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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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I am your host, Tony Roig.

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It's a pleasure to be with you.

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This special episode, I have the
pleasure of interviewing Ty Woody.

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Ty Woody is a sports performance coach who
has worked with pickleball players for

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several years now, all different ages,
helping them get their body in the best

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shape to play pickleball,
avoid injury, etc.

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If it has to do with the body,
Ty knows what he's talking about.

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I had the pleasure of
interviewing Ty previously.

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The special episode came out in February.

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If you want to check that out, we talked
about warmups, we talked about some

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general body concepts
and things like that.

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It's a really good interview.

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If you want to check that out, it's
called Better Body, Better Pickleball.

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Again, in February on the podcast.

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In this episode, we go a little bit deeper
into different particulars about different

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parts of the body and how to perform
our best on the pickleball court.

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At the end of the podcast, I give you
information on how to get a hold of Ty if

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you would like to have some personal
work with Ty on your pickleball body.

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Enjoy the interview.

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Ty, it's always a pleasure to see you.

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How are things out in Arizona for you?

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Good.

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We actually just had MLP here
just a few weeks ago, actually.

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So it was fun getting to watch
just the high-level play.

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It's amazing just how good
these players really are.

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So that was a lot of fun and
starting to heat up out here.

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So that's always exciting when it's 100
plus degrees for the next few months.

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But other than that, it's been good.

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It's been a lot of fun getting to just
be out here and enjoy

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the weather a little bit.

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I was going to joke, Ty, that don't
take this seriously, players listening.

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If you're in Arizona, you
don't need to warm up.

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That's not true.
You still need to warm your body up.

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But basically, you just walk outside.
I'm warm.

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Let's play.
Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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And what's interesting is
you talk about the MLP.

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And I know we talked a few minutes before.

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I know you're going up to San Clemente to
check out the PPA tomorrow or whatever.

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And so it's interesting.

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You see these athletes playing and
they're playing at such a high level.

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They're so demanding on the body.

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And it really doesn't
matter your level of play.

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It's going to be demanding on the body.

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And sometimes in the videos, I get
comments from,

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I don't know, trolls, right?

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And they're just basically like, Oh, this
is a sissy sport and stuff like that.

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I'm like, Okay, sure.

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And you go out there and you watch
Elise Jones diving for balls.

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You watch Tyra Black
chasing down everything.

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And it's like the athleticism,
it's incredible.

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But, Ty, listen, I already told
the listeners that we did a...

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I think you did a great...
I don't say we, I just asked the question.

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You did a really good job in the last time
we were together talking about

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warmup since you That is what I did.
What did you do?

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Did you do a lot of body things.
You did it well.

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Good questions, I know.

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So you did a really good job with that,
and I've already mentioned where that was.

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So I was thinking today, if you're good
with it, let's dive into

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a couple of different body areas that are
super important, obviously.

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We can't cover everything in a 10 to 15
minute interview, but let's do

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legs if you could with that.

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And then if we have some time after legs,
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bit about the elbow.

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And if you're good with that,
I'm just going to tee it up.

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You're good with that?

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Yeah, absolutely.
Let's do it.

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All right, let's jump in.

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So obviously, well, from our perspective
as coaches, everything in pickleball

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begins with footwork, right?

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I mean, if you're not in the right place,
I don't care how good your stroke is.

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You're going to have the
stroke in the world.

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If you're standing three feet off where
you got to be, it's not

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going to make a difference.

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So Everything begins with that connection
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court and getting you around.

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So let's talk a little bit
about legs, if you would.

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If I'm a pickleball player and I'm not
really sure what's important, maybe we can

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cover it generally like that,
and then we can dive in as we go.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And I think even starting there, you hit
the nail on the head

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pretty much perfectly.

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I mean, that's the part that
players have to understand, regardless

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of what level or, I mean, anything.

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You have to be able to get to
where you need to go, right?

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If you can have the greatest shot ever,
but if you can't get to where you need to

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be to hit it, then it
really doesn't matter.

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And so getting your legs strong and
getting them stable so that you can move

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around and move quickly and then hold and
plant and all those things, we have to

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train our bodies to be able to do it.

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And that's the missing piece for a lot of
players is that lower body development.

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And so you want to train every
aspect, every part of your lower body.

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We're looking at your glutes.

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We're looking at your hamstrings, your
quads, behind your leg

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and front of your leg.
We're looking at your calves.

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We're looking at your
feet and your ankles.

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Everything in the body works together.

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So we need to be working
on and training all of it.

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We don't want to focus on...

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I would say really common with a lot of
people is focusing on just on the

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quads, the front part of your muscles.

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And they're important.

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We need them to strong and stable
so we can hold ourselves and plant.

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But at the same time, we need to spend a
lot of time on our glutes and on our

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hamstrings because those are our go
muscles, those are our explosive muscles.

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And for pretty much all of us, especially
in life, we sit a lot and we live

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more of a sedentary lifestyle.

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And so a lot of those areas
are super underdeveloped.

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And so working on those hamstrings,
working on those glutes and still getting

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your quad work in there, too, will help
your body be able to do

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what you wanted to do.
Because in a pickle, it doesn't...

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I don't need you to lift a thousand
pounds, but I need you to

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be strong in your body.

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You need to be able to squat and get down
low and move and load yourselves in many

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different positions, because if you can't,
that's where the pop-ups happen.

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That's where either you didn't get to the
ball quite fast enough, so you didn't win

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the point or get the ball back
over, or we're dinking at the net.

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And if you can't get yourself down into a
loaded position as you're moving back and

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forth and we're dinking, eventually you're
going to make a mistake because you didn't

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get down low again to be
able to get to the ball.

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You go watch the pros and
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That's why one of the biggest things that
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they were hitting their drops, how low
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dinks and different things like that.

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And in order to do that, again, it's not
needing to lift a thousand pounds, but we

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have to be able to control our bodies and
do it over and over and

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over and over again.

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And so we need to be able to prepare our
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multiple planes of motion.

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We don't just go forward, backwards.

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We don't just go side to side.

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We're twisting, we're turning multiple
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able to meet those demands of
what we're asking our body to do.

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Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

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I know from a personal experience that
when I'm playing my best, whether it's a

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senior pro tournament or even some
competitive rec games, I know that I'm

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playing my best when I'm getting down.

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When I'm getting down and grooving,
that's when I'm playing well.

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When I'm standing up and I can't...

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I'm reaching and it
just messes up all the shots.

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Let's go ahead and play with the...

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You brought up glutes, right?

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I'm not an expert like you, but I read
some things, I follow some videos.

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There's a tendency, as I understand it,
for our glutes to forget how to work.

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They They stop working.

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They just don't remember to activate.
That's what I understand.

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So the quads end up doing too much work.

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If you're comfortable with this,
Ty, and let me give a quick caveat.

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I'll do the caveat.
You can add to it if you wanted to.

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Anything you hear on this podcast, if
you're not sure or if you have questions,

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talk to your health care
professional before you do anything.

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But subject to that and anything else you
want to add to it, Ty, is there something

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that a player can do
in their house or something to just

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begin this glute reawakening thing?

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That's the phrase that you hear a lot,
like glute activation,

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returning on the glutes.

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So really, I mean, when you hear that, and
a lot of times you'll hear that with your

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core, you'll hear that with your
glutes and things like that.

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We're just getting the muscles
activated and ready to move again.

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We're just getting them...

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That's pretty much it in a nutshell
whenever you hear those types of things.

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So again, like I said
earlier, we sit a lot.

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We do a a lot of things that don't get our
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to fire and they're not ready to go.

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So that's the whole point
of the warm up, right?

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Is we're trying to get things activated
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can do what we want them to do.

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If they're not activated,
what you said, Tony, right?

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Other parts of our body will start doing
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hip and the core and stuff like that
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And also it's really important to remember
with the glutes is there's three

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main movements it's that they do.

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I think the most common one that a
lot of people know is hip extension.

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And so pretty much hip extension is when
we're just pushing our butt forward.

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When we're down like this and we push
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That's probably the most common
muscle movement for your butt, your

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glutes that everyone thinks about.

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But there's two other ones that most
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is external rotation.

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So that's when my leg is here and we're
getting it to turn out to the side.

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And then there's hip abduction, which is
when if my leg is straight, I kick it

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straight out to the side and then
bring it back to me in the center.

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That's hip abduction.

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So your glutes, that's the
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We spend a lot of time on that hip
extension, just pushing our

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butts forward, which is great.

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We need that to do, especially
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But being able to actually load into our
hips, that external rotation, being able

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to load into that hip, and that hip
abduction just can be really helpful for

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our stability And so when you think about
warming up, we want to do

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all three of those things.

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And there's tons and tons
of exercises you can do.

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I mean, if you even just Google hip
extension movements, hip abduction, hip

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external rotation, you'll
find lots of stuff.

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Band work, that's a really common thing
that you can do with just even a mini band

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that's wrapping around the ankles
or wrap around the knees, right?

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And just doing some glue bridges of
lifting up and down while you're pushing

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your knees out or laying on your side and
having that band on and

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lifting that leg up down.

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That's another super easy one to do.

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And doing holds, right?

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It can be doing reps where we're just
lifting our leg up and holding for 10 to

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20 seconds or even doing lots and lots of
reps just to get blood flow We'll move in.

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I mean, there's many, many, many different
ways to do it, but I think a big takeaway

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here, and maybe that's something I can do
is if we want and players want it, we

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could do a little
video that I can share with you guys and

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you guys can spread it
out to the community.

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So that's maybe something we can do
there as Well, but- That's a great idea.

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I like that idea a lot.

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But I think you're correct that I think
if you wanted to get started with it, if

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you went to YouTube and you typed in
glute hip extension or glute hip abduction

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or adduction, and then band, if
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There's a lot of content out there.

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It's almost like, again, with the caveat,
if you're not sure, check

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with your health care advisor.

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I think it's hard to
do something wrong there if you're just

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laying on your side,
just lifting your leg.

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You can still injure yourself.
I understand that.

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But it's not necessarily because the
exercise is risky to do.

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So I think that's a
really good place to...

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If you're a pickleball player, you're
listening to this,

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I would say, and from a personal
experience, I will tell you, I'm doing

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some stuff that you can work into.

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Bulgarian squats to me are
an amazing way to just...

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It gets that glue just going on.

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I'm like, Oh, my God, what's going on?

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And I will say this on the
On the In2Pickle channel, our In2Pickle

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channel, we actually have a
playlist of my favorite workouts, and

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there's a gentleman that does this
thing called Foundation.

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You may have seen this guy, Ty, but
he's not in California, actually.

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But he does I can't remember his name, but
it's a foundation exercise,

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and it's on my list.

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It's made for the back, but a lot of his
stuff is basically loading up the glutes.

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So he put you in positions where
It's static holding of the glutes, maybe a

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little bit of movement, but it's really
just loading up those glutes

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and reminding them how to work.

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All right, so glutes is what
they're going to do there.

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Let's pivot if we can, Ty, to...

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Let's talk a little bit about elbow.

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I know it's a very specific part of
the body, but it can be so troublesome.

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I did a clinic a couple of weeks ago
here, and one of the girls there.

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I'll tell you what happened, and then
maybe we can start the conversation there.

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What happened there was she was asking me,
Are there any paddles

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that are made for elbow?

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Which, of course, there are some that
profess to be that, and maybe

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they are, maybe they're not.
But that's not my expertise.

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I know that they contend
that they are, which is fine.

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I went over a couple of things that I
understand about weight of

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paddle and things like that.

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But the key here was actually ended up
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Because the way I explain it is, and I
actually happen to have a pen because I

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was writing some stuff
and I had my water bottle.

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So I said, okay, grab this pen
and grab it like you would a paddle.

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And it's too small.

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And she could see the
attention in her arm.

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And then I said, grab
my water too big, right?

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So you got to find that Goldilocks
zone for your hand with the grip.

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And it was interesting.
Her paddle actually was too small.

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It wasn't a pencil, but it was too small.
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I had a paddle that happened to have one
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hessacore grips, that made
it a little bit bigger.

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And she played with it the whole
clinic, and she was like...

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So anyway, maybe that's a good way to
start the conversation about

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if you're a player and you're having any
elbow thing, maybe we can talk in general

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about what happens This is, again, very
general, not trying to diagnose anybody,

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but if you can touch on that, Ty.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So I think the biggest thing for people to
understand is, and I see this all the

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time, where a lot of players tend to
find, they seek out the bandaid solution.

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And so, all right, my elbow is hurting,
everything flaring up,

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and I'm not happy with it.

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So we try to find, okay,
what's the quick fix I can do?

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I'm wrapping my elbow or looking at
different remedies and things like that

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for the quick bandaid solution that
doesn't exactly

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solve the overarching problem of why
is this happening in the first place?

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It's just, okay, it's helping me numb the
pain in the moment so that I can go play

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for a few hours, which if it's tournament
day and I'm there, I have no other choice.

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I need to compete.
This is happening.

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Yeah, we got to use our bandaid solution.

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But long term, we need to remember
why these agitations and things usually

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It's usually one of two of either one.

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You are the muscles and the area around
it are not properly prepared for it.

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Meaning the demand that you're putting on
the tissue and putting on the muscles

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is higher than what it can tolerate.

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So there's a tolerance issue.

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It's not built up.

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It's like a muscle is weak.

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If my quads are super blown up and they're
super sore, they weren't able

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to handle that load you gave it.

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So it broke down, It's super
sore, it heals up, it's recovered.

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Next time you go do that same exercise,
same weight, it's a bit easier because

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your body's now built up a tolerance
to handle what you're asking it to do.

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Sometimes it's the same exact thing here
where we went from maybe

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never doing a paddle sport in our lives or
maybe playing once a week for two hours to

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all of a sudden we're playing five, six,
seven days a week, two, three

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hours at a time, maybe even more.

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And now that tolerance that was built up
to handle one time a week for two hours,

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all of a sudden you're asking it to do
six, seven days a week, two,

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three, four, five hours.

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Now it's super agitated.

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The tolerance that you built up is no
longer able to handle what

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you're asking it to do.

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And so a big thing to remember is you need
to build up that strength in that area.

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The forearm and your wrist can do many
different muscle actions and you need to

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spend time getting it stronger
so that it can handle.

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Again, same idea, right?

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You have to meet the demands
of what you're asking it to do.

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So you need to spend time getting those
muscles stronger, building up that

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tolerance so that it can handle that
workload of six, seven days a week

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and different things like that.
So that's the first lane.

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The other lane is your mechanics, right?

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And I'm sure as a coach, you perfectly
understand this, too, Tony and C.

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J.

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As well, is
mechanically, if you're doing something

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super funky, if you're hitting a ball and
you're doing just some weird mumbo jumbo

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with your wrist and your elbow and doing
all these weird funky angles,

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that's what causes problems, too.

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Even if you're strengthening things up, if
you're mechanically doing something super

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awkward and hurting yourself, all
this is going to get super agitated.

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I know for me as a player, personally, I
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inside, not on the outside.

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But that would be because
I would just do some funky.

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I would just shoot my elbow really hard
and stiffen it up really, really fast

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when I was trying to block a ball.

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And then I would get agitated here.

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Once I became aware of what I was
doing, okay, Why is this happening?

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And paying a little bit more attention to
it and not being so herky, jerky

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and sudden, it cleaned it up.

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And now I don't really have
any issues there anymore.

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But especially out here,
a lot of it can be mechanical.

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That's where you need that coach, right?

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Have someone peak and look at what you're
doing to make sure, okay,

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am I being efficient?

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Am I doing what I need to do?

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Am I using the proper parts of my body to
create my power, to generate the

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force, to put a little bit spin on it?

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Because a lot of people get super wristy
and super sudden and they're doing

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just all sorts of craziness here.

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And then when you go into the paddle
conversation of, why is

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your paddle that heavy?
It has no business being that heavy.

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It doesn't need to be that heavy.

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And then you go in to paddle,
thickness of your paddle grip and looking

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at all those things, you can go
down that whole rabbit hole, too.

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But I would say the biggest two areas that
I tend to see is

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there's a lack of tolerance.

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There's no tolerance build up in here so
they can handle what

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you're asking it to do.

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And then the other part is mechanical.

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Of just what are you...

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I mean, I'm sure as a coach, you've seen
all sorts of stuff that people do that

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it's like, we're trying to get the ball
over the net and put spin on the

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ball and do what we need to do.

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And like, yeah, that's great.

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But at what cost here?

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Sometimes we need to take those two, three
steps back, fix our mechanics so that

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we can take our five steps forward.

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Because at the end of the day, at some
point, your body is going to

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tell you we're going to stop.
We're going to take a break here.

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Either something's going to just get torn
or something's going to

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flare up really badly.

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And especially Actually, if we're a desk
job worker or you do things with your

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hands a lot, eventually,
it's all going to agitate and be super,

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super mad at you, and you're
going to stop at some point.

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And so that would be my two biggest things
that I would say is make sure you're

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strengthening up the area
to build up your tolerance.

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Make sure you have a
smart, intelligent coach that can look

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at your mechanics and listen to them.

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Because if you don't, you can do what you
want at the end of the day, but you're the

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one that's going to be
suffering for it, not us.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And And I saw a video, you mentioned
spins, and I'm going to wrap on this, but

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Maddie Umberg did a video on her roll
volley, which is one of the

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most extreme roll volleys.

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And Maddie, don't come after
me because I love your volley.

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But it's like, that's Maddie.
Maddie can do it.

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Maddie has been doing it so long.

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Maddie has developed the tolerances.

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Maddie has got a technique that
works for her system, right?

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It doesn't break down.

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And all of a sudden you got
an average player out there going like,

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You know I saw a video and it shows me
that I'm going to start my paddle here and

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I'm going to bring it all the way up here.

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You're out of your mind.

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Whatever.
That to me is like...

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And so it happens.

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But Ty, I know that some players are
listening or liking what they're hearing.

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Every time we speak, Ty, I love the fact
that you're still growing as a coach.

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We all do, but I hear
it in your messaging.

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I hear it in how you're organizing
your thoughts about everything.

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Super awesome.

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And you did that before, too,
but it's just getting better.

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And so players out there, they might
be interested in working with you.

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And I know you do
online work where you can analyze and

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give them feedback and things like that.

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What's the best way for someone to get a
hold of you, Ty, if they want to continue

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the conversation with
you about themselves?

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Yeah.

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Easiest way is to go on
Instagram and go on the...

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Follow the page, Pickleball
Sports Performance.

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That is where
I'm posting stuff on my story, working on

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getting more content on my social media.

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You could also send me an email
at ty@pickleballsportsperformance.

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com.

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That is another super easy way to do it.

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Those are the two main ways that you can
get a hold of me for sure, to be able to

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answer, even if it's just
general questions on things, I'm always

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happy to be able to provide information
I can to be able to help play this out.

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You can probably tell from Ty's voice that
he's younger than our average

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listener and myself.

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But then as soon as you go,
you can follow me on Instagram.

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Then that's the that give away
there, that you're younger than both.

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So I'll put all the links down below,
email and Instagram, and you can connect

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with Ty, and Ty can help you out.

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And Ty, before I let you go, I know we
talked about this before, and I want to

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make sure that you're in agreement with
this, that if a player out there enjoyed

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this podcast and has a friend of theirs
who might enjoy this podcast, I think we

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agree that they should share this
podcast with one of their friends, right?

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Absolutely.
Spread the word.

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Share the love.
100 %.

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Ty, it's always a pleasure to see you,
chat with you, see what's going on in your

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life, and appreciate all the input that
you give us about our bodies

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and playing our bespickable.

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Good luck in San Clemente.
Have fun out there.

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Say hi to everybody for me, and we'll see
you on the next episode

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that we have you on.

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Love it.
Thank you, Tony.

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Thanks, Ty.