18,600 basically say that if you are I I put out there that if the answer to that question 60 00:03:18,625 --> 00:03:23,320 is no, now if if you answer no, I should never miss a shot when I play, then 61 00:03:23,345 --> 00:03:26,820 obviously that requires a deeper exploration of of living in reality. 62 00:03:26,845 --> 00:03:31,080 And it got me thinking actually about the podcast and how we we the information that 63 00:03:31,105 --> 00:03:35,295 we provide to you in this podcast, which I would submit to you is different 64 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,200 than some of the information that you may read out there on Facebook 65 00:03:38,225 --> 00:03:39,940 or in other sources. 66 00:03:39,965 --> 00:03:45,735 Because we try and give you information that allows us to live in the real world. 67 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,000 Right? 68 00:03:46,025 --> 00:03:50,640 That we can live in the reality of playing pickleball because that is the world 69 00:03:50,665 --> 00:03:54,120 that your mind is needs to navigate. Right? 70 00:03:54,145 --> 00:03:57,600 That's that's that's that's what's happening. 71 00:03:57,625 --> 00:03:59,520 Right? And your brain understands that. 72 00:03:59,545 --> 00:04:03,040 So if you try and trick your brain or do other things, you know, that are not 73 00:04:03,065 --> 00:04:07,175 grounded in reality, it just doesn't work long term because your brain 74 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,140 will go like, wait a minute. That doesn't make sense. 75 00:04:09,165 --> 00:04:12,420 Does you know, there's a it'll create that, 76 00:04:12,445 --> 00:04:16,735 basically a disk and a discord, right, between the the what you're seeing or what 77 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,400 you're experiencing and what you're trying to tell your mind and 78 00:04:19,425 --> 00:04:20,735 that just doesn't hold up. 79 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,480 And then we try and give you tools like the 1 in this podcast to help 80 00:04:23,505 --> 00:04:25,380 you navigate that better. Right? 81 00:04:25,405 --> 00:04:29,220 So 1 of those realities that we deal with is that when we play pickleball, 82 00:04:29,245 --> 00:04:31,320 we will in fact miss shots. 83 00:04:31,345 --> 00:04:34,100 We will in fact make mistakes. Okay? 84 00:04:34,125 --> 00:04:37,980 So the second now we know that we're gonna make mistakes, let's get to an, 85 00:04:38,005 --> 00:04:41,135 reasonably expected number of mistakes. 86 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:41,800 And here's the thing. 87 00:04:41,825 --> 00:04:45,720 It doesn't have to be exact for for purposes and, using this 88 00:04:45,745 --> 00:04:46,980 tool or this technique. 89 00:04:47,005 --> 00:04:50,440 You don't have to get to an exact number of, you know, it's gotta be 90 00:04:50,465 --> 00:04:52,615 this many per 100 or whatever. 91 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,440 What we're gonna use here is, for purposes of our conversation, I'm gonna 92 00:04:55,465 --> 00:04:58,000 use the number 15 out of a 100. Okay? 93 00:04:58,025 --> 00:05:00,380 And we're gonna let's focus on volleys. Okay? 94 00:05:00,405 --> 00:05:04,400 What that means is we use 15 that we expect them as 15 volleys. 95 00:05:04,425 --> 00:05:07,940 That means that out of the next 100 volleys that we hit, 96 00:05:07,965 --> 00:05:09,640 85 volleys will be successful. 97 00:05:09,665 --> 00:05:15,400 We'll hit them into the court the way we want, and then 15, 15 volleys, we'll we're 98 00:05:15,425 --> 00:05:18,415 gonna miss, and that includes easy volleys. 99 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:18,680 Right? 100 00:05:18,705 --> 00:05:21,560 The floaters that are just at your shoulder and you just hit them into the 101 00:05:21,585 --> 00:05:23,855 net or hit them wide or hit them long. 102 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,680 It also includes medium and difficult ones. 103 00:05:25,705 --> 00:05:27,540 Right? So all mixed in 15. 104 00:05:27,565 --> 00:05:31,420 I'm gonna talk about this more in a little bit, but 15 is a pretty aggressive number. 105 00:05:31,445 --> 00:05:36,400 15 out of a 100, you know, missing only 15 out of a 100 is, I would 106 00:05:36,425 --> 00:05:37,980 admit, pretty decent. 107 00:05:38,005 --> 00:05:40,960 If you watch even the best players, the best players miss shots. 108 00:05:40,985 --> 00:05:41,575 Right? 109 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,960 So this idea that we're gonna miss 1st first of all, the fact that we're gonna 110 00:05:44,985 --> 00:05:46,720 miss 0 out of a 100 makes no sense. Right? 111 00:05:46,745 --> 00:05:48,620 Because even the pros miss. 112 00:05:48,645 --> 00:05:51,920 But 15 out of a 100 is not a bad number, but let's go ahead and 113 00:05:51,945 --> 00:05:54,420 use 15 as our number. 114 00:05:54,445 --> 00:05:58,180 Now here's how the technique works. 115 00:05:58,205 --> 00:06:06,895 When we miss a shot in pickleball, we never allow that to be 1 of the 15. 116 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,920 And that's it's kind of funny when you think about it there. 117 00:06:08,945 --> 00:06:11,000 Right? So, you know, you're playing. 118 00:06:11,025 --> 00:06:12,460 You get the floater. 119 00:06:12,485 --> 00:06:14,940 You dump it into the net. 120 00:06:14,965 --> 00:06:16,640 We don't let that be 1 of the 15. 121 00:06:16,665 --> 00:06:21,340 In other words, that is, that's that we shouldn't have missed that 1. 122 00:06:21,365 --> 00:06:24,800 And then we miss another Volley maybe, you know, a few shots later. 123 00:06:24,825 --> 00:06:27,440 Right? And also we shouldn't have missed that 1. 124 00:06:27,465 --> 00:06:31,100 And then the next 1 that we miss, we shouldn't have missed that 1 either. 125 00:06:31,125 --> 00:06:34,880 So the idea here is to and the the title of the article that we put out 126 00:06:34,905 --> 00:06:37,320 is called, was that a 15% Volley? Right? 127 00:06:37,345 --> 00:06:39,460 Was that 1 of the 15, basically? 128 00:06:39,485 --> 00:06:44,100 Is that when we're playing, we need to change our mindset from 129 00:06:44,125 --> 00:06:49,980 I should not have missed that Volley to, okay, I missed a Volley. 130 00:06:50,005 --> 00:06:52,940 Okay. That's just simply part of the deal. 131 00:06:52,965 --> 00:06:53,500 Right? 132 00:06:53,525 --> 00:06:59,220 That's 1 of the 15 that I expect to miss when I play. 133 00:06:59,245 --> 00:07:02,100 And that's really important, is setting the expectations. 134 00:07:02,125 --> 00:07:06,120 You know, and it's a corollary of reality, if we wanna 135 00:07:06,145 --> 00:07:08,900 look at it that way, which is expectations, right? 136 00:07:08,925 --> 00:07:14,100 If we set expectations that are within the, within the parameters 137 00:07:14,125 --> 00:07:16,255 of the reality that we deal with. Right? 138 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,560 So if we can set expectations that are reasonable within the parameters of our 139 00:07:19,585 --> 00:07:22,340 reality, we're less likely to feel disillusionment. 140 00:07:22,365 --> 00:07:27,540 We're less likely to feel let down because our expectations were not met. 141 00:07:27,565 --> 00:07:31,855 So in this case, if you understand that you're you are accept, not even 142 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:33,480 understand, it's just accepting it. 143 00:07:33,505 --> 00:07:38,020 Accept that you're going to miss shots when you play and, 144 00:07:38,045 --> 00:07:43,775 understand that that when you miss a shot, it's perfectly fine for that shot to be 1 145 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,120 of the shots that you expect to miss when you're playing. 146 00:07:46,145 --> 00:07:50,975 Whether you expect to miss 15, 10, or 30 out of a 100 when you play, 147 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,440 next time you miss a volley, rather than beating yourself up about it and saying, 148 00:07:54,465 --> 00:07:57,880 oh, I should not have missed that shot, doesn't mean you have 149 00:07:57,905 --> 00:07:59,220 to be happy about it. 150 00:07:59,245 --> 00:08:02,340 But you have to understand that it's just expected. 151 00:08:02,365 --> 00:08:02,680 Right? 152 00:08:02,705 --> 00:08:06,280 It's just part and partial of the overall deal of how you play. 153 00:08:06,305 --> 00:08:12,060 It's part of your 100% when you play. 154 00:08:12,085 --> 00:08:16,780 And if you think about the benefits of this approach, this approach will help you 155 00:08:16,805 --> 00:08:18,460 stay in the real world. Right? 156 00:08:18,485 --> 00:08:23,415 Observe reality and not create some some some discord between some dissonance 157 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,280 between what you're telling yourself. Right? 158 00:08:25,305 --> 00:08:28,160 The words that are you're trying to tell yourself and the reality 159 00:08:28,185 --> 00:08:29,820 you're dealing with. 160 00:08:29,845 --> 00:08:33,280 And it allows you to avoid needlessly beating yourself up. 161 00:08:33,305 --> 00:08:33,600 Right? 162 00:08:33,625 --> 00:08:37,080 Spiraling potentially out of control whenever you miss a shot. 163 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,015 It's basically, you know, missing a shot and and hear me out here 164 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:42,000 on these percentages. Right? 165 00:08:42,025 --> 00:08:49,440 But missing a shot is 100% within your expected 100% of play. 166 00:08:49,465 --> 00:08:55,960 In other words, it is a certainty that you will miss shots within the the 167 00:08:55,985 --> 00:09:00,495 entire scope of your shots during a a rally, or during a game, 168 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:01,640 or during a session. Right? 169 00:09:01,665 --> 00:09:02,980 Or during your life. Right? 170 00:09:03,005 --> 00:09:04,660 You're gonna miss so many shots. 171 00:09:04,685 --> 00:09:11,060 So the key here is the magic, if you will, is recognizing when you miss a shot, 172 00:09:11,085 --> 00:09:16,920 that that missed shot is simply that part of your game that that is going 173 00:09:16,945 --> 00:09:21,560 to be missed shots and that is part and parcel of the overall you as a player. 174 00:09:21,585 --> 00:09:28,120 And it is not it is not a failure by you because it is part 175 00:09:28,145 --> 00:09:31,020 and parcel of your overall game. 176 00:09:31,045 --> 00:09:31,520 Okay? 177 00:09:31,545 --> 00:09:34,700 And touching back on the pros again, the pros miss shots. 178 00:09:34,725 --> 00:09:35,340 Right? 179 00:09:35,365 --> 00:09:39,360 So when the pros miss shots, no 1 says, you're a failure because 180 00:09:39,385 --> 00:09:41,580 you missed a shot. Right? 181 00:09:41,605 --> 00:09:45,260 Obviously, you know, it doesn't mean they have to be happy obviously in the shot, 182 00:09:45,285 --> 00:09:51,140 but missing the shot is within the best that they can do as players. 183 00:09:51,165 --> 00:09:54,840 When you miss a shot, it's within the best that you can do as a player. 184 00:09:54,865 --> 00:09:56,820 It's included in that. 185 00:09:56,845 --> 00:10:00,640 The problem is we don't recognize the shot or we don't we don't attribute 186 00:10:00,665 --> 00:10:02,160 to the shot the right title. 187 00:10:02,185 --> 00:10:05,100 In other words, that is just in that 15%. 188 00:10:05,125 --> 00:10:07,680 Right? The 1 using 15% in this case. 189 00:10:07,705 --> 00:10:08,860 It's not in the 15%. 190 00:10:08,885 --> 00:10:11,420 We every volume that we hit is in the 85%. 191 00:10:11,445 --> 00:10:13,520 We must have we should have made it. 192 00:10:13,545 --> 00:10:15,940 That doesn't make any sense. Right? 193 00:10:15,965 --> 00:10:20,020 Because the 85 that go in, 15 are gonna miss. 194 00:10:20,045 --> 00:10:25,040 So the key is is when you miss acknowledging that the 1 you missed is 195 00:10:25,065 --> 00:10:30,260 within the 15 and not always forcing all of your volleys to be in the 85, 196 00:10:30,285 --> 00:10:35,060 which ignores the volleys that you are going to miss 197 00:10:35,085 --> 00:10:39,160 as simply part of your game no matter how well you play. 198 00:10:39,185 --> 00:10:44,600 Now I'm gonna talk in a second about, you can modify the 15 that's doable over time. 199 00:10:44,625 --> 00:10:46,820 That's an improvement process. 200 00:10:46,845 --> 00:10:49,000 But first I wanna mention this. 201 00:10:49,025 --> 00:10:52,680 I've been using 15, right, in this podcast. 202 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,360 15 is pretty darn good. 203 00:10:55,385 --> 00:10:59,040 You know, if you're missing only 15 out of a 100, that's not a bad number. 204 00:10:59,065 --> 00:11:02,940 That means that you hit a 100 volleys, you make 85 of them. 205 00:11:02,965 --> 00:11:04,460 Okay. That's solid. 206 00:11:04,485 --> 00:11:06,080 Now maybe you can make it 90. 207 00:11:06,105 --> 00:11:07,440 Maybe you can make it 92. 208 00:11:07,465 --> 00:11:09,500 Maybe you can make it 94, whatever. 209 00:11:09,525 --> 00:11:13,160 But, you know, and maybe you're playing pro, you're doing 94, but 210 00:11:13,185 --> 00:11:15,240 those are really good numbers. Right? 211 00:11:15,265 --> 00:11:17,800 15 is not a bad number for a lot of us. 212 00:11:17,825 --> 00:11:20,575 The numbers are number is gonna be higher than 15. 213 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:20,840 Right? 214 00:11:20,865 --> 00:11:22,600 It might be 20, it might be 30, it might be 40. 215 00:11:22,625 --> 00:11:23,800 Now we're talking about the misses. Right? 216 00:11:23,825 --> 00:11:26,460 The errors that we make out of a 100. 217 00:11:26,485 --> 00:11:30,455 Let's say you're in a at a place where you're missing 35 out of a100. 218 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:31,920 You're still making more than half. Right? 219 00:11:31,945 --> 00:11:37,040 You're making 65 and missing 35, but there you're gonna have 220 00:11:37,065 --> 00:11:38,735 a higher chance of missing. Right? 221 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,020 So when you miss, it's gonna be more your misses are gonna be more common. 222 00:11:42,045 --> 00:11:45,455 So you have to be particularly, nice to yourself. 223 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,320 Right? In terms of and even nice to yourself. 224 00:11:47,345 --> 00:11:50,415 Just real with yourself that I missed a shot. 225 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:51,880 I missed a volley. I missed a serve. 226 00:11:51,905 --> 00:11:53,300 I missed a return. 227 00:11:53,325 --> 00:11:55,060 I missed the dink. 228 00:11:55,085 --> 00:11:57,880 And that is part and partial of my game. 229 00:11:57,905 --> 00:12:00,575 Because you can take this concept of misses. 230 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,440 You can also talk about in terms of pop ups. 231 00:12:02,465 --> 00:12:07,000 You can also talk about it in terms of of, of, incorrect decisions, if you will. 232 00:12:07,025 --> 00:12:10,335 Like, I hit the ball straight, but I should hit across the 233 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,400 court would have been better, and you realize that after the fact, that's part 234 00:12:13,425 --> 00:12:15,160 and partial again of how you're gonna play. 235 00:12:15,185 --> 00:12:19,840 You're gonna make you're gonna hit shots that are not the best idea, because that 236 00:12:19,865 --> 00:12:21,660 is how you're built as a human being. 237 00:12:21,685 --> 00:12:23,840 And that shot is not a failure by you. 238 00:12:23,865 --> 00:12:28,540 It's just part of the overall, of your overall execution 239 00:12:28,565 --> 00:12:32,060 and strategic decision making when you're playing pickleball. 240 00:12:32,085 --> 00:12:36,560 So the the the don't get hung up on the 15. 241 00:12:36,585 --> 00:12:38,160 It's not a 15 thing that matters. 242 00:12:38,185 --> 00:12:39,980 You can make it x if you want to. 243 00:12:40,005 --> 00:12:46,900 The key is to properly attribute the miss to simply being part of the overall, 244 00:12:46,925 --> 00:12:49,780 of your overall play of the sport. 245 00:12:49,805 --> 00:12:54,120 And then the other piece, to to think about is these numbers 246 00:12:54,145 --> 00:12:55,400 aren't set in stone. Right? 247 00:12:55,425 --> 00:12:59,100 So let's say right now, let's just say right now you're 30. 248 00:12:59,125 --> 00:12:59,520 Okay? 249 00:12:59,545 --> 00:13:03,895 30 out of a 100, you miss on a particular shot, or pop it up or do something that 250 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,760 you other than what you would like to do. 251 00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:08,695 Not execute the way that you would like to execute the shot. 252 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,680 So that means 70 times you're executing the way you wanna execute it. 253 00:13:11,705 --> 00:13:14,980 30, you're not. Is that forever? 254 00:13:15,005 --> 00:13:16,260 The answer is no. 255 00:13:16,285 --> 00:13:18,660 You can move to 30. 256 00:13:18,685 --> 00:13:23,000 Maybe the 30 becomes 28, becomes 26, so on and so forth. 257 00:13:23,025 --> 00:13:28,120 Are you keeping as you as you keep working on your game, you can in fact 258 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,540 reduce the number of errors that you make when you play. 259 00:13:31,565 --> 00:13:33,935 Also reduce the number of unintended shots. 260 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:34,200 Right? 261 00:13:34,225 --> 00:13:36,900 That's not an error, but it's not the shot that I wanted. 262 00:13:36,925 --> 00:13:42,280 You can also reduce the number of of decisions that you make that you you make 263 00:13:42,305 --> 00:13:46,295 the wrong decision when you play, by working on your game, by working on the 264 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,720 mechanics of your game, also working on the strategy of your game. 265 00:13:48,745 --> 00:13:52,080 If you listen to the podcast, you probably by now already know that we use 3 pillars. 266 00:13:52,105 --> 00:13:55,980 We use mechanical, strategic, and athletic to cover all the aspects of, 267 00:13:56,005 --> 00:13:57,460 of you as a pickleball player. 268 00:13:57,485 --> 00:14:01,480 So on each of those areas you can do work to reduce the number of 269 00:14:01,505 --> 00:14:03,220 errors that you make. 270 00:14:03,245 --> 00:14:08,740 But that said, no matter how much you work on your game, you will still make errors, 271 00:14:08,765 --> 00:14:13,060 make mistakes and have errors when you play mechanically and strategically. 272 00:14:13,085 --> 00:14:13,935 Okay? 273 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,080 So no matter how much you work on your game, no matter how small you get that 274 00:14:17,105 --> 00:14:20,680 number, even if you become a professional player, you're gonna make mistakes when 275 00:14:20,705 --> 00:14:26,295 you play, even missing shots that you should should open quote not miss, which, 276 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,040 right doesn't make sense not to understand that you should miss them. 277 00:14:29,065 --> 00:14:31,420 It's part parcel of the game. 278 00:14:31,445 --> 00:14:32,600 T 279 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,320 and also allows you to live in the real 280 00:15:14,345 --> 00:15:20,060 world and, play pickleball in a in in within that real world without 281 00:15:20,085 --> 00:15:23,735 unnecessarily beating yourself up. 282 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:24,880 That's this week's podcast. 283 00:15:24,905 --> 00:15:26,695 I hope you enjoyed the podcast. 284 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,520 If you're interested in the better pickleball academy, check that out because 285 00:15:29,545 --> 00:15:32,320 like I said, there's some really good stuff out there right now, and 286 00:15:32,345 --> 00:15:35,895 you go to better pickleball. com and check those out. 287 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,160 Otherwise, if you have a minute, you wanna rate and review. 288 00:15:38,185 --> 00:15:39,920 Actually, not otherwise. You can do this in addition to. 289 00:15:39,945 --> 00:15:41,975 It's not mutually exclusive. 290 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,520 Consider rating and reviewing the podcast. 291 00:15:43,545 --> 00:15:47,200 We really appreciate you doing that and sharing with your friends because if you 292 00:15:47,225 --> 00:15:50,380 enjoy the podcast, they probably will too. 293 00:15:50,405 --> 00:15:53,335 Next week, my plan is to chat some more about this subject. 294 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,800 We're gonna expand it some more based on some conversations that I had with my 295 00:15:56,825 --> 00:16:02,055 friend here, my player and friend local player and my friend, David Pellet, 296 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,440 and where we talk about these things. 297 00:16:03,465 --> 00:16:07,280 And he push he is always pushing me on these and and and suggesting that there's 298 00:16:07,305 --> 00:16:10,380 other that there's there's flaws in it because of things. 299 00:16:10,405 --> 00:16:13,580 So that'll that'll lead to next week's conversation, 300 00:16:13,605 --> 00:16:17,735 next week's episode where I'm gonna talk to you about, the average of the average. 301 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,320 So we're gonna go even a little bit deeper on the subject because I think it's that 302 00:16:20,345 --> 00:16:26,560 valuable for you as a player so that you, feel much healthier when mentally 303 00:16:26,585 --> 00:16:29,020 healthier when you're out on the pickleball court. 304 00:16:29,045 --> 00:16:32,620 Have a great week, and I will see you next time on pickleball therapy. 305 00:16:32,645 --> 00:16:33,440 Be wild.