1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,640 Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy, the podcast dedicated to 2 00:00:02,665 --> 00:00:05,180 your pickleball improvement. Hope you're having a great week. 3 00:00:05,205 --> 00:00:08,060 My name is Tony Roig. I'm the host of this weekly podcast. 4 00:00:08,085 --> 00:00:11,815 This week, it's coming to you from the PPA in Atlanta. 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,440 So if you hear some background noise, pickleballs, things like that, 6 00:00:14,465 --> 00:00:17,980 then you'll know what's happening. There's noises all over the place. 7 00:00:18,005 --> 00:00:22,780 I wanted to bring you a podcast this week talking about two bad words. 8 00:00:22,805 --> 00:00:27,120 The first one is going to be an imagined bad word, and the next one is 9 00:00:27,145 --> 00:00:28,535 going to be a real bad word. 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,940 Those are in the Rift, we're going to talk about a bad word. 11 00:00:30,965 --> 00:00:34,440 And what we want to talk about is we're going to talk about the imaginary or the 12 00:00:34,465 --> 00:00:37,580 imagined bad word is a word that can hold you back in your game. 13 00:00:37,605 --> 00:00:42,900 It's a word that if you let it detract or distract you, I should say, from 14 00:00:42,925 --> 00:00:46,820 what you're going to work on, it can really hold you back as a player. 15 00:00:46,845 --> 00:00:51,560 And then the second word, the real bad word, is a word that can mess with your 16 00:00:51,585 --> 00:00:55,440 mind and affect your relationships with your opponents who, more often 17 00:00:55,465 --> 00:00:56,975 than not, are your friends. 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,200 At the end of the podcast, if you're a therapist, stick around. 19 00:00:59,225 --> 00:01:02,220 I'm going to give you an on the therapist event coming up, 20 00:01:02,245 --> 00:01:03,960 I want to say next week on the 18th. 21 00:01:03,985 --> 00:01:07,960 I'm losing track of weeks right now, but the 18th for the therapist event. 22 00:01:07,985 --> 00:01:12,660 I'll give you an update on that, about the emails coming to you there. 23 00:01:12,685 --> 00:01:16,960 All right, let's dive into the imagined word that we want to talk about. 24 00:01:16,985 --> 00:01:23,850 The Imagined Word is, as I mentioned, I'm at the PPA, and I was reminded of it 25 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,160 during a match that I was watching yesterday. 26 00:01:26,185 --> 00:01:30,440 I was standing there with a pro player who I know fairly well. 27 00:01:30,465 --> 00:01:34,820 I played against him in the US Open in the Split Age, and we become friendly. 28 00:01:34,845 --> 00:01:39,210 And so we're watching four players, but two players who I know well. 29 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:44,215 And they were up in the match, and they were up, I believe it was like nine, 30 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,320 eight, but the other team was serving, it might have been nine, seven. 31 00:01:46,345 --> 00:01:50,290 The other team was serving at seven, nine, and the other team scored a point. 32 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,320 So I asked my friend who was standing next to me. 33 00:01:52,345 --> 00:01:54,260 I said, Okay, what did you see there? 34 00:01:54,285 --> 00:01:56,930 And what he said was he said, Well, I saw a good drive. 35 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,340 And then they came in and they did like a shake and bake and they won the 36 00:02:00,365 --> 00:02:01,960 So again, I know him really well. 37 00:02:01,985 --> 00:02:05,920 So I chided him and I was like, come on, you pros, you guys always 38 00:02:05,945 --> 00:02:07,140 looking past the basics. 39 00:02:07,165 --> 00:02:11,775 You're always getting past the fundamentals and thinking of other stuff. 40 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,380 And once I said that, he was like, oh, yeah, you're right. 41 00:02:14,405 --> 00:02:16,295 There was a short return of serve. 42 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,240 And so the key there is that even at the pro level, and the match we were 43 00:02:19,265 --> 00:02:20,730 watching was a pro level match. 44 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,320 So even at the pro level, this word fundamentals is a word that, not 45 00:02:25,345 --> 00:02:29,655 to say that players here don't like that word, but fundamentals are the key, right? 46 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,320 Even Even at the highest level of play, the fundamentals are what often drive the 47 00:02:33,345 --> 00:02:36,780 difference between the winning team and the losing team. 48 00:02:36,805 --> 00:02:41,340 And what happens to us as pickleball players, as non-pro players, is that we 49 00:02:41,365 --> 00:02:43,140 shy away from the word. 50 00:02:43,165 --> 00:02:46,320 If you listen to the podcast a lot. 51 00:02:46,345 --> 00:02:51,600 You've probably heard me say this before, that we don't use the word fundamentals in 52 00:02:51,625 --> 00:02:56,940 our outward materials or marketing and things like that. 53 00:02:56,965 --> 00:02:57,895 Why? 54 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,320 Because the minute we say the word fundamentals, What is the 55 00:03:00,345 --> 00:03:02,000 pickleball player hear? 56 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,760 That's for a beginner. That's not for me. 57 00:03:03,785 --> 00:03:06,780 That's for a beginner. Nothing could be further from the truth. 58 00:03:06,805 --> 00:03:12,575 Again, at the pro level, there are issues with the fundamentals sometimes that drive 59 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,610 the difference between the winning and the losing. 60 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:16,540 And I'll give you an example. 61 00:03:16,565 --> 00:03:22,200 What I believe to be the strongest pro team right now in terms of everything 62 00:03:22,225 --> 00:03:27,820 that they do from beginning to end is Anna Leigh Waters and Catherine Parenteau. 63 00:03:27,845 --> 00:03:32,380 The reason is because they are very good at every part of the game, including 64 00:03:32,405 --> 00:03:35,720 the fundamentals, including everything. 65 00:03:35,745 --> 00:03:37,500 They don't take a shot off. 66 00:03:37,525 --> 00:03:42,735 And so they're executing everything really well, including those fundamentals. 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,780 And that is what separates them from the other teams that they play against 68 00:03:45,805 --> 00:03:49,575 is their focus on the fundamentals. 69 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,600 Another match that I'll tell you about here that I happened to see yesterday that 70 00:03:52,625 --> 00:03:55,320 reinforced what I was already going to talk about is a mixed doubles 71 00:03:55,345 --> 00:03:57,540 match against two very good teams. 72 00:03:57,565 --> 00:04:01,610 Team A was up nine, six. Against Team B. 73 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,060 Team B got a side out. 74 00:04:04,085 --> 00:04:06,540 So Team B is serving at 6-9-1. 75 00:04:06,565 --> 00:04:11,660 Team B, I'm sorry, Team A then missed two returns of serve in a row. 76 00:04:11,685 --> 00:04:16,300 So it went from 6-9-1 to 8-9-1 because of what shot? 77 00:04:16,325 --> 00:04:18,060 Missed returns of serve. 78 00:04:18,085 --> 00:04:20,055 What is that? That's a fundamental, right? 79 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:22,840 That's something that they hit as pros, and you hit, and I hit. 80 00:04:22,865 --> 00:04:24,580 Everybody hits returns of serve. 81 00:04:24,605 --> 00:04:27,860 But that flaw in their game allowed the other team to close the gap. 82 00:04:27,885 --> 00:04:32,000 And then there were three more points scored, So one more gifted point or 83 00:04:32,025 --> 00:04:34,100 easy point, and then two tough points. 84 00:04:34,125 --> 00:04:38,880 So out of five points at the end, three were essentially gifted or easy 85 00:04:38,905 --> 00:04:40,980 points, and two were struggled, right? 86 00:04:41,005 --> 00:04:44,320 So it should have been nine, eight, nine, eight side out with 87 00:04:44,345 --> 00:04:46,980 them serving to close it out. 88 00:04:47,005 --> 00:04:49,300 Instead, they lost the game 11, nine. 89 00:04:49,325 --> 00:04:51,775 And why? Again, the word fundamentals. 90 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,280 That's why it's an imagine that word. 91 00:04:53,305 --> 00:04:56,100 It's a word that pickleball players shy away from. 92 00:04:56,125 --> 00:05:01,280 Try and avoid, try and avoid shying away from the term and try and shy away from 93 00:05:01,305 --> 00:05:05,335 doing the things that are fundamentals, because at the end of the day, that 94 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,860 is what good pickleball is built upon. 95 00:05:06,885 --> 00:05:10,880 Good pickleball, and the best pickleball you'll ever play, is built upon a 96 00:05:10,905 --> 00:05:12,575 foundation of sound fundamentals. 97 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,740 The better your fundamentals, the better you're going to play. 98 00:05:14,765 --> 00:05:18,420 So that's the imagine bad word that I wanted to talk to you about. 99 00:05:18,445 --> 00:05:20,140 Look at my notes real quick. 100 00:05:20,165 --> 00:05:23,495 Been a long day coaching up here. A good day. 101 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,740 We had two, three-game match. I guess I should give you an update. 102 00:05:25,765 --> 00:05:30,660 We had two matches that Dylan played earlier today, went three games, his 103 00:05:30,685 --> 00:05:32,800 singles match and his mixed doubles match. 104 00:05:32,825 --> 00:05:36,320 But he pulled out the singles and he and Tyra pulled out the mixed, and we're 105 00:05:36,345 --> 00:05:39,720 waiting for the men's match, which will be probably in about an hour 106 00:05:39,745 --> 00:05:40,980 or so with him and J. W. 107 00:05:41,005 --> 00:05:44,160 Playing their first match of this tournament since they had 108 00:05:44,185 --> 00:05:45,500 a buy in the first round. 109 00:05:45,525 --> 00:05:51,695 One quick note as we move on to the real bad word, which also 110 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,300 occurred here at the PPA. 111 00:05:52,325 --> 00:05:55,940 These tournaments are always great sources of inspiration for these 112 00:05:55,965 --> 00:05:59,735 podcast topics because you see it in real life. 113 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,040 I see what's really happening out there, and then we can talk about it in here and 114 00:06:03,065 --> 00:06:05,980 learn from what's happening at the tournament. 115 00:06:06,005 --> 00:06:07,420 A couple of quick notes. 116 00:06:07,445 --> 00:06:09,980 One is that we have an upcoming virtual clinic. 117 00:06:10,005 --> 00:06:15,240 There is no easier way to interact with CJ and myself and the BP coach the Better 118 00:06:15,265 --> 00:06:19,055 pickleball Coaching team to really help you improve your play. 119 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,560 I'll put a link in the show notes. 120 00:06:20,585 --> 00:06:22,320 You can also just go to betterpickleball. Com. 121 00:06:22,345 --> 00:06:26,620 It's the easiest way to access our stuff all the time. 122 00:06:26,645 --> 00:06:28,700 And you'll see the clinic on there. 123 00:06:28,725 --> 00:06:31,920 It's $47 So it's a no brainer. Two and a half hours. 124 00:06:31,945 --> 00:06:34,335 You come in, learn some really good stuff. 125 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,440 And at the end, we have an optional presentation about the pickleball system. 126 00:06:37,465 --> 00:06:40,560 And that's the other thing I wanted to mention in the housekeeping, is that if 127 00:06:40,585 --> 00:06:44,480 you follow us, you know that we have our flagship course, the biggest course 128 00:06:44,505 --> 00:06:46,740 that we offer is the pickleball system. 129 00:06:46,765 --> 00:06:49,940 And it opens two times per year. 130 00:06:49,965 --> 00:06:53,780 This is our September opening, so it'll be our last opening in 2024. 131 00:06:53,805 --> 00:06:57,495 So if you're ready to take this leap in your game, then make sure 132 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,880 you check that out as well. And you go to pickleballsystem. 133 00:06:59,905 --> 00:07:02,000 Com to check that out, but just go to Better pickleball. 134 00:07:02,025 --> 00:07:03,375 All the links are in there. 135 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,880 All right, let's talk about a real bad word, and I heard this one 136 00:07:05,905 --> 00:07:07,380 during the tournament as well. 137 00:07:07,405 --> 00:07:10,300 The real bad word occurred during a singles match that I was 138 00:07:10,325 --> 00:07:13,180 watching today, earlier today. 139 00:07:13,205 --> 00:07:20,240 And at the end of one At the end of the second game, player A had won 140 00:07:20,265 --> 00:07:22,000 the match, the game, I'm sorry. 141 00:07:22,025 --> 00:07:26,060 Player B had won the first game, and then player A had won the second game. 142 00:07:26,085 --> 00:07:29,760 And the game ends, and then player B, I think it was, the 143 00:07:29,785 --> 00:07:33,415 loser of the second game, I hear him say, he's walking by his 144 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:34,720 opponent and the ref and everything. 145 00:07:34,745 --> 00:07:38,220 And I hear him just say, you're to himself. 146 00:07:38,245 --> 00:07:41,180 You're a piece of poop or S-H-I-T. 147 00:07:41,205 --> 00:07:43,300 That's what he says. 148 00:07:43,325 --> 00:07:45,500 So you're a piece of that. 149 00:07:45,525 --> 00:07:47,975 And that's a real bad word. 150 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,080 And that's why it's a real bad word. 151 00:07:49,105 --> 00:07:51,420 But here's the problem with that, right? 152 00:07:51,445 --> 00:07:54,775 First of all, it's bad for his psyche, bad for player B's psyche. 153 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,240 But I'm going to take it a step further for you because I want you to understand 154 00:07:58,265 --> 00:08:01,660 how your actions, how your conduct, and start thinking about how your behavior 155 00:08:01,685 --> 00:08:04,140 affects those around you. 156 00:08:04,165 --> 00:08:09,540 So the minute that player B says, you're a piece of poop, right, to himself, 157 00:08:09,565 --> 00:08:16,300 what he's doing is he is denying player A the ability to enjoy 158 00:08:16,325 --> 00:08:18,900 the victory of the winning game 2. 159 00:08:18,925 --> 00:08:23,660 So game 2 now becomes about player B, and player B being a piece of poop, 160 00:08:23,685 --> 00:08:28,840 not about player A battling, not about player A having lost 161 00:08:28,865 --> 00:08:33,615 the first game and then keeping it going and really digging in deep and 162 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,180 fighting because he had to fight. It wasn't like player B gave him the game. 163 00:08:36,205 --> 00:08:38,100 Player A had to hit some really nice shots. 164 00:08:38,125 --> 00:08:41,820 And so this idea that I'm a piece of poop at the end of the game 165 00:08:41,845 --> 00:08:43,900 is a idyllic, right? 166 00:08:43,925 --> 00:08:49,940 It It demeans, it diminishes player A's accomplishment. 167 00:08:49,965 --> 00:08:51,860 So think about that in your game. 168 00:08:51,885 --> 00:08:56,480 If you have that attitude at the end of a tough game, if you make a statement like 169 00:08:56,505 --> 00:09:01,855 that, if you behave that way, just put yourself in the shoes of your opponents. 170 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,640 Put yourself... Have some empathy, right? 171 00:09:03,665 --> 00:09:06,180 Think about it through their eyes. 172 00:09:06,205 --> 00:09:11,095 And most of the time whenever you're playing rec at your facility, 173 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,160 I'm going to guess that you're playing against your friends, right? 174 00:09:13,185 --> 00:09:14,500 A lot of these times. 175 00:09:14,525 --> 00:09:17,760 So what you're doing is you're telling your friends, it's not about you. 176 00:09:17,785 --> 00:09:20,540 It's not about what you did. It's not about the great shots you had. 177 00:09:20,565 --> 00:09:21,700 It's all about me. 178 00:09:21,725 --> 00:09:24,000 It's all about what I did wrong. 179 00:09:24,025 --> 00:09:25,880 And I made the mistake. 180 00:09:25,905 --> 00:09:27,940 I didn't do well. I didn't play well. 181 00:09:27,965 --> 00:09:31,500 And it's just something that I think you should to reach out for because 182 00:09:31,525 --> 00:09:32,815 it's not beneficial to you. 183 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,620 It doesn't do anything for you if you think about it, right? 184 00:09:34,645 --> 00:09:36,580 It doesn't help you in any way. 185 00:09:36,605 --> 00:09:40,840 And it definitely doesn't help your opponents who, again, are your friends. 186 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,935 So that's the second bad word that I wanted to talk about, 187 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:44,940 which is the real one. 188 00:09:44,965 --> 00:09:50,220 One last note before we sign off for this week, which is if you're a therapist, 189 00:09:50,245 --> 00:09:54,240 confirmed therapist, meaning that you've let me know that you're into being a 190 00:09:54,265 --> 00:09:57,960 therapist right now, by my last count, there's around, I want to say around 191 00:09:57,985 --> 00:10:01,760 50 or so therapists We have that event. 192 00:10:01,785 --> 00:10:04,700 We're going to do the live podcast with the therapist. 193 00:10:04,725 --> 00:10:09,175 So what I want you to do is you're going to get an email from us 194 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,220 that'll send you a link. 195 00:10:10,245 --> 00:10:13,120 Please let us know you're coming by replying to and saying, I'll be there 196 00:10:13,145 --> 00:10:14,400 or if you can't be, that's okay, dude. 197 00:10:14,425 --> 00:10:15,820 Just let us know you can't be there. 198 00:10:15,845 --> 00:10:17,380 We just want to make sure you got the email. 199 00:10:17,405 --> 00:10:20,920 And then if you're a therapist and don't get anything from us, let's say today, 200 00:10:20,945 --> 00:10:22,620 this is going to drop on Friday. 201 00:10:22,645 --> 00:10:27,180 So if you haven't got anything by Sunday, actually, if you haven't got anything by 202 00:10:27,205 --> 00:10:30,880 Friday, it's fine because we'll send the email out before If you haven't got 203 00:10:30,905 --> 00:10:34,060 anything by the time you hear this podcast, send us an email. 204 00:10:34,085 --> 00:10:36,320 Please send an email to support@betterpickleball. 205 00:10:36,345 --> 00:10:39,700 Com. Put therapist live in the subject line. 206 00:10:39,725 --> 00:10:42,120 Again, support@betterpickleball. Com. 207 00:10:42,145 --> 00:10:47,855 Put therapist live in the subject line, let us know that you're a therapist and 208 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,720 you have not received the invitation, and we will reply to that with an 209 00:10:50,745 --> 00:10:54,340 invitation to the live event. 210 00:10:54,365 --> 00:10:56,500 If you're not a therapist, fret not. 211 00:10:56,525 --> 00:11:02,880 We will capture the live podcast and then publish it as a special episode so you can 212 00:11:02,905 --> 00:11:06,100 hear what the back and forth was, what the questions were. 213 00:11:06,125 --> 00:11:09,920 But as a therapist, you get to join live and ask questions and have a conversation 214 00:11:09,945 --> 00:11:12,700 about this wonderful sport of pickleball. 215 00:11:12,725 --> 00:11:15,120 All right, that's it for this week's podcast. 216 00:11:15,145 --> 00:11:17,000 I got to get ready for our next match. 217 00:11:17,025 --> 00:11:20,960 I hope you're having a great week so far, and I hope you have a great week 218 00:11:20,985 --> 00:11:23,375 between now and our next time together. 219 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,800 In the meantime, if you have a minute to share this with your friends, that's the 220 00:11:26,825 --> 00:11:32,280 most powerful compliment and help you can friends. 221 00:11:32,305 --> 00:11:36,600 And I would suggest you, you're also helping your friends, because if you enjoy 222 00:11:36,625 --> 00:11:39,455 the podcast, my bet is they probably will, too. 223 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,340 I hope you have a great week, and I'll see you at the next episode of 224 00:11:42,365 --> 00:11:43,415 Takeabal Therapy. 225 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:43,640 Be well.