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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,

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the podcast dedicated to your Pickleball improvement.

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This is a special episode.

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I'm coming to you on site from the a PP tournament

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here in Punta Go Florida.

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It's the first stop in the Humana Cup team event.

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It's gonna be a lot of fun.

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I haven't gotten to play yet.

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It rained all day today.

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We're waiting to play,

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we're going on that court right there in a few minutes

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when the,

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these teams that are playing right now finish against each other.

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But I want to take an opportunity to talk to you

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a little bit about something that I've been pondering and seeing

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in, in Pickleball players in terms of,

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it's an obstacle that I'm seeing that's happening a lot,

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and I'm gonna be going in into some more in depth.

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But I thought it was appropriate to raise the subject with

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you to at least put it out there as,

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as a,

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something that you should be on the lookout for if it's

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something that affects you.

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And actually,

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there's, there's two things that I wanted to mention here.

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One is,

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if you're a tournament player and you're getting ready for tournaments

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in 2024,

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have a blog close coming out soon at Better Pickleball that

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I think will help you define why you're playing,

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enjoy the tournament more,

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and at the end of the day,

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actually play your best when you're at the tournament.

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What I wanna talk about today is I want to talk

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about results.

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And it's the obstacle that we place in front of ourselves,

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because we look at,

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at, at the,

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we, we,

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we measure the success of strategies or shots,

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not by process,

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in other words,

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not by the big picture of that particular shot or that

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particular strategy,

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but by its result.

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And what I mean by this is,

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if you had a shot that ended with a winner for

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your team,

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you know,

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you won the rally,

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most players would conclude that that was a good shot.

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No, that was the right shot to hit.

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Likewise, if we end up,

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we, if we hit a shot that ends up with a,

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with us losing the rally,

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then we conclude that that is a bad shot.

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That is not a good way of thinking about your Pickleball

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game, whether it's shots or strategies.

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And it really got brought to the forefront with a video

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that we published on the in Two Pickle channel.

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You're welcome to go check that out over there.

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If you haven't subscribed yet to the channel,

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please consider doing so.

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But on the,

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in two Pickle channel did a video where I show a

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poach gone wrong and nationals mixed doubles match.

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And, and I expected the comments to all be that this

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shot was a bad shot.

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And I understood that,

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and it was set up that way.

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But I said in the video,

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allow me to make the case for why the shot may

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not in fact be a bad,

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a bad shot,

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a bad strategy there to poach.

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And I laid out the argument as of this recording,

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there has not been a comment other than one that where

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the, where the players understood that the poach,

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that that,

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whether the poach was a good poach or not,

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not a good poach,

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is not to be determined by the outcome of the shot,

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but by the process.

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In other words,

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by considerations about whether the poach made Sense in that situation.

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And I articulated the reasons and the video for it.

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And it's,

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it's, it's,

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it's perfectly normal.

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as players or as human beings,

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we look at results,

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right? If we were able to get the food or get

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our shelter or whatever it is,

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then it,

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it's good.

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If we failed in that,

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then it's bad for survival.

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That's good.

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But for deciding what's gonna work best for your game,

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whether it's a shot or a strategy,

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you're gonna really want to go beyond the,

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the results of the shots and consider looking at the process.

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Consider evaluating the process of the shot.

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Because here's the thing,

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even the best shot,

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in other words,

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the, the,

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the 100% right shot to hit is not gonna be in

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100% of the time.

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What that means is you're gonna get feedback that says that

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that shot may not be the right shot because you missed

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it. Sometimes it's still the right,

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it could still be the right shot.

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Same another area that's really easy to explore as out balls.

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You know,

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we hit a lot of out balls because we're so afraid

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of letting that one ball go that lands in.

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We give up all of the,

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all of the balls that are likely to,

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in fact land out.

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So I'll be talking about this more in some subsequent episodes,

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but I wanted to,

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to raise this with you in this episode.

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If you're interested in this kind of thinking,

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this kind of approach to Pickleball,

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it's a deeper way of thinking about the game and understanding

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the game.

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Consider joining us inside our pick upcoming Pickleball system class.

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We have a class opening in March,

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and you can also join us inside our academy if there's

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a particular course or an area that's of,

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that you're struggling with and you would like more help with.

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Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the podcast.

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Hope this is helpful to you.

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If you find yourself evaluating everything based on results,

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maybe step back for it a second and ask yourself,

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was it the right shot or strategy from a process standpoint?

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Have you enjoyed the podcast?

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Please share with your friends.

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As always,

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if you share,

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if you enjoyed the podcast,

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then your friends will probably enjoy it too.

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Have a great week and I'll see you this Friday and

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your regular podcast episode.