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Welcome to pickleball Therapy, the podcast
dedicated to your pickleball improvement.

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My name is Tony Roig.
I'm the host of this weekly podcast.

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This week, I'm recording the podcast
on-site at the PPA Slam event here in

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Atlanta, Georgia, at Lifetime
in Beach Free Corners.

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It's been a great week of being able
to interact with a lot of players.

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Many of them are students.

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Interact with pro players who I've known
over the years and I've

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met at this tournament.

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Watch a lot of pro play, watch a lot of
amateur play, watch even junior pro play,

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and see what's going on out there.

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See what's working, what's not working,
get caught up on everything that's

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happening in the sport because you're able
to see how the amateurs are navigating the

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sport as well as how the pros are trying
to figure out the best way to solve

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the puzzle at their level of play.

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And then take those lessons into our
videos and our teaching and

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our coaching and our trainings.

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We have a training coming up now at the
end of May, covering lobs

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and how to deal with lobs.

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So if you'd like to join us for that,
Please, I'll put a link

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down in the show notes.
You can go to betterpickleball.

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com, and there's a link there
where you can find that training.

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And also we have the 50 plus Academy,
where we're implementing strategies that

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are appropriate for all
levels of pickleballball.

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In all types of pickleball, and also
strategies that are

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specific to 50 plus play.

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But this is part of the work that we do as
coaches is coming to events like this to

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see exactly what's going on out
there with the sport of pickleball.

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And what I want to talk about in this
podcast, in this episode of the podcast,

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It has to do with redlining.

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I saw a lot of it on the
courts, both amateur and pro.

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And I'm going to focus on
one example in particular.

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But redlining is the idea that
getting too amped, getting too excited,

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getting too far over on one side.

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If you want to think about it this way,
think about it like a car has a red line.

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Have you seen a car that has a tachometer
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revolutions per minute?

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They always have that
red section on there.

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Basically, it's like a warning that says,
don't red line, don't go into the red

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zone, at least not for an extended period
of time, because you'll

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burn the engine up.

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As human beings, we're not dissimilar in
the sense that we have a certain amount of

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bandwidth that we can handle,
that our brains can handle.

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And we can red line it sometimes so we can
take it into that

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level of stress and anxiety and
pressure for short bursts at time.

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But staying there for a
long time can't hurt us.

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And that's what we're going to talk
about in this episode of the podcast.

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And then at the end, I'll give you a
couple of ideas that might help you deal

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with that if that's something that you
deal with or if you see a

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friend of yours that has this.

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And what I'm surprised at is,
isn't that it happens, right?

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It's going to happen.

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What I'm surprised at is I'm getting the
sense that it's actually something that

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players are affirmatively trying to do.

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In other words,
it's one thing to say that it's

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accidental, meaning like, or
just something to happen, right?

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So that's just how I
I'm programmed, right?

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And so I behave that way,
but that's what I'm used to.

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It seems to me that this is something
that's being trained out there,

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something that's being taught.

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And what makes me think that is I've
watched several junior PPA

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matches, and shout out to the PPA.

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I think it's wonderful what they're doing.

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They let the junior players play on
the same court that the pros play on.

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There's two courts that the pros play on.

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They have Championship Court and
Grandstand Court, and they had the gold

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medal matches of the juniors on the
Grandstand Court while the time that the

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semifinals for the pro players are
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So that was really cool to see.

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But anyway, but I'm watching these junior
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12-year-olds, 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds.

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A lot of some trash talking between them,
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correcting, which is unfortunate because I
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corrected at that age or else it
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But the other thing I saw was a lot of
basically, right here, right now.

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Let's go.
We got it.

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Let's go.
Come on, right here, right now.

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A lot of that talk.

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And again, these are children.

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These are teenagers and children
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I mean, there's 14-year-old stroke
out there waiting to happen.

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And so it leads me to believe that
there's some coaching going on out there.

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There's some training going on out there
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supposed to be 120% all the time.

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And that's just not
something that's feasible.

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And I'll work through
that in a second with you.

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Just a couple of different ideas.

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It's a couple of scenarios so you can see
how it really doesn't

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work to your advantage.

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Where it really stood out was there was
a really excellent quarter final match.

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If you like pro pickleball, it's a really
interesting match to watch between

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Federico Staxrude, Hayden Patrick, and J.
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Johnson, and C.
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Klinger.

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It's quarter finals, but it was
basically finals-level match.

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And back and forth match, really good
rallies, really good battles by everybody.

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They're in game three, so
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They're in game three.
It's roughly tied.

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I can't remember the exact where it is.
Somewhere around 6: 06-ish.

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And Federico Sackrutt hits a...

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There's a really Interesting rally.

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He hits a good shot, and he gets
really excited about it, right?

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Red lines, if you will.

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The problem is that he stays red-lined.

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And so whether it's the next rally or a
couple of rallies later, he's serving He's

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serving for the first time,
serves it into the net.

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And when I say he's serving for the first
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so since he got amped up.

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So he serves that into the net.

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One or two rallies later,
he misses a return of serve.

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Critical game three, top 10 player
missing shots that he shouldn't miss.

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Why?

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Because he red-lined
and because he was stuck in red-lined.

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Like his accelerator foot
was stuck down, right?

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And he was just revved up too high.

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And so it cost his performance.

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Now, maybe they still lose the match.
I can't tell you that.

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But I can tell you for sure that his
red-lining in that match affected his

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ability to perform in that situation.

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So what I want you...

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Let's work through a couple of scenarios
now and let's play with it a little

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bit and see how it affects you.

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Remember, red-lining is
you're just super amped.

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You're just like, whoa, let's go.

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Just really super amped up.

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If you think about being amped
up, you have no bandwidth left.

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You're already at the extreme.

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So you have nowhere to go.
There's no cushion.

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And so you can see a situation where
you actually have a really nice rally.

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It's a fantastic rally, where it's
a fantastic rally back and forth.

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All of a sudden, you have a great
save and you do a great thing.

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You don't feel it, right?

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Because you're going, and I've seen this
out here where players are going like,

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whoa, after a miss four shot or miss third
shot or just like nothing, rallies, right?

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I mean, nothing's happened,
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the rally of the The Millennium.

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So when you have the rally of the
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going to go from there?

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You have no cushion.

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You have nowhere to go, nowhere to rev the
engine that you can go

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to in a good situation.

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And perhaps more importantly, You
have nowhere to go in a bad situation.

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Because you will face adversity
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The pros do for sure.

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You will in your matches if you're playing
a level, you're going to be challenged

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and you're supposed to be challenged.

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That's what you signed up for.

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And so if you have If you
have no bandwidth, no cushion left in

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your revving, if you will, because you're
red-lined, how are you going to handle it

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when things go sideways on
you, when things turn adverse?

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You can't because you got nowhere to go.

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And so this red-lining idea, this idea
that you're going to red-line all the

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time, you're always going to be 110 %, is
just not a sustainable way

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of engaging with the sport.

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It's not healthy for you.

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It's not good for you from just a
psychological health standpoint.

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Physiologically, either to be all amped
up all the time, not good for you.

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But the kicker is this, you're not even
going to get better performance out of it.

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What you want to learn how to do is how to
regulate that tachometer, how to regulate

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yourself from green to yellow
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And that's a process of time.

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And I would suggest to you that the tip I
want you to walk away from this

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episode with is start with recognition.

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And what I mean by that is
notice if you're redlining.

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So if the other team misses a nothing
shot and you're like, well, let's go.

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You don't like that?

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Probably redlining.

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There's no call for
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And so you're so amped up that you're
releasing it in ways that objectively

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don't make any sense because you're
treating that the same as you

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would the rally of the millennium.

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And that objectively makes no sense.

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So the first The next step would be
recognition of feeling

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redlining all the time.

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And then you're going to work on some
techniques, some breathing techniques.

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We have another episode we cover
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You can Google that.

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Just the pickleball Therapy breathing
techniques, and you can find that episode.

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If I can find it for you, I'll put it in
the show notes, but in case

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it's not there, you can find it.

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Work on some breathing
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And think of the time between your rallies
as a moment to let the foot

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off the gas, if you will.

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So in the rally, maybe at first it's
going to be hard because you're going.

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And so your brain starts going, everything
gets excited and you're just,

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let's go, let's go, let's go.
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Between rallies, let go of the gas.

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Let that gas, let that tachometer come
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Breathing techniques are
a good way of doing that.

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Releasing the paddle from your
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Sends a signal to the brain that
everything is fine, and they're

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not in danger, everything's good.

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Those are things that you can do.

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But be mindful of red-lining and be
mindful of If you have a significant other

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who plays pick-up on red lines, a good
friend of yours is red lines, things

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like that, share this episode with them.

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It's a way for them to maybe come at the
game a little differently, avoid that

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redlining that's negatively affecting them
personally and also negatively

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affecting their There we go.
We'll see you in our play.

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So that's this week's podcast.
I hope you enjoyed it.

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I hope the sound quality was good
enough from the on-site location here.

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Remember, we have that upcoming training
if you want to join us for that.

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We also have the 50 plus Better
pickleball Academy, where we have...

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You get basically CJ, my myself and other
amazing coaches over 50

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showing you tips and strategies
that are specific to 50 plus plays.

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If you're a 50 plus pickleball player, you
love the sport, I'll put a link in the

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show notes where you can
join us inside the academy.

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That's that for this week's podcast.

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As always, if you have a minute to rate
and review it, really

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appreciate you doing that.

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If you think this podcast was helpful
to you, share with your friends.

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Remember, particularly those who you think
are red-lining, your husband, your wife,

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your sister, your
brother, sister, whoever.

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Share this podcast with them, and maybe
it'll help them and on a path away from

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red-lining and a more balanced
approach to their play.

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I hope you have a great week, and I'll see
you on the next episode

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of Pickleball Therapy.
Be welcome.