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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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My name is Tony Roig.

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I am your host of this weekly podcast,

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as well as a master teaching professional and a senior professional

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Pickleball player.

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Each week we try and bring you content that will help

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you navigate the mental hurdles or the mental minefield that Pickleball

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can present to us.

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This week,

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we are going to switch gears a little bit.

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We've been talking about a little bit about perspective and improvement,

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understanding how the,

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the best way to approach the game is from a big

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picture standpoint.

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Today we're gonna go a little bit more into the micro,

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into the weeds,

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and we're gonna look at play.

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We're gonna look at the play aspect of Pickleball,

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and we're gonna talk more specifically about how to navigate a

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game. We're gonna give you some ideas on how to navigate

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a Pickleball game that'll help you stay focused while you're playing,

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as well as keep a level head while you're out there

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and you navigate the sometimes turbulent waters that can be a

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Pickleball game.

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Before we jump into the podcast,

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I wanna let you know that our Pickleball Academy has several

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courses available for you.

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Now, one of those that's available that I wanna highlight,

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because we're talking about navigating a game,

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is called Partner Play.

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And in the Partner Play course,

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you will learn how to better work with your partner when

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you're playing.

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We have some concepts in there that you can use no

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matter where you're playing,

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whether it's competitive or playing in rec play situations,

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open play situations,

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having a better understanding of how to work your partner is

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key to playing your best Pickleball doubles because after all,

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Pickleball doubles is a team sport.

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So check that one out.

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I put a link down in the show notes,

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so you can check that out.

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All right,

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let's jump into navigating a game.

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I mean,

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you think about navigating a Pickleball game,

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it's, you know,

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you think about it like navigating a ship through,

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through waters,

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right? Sometimes the waters are nice and calm,

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and we sail super easy with the wind at our back

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and no problems.

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But oftentimes in a Pickleball game,

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we'll find that the wind has shifted and all of a

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sudden, you know,

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we have to attack in a different direction.

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Or the waters have gotten a little rough,

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you know,

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we'll choppy out there,

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and we're having to navigate through some difficult,

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more difficult waters out there.

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And so,

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wanted to talk about five different areas that I wanted to

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focus on in terms of ways to think about navigating the

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game. The first one I wanna talk about is the natural

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ebb and flow of a game.

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what I wanna talk about here is how the,

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you know,

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a game has,

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its, its peaks and its valleys,

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if you will,

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tr tr troughs,

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I think is the term for tr troughs or troughs,

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but for a wave.

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you have the tops and the bottoms,

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right? You have the high and the low when you're playing,

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and that includes all aspects of the game.

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That can mean your focus as a player,

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right? Sometimes you're locked in,

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dialed in,

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and you're just seeing everything clearly.

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you're, I don't know,

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you got distracted by something or you're thinking about,

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a phone call you have to make or whatever.

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So there's a natural ebb And flow that happens in a

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game and also in ourselves as players,

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it's important to understand that's natural,

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that's gonna happen.

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And what we want to do is be aware of it

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so that when it's happening,

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particularly at critical junctures of a game,

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it's like 9,

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that we take a moment there to really focus and really

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hunker down on what it is that we're trying to do

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on the Pickleball Court.

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I give you a tip that I use whenever I'm returning

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serve at a critical moment in the game,

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what I'll do is I'll get down a little bit lower

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right? That really focuses me,

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it's a different stance for me.

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into more crisp alertness for me.

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You can also use your paddle as a tool,

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put it out in front of you,

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and really focus on that paddle being out in front and

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ready for the next shot.

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So it it,

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it's tiring for you to do that.

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That's why you don't do it all the time.

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If it was easy to do,

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keep your focus,

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raise a sharp all of the time,

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you would just do that.

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it requires some energy and,

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and, and dedicated focus.

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in those critical moments,

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you can use techniques like that to hunker down,

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but just be aware of the fact that it's perfectly natural

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to have ebb and flow.

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It'll happen on your side and happen on the other side

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of the court as well with your opponents.

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that's one you can deal with.

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The second thing that's important to understand when you're playing is

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acknowledge that opponents will,

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in fact,

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score and will in fact play some really good rallies.

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you, you can't look at a game.

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way, right?

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You can't expect every to be like placid waters wind at

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that's not fun.

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The reason we play Pickleball is 'cause it challenges us,

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right? It creates,

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it creates puzzles to solve,

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hurdles to overcome.

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battle, so you had a really nice rally and,

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you hit it into the net,

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or you hit it long,

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or your opponents hit a win,

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or whatever it is,

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that's gonna happen,

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right? And you expect that to happen.

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right? Then you're not caught off guard by it.

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You're not sitting there going like,

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how'd that happen?

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you're like,

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you know what?

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I expect them to,

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to, to do well.

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you're gonna,

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it's gonna be a constant theme today.

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you should always think about if you're playing at level,

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then your opponents should be able to play at the same

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basic level that you're playing,

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however good you are,

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they should be generally not everything exact,

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but you know,

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in the same ballpark.

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nice rallies,

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then so can they.

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So second thing is to expect that your opponents will battle

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out there.

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They're gonna do their best and they're gonna score some points.

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That's just part of the game.

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The third relates to the first two,

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which is navigating the ups and downs of the scoring.

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you hear that,

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that Pickleball is a game of momentum.

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Most sports are,

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are games of momentum,

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meaning like,

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you know,

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momentum will shift between teams.

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That's perfectly natural.

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Sometimes the momentum will be yours,

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meaning you'll be scoring some points,

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maybe you'll go on a four or five point,

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run on a,

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on a side out,

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and then all of a sudden your opponents do the same,

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right? And what happens is,

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we feel really good when we score those four or five

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points in a row,

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but we feel perfectly awful when our opponents score four or

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five points in a row.

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Now, I'm not saying we should want our opponents to score

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four or five points in a row,

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however it does happen,

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it happens both in our favor and against us.

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of the game.

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Natural, natural ebb and flow,

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going back to the ebb and flow idea,

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right? But specific to the score that the score momentum and

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movement is natural.

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enjoy when you score 3,

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4, 5 points in a row.

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But understand that sometimes your opponents are gonna do the same.

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And that's perfectly fine to have a bad rotation.

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right? A rotation where your opponent scored 3,

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4, 5 points.

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Not ideal,

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but it'll happen.

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if you let it bring you down too much,

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if you let it take you outta the game,

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that's gonna hurt you longer term than just that one rotation.

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So be ready for it and understand that when it comes,

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you just have to be able to weather those situations.

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You have to be able to weather the storm,

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so to speak,

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in Pickleball.

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The next one I wanna talk about is that your opponents

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are allowed to win games.

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this is not defeat us.

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I'm not saying,

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hey, you know,

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let's play so that our opponents win all the games and

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ladi don not like that.

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But if you're playing at level again,

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then you need to accept the fact that your opponents will

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in fact win games.

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And if you're playing perfectly at level,

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right? So you know exactly at level,

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then it's 50 50 meaning 50%,

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right? So meaning you win one and they win one,

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you win one and they win one.

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six to eight games and you've won three or four and

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lost three or four,

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perfectly fine because that is what you expect to happen during

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a session if you're playing at level.

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And then the last thing I want to give you is,

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learn how to savor those really tough matches,

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those really tough games.

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And the key is this.

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'cause I know you know how to savor it when you

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win, I get that,

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but savor them when you lose.

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So savor your tough games,

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whether you win or lose them.

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And I'll give you a few examples.

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So one is overtime,

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overtimes should be easy to understand,

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right? So basically meaning,

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you know,

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we tied at 10 and we're gotta go to 12,

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or we tied it,

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you know,

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we keep going and say we're playing two 11 and we

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end up one team winning 14,

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12 or 15,

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13. That's awesome.

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Doesn't matter whether you won or lost it.

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That in and of itself is a victory for both teams,

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right? To be able to go into overtime and to,

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to have that kind of grit and battle and fight in

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both sides is amazing and should be,

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should be savored independent of the result of that game.

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Another example I wanna give you,

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or another scenario is let's say,

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you know,

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those times that you're up nine one,

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right? Kind of boring,

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right? Nine,

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one, you're up,

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nine one,

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and you know,

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again, there's nothing to do.

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You're just like,

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I might as well put your ship on autopilot and go

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downstairs and take a nap,

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right? Because the waters are so calm,

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the wind's behind you,

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everything's fine.

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But then what happens?

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Your opponents battle back and they come back and they,

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and they,

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they, you know,

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claw out the game and beat you,

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right? That's a good game,

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right? That means that your opponents battled back and forced you

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and pushed you and were able to come back,

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right? Sometimes you'll be the one,

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sometimes you'll be the nine,

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but celebrate it whenever it happens either way.

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And the other thing is,

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you know,

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when you're down one nine,

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right? And you still lose,

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but you lose 11 nine,

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that's awesome,

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right? You were down one nine and you came back and

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lost 11 nine.

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Celebrate that.

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And I'll tell you a quick personal story here.

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Playing in with some friends the other day,

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and we had a really good first game.

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It went so long that the,

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our opponent,

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one of our opponent,

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we always switch after we play two,

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two outta three.

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And then we switch partners just to rotate throughout the day.

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And one of the players was like,

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okay, we gotta rotate,

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right? And we were like,

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no, that was game,

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that was the first game.

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And he was like,

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I thought we played two games.

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It felt like two games because the,

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I think that one game lasted about 25 to 30 minutes,

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which is great.

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It's a,

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that means it's a good game.

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And you,

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you know,

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you gotta learn how to celebrate those situations where whether even

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though we lost the game,

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right? We made,

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we played a fantastic game and so did our opponents.

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The fact that they just happened to have the arbitrary 11

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before we got to the arbitrary 11 doesn't change anything that

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happened during that game.

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Same thing happened the next game where we were down the

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next game,

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I remember more specifically,

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we were down either 6,

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6 0 or six one.

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It was a bad start for us and we ended up

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losing that game as well.

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But we lost that game.

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It was either 14,

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12 or 15,

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13, I can't remember exactly.

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Actually, I'll tell you more about that game.

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We were,

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we were down ten five,

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so we were down five,

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10 and we had five,

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they had 10.

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So we were playing two 11 and we didn't give up.

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We kept going and we kept,

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they, we kept siding them out when they were serving and

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we scored a few and then we cited 'em out.

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We scored a few,

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we tied it at 10.

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We actually had game point on our paddle once or twice.

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I know once for sure,

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it might've been twice,

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we could convert it.

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But you know,

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we went from a,

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you know,

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six, zero or six,

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one down 10,

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five down to a 14,

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12, 15,

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13 defeat.

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That's awesome.

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So learn to savor those tough games,

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win or lose.

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So hopefully these five kind of ways of thinking about Pickleball

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when you're navigating the game will help you as you're navigating

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these games because you're better prepared to experience the natural turbulence,

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the natural struggles that will occur during a Pickleball game.

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If Pickleball was easy,

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if it was always calm,

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sailing, wind at your back,

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you probably wouldn't enjoy it as much.

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So the fact that we have these,

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these Challenges that are presented to us,

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these, these waves,

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we have to navigate this shifting in the wind and things

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like that is what makes Pickleball worth playing.

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So as you get ready to play your next session,

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listen to this episode,

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consider bookmarking it.

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It's a really good episode to kind of keep yourself reminded

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of these things so that next time you play,

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you go out to the court equipped to better navigate your

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Pickleball game.

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And remember to savor those tough matches,

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win or lose.

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Speaking of savoring,

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if you savored this week's podcast or any other episode of

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Pickleball Therapy,

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please share it with your friends.

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Remember, if you enjoy the podcast,

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they probably will too.

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I hope you enjoy your next set of games that you

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get to play Pickleball at and better equipped with this knowledge.

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And I hope to see you at our next podcast.