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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,
the podcast dedicated to your pickleball

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improvement, specifically
your pickleball mind.

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I'm the host of this
weekly podcast, Tony Roig.

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It's a pleasure to be with you this week,
and I hope you're having a great

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week as well wherever you are.

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This week's episode is particularly
special because what we're going to do

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this week is we're going to
basically condense three of our top

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ideas, three of the ideas that have most
resonated with you and helped

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you and other players
all around the world improve their play

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and also improve their
relationship with this game.

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And we're going to address the three
different parts of the

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mental aspects of pickleball.

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Before we get into that, I'm going to tell
you what the three parts are, and then

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we're going to dive into each
one of them more specifically.

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These are condensed versions of these
topics that we've covered in other

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podcasts and over several
podcasts in some cases.

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We're going to be talking about a bowl of
ice cream, which is one of our

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biggest or most impactful ideas that
have been around for a long time.

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We're going to cover the Oops Bucket.

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If you heard, I banged the
microphone there for a second.

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That's an Oops Bucket situation, which is
a fairly new concept for us, but something

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that has really resonated quickly.

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It's gotten a lot of legs quickly.

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And then I'm going to talk to you about
the pickleball Treadmill, the improvement

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treadmill, and how to avoid it, because
it's a source of a lot

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frustration out there.

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As we dive into the podcast, we have our
Better pickleball Academy, which supports

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a lot of our efforts, including being able
to bring you this content like

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this is supported by our academy.

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And the academy is a place where you
can go and get really good coaching.

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This is not content creator stuff, and
there's nothing wrong

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with content creation.
Content creation is fantastic.

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But we aren't just content
creators at Better pickleball.

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We're actually pickleball coaches,
full-time coaches, certified, trained.

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We study it.

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And so the Better Pickleball
Academy is an expression of that.

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And I don't know when you're going to be
hearing this podcast, but in the

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not-too-distant future, we have an
initiative coming out on the academy,

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which is based on the idea that we know
that a lot of our community,

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a lot of players out there right now have
a lot of uncertainty with

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what's going on in the world.

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And so we wanted to address that and not
have that be an impediment to improvement.

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So be on the look out for that.

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If you're not on our email list already,
make sure you join our email list and

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you'll get notified of it before anybody
else, because that's part

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of being our community.

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All right, let's dive into the three
areas of the mental aspect of pickleball.

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And I would suggest to you it's broader.

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It's the three aspects of any sport, and
you can even apply it to life,

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obviously, in terms of these ideas.

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So when we think about the mental, as I've
been working on the mental game, in the

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mental parts of pickleball,
one thing that keeps coming up is there's

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a lot We're going to focus on play.

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And play is important.

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And what I mean by play, that's like,
think about the idea of giving 110 %.

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Think about the idea of maintaining
focus while you're playing.

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I have the tiger, all that type of stuff.

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It's good stuff, and it's part of what we
do, and it's one of the three areas we're

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going to cover, but that's just one of the
three areas that are relevant

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to you as a pickleball player.

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So we call that one play.

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Then the other one is called
progress or improvement.

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We use progress because it has a P.

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You'll see in a second,
all three have a P.

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It's good for alliteration.

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But progress or improvement is another
entirely distinct area of the mental side.

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It's learning how to learn.

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It's dealing with frustration or feeling
like you're stuck and things like that.

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That's an improvement or progress concept,
different than the concepts that

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will help you while you're playing.
Those are two different areas.

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And the third one is my personal favorite.

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I think it's the one that has the biggest
reach, the broadest reach for you as a

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human being, as a player, but also as
a human being, which is perspective.

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So you see this three P's,
play, progress, and perspective.

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And perspective is much bigger picture.

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Perspective is how you view your
relationship with the sport, how you feel

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when you play, how What pickleball means
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things all go into perspective.

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And to me, perspective is amazing because
improving perspective in pickleball

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allows you to also improve perspective in
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because you take those concepts that
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and then you apply them in life.

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So we're going to cover
each one of those today.

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And let me give you the order
we're going to do them in.

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So first, I'm going to give you one that
you can use for play, which

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will be the Oops Bucket.

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Then we're going to go into...

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We'll do perspective second.

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That's the bowl of ice cream, which is,
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the concepts that we developed here at the
Pickleball Therapy podcast and Better

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Pickleball Coaching that has
really resonated with players.

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And then lastly, we'll cover improvement
or progress, and I'll give you an idea

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there on how to avoid that treadmill that
exists in your learning, potentially.

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All right, so let's start with play.

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So the idea of the Oups Bucket is this.

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The idea is, and if you want to listen to
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I'll put it in the show notes.

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I don't remember the episode number off
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basically the 85, 15 concept.

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So you can go more in-depth if
this really resonates with you.

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But the idea of the Oups Bucket is that
When we play, remember,

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this is a play concept.
So when we play, we will miss shots.

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And that is a 100 % certainty.

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There is no way to get around that.

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I don't care how much you practice.

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I don't care how good you get.

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And the reason I can say that is because
the best players on the planet, the very

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best players on the planet, miss shots.

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And not just difficult shots, they
miss easy shots, right?

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Shots that would be objectively easy.

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And so if the best players on the planet
who play professionally and who train

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as much as a human being can train, are
going to miss shots,

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then I would suggest that we, as
non-professional players,

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I laugh because it's interesting when you
go through this process, because when you

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articulate these things, they
just seem so obvious, don't they?

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When you just hear them out
loud, when you hear them spoken.

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But basically, as nonprofessional players,
then if professionals are missing,

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okay, we're going to miss.

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But here's what happens.

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So when we play, we miss, which we just
agreed is going to happen 100 %, right?

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Certainty, you're going to miss.

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Even an easy shot, the
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But we get upset at missing.

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And the reason we get upset at missing, I
would submit, is because we're

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putting it in the wrong bucket.

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We're not putting it in the right bucket,
I should say, or in the correct bucket.

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And the idea is this.

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So take any shot that you want, and just
think of the next hundred of those shots.

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And you can just think easy put away.

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If you want to have a shot to
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Out of the next hundred, how
many are you going to miss?

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Now, if you say zero, that's nuts.

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That's just right, because not even
the best are going to be a zero.

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And it doesn't matter
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We used 85, 15 in the podcast because it
gave us a nice number to use, but

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you can use any number you want.

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The number of misses
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and the number of makes is your
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Now, realistically, you're not
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You're going to be happy when you make
them, but you're not going

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to put them in a bucket.

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The bucket is really there for when you
miss and you're upset that you missed.

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What you do is when you miss the shot,
you know that you have an OOPS bucket.

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You know the certain number of
shots go in that bucket anyway.

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So when you miss a shot,
you take the shot,

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the miss, and you And you drop it into
that OOPS bucket, and you forget about it.

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And once the OOPS bucket fills up, and if
you're one of our system students from our

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most recent class, you got to see this
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a new development for us.

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As coaches, we grow like you grow.

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And So we had this video of a bucket of
water basically getting

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poured onto a young tree.

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And you can think about it that way.

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When you fill up your bucket, you
can dump it out.

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But every time you do this
process, you're growing.

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That tree grows, your mind grows.

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So So use the oops bucket when you're
playing and when you miss a shot,

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which again, I believe you
already agreed, will happen.

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A hundred % of the time,
you're going to miss something.

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Not a hundred % of your shots, but a
hundred %, you're going to miss something.

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When you miss that shot, rather than
trying to wrestle with it and kill

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yourself over like, Oh, how did I miss?
I can't believe I missed that shot.

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I shouldn't have missed that shot.

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Any of those expressions, whatever it
is that's your personal flavor for that.

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Nope.

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Okay, cool.
I got my Oops Bucket in right there.

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I'm going to take that shot.

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I'm going to drop it in that
Oops Bucket and carry on.

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You'll feel better and you'll
play better when you do that.

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All right, so that's play.

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I'm leaning over a little bit here because
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pause for a second there.

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Plus, I got to grab a
little sip of tea here.

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I should have tea every once in a while.
It's good stuff.

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I was going to make coffee, but
I'm probably over-caffeinated

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already, so tea is better for me.

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All right, so now we have...

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That was play, Oups bucket.

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Use What is that?

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Let's move on to perspective.

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So remember, perspective is the
bigger area, the bigger playing field

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where we can do a lot
of work for ourselves.

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And the concept that we developed is this
idea of a bowl of ice cream,

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and it works like this.

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Every single time that you go out to
play pickleball, you've already won.

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I mean, you've already gotten great value.

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And it doesn't matter what happens.

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So it doesn't matter whether you win
one game, 20 games, zero games.

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It doesn't take anything away from you.

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Reason?

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You got to play pickleball.

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You got to go out to the court and you
got to play the sport that you love.

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You got to see your friends, you
got to get exercise, you

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got to get out of the house.

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All of the benefits, everything that comes
with pickleball, the health benefits,

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everything that comes with
pickleball, you got it.

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If you didn't win a single game, frankly,
if you didn't win a single point,

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you still got pickleball.

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You were able to pickleball.

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And I like to play with it sometimes where
you imagine a conversation

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between you and a friend of yours.

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And so you go see a friend of yours at,
let's say you have lunch afterwards or

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something, with a friend
who doesn't play pickleball.

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And you look down.

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You lost all your games, right?

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So you're upset and you go to the lunch
and your friend's like, wow, what's wrong?

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You okay?
Is everything okay at home?

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Does something happen
or healthy or something?

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And And you're like, No, no, no.
Everything's fine.

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And then your friend says, What were
you doing before you came over here?

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And you're like, well, I
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And your friend goes,
You were playing pickle?

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Yeah, I was playing pickle.

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Your friend goes, That sounds amazing.

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I mean, you love pickle.

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And did you get to your friend?

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And you're like, Yeah,
I got to see my friends.

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And did you get exercise?
Yeah, I got exercise.

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And were you at the courts
and you got to hang out?

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Yeah, I got all that.

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Why are you upset And you're
like, I lost all my games.

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Loss of games?
What does that mean?

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Was some part of your body amputated
or did they take your money away?

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No, no.

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The scores, they were
like, They got 11 and I got nine.

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And I got 11 and I got seven.

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And your friend said, they're going
like, you're kidding me, right?

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Come on now.

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What were you doing?

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You just spent two hours
playing pickleball.

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You're having lunch with
me and you're upset.

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Come on.

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And so that's like, it's a way
of reframing the perspective

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of what happened.

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You got your base of good.

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And the idea of the bowl of ice
cream is it allows you to get that.

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Plus, you can feel better when you win.

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Because we also want to live in the real
world where we've been conditioned our

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entire lives to celebrate the
wins more than our losses.

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It's hard to just rewire ourselves
overnight and say, Okay, an 11: 9 loss

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is effectively relatively
the same as an 11-9 win.

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And you can take it to another extreme.

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You could say, let's say you're playing to
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where you keep going.

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If you lose that game, 1917, versus
winning in 1917, It's the same basic

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thing has happened
in terms of everything else that you

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got other than one thing, the score.

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There's other conversations we can have.

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We can go deeper on score over
life and things like that.

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But at the end of the day, those events
are substantially the same because in

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all of those events, you're doing what?

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You're playing pickleball.

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That sounds like my puppies
are here or barking.

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But basically, you're
playing pickleball, right?

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And so if you're getting the benefit of
pickleball, That's your bowl of ice cream.

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So every time you play pickleball,
you get a bowl of ice cream.

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And it's not some
crappy ice cream you don't like.

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It's not some flavor you don't like.

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It's not a quarter bowl of ice cream.

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Every time that you play pickleball,
you get a full bowl of ice cream,

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your favorite flavor, all the ice
cream that you want in that bowl.

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Now, if you win,
okay, now we're going to throw some

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sprinkles on there, some fudge, some whip
cream, nuts, cherry, whatever you want.

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You get the toppings.

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And I guess if you want to go further, the
more you win, the more toppings if you

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want, you can play with
it however you like.

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But the real key takeaway is this,
is that Even if you lose all the games

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that you played that day,
you still got a full bowl of

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your favorite flavor of ice cream
in that exchange, in that activity.

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So that's a bowl of ice
cream in perspective.

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And I think it'll really help you think
about players who like it and who play

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along with it, they'll communicate
with sprinkles, which is cute.

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They'll basically say, I got
to play pickleball today.

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I didn't get a lot of
sprinkles, but I got to play.

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So they're telling you what the results
were, but they still got

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the bowl of ice cream.

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So they're starting from the
premise of the bowl of ice cream.

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And then if they win a tournament or
something, then they'll say something

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like, I got fudge, whip
cream, cherry ice cream.

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And that's great.
Add to it.

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But don't take away.

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Don't take away from the
experience because of the losses.

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We have a baseline that's
a full bowl of ice cream.

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All right.

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And then the last subject that we want
to cover is progress or improvement.

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And so let's talk about that, because what
happens to players is that we'll get in a

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run, or we'll feel like we're
just spinning our wheels.

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And the treadmill helps with that.

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It's a spinning thing where we're not
really advancing, we're

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just on a treadmill.
You can also think about it.

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Cj likes to think about it in terms of a
hamster wheel, which I think is

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a super good explanation as well.

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Basically, you're on a wheel.

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You're not moving, you're
just stuck on the wheel.

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And so how do we
avoid getting on a treadmill or hamster

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wheel or spinning our wheels in
our progress, in our improvement?

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And a concept that's really worked for us
inside all of our coaching, camps,

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pickleball system, everything that we do,
academy, is this concept of

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closing the gap.

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And the way to think about it is, I'm
going to relate the story to you that I

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relate when we're at camps, which is
this idea that Let's go back a few years.

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Humor me on this because I think it'll
drive the point home much better.

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So let's go back into the mid-1800s, and
you're a farmer in the middle of Oklahoma.

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And I'm assuming there was farming in
Oklahoma in 1800s, but

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let's play with that.

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And so your
good friend, a childhood friend who lives

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in Texas, is traveling through Oklahoma,
heading up to Nebraska somewhere.

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And so they, I I think my
geography is correct there.

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If it's not, let me know.

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But so they
stop at your farm, and

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they share with you this amazing new
irrigation technique that's been developed

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in Texas that all the
farmers down there are using.

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And It's much more...

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It's better than the one that you have
because for whatever reason,

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it just does a better job.

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And you receive all the information.
It's amazing.

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Your friend spends a couple of days
with you and then continues traveling.

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Now, you decide that you want to
have this new irrigation technique.

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And so you start implementing it.

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Think about how long you have.

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Remember, it's like in the
mid-1800s or late 1800s.

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How long do you have to implement that
technique, that new irrigation technique

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before you hear about another one?

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Probably years,
at least two, three, four, five years,

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something like that, that you get to
work on this new irrigation technique.

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And so what that allows you to do is it
allows you to lock in

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the new technique, the new thing that you
want, in this case for your farm,

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and close that gap.

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So install the new systems, do all the
things you need to do to get

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the new irrigation technique.

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Let's now fast forward to today.

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In today's world,
it's great to have access to information,

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but there's also a dark side
to it or a downside to it.

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And that is
that you get a new irrigation technique

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today,
and then not even tomorrow, in three

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hours, you open up your
phone and there's bing.

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Another content creator has
a new irrigation technique.

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And then eight hours later, bing, and
tomorrow morning, bing, you get the new

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video, the new idea, the
new idea, the new idea.

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So what happens is you never have time
to install the irrigation technique that

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you already learned about
and that you want to use.

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Think about that with your pickleball.

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How many videos on YouTube,
Friends at the Court is giving you

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advice, newsletters that you may subscribe
to, Whatever it is, that

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just hitting you with this and
this and this and this and this.

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So what happens is
instead of closing the gap, which is where

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you lock something in and then you ratchet
up your game to the

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thing that you want, to that
idea, that technique, that strategy,

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that mechanical part of the game.

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What happens is you
basically lock in the thing, the

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mechanical idea, whatever, or the
strategic idea or the athletic idea.

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And then it doesn't even last three
hours there because there's another idea.

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And then that might last a
day and there's another idea.

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Maybe this one holds for three or four or
five days, maybe even a couple of weeks.

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But there's another idea.

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What happens is if If you think about it
in terms of if you want to do this, if

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you're listening to it on the podcast and
not visually, think about, put your

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right-hand up and say, This
is what I want for myself.

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And then take your left hand and put it
underneath that, like a foot or so,

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12 inches, 14 inches underneath that.

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So you're The left hand represents
you right now, the way you're playing.

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And your right-hand, which is the one
above it, 12, 14 inches above it,

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that's where you want to be
on this particular thing.

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Let's just take something like the serve.

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So you're having You're having trouble
with your serve, or you're having trouble

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with a volley, or you're having
difficulty with a strategic concept.

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And so you're the left hand down here.

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And so you've identified this
right-hand thing up here.

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And let's assume you can do that.

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I'm not going to get into this podcast on
how do you know to trust it,

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how do you know it's right?
How do you know it's right for you?

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All those sorts of things.

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That's why having coaching either in the
system or academy solves that because you

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know that we're going
to give you good stuff.

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But let's assume that that's the case,
that this is really valuable for you on

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the right-hand, and now you have
the The left hand is down here.

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What really matters is the left hand,
because the left hand is you

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and how you play pickleball.

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The right-hand is where you want to go and
the ideas that you want to learn

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and that you want to implement.

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If the left hand stays
where you currently have it and never

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moves up, then you're going
to continue playing that way.

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You can replace the right-hand a thousand
things, 5,000 things, a million things.

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That does not change Change the left hand,
which is how you play.

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So the idea of closing the gap is
to leave the right-hand locked in.

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Don't change it.

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Put the thing in there that
you're working on that matters.

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And again, assuming that it's correct
and complete and all those things.

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Right for you, which is one
that's often overlooked.

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And basically, lock that right-hand
in and then ratchet the left hand up.

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Allow the left hand to move
up toward the right-hand.

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And now it doesn't have to necessarily
touch it, but it should get close to

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it before you
replace the right-hand with something

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else, which then drops the left hand
again, creating that 12 to 14-inch gap

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that you then have to close.

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And improvement in pick-able, and
in anything in life, is like that.

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You lock in an idea, you lock in something
that you want,

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and then you ratchet yourself up
closer to that ideal shot, ideal

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strategy, ideal objective that you have.

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And then you replace with another one
and repeat the process.

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This idea of constantly replacing the
right-hand idea

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or the goal that we have with a new
irrigation idea, with a new shot, with a

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new whatever came across YouTube or your
friend at the courts told you,

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will not allow you to progress.

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And that's how you end up on a treadmill
or hamster wheel or spinning your wheels

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because you're never closing the gap on
any of the one thing that you're

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working, that will really help you.

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And just To round this out, so you
understand how we think about it as

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coaches, how we apply this idea,
is that we just launched our most

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recent pickleball System class.

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And if you look at the pickleball System
structure, the curriculum, it's

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a very structured curriculum.

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Everything in there is organized
based on highest result.

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So we prioritize it for you.

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We say, Okay, this is the highest result,
and that's going to get you

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a lot of work on your game.

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So if you lock that in in the order that
it's presented, you know you're going to

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get a lot of upside on your game
with the work that you're putting in.

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And you can do the same thing, or if you
can, in your game, you want to try and

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think about your prioritization
of what it is you're working on.

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And then close that gap is the key that I
want to leave you with on progress here.

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All right, it sounds like the puppies are
getting riled up by there, so they

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probably need a little bit of a walk.

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I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast.

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As always, if you have a minute to rate
and review it, really appreciate that.

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And share it with your friends, because
remember, if you enjoy this podcast and if

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it helps you out,
it'll probably help them out as well.

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I hope you have a great week, and I'll see
you on the next episode

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of pickleball Therapy.

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Be well.