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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,
the podcast dedicated to

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your pickleball improvement.

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It's the podcast with you in mind.

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I am your host of this
weekly podcast, Tony Roig.

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This week, we are going to We're
going to be talking about performing.

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How do you know when you
have performed to your best?

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In the RIF, I'm going to give you a
specific metric, but first, I want to dive

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into this idea of what does it mean to
do well or not do well in your play?

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What does it mean to perform and maybe not
perform, if you want to think about the

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negative of it,
when you're playing pickleball?

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What made me think about this topic for
this week's podcast was I happened to be

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inside the ranking ecosystem,
specifically, Dupre.

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The reason was because a friend had asked
to partner with them at the upcoming

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tournament at the US Open in Naples.

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I did not plan on going.

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I still don't plan on going for the whole
event, but I said, Okay, within striking

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distance, we can go down and play
one event with my friend anyway.

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To do that, Dupre is a prerequisite.

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I go into Dupre, and as far as I find out
there's three mees in Dupre,

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so I had to deal with that.

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But then when the dust settled, I was
looking at getting my information off it

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and liking data on how it applies to
pickleball, I happened to look down, and

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they track wins, losses, average points,
and some other information,

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but that's what caught my eye.

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I looked down to the wins and losses.

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So I have...

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These are not all my games in my
existence, but these are the ones

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that are inside the duper ecosystem.

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Even those are fascinating
because it's 106 match total.

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Within those matches, I have
50 52 matches, one, 54 matches lost,

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and then average points, I'm at 49.54%,
so just under 50% by 0.46%, right?

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It's basically 50% of you
round it of points one.

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Find this curious, too, because we'll
talk about in a second, being at level.

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I am, according to Dupre, I'm a five and
change player, five and a little bit.

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Average partner Average ranking or rating
is 4.95. Average opponent rating is 5.19.

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What story does it tell?

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The story it tells is that over the last
106 matches, I've won half and lost half.

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If you think about it,
it's 52 wins, 54 losses.

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You take one loss, make it a win.

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It's exactly 50/50.

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I'm sure I can find a match that
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that could have flipped the other way.

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In fact, there was one because I remember
seeing it on the top of my chart.

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It's a match I played with my friend We
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couple of years, Eric Añong, against our
friends Chris Bond and Matt

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Indara, who are very good players.

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I believe the score in
that match was 10 to 9.

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You take that match, a ball
bounces here a little differently.

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Excuse me.
A ball bounces there a little differently.

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Now we're at exactly 50-50, 53-50 %.

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53 wins, 53 losses, right?

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A couple of points away.

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Same thing with average points, right?

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What does that tell us?

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It's 49.54 % of points.

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I'm assuming that means I've won those.

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It just says average points, but I'm
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points, or average points, one.

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But it doesn't matter, because even if you
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it's the same difference.
Basically, it's 50-50.

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Young points.

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When we think about playing pickleball,

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is it not realistic to expect that

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results over a large sample size.

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A hundred is a decent, but my guess is,
if you listen to this podcast, my guess

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is, let's do some quick math here.

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If you play four times a week, say you're
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you're talking about 30 games.

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You're doing over 100 games in a month.

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A game in rec world is the match.

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That's the whole match, generally.

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You're basically playing In
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700, 800 matches under your belt.

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That's a larger sample size.

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There, I would expect it to get
even closer and closer to 50, 50.

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The bigger the number, the closer to your
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over that sample size.

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The question I would ask
you, not the reality.

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The question I would ask you is,
we'll get to the reality in a second.

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The question I would ask you is, what do
you expect for yourself in

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terms of your performance?

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Is 50/50 okay with you?

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Or is 50/50 not okay with you?

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I think it's a good question to frame
for yourself in terms of how you

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interact with the sport of pickleball.

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Because if you think about
being frustrated, being disappointed, not

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feeling like you're performing, in this
case, we're talking about performance,

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that has to do with
some expectation you have for yourself.

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Are you meeting that expectation or not?

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That term, expectations, has such a...

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It's so impactful, not the term, but
the impact of it is so impactful.

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How we set our expectations for ourselves
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how we then feel afterward.

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Getting a grip on the expectations that we
have in our performance will help us as we

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then evaluate that performance after we
play, after we were done with our session.

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Let's ask a question again.

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What do you expect is reasonable for you
during a pickleball period?

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During a pickle ball, let's
take a big picture first, and

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then you apply a smaller picture.

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What do you expect for yourself,
say, for the next six months?

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Would you be satisfied with
a report like my duper.

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Let's say you played 600 games, so you
would have 298 losses, let's say, and I'll

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give you more wins, 302 wins, about 50/50.

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The same thing for points.

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You would be somewhere in the
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So call it, again, 50/50 for our purposes.

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Are you good with that?

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If you're not good with that,
why are you not good with that?

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Are you not good with that because
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your opponents in the big picture?

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Let me dive into that for a second in
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To frame out the whole idea of us and our
opponents in a couple of different ways.

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One way is, are you playing at level?

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At level means that it's not that you're
going to win all the time, it's not

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that you're going to lose all the time.

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It's that you have a
reasonable chance of losing.

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Because if you don't have a reasonable
chance of losing, what's the point

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of the match in terms of a contest?

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We address this in a different podcast,
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means to play at level.

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In my case, Again, I'm about a 5:0 player,
a little bit five and change.

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Average partner, 4.95. Average
opponent, 5.19. Pretty at level, right?

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It's not like my average partner was 3.7,
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5.19. That's not at-level against me.

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If my average partner was 4.95, and my
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not level in my favor.

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So then that would skew results.

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But when you're playing at level,
that 50-50 relationship

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doesn't seem so weird, does it?

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You know, 50-50 in terms of the results,
in terms of our performance

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and how we did.

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That's one way I want you
to think about it, right?

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If you're playing at
level, 50/50, it sounds about right

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because that's how it should be.

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Then I'll throw another angle at you.

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This way of thinking comes to me from our
friend I mean, still a mentor, but now we

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become friends, Peter Scales, who really
thinks about this in a very mature

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adult way, very, very, very deep way.

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He has this principle that he uses that
guides all of his thinking in terms of

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sports psychology, which
is compete, learn, honor.

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Those are the tenets.

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And honor is the priority.

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Honor takes number one.

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Gets the gold medal in that scenario.

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So what he What
that framing would tell us in this case

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is,
if you're not happy with 50/50, meaning

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you want more than 50,
isn't that basically a

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little bit of slight to your opponent and
your friend, the folks who you

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know, the folks who you play with.
What I mean by that is this.

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If you get more than 50% or expect,
you're like, No, I should 80 %.

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This is common.

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We'll ask this question from time
to time in different scenarios.

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Not a criticism of the answer because
that's a very natural reaction.

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What percentage do you want to win?
It's like 80 %.

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If I get 80%,
Then what do my opponents get?

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I leave them 20 %.

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If we live in a world, first of all, of
realism, as I mentioned earlier, the idea

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that I'm playing a level, it's probably
going to be 50/50 anyway, Otherwise,

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what's the point of the contest?

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If I can win 80 % of all the points,
then I'm probably not playing a level.

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Secondly, a little bit of empathy, a
little bit of understanding of others,

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their desires inside our sport
as well, not just all about us.

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I'm going to play a game in a situation
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20 on the table, 20 %.

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Probably not a fair
contest, if I'm doing that.

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If I'm beating up on players who can't
possibly win 20 %, that's how I get my 80

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because it's It's a zero-sum game in terms
of the overall performance,

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overall results.

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Not performance.
Let me step back a second.

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It's not a zero-sum game on performance as
I'll talk about in the RIF, but it is

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a zero-sum game in terms of results.

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It means only one team can win and only
one team can lose each rally, each game.

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If I want 80, that means I'm leaving 20 on
the table for my opponents

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who, again, are my friends.

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That just doesn't sit right once
you think about it that way.

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It's the idea that I mentioned with Coach
Scales on Compete, Learn,

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Honor, which is honoring.

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Honoring yourself, honoring your
opponents, honoring the game itself.

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You can check out Coach Pete's book.

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If you go to betterpickleball.

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Com, under resources, there's
a series of books in there.

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Coach Pete's book's in there.
I highly recommend it to you.

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Give that some thought.

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In terms of your performance and what you
expect of yourself, I would submit to you

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that when you're done with your analysis,
I am hopeful that I have

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laid out the case for 50/50.

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For a 50/50 relationship.

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50/50 performance is fine.

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If you're okay with 50/50, then how you
evaluate your performance at the end of

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a session should be consistent with that.

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What I mean by that is, if you...

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It looks like my
background just went dark.

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Let's see if I can get that back on.

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I forgot it has a little
sleep feature to it.

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If you go 50/50 We're going to finish it.

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We're going to power through this thing.

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If you're going to go 50/50 on your
performance, that means that

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this session, you went 0 and 7.

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You've won zero, lost seven.

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The last session,
you probably had, or maybe not the very

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last one, but you've had a session of
seven and zero, meaning you've won

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all your games and lost no games.

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You've had six and ones, and ones and
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and threes and fours.

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But over the big picture of it, overall,
what does that indicate?

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That indicates 50/50.

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So your performance is fine based on your
understanding of

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the realities of playing a level, and also
your honoring of your opponents

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and their own quest to perform in
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Let's get away from this There used to be
this saying that

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when you ended up in a tie, that it's like
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pleasure in it, there's no
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It's just a tie, right?

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Why is a tie a bad thing?

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Why is me fighting, competing,
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If you get to do the same and
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Anyway, give that some thought.

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All right, I'm going to go fix the board,
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with you an idea that you can use
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performance and how you think about
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performance that gets away
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Be right back with the RIF.

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All right, the board is all set up.

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The RIF is all set up, ready to roll into
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different way of thinking about your
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when you're playing, and also your
improvement, and you can apply this to

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everything that has to do with you and
pickleball and life, because as always, we

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like to think about pickleball
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Important, but there's more to us than
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These concepts, you can extend
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As we do that, if you're listening to this
podcast right when it releases, we have

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a New Year, New You event coming up.

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If you're on an email list, you're
getting information on it, check it out.

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It's a good way to
work on what we're going to talk about

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now, which is what's
the best It's a good way to think about my

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performance as a player, as an
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What I would suggest to you is that rather
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even whether it's the wins and losses,
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how well you're hitting the It's all
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It's a big concept.

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It's a lot chew to it, but
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I'm going to explain it, and then
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Then in a future podcast, maybe we'll
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parse it out a little more.

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Every time that you play pickleball, every
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navigate a day, every time that you go to
the supermarket, whatever, think about

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doing doing the best you can
based on where you're at right then.

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It's trying your best to be your best.

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Those are two best, but
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It's doing your best to be your best.

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Doing your best means is the part that
allows you to accept the way you are

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today, because today is going to be
different than yesterday, and probably

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different than tomorrow,
in terms of how you feel, your body, your

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mind, how interested you are in getting
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and all these things.
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That's just It looks like that
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It's basically, how are you feeling?
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What's going on in your life?

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There's just no way around it.

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You have to take yourself as you are.
You're doing your best.

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Then The second piece of it is
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Be your best is the idea where...

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Last time I played, I dinked.

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I missed 30 dinks.

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Out of 80 or whatever the number is.

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I made 50, I missed 30.

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This time, I missed 28
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The idea is that I am
I am performing a little bit better.

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I'm becoming a better version of myself.

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It doesn't have to be just
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I'll give you another example where you
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I warmed up this time.

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I didn't warm up last time.
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That's doing your best to be your best.

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I gave some thought to where
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I had intentionality to do my serve
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That's being a better version of yourself
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the pickle ball in this case.

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The idea is every time that I step out on
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do my best to be my best.

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If I did that, then I performed.

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Then I succeeded, if you
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How
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all these things that happened on the
court that maybe I wish had been a

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different, these minutiae things, fly
away, they go away.

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Instead, I am left with
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is more useful to me and more relevant to
my life in general, which I guess is

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the same thing is useful to me.

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But basically, the idea is I'm doing
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more constructive for myself.

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If I continue to move towards doing
to be my best, results will come.

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You'll have more rallies,
one more games, one.

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Perhaps eventually, you end up playing
different levels, meaning you can still

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hang out with your friends and play those
games knowing that you have to maybe play

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a little differently because maybe
a soft game, work on that, whatever.

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Then you can move on to...

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You play some other games that are perhaps
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standpoint and from a strategic
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just how you evolve.

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But think about doing your best
to be your best every time you play and

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use that as your performance metric,
and you'll feel better and play better.

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

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If you enjoyed it, as always, please share
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players reading your reviews,
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Hope you have a great week, and I'll see
you in the next episode

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of pickleball Therapy.

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Be well.