1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,240 Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy, 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,400 the podcast dedicated to your pickleable improvement. 3 00:00:04,430 --> 00:00:05,680 My name is Tony Roig. 4 00:00:05,710 --> 00:00:08,740 I am your host of this weekly podcast. 5 00:00:08,770 --> 00:00:14,280 In this podcast, we are going to look at why pickleball therapy. 6 00:00:14,310 --> 00:00:18,140 In other words, what's the reason to get pickleball therapy? 7 00:00:18,170 --> 00:00:21,480 And I have to give a shout out here to 8 00:00:21,510 --> 00:00:26,880 Jennifer from our Better Pickleball Team who turned me on to this thinking, right? 9 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:29,080 So she asked me, we were chatting about 10 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:33,460 the podcast and the direction it was headed and things like that. 11 00:00:33,490 --> 00:00:37,960 And she says, well, what's the point of the podcast? 12 00:00:37,990 --> 00:00:39,340 What are you trying to do? 13 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:40,400 So it got me to thinking. 14 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,880 I made some notes, and I wanted to share them with you because I think it's helpful 15 00:00:42,910 --> 00:00:48,440 here for all of us who listen to this podcast, who 16 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,700 are part of this podcast, the Pickleball Therapy family, if you will, 17 00:00:51,730 --> 00:00:56,740 to just refresh what it is that we're trying to accomplish through this podcast, 18 00:00:56,770 --> 00:01:00,440 as me as your host, and you as a listener of podcast. 19 00:01:00,470 --> 00:01:03,920 So I made some notes, so I'm going to read 20 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:05,440 them to you now and see what you think about them. 21 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,280 Let me know at therapybetterpickleball. 22 00:01:07,310 --> 00:01:13,400 Com if this resonated with you in terms ofPickleball Therapy and why we come 23 00:01:13,430 --> 00:01:17,760 together on a weekly basis if not more, to get some Pickleball Therapy. 24 00:01:17,790 --> 00:01:22,380 And so first question I ask myself is, why does Pickleball Therapy exist? 25 00:01:22,410 --> 00:01:25,060 So Pickleball is awesome, right? 26 00:01:25,090 --> 00:01:27,660 But it's more than just a sport that we play. 27 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,040 Pickleball is part of us, right? It's like family. 28 00:01:30,070 --> 00:01:34,240 There are, however, forces that can undermine 29 00:01:34,270 --> 00:01:38,060 our relationship with pickleball, whether it's a loss of perspective, 30 00:01:38,090 --> 00:01:41,620 a sense of no longer belonging, or just noise. 31 00:01:41,650 --> 00:01:45,240 We can find ourselves feeling less than, put that in quotes, right? 32 00:01:45,270 --> 00:01:50,850 We can find ourselves feeling, quote, unquote, less than about our pickleball. 33 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,960 The enthusiasm and love we felt for pickleball can be dulled. 34 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,210 Our relationship with pickleball is important to us. 35 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,380 Pickleball therapy is here to 36 00:02:00,410 --> 00:02:05,060 help us strengthen this relationship and to help us defend it, 37 00:02:05,090 --> 00:02:09,860 defend the relationship, against potentially damaging influences. 38 00:02:09,890 --> 00:02:15,300 So that's, in a nutshell, why we created Pickleball Therapy. 39 00:02:15,330 --> 00:02:17,780 We know pickleball is super important 40 00:02:17,810 --> 00:02:21,820 for you, not just as a player, for you as a person, as a human being. 41 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:24,400 Pickleball becomes a super important part 42 00:02:24,430 --> 00:02:29,450 of our lives and how we interact with the world. 43 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,940 And a lot A lot of the joy that we get out of the world can come from pickleball. 44 00:02:32,970 --> 00:02:38,340 But there are forces, and I'll talk about those a little bit more in a minute. 45 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,540 Some of those are internal, some are external. 46 00:02:40,570 --> 00:02:44,500 And so we designed pickleball therapy to help strengthen us. 47 00:02:44,530 --> 00:02:50,000 I against those negative forces, against those negative influences that can 48 00:02:50,030 --> 00:02:53,560 undermine our very important relationship with pickleball. 49 00:02:53,590 --> 00:02:56,200 And that's the objective of this podcast. 50 00:02:56,230 --> 00:03:00,160 Now, there's different components to strengthening, right? 51 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,680 So Sometimes it means strengthening our minds in terms of our perspective and 52 00:03:03,710 --> 00:03:11,980 knowing that no one can really take this away from us unless we allow them to. 53 00:03:12,010 --> 00:03:16,040 Those types of things, that's internal strength, mental strength. 54 00:03:16,070 --> 00:03:20,200 And then there's just being more competent as pickleball 55 00:03:20,230 --> 00:03:24,520 players, both in knowledge and in execution, will give us more confidence. 56 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,840 And the more confident we are, the less 57 00:03:25,870 --> 00:03:28,920 likely we are to slide into feeling less than, right? 58 00:03:28,950 --> 00:03:31,060 Which is what we're to avoid. 59 00:03:31,090 --> 00:03:33,200 So reading some more of the P pickleball 60 00:03:33,230 --> 00:03:37,220 Therapy episodes focus on the mental aspects of our Pickleball. 61 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:40,560 We share tools and concepts that you can 62 00:03:40,590 --> 00:03:45,440 use to maintain a healthy and productive perspective with the sport that you love. 63 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,880 And let me define the problem for you a little bit, and then I'll provide to you 64 00:03:49,910 --> 00:03:54,720 what I believe is a solution to that problem, at least on paper. 65 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,060 It's harder to implement, but on paper, this is what I think happens. 66 00:03:58,090 --> 00:04:00,940 So sometimes the problem is this: 67 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,540 pickleball players become dissatisfied with the sport they otherwise love. 68 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,200 And dissatisfaction can be, and remember, I mentioned it can be internal/external, 69 00:04:08,230 --> 00:04:11,740 so it can come from themselves, themselves as a player. 70 00:04:11,770 --> 00:04:15,160 And it's, I just can't get this. 71 00:04:15,190 --> 00:04:17,060 I'm not good enough. 72 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:19,720 I'm stuck. I can't improve. 73 00:04:19,750 --> 00:04:22,760 It's all on I can't. 74 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,820 Then sometimes the satisfaction could come from results. 75 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:29,480 I'm always losing. 76 00:04:29,510 --> 00:04:30,560 I can't get better. 77 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,240 So that's a results-oriented thing. 78 00:04:32,270 --> 00:04:38,980 Basically, I'm tying it to some external results-driven metric. 79 00:04:39,010 --> 00:04:41,900 Or the satisfaction can come from a 80 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,860 loss of identity in terms of our place in the game. 81 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,100 So this is our interaction with pickleball, and that comes from... 82 00:04:49,130 --> 00:04:54,180 A lack of confidence can be a big source of that problem. 83 00:04:54,210 --> 00:04:59,660 So solutions can come from improved perspective. 84 00:04:59,690 --> 00:05:03,880 An example there would be winning is a bad metric, right? 85 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,320 Is a good way of changing your perspective with the game, right? 86 00:05:06,340 --> 00:05:11,880 And saying, that win-loss doesn't make sense. 87 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,140 I can throw that out the door. 88 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,580 That's a better perspective, a better approach on how we come to the game. 89 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,460 We could also improve our perspective 90 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,860 or perspective by focusing on the reasons why we play, right? 91 00:05:25,890 --> 00:05:28,400 We don't play to come and win a bunch of games. 92 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,160 We could play because of social or exercise or whatever it is, that's a 93 00:05:31,190 --> 00:05:36,240 really good way of refocusing ourselves in terms of our perspective. 94 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,180 So improved perspective is one solution. 95 00:05:39,210 --> 00:05:41,400 Improved play is another solution, which 96 00:05:41,420 --> 00:05:46,700 is things that we can do to reduce the anxiety when we're out on the court. 97 00:05:46,730 --> 00:05:49,400 Sometimes that's perspective and play. 98 00:05:49,420 --> 00:05:50,920 All these have some overlap. 99 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:52,740 But for instance, when you're playing, 100 00:05:52,770 --> 00:05:59,000 knowing that no one else has time for your business, meaning no one's really paying 101 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,080 attention to what you're doing out on the court, even though we think that there's a 102 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:03,940 spotlight on us every time we make a mistake. 103 00:06:03,970 --> 00:06:05,620 Not true. 104 00:06:05,650 --> 00:06:07,960 The other players have the same thoughts 105 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,380 going through their heads, so they're not really worried about you. 106 00:06:10,410 --> 00:06:13,160 Just knowing that can improve your 107 00:06:13,190 --> 00:06:16,380 calmness while you're playing, which will improve how you play. 108 00:06:16,410 --> 00:06:22,840 Also, just improving your focus when you're out there can help because you're 109 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:25,840 focusing on things that will help you actually play pickleball, as opposed to 110 00:06:25,860 --> 00:06:29,260 focusing on noise out on the pickleball court. 111 00:06:29,290 --> 00:06:32,240 So improving Improved play can help be part of the solution. 112 00:06:32,270 --> 00:06:33,980 And then improved progress, right? 113 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,620 Feeling like you're growing, right? 114 00:06:35,650 --> 00:06:38,200 Avoiding distractions, staying on the path 115 00:06:38,230 --> 00:06:42,340 to your success, to your improvement, to your progress. 116 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,080 Those are different ways that you can 117 00:06:45,100 --> 00:06:50,160 resolve or strengthen yourself against what is going to be normal, right? 118 00:06:50,190 --> 00:06:55,820 Meaning these forces that are going to batter you sometimes when you're playing. 119 00:06:55,850 --> 00:06:58,660 If you become better at your perspective, 120 00:06:58,690 --> 00:07:03,560 better at your play, and better at your progress, better in the game, then you're 121 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,480 going to be a stronger player, not just in terms of your results, not just in terms 122 00:07:07,510 --> 00:07:11,920 of level and how well you play when you're out there, but in terms of your ability to 123 00:07:11,950 --> 00:07:17,380 withstand these potentially undermining forces that can exist out there. 124 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,280 And lastly, I want to leave you with this. 125 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:26,000 This is for folks who I jotted down as to who pickleball therapy is for. 126 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,000 pickleballtherapy is for players who want 127 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,380 a fuller and deeper relationship relationship with pickleball. 128 00:07:31,410 --> 00:07:35,700 And we use that term relationship very conscientiously, very intentionally. 129 00:07:35,730 --> 00:07:38,520 Again, as I mentioned at the beginning, 130 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,160 pickleball for us, if you're listening to this podcast, you're not a casual player. 131 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:46,180 You're not just showing up on a Thursday once a month and hitting the ball around. 132 00:07:46,210 --> 00:07:48,560 You are serious about pickleball in the 133 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,300 sense that it is an important part of your life. 134 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:51,760 So you have a relationship with pickleball. 135 00:07:51,790 --> 00:07:54,980 It goes beyond just what happens on the court. 136 00:07:55,010 --> 00:07:57,840 Pickleball therapy is for players who are 137 00:07:57,860 --> 00:08:01,540 feeling dissatisfied with themselves or their place in the game. 138 00:08:01,570 --> 00:08:06,160 We try and provide a safe harbor where you come in here, you know that there's no 139 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,200 judgment in here, there's no criticism in here. 140 00:08:08,230 --> 00:08:11,280 It's all about helping you grow as a 141 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:14,140 pickleball player, growing your relationship. 142 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,680 Pickleball therapy is for players who want 143 00:08:15,710 --> 00:08:19,460 to continue improving or growing in the game. 144 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,160 Pickleball offers a great opportunity to us, right? 145 00:08:22,190 --> 00:08:26,580 To continue our growth, to continue our development. 146 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,100 There's no such thing as 147 00:08:30,130 --> 00:08:33,780 we're too old to learn or we're too old to change, and that's nonsense. 148 00:08:33,810 --> 00:08:37,840 You keep going and keep growing as long as 149 00:08:37,870 --> 00:08:40,900 you want to, Pickleball will have something to teach you. 150 00:08:40,930 --> 00:08:43,640 And the Pickleball Therapy is for players 151 00:08:43,670 --> 00:08:46,660 who want a healthier and stronger mental game. 152 00:08:46,690 --> 00:08:52,240 I'm generally, I tried not to use the term stronger 153 00:08:52,270 --> 00:08:56,260 mental game because it can be confusing sometimes. 154 00:08:56,290 --> 00:08:59,700 What I mean by stronger mental game here is 155 00:08:59,730 --> 00:09:04,920 a ability to withstand adversity and potential negative influence, so that 156 00:09:04,940 --> 00:09:11,580 they're not the I'm going to win, ra, ra, ra, 140 % and things like that, stronger. 157 00:09:11,610 --> 00:09:17,000 But definitely, you can develop a healthier and stronger mind, right? 158 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,340 Relative to your pickleball. 159 00:09:18,370 --> 00:09:20,680 And what's cool is that the stronger you 160 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:26,680 get in using pickleball as your arena, right? 161 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:29,620 To develop as your gym to work on this, 162 00:09:29,650 --> 00:09:34,020 the stronger your mind will be in every aspect of your life. 163 00:09:34,050 --> 00:09:36,100 When you go to the supermarket and 164 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,040 the person in front of you takes out the checkbook, I've used this one before. 165 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:39,980 So hopefully, don't think about... 166 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,380 If you take out a checkbook in the supermarket, no judgment, it's fine. 167 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,240 But you know what I mean? When you're in a rush and things slow you 168 00:09:45,270 --> 00:09:49,840 down or you're expecting a call from someone and you don't get it or whatever 169 00:09:49,870 --> 00:09:57,140 happens, you'll have a much stronger mental base from which to deal 170 00:09:57,170 --> 00:10:02,380 with those situations, which, pickle and life as well will throw your away. 171 00:10:02,410 --> 00:10:06,180 Those are just some thoughts as to 172 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,300 pickleball therapy and why pickleball therapy exists. 173 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:14,500 But more importantly for you, it's why pickleball therapy is important to you. 174 00:10:14,530 --> 00:10:16,960 Why maintaining a connection with pickle 175 00:10:16,990 --> 00:10:21,060 therapy is something that if it's being helpful to you, please continue it, 176 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,580 because that's what Pigable Therapy is all about. 177 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,720 And we always close our podcast by saying, if you enjoy the podcast, share with your 178 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,260 friends because you enjoy it, they probably will, too. 179 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,700 I have it memorized, so I can say it pretty quickly. 180 00:10:34,730 --> 00:10:39,620 And the reason we do that is because we 181 00:10:39,650 --> 00:10:46,720 believe that Pigable Therapy can provide help to players who meet the criteria that 182 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,500 I mentioned, the four criteria that I mentioned there. 183 00:10:48,530 --> 00:10:57,540 And so if you know somebody who is into pickleball and could benefit from this 184 00:10:57,570 --> 00:11:01,280 conversation, this therapy at the at the end of the day, then 185 00:11:01,310 --> 00:11:04,420 sharing it with them is a gift that you can give to them. 186 00:11:04,450 --> 00:11:09,660 And it's as podcast, just giving you a little inside scoop here. 187 00:11:09,690 --> 00:11:12,060 It's not easy to 188 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,860 get our podcast in front of players who don't know about the podcast. 189 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,760 What I mean by that is like, there's a 190 00:11:17,790 --> 00:11:20,540 player out there who we don't know, they don't know us. 191 00:11:20,570 --> 00:11:23,060 And how are they going to see the podcast? 192 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,160 Maybe on a Facebook post or we don't have billboards in every city. 193 00:11:27,190 --> 00:11:29,380 It's just not feasible, right? 194 00:11:29,410 --> 00:11:34,520 So the The most realistic way that a player is going 195 00:11:34,550 --> 00:11:37,900 to hear about pickle therapy is from another player. 196 00:11:37,930 --> 00:11:44,280 And so if you feel strongly about pickle therapy, again, we ask you to remember it. 197 00:11:44,310 --> 00:11:49,440 And if you are so inclined to share with somebody else who you see that's having a 198 00:11:49,470 --> 00:11:53,180 struggle, that's having a moment, because sometimes that 199 00:11:53,210 --> 00:11:57,880 help can be the difference between keeping them in the game, a game that they love, a 200 00:11:57,910 --> 00:12:02,860 game that they continue growing in, or them becoming dissatisfied, and in 201 00:12:02,890 --> 00:12:05,220 extreme cases, leaving the sport of pick-up. 202 00:12:05,250 --> 00:12:11,880 So that's why we are so passionate about sharing these messages and also asking you 203 00:12:11,910 --> 00:12:16,500 continually to spread the message about about pickleball therapy. 204 00:12:16,530 --> 00:12:24,480 One last note, if there's an important aspect to pickle therapy that 205 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:28,220 I missed in this podcast or in my notes, in terms of who 206 00:12:28,250 --> 00:12:32,280 pickle therapy is for, what type of player, the problems that you're facing, 207 00:12:32,310 --> 00:12:37,100 the solutions that you think might help it, and things like that, let me know. 208 00:12:37,130 --> 00:12:40,920 Send me an email at therapy@betterpickleball. 209 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,000 Com. Those emails land directly in my inbox. 210 00:12:44,030 --> 00:12:47,880 They are not They don't go to a support team or anything like that. 211 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:49,080 They go directly to my inbox. 212 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,480 So if you want to reach out to me and let 213 00:12:50,510 --> 00:12:55,900 me know what pickleball therapy means to you, or 214 00:12:55,930 --> 00:12:59,960 that you're a certain type of player, or we're in need of something that I didn't 215 00:12:59,990 --> 00:13:04,420 mention, that would be good to know because at the end of the day, 216 00:13:04,450 --> 00:13:10,380 we do our best to bring to you a podcast that we believe will help you in your 217 00:13:10,410 --> 00:13:13,660 journey as pickleball players and strengthening that relationship. 218 00:13:13,690 --> 00:13:17,900 But at the end of the day, the reason we make this podcast is for you. 219 00:13:17,930 --> 00:13:22,620 So the better we know what's going on out there with you, the better we can 220 00:13:22,650 --> 00:13:27,380 prepare the podcast to hopefully help as best we can. 221 00:13:27,410 --> 00:13:29,720 I hope you enjoyed this podcast and a 222 00:13:29,750 --> 00:13:32,420 refresher on why pickleball therapy matters. 223 00:13:32,450 --> 00:13:35,560 And I'll see you at our next podcast.