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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,

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the podcast dedicated to
your pickleball improvement.

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Hope you're having a great week.

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Get ready for this week's podcast.

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This is a triple episode.

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We're going to be addressing
three different subjects in this podcast.

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So sit down, put your seat belt on, and
buckle in because we're going to be going

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over some different subjects that I think
will really help you

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as you think about the mental game and
also framing everything out, perspective.

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This is what we do here on the podcast.

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If you're new to the podcast, this podcast
is dedicated to pickleball,

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but more importantly, it's
dedicated to our mental processes.

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It's dedicated to our mind and to helping

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us navigate, not just pickleball, really,
frankly, I mean, navigate life because the

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principles that we learn
using pickleball as our tool

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are applicable well beyond the
bounds of the pickleball court.

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If we haven't met before,
my name is Tony Roig.

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I am the host of this weekly podcast,
and it's a pleasure to be with you.

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I am a senior professional pickleball

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player, as well as Master
Teaching Professional.

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My passion in pickleball is
teaching, is coaching, is helping players

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who are genuinely interested in improving
their pickleball as well as their lives.

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That's what we like doing,
me and my partner, E.

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J.
Johnson.

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This podcast is part of
the betterpickleball.

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Com Network.

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We're part of the
bigger picture of betterpickleball.

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Com, which is dedicated to, again,

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bringing you actionable, real content that
will help you in your pickleball journeys

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and help you strengthen your
pickleball relationships.

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All right, this week's podcast, we're

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going to cover three different
areas, as I mentioned.

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First, we're going to start off with the
PPA, and it's not so much the PPA itself.

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It's just some stuff that happened in the
PPA that I think merits some conversation.

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Then we're going to talk about hardwiring.

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It's a part of the book that we have

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that's coming out in the
not-too-distant future.

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These things always seem to take longer
than one would hope,

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but we have a book coming out, and so I'm
going to share with you some of the

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concepts that are in there, one of
the concepts that's in there anyway.

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Then at the end, in the RIF, I'm going to

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talk about putting your
finger on the paddle.

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It's a question that gets
asked a lot, actually.

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We just got asked it recently by
one of our system members First.

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I told Kevin I would answer the question

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in the podcast, and that
is what I'm doing today.

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All right, let's dive into the first part
of the podcast I wanted to talk about was

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I had the pleasure of watching really
amazing pickleball this weekend.

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Jill and I were in town, and whether we
were cooking or cleaning or doing some

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working or whatever, we had the games on
in the background.

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Obviously, you're not as you turn to the
game and you maybe leave the task you're

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working on behind for a little bit while
you watch because it's so entertaining to

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see the sport as it
develops and as different strategies are

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brought to bear and
if things are effective or not.

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But one of the things that jumped out was
there were two matches that jump out, and

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it's not positive stuff, but I want to
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it's how the mental part of pickleball,
let's just say how the mental part can

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affect us, period, and then
specifically in pickleball.

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The first match was Lea Jansen and

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Calleigh Smith against Jade
Kawamoto and Andrea Coupe.

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That match got really testy.

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It got nasty, actually.

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This is not a dig at Lea.

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We We all have demons that
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She's dealing with her

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situation, her life,
whatever it is that brought her to where

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she is today and however it
is she processes information.

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But I can tell you that from a pragmatic

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standpoint, she
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ability, I believe, because she is
distracted in her mind with noise.

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She's a tremendous talent.

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When you think about the different skills

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you need to play at the pro
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She can defend, she has putaway power,
she has discipline when she's playing.

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A lot of times, she has discipline when

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she's in a rally, she
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She has a well-rounded game.

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But what happens is these things will

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happen, like a call that she doesn't
like, and it'll send her into a spiral.

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It really interferes with her ability to
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getting past the unfortunate,
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It's just unfortunate to have that
right when you're playing pickleball.

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But getting past that, just looking at it
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it really undermines her ability
to perform to her fullest capacity.

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As an example, there were two
calls that Leia disagreed with.

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You can agree or disagree
with the calls, it's fine.

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I thought the first call
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That one might have been in, and they had

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moved indoor just so they didn't have the
replayability because they had moved

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indoor because of rain, and that wasn't
set up indoor, which is understandable.

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But that one, okay, maybe
disagree with that one.

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But the last one, I
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Just the trajectory of the shot, even
the announcement said the same thing.

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You're watching the shot fly and
you're like, That's going to be out.

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When it lands, you're
like, Yeah, that's out.

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I'm not clear to see, but Jade and Andrew

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are both firm on it and
laid out blew a fuse.

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that the agency that she
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Meaning she chose to hit the ball to that

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particular spot, creating a tough
situation It's a tough call.

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Let's assume the call was wrong.

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One of those two calls
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You just have to accept that
that's part of this game.

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In other words,
it's like being a baseball player and

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getting crazy about an occasional ball
or strike call that you disagree with.

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That's how the game is built.
Do we have human umpires in baseball?

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We have human beings calling the lines
on the court, and they're playing.

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They have thousand things in their mind.

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They're trying to get set, hit
the ball, where's everybody at?

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All these different things, and they have

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to make a line call
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Mistakes are made.

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But allowing that to spill over and to
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all, again, create negative situations
that are unfortunate, that are frankly

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unnecessary, where you
have a negative relationship with other

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players, but also undermining your ability
to perform the best you can perform.

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It's something that I think can
be dealt with through perspective.

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We're going to talk about that in a second

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in terms of maintaining
perspective when we play.

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Then the other thing that
happened was Federico Saxroud.

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Federico Staxrude is an amazing talent.

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He's done a ton of good
work to improve his play.

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He's one of the top players right now in
terms of his shot making and everything.

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But where he falls down some
is his mental side of the game.

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What happened was he was playing
a singles match against Ben Jones.

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You're always going to feel pressure
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Just to give you the full story.

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Federico has recently become the number
one singles player, made a lot of splash

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because his numbers, he
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Most people who watch this and study this
would say, Ben is still the best player.

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So Ben is still number one in terms
of ability, but may not be in points.

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Think of in tennis, when you have a player
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who maybe doesn't play a few tournaments,
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When Serena was semi-retired for a bit,
she'd show up to a major and be like the

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32nd seed or something like
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Everyone was like, Oh, my God, I don't

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want to play Serena because
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It's the same situation here.

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There's some pressure, and I can
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pressure playing Ben in that
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But his Decision making

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was undermined by just,
I guess, I'm going to say immaturity in

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terms of not being able to
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But they're playing the first game of this

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match, and Federico didn't
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He appealed two calls
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The game hadn't even started yet.

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He'd already wasted his replays
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His replays and timeouts
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If you're going to be a professional
a well player, you just can't do that.

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That's an example, again, of just not

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being fully well-rounded on
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Again, no criticism of Federico in a lot

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of respect for him and his work ethic and
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But in those situations when you're

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playing a Ben Jones who's not going to get
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He's all about the
business, getting it done.

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I mean, business, not in the money sense,

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even though that sounded that way because
of the recent developments with his...

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Or the recent announcement or revelations,

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I should say, about his
income, which is well-deserved.

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I just mean business when he's on the

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court, he's all about to
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But if you're Federico Saxer and you want

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to play better, you
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It's that same as Lea.

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If you want to contrast
that, I'd contrast that.

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Ben's a great contrast, but I like to
contrast it with Dylan Frasher and J.

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W.
Johnson, two of the younger players in

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terms of, I believe they're
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But if you watch how they behave

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themselves, how they
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They don't get flustered by stuff.

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Noise doesn't bother them.

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Antics don't bother them.

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They just go about their business.

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They're supportive of
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They're polite to their opponents.

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They're fair about it.

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They're just perfect ambassadors
of the sport, very balanced.

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When you watch them play, they lost their
first game in the finals against Matt and

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Federico, actually, in
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Then they came back on one of the next

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three and just did the job they had
to do in a very professional way.

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Anyway, but the focus here on the PPA
experience or what I observed was how

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flaws in the mental game
spill over into your physical performance,

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spill over into your shot making, spill
over into your decision making, spill over

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into your execution and your
thinking when you're playing.

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Don't sleep on the mental side.

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I know that if you listen to this podcast,

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you obviously don't sleep on it because
you're listening to this podcast.

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But it can be easy for us to get
sucked into like, I need this shot or I

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need this strategy or
I need this, whatever.

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That's fine.

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But don't lose sight of the importance of

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the mental side of the game and
the mental side of yourself.

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Because you'll feel better, and also,

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you're pragmatically,
you're going to play better.

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Speaking of tournaments,
it's really exciting for us.

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This is a relatively
new item that we have.

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We did at the US Open, we were able to

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offer this, and I could tell you
that our students got a silver medal.

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I'm pretty sure it was, but they

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definitely medaled a silver
medal at the US Open.

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It was pretty cool.

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They were new partners

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with each other, and they applied the
principles that they learned during our

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tournament clinic before
the tournament and medaled.

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If you're going to be in nationals this

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year, which is in Arizona, the USA Pickup
Ball National is in Arizona,

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we have a really exciting tournament
clinic that we're offering.

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It's basically like, it's
not like, it's in person.

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You get the tournament game plan, plus

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you and your partner come out and we
ride you through the gauntlet.

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This is what you need to
play your best tournament.

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Because if you're going to play a

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tournament, you might
as well give your best.

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If you want to check that out, I'll put a
link in the description down below, and

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the show notes I should say
down below, and check that out.

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But it's a really interesting opportunity

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to get on court with us and learn the best
tournament strategy, tournament approach.

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All right, let's jump into this idea of...

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This comes from the perspective
book that we have coming out on the mental

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perspective that you can use for pickle
ball that will help you,

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again, feel better, stronger
relationship, play better.

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The What it has to do with this hard
wiring that we have as human beings.

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The way that we process information
is hardwired into us.

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The best way to think about it is
think about it like a computer.

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So Your computer or your phone or your

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iPad or anything that you use for that,
a lot of it is hardwired.

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It has a chip and it has transistors
and things like that running through it.

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Those parts are hardwired, the RAM.

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It's a system of zeros and ones that tell
the computer or the device what to do.

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Those hardwired pieces then you
take soft applications, if you will.

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Someone an application that's like a

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calculator or a weather
app or things like that.

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Those then work together with a hard
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When we play, we're
subject to a lot of inputs and outputs.

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Obviously, we do things.
We're subject to an exchange of inputs and

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outputs through our processing systems,
our minds and our bodies.

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But our minds are a processing
system, I should say, but our minds.

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When you think about it that way, your

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mind has certain pieces
of it that are hardwired.

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We don't have enough time in
our lives to rewire those.

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I'm going to give you one specific one.

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In the book, we cover three.

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I'm going to talk about
one in this podcast.

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But the hardwiring one that I want to talk

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about is the circuit that
is our survival circuit.

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It's our, I got to do this or else there's

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a chance that I may not
make it through the winter.

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It's just here in a second.

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Then we'll talk about how that
messes us up before playing pickleball

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because We just don't have the right
perspective on where you play pickleball.

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I want you to go back in time.

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I'm not talking like 10,000 years ago.

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You're maybe longer, 50,000
years ago, 100,000 years ago.

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You're living in a cave,
and wherever you're at, it's July, August.

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You know winter's coming, right?

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You've lived long enough to know, Okay,

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it's going to get cold soon, and
there's not going to be a lot of food.

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You know that you need to get
food before the winter comes.

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You know there's a cornfield

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Nearby, there's a field that has corn in
it, so you're going to go and get corn.

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You're approaching this field,

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and as you get near the field, you see
another human being who you don't

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recognize, walking from an opposite
direction towards the field.

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So your brain says, Oh, crap, I better
get to the field quick and get my corn.

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Now, if the field is big enough,

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then you can navigate it with the
other person and get your corn.

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They get their corn, everything's fine.

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As you shrink the corn field, it
gets a little more challenging.

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As you shrink the corn field
some, you have basically...

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Maybe there's enough corn,

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but you want to make sure you get enough,
so you have to compete for the corn.

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Meaning like, Okay, I better hurry up and
do it quicker than my opponent in this

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situation, get the corn before they
do in order to ensure my survival.

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As you shrink it down even further, say

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there's two stocks of corn, then
you might even the other person.

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Because survival is key.

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That's that survival circuit kicking in,

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saying, I got to get this corn or else
I may not make it through the winter.

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These circuits still exist within us.

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We have not evolved away from them.

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They still sit there in our minds.

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Imagine you're on a pickleball court.

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Now, on a pickleball court, sitting here,

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having this conversation on a podcast,
this is silly.

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We're just sitting a ball, and
no one's dying, no one's at risk.

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But does your brain know that?

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Does your ancient brain, you can think
about it like your lizard brain, your

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reptilian brain in the back
of your like the mingdal.

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Is it sitting there back there
going like, I need points.

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I got I accumulate my points
because I need them.

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I'm fighting my cornfield competitor to

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get these kern of corn in order
to prepare for the winter.

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If that's happening, which I guarantee you
it's happening because of that survival

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wire circulating, and you don't know it,
it can get carried away.

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Basically, you

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start giving excess importance to the
event that you're participating in.

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Now, pickleball is important.

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I'm not suggesting to you that
pickleball is not important to you.

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It is, and that's okay.

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But why is it important?

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It's important because you
imbue it with importance.

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In other words, you bestow
importance onto pickleball.

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Without you giving it the importance,
it's not important.

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It doesn't change anything for anybody.

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If you know that, if you understand that,

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then the next time that you lose a match
and you're feeling bad about it,

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you can check yourself and just make sure
that your feelings, your emotions that are

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bubbling up about that loss, are the
result of this circuit getting triggered.

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If it is part of the circuit getting
triggered, then you know it, and you're

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able to then use your conscious mind
to overcome the subconscious feeling.

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I'm sorry, the feeling generated by your
subconscious mind, is the better way of

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saying it, which is this
hardware getting tripped.

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These hardwired circuits
are a part of you.

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There's nothing you can do about them.

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They're there.

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Again, they're hardwired,
so you can't change them.

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But you can understand them,

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and you can know they're there, and
you can adjust your emotions and react.

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Get yourself out of holes quicker.

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Get yourself out of bad feelings quicker
by understanding that these are there and

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then being able to apply
your conscious mind to it.

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You're your thought process to it to say,
I know what's happening here.

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I'm not in a cornfield.

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I'm not competing for my survival.
Everything's fine.

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We're playing pickle ball.
It's all good.

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It's a process, right?
You little by little.

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But recognition is That's going to
be the first step in that process.

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If you're interested in the book,
be on the lookout.

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We're going to be making
some more announcements.

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We're looking at potentially doing a

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presale of the book is what
we're thinking about doing.

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If we do that, and you're a pickleball
therapy podcast listener, we'll let you

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know so that you can get on the ground
floor, if you will, and then get the

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information sooner rather than later so
that we can get you on that progress

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forward in your mental
journey in pickleball.

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All right, let's talk about the RIF.

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If you're watching this on YouTube, I'm

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going to take my paddle up in
a second and show it to you.

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If you're not on YouTube,
I'll walk you through it.

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You'll be able to understand it anyway,

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but visually, you'll get the visual
better if you check it out on YouTube.

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If you haven't done so yet, you go to

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YouTube on the pickleball
Therapy channel on YouTube.

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Make sure you subscribe to the channel.

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It helps us grow the channel
and reach other players.

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The question that we got asked

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was a question that has to do with
holding your finger on the paddle.

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I'm going to reach over here and grab my

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old-school Bantam XL,
old-gen technology from PaddleTec, but it

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really pops the color,
so it really shows it.

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I'm holding it up to the camera.

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But basically, what's happening is I have

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my hand on the grip, and then I have
my pointer finger up on the paddle.

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Basically, it creeps up onto the paddle as
opposed to being wrapped around the grip.

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I have it up on the my finger
on the paddle itself, on the paddle face.

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The question Kevin asked
is, should I do this?

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It seems like I've been doing this,
and there's a concern about doing that.

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Now, here's the answer.

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The answer is, don't worry about it.

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What I mean by that is it's not going to
change your game one way or the other.

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If you were like me, I put my finger on

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the paddle the way I showed it a second
ago, my finger goes on the paddle face.

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I've been playing for eight years.

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It plays fine.

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It does fine.
There's no downside to it.

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That makes a difference.

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That's a big deal.

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If you don't put your finger on the
paddle, that's fine, too.

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It's one of those things, and this is the

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bigger conversation I
wanted to have about this.

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It's one of those things that there's
no reason to spend any bandwidth on.

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Don't occupy your mind on it.

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Don't spend precious mental focus and time

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and energy on finger on or
finger off the paddle face.

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If you naturally put it on
there, good for you, great.

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If you don't naturally put it on
there, good for you, great, no problem.

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Another example of this area is like, for
instance, it's stepping forward with your

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left foot or your right
foot to hit your thirds.

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Should I step forward with my
left foot or my right foot?

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Can you make an argument,
perhaps, that one is better?

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Does it make a big difference?

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The answer unequivocally is no.

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That was if you're comfortable, your

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natural way of doing it is your
right leg, then use your right leg.

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If natural, left leg, do your left leg.

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We'll do a quick, excuse me for that.

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We'll do a quick
demonstration here for you.

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Again, if you're on the YouTube, you'll
see it, but if not, you'll do it anyway.

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What I want you to do is
cross your arms naturally.

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Right now, just cross them.

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Okay, you got that?

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Now, release your arms,
put them back normal.

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Obviously, make sure you're not driving.

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Then cross them the other way.

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So cross them backward.

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It's going to take me a second here.
That's normal.

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This is not normal.

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It took me a second.
I I kept on going back to my normal

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because I'm trying to remember the
podcast and focus on what I'm doing.

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This is really hard for me to come into

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this position, opposite
arm crossing if you want.

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Why am I going to spend time on that?

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Trying to learn that.

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It's just not going to
add a lot to my game.

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Focus on big pictures.

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Keep your eye on the big picture.

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That's going to give
you much better results.

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This is the thing that, frankly, you
can see when you do game studies.

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We do live game studies now
pretty regularly inside our academy.

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If If you go to, I'll put a link in the

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show notes, you can check out our
next upcoming live game study.

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Super good way of seeing the game.

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You can ask me questions during the live

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game study and say, Tony,
I see them doing this.

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Is that something I should be doing?

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More likely than not, I'm going to say,

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they actually
probably Don't worry about it.

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It could be something that
I'll say, worry about it.

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Short return or serve,
deeper return or serve.

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Yeah, worry about that one.
Put that one very high up.

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Finger on paddle.
I wouldn't worry about it.

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Just do whatever is comfortable for you.

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All right, so that's this week's podcast.
Hope you enjoyed it.

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If you missed a special episode, we did a
special episode reviewing Dane Gingrich

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and Jill Martin's book,
The pickleball Mindset.

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You can find that here on the string of

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podcast episodes
earlier than this episode.

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Like I said earlier, if you're interested

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in our book on perspective, it's
going to be a really good...

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It's not going to be.

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It's already mostly read,
it's just going to be edited.

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It's a really good book on giving you a
really nice perspective on pickleball, and

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I would suggest also on life, because
that's what it's all about, right?

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Pickleball is a part
of our bigger picture.

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As always, if you have a minute to rate

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and review the podcast,
really appreciate it.

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We're continuing to reach
other podcast listeners.

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I didn't do a shout out this week.
I promise I'll do one next week.

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I'll find one of the reviews and read it

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back to you because we really appreciate
you taking the time to do that.

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As always, remember to
share it with your friends.

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If you enjoy the podcast, they probably
will, too, and perhaps they can continue

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to grow as well as you are in
their pick-a-ball journeys.

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I hope you have a great week, and I will

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see you in our next episode
of Pick-a-Ball Theory.

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Be well.