1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:01,560 Hello and welcome to pickleball Therapy, 2 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:03,360 the podcast dedicated to your pickle improvement. 3 00:00:03,390 --> 00:00:05,340 Hope you're having a great week. 4 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,360 My name is Tony Roig. 5 00:00:06,390 --> 00:00:08,640 I am your host for this weekly podcast. 6 00:00:08,670 --> 00:00:10,280 It's a pleasure to be with you. 7 00:00:10,310 --> 00:00:14,240 Again, we're on episode like 199, not including special episode. 8 00:00:14,270 --> 00:00:16,020 We've been around this game 9 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,640 for a while, this process of the mental journey for a long time. 10 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,480 If you listen to the podcast for any amount of time at all, you know that this 11 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,260 has been a personal journey for me as well. 12 00:00:26,290 --> 00:00:31,100 It's not just me preaching to you, it's me living the same 13 00:00:31,130 --> 00:00:36,380 journey that you're on, hopefully, in terms of growth and development, not 14 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,120 just as an athlete, which is important, but as a human being in terms of the 15 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:45,500 mental part of your experience with this wonderful sport of pickleball. 16 00:00:45,530 --> 00:00:48,060 This week's podcast, I have a couple of 17 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,740 topics that I think you're going to find really interesting. 18 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:52,260 First, I want to talk about... 19 00:00:52,290 --> 00:00:56,120 We're going to talk about what is it that really matters? 20 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,780 What is it that you really need if you want to play really amazing pickleball? 21 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,640 I'll explain more about that because at the end of the day, it is about having 22 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,880 more confidence and feeling more competent when we play out there. 23 00:01:05,910 --> 00:01:10,130 That's really important if we're going to have a strong relationship with the game. 24 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,490 Then we're going to talk about Wurtl. 25 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:17,240 If you know the New York Times viral game, Wurtl, Wurtl Connections, all 26 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,210 those things on New York Times, I want to talk about how that relates to pickleball. 27 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:26,120 Wurtl has finally caught up with our podcast and our sport. 28 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,850 We'll talk about that in the Rift today. 29 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,660 Before we dive into the podcast, 30 00:01:29,690 --> 00:01:33,540 If you're a podcast listener, you know that we have the summit coming up. 31 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,930 If you haven't gotten your ticket already, there's no reason to wait. 32 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:38,640 It's an online event. 33 00:01:38,670 --> 00:01:42,260 It's available to you anywhere you're at in the world. 34 00:01:42,290 --> 00:01:44,700 We have some amazing presentations. 35 00:01:44,730 --> 00:01:47,080 This is the first time that we have the 36 00:01:47,110 --> 00:01:52,290 number one doubles player in the world at the summit. 37 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,080 Dylan Frazier is going to be at the summit 38 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,490 with a really good presentation that's going to help you out. 39 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,040 We also have Judy Castillo, and We have 40 00:02:01,070 --> 00:02:03,960 several other, Kwan Guang, who's a single specialist. 41 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,900 If you play singles, you're going to want to be there. 42 00:02:05,930 --> 00:02:11,120 We have several presentations on the mind from Dr. 43 00:02:11,150 --> 00:02:13,860 K, Coach Dr. Scales. 44 00:02:13,890 --> 00:02:19,400 We have presentations on the Body, QiGong, and some other things. 45 00:02:19,430 --> 00:02:22,580 It's just jam-packed with amazing stuff. 46 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,280 Like I said, there's no reason not to come to the summit. 47 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,720 There's at least one presentation that you're going to enjoy. 48 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,880 I'm going to bet more than one. 49 00:02:28,910 --> 00:02:31,760 So get your a free ticket to the summit. I'll put a link down below. 50 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,240 Remember, it's online. Unless 51 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,760 you're going to be in the mountains, in the Himalayas or something like that, and 52 00:02:38,790 --> 00:02:42,760 you can't access WiFi, there's just no reason not to come to the summit. 53 00:02:42,790 --> 00:02:45,320 So highly recommend you do that. 54 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,420 All right, let's dive into the 55 00:02:48,450 --> 00:02:54,740 main subject of today's podcast, which is, what is it that we really need? 56 00:02:54,770 --> 00:02:57,500 We've talked about this before. 57 00:02:57,530 --> 00:02:59,880 If you remember the concept of the three 58 00:02:59,910 --> 00:03:05,180 spheres of the mental part of any sport, but a pickleball, specifically here. 59 00:03:05,210 --> 00:03:08,400 We're talking here about this is the improvement. 60 00:03:08,430 --> 00:03:14,460 This is the progress piece of the puzzle, of the mental spheres. 61 00:03:14,490 --> 00:03:19,300 The reason this is really important is because 62 00:03:19,330 --> 00:03:25,200 as pickleball players, if you listen to this podcast, as we've 63 00:03:25,230 --> 00:03:31,720 said before, you have more going on than just wanting to show on a Tuesday or a 64 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:32,880 Thursday or Friday and play some pickle, right? 65 00:03:32,910 --> 00:03:36,360 You have a deeper relationship with the game. 66 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:42,000 Part of that is likely wanting to feel more confident when you 67 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,040 play and also more competent when you play. 68 00:03:44,070 --> 00:03:45,140 In other words, you 69 00:03:45,170 --> 00:03:49,380 feel that you go out there and you can hang, you can do the things. 70 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,120 You're not going to feel embarrassed. 71 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,600 You're not going to feel like, Oh, my God, I missed so many shots compared to my 72 00:03:53,630 --> 00:03:57,520 friends, and things like that, which is normal human reactions to things. 73 00:03:57,550 --> 00:04:00,520 But the better we can play, the more we 74 00:04:00,550 --> 00:04:06,560 can, again, be competent in our sport, the better we're going to feel about it. 75 00:04:06,590 --> 00:04:09,900 I was having a conversation today with 76 00:04:09,930 --> 00:04:13,820 a new friend, Mike, his fellow coach up in Georgia. 77 00:04:13,850 --> 00:04:17,600 We were talking about how 78 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:22,720 the key is in enjoying the moment, basically, and having fun in the moment. 79 00:04:22,750 --> 00:04:25,240 He went through some conversation, the way 80 00:04:25,270 --> 00:04:29,700 he explains it to his younger players who he works with. 81 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,840 He comes from tennis to pickleball, so a lot of his background has been in tennis. 82 00:04:34,860 --> 00:04:39,400 But when he works with young tennis players, they'll talk about they just want 83 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,560 to have fun, and then it gets into, Well, what is fun? 84 00:04:41,590 --> 00:04:46,860 Then at the end of the day, it's not necessarily about winning. 85 00:04:46,890 --> 00:04:52,560 It's about learning how to better master a shot. 86 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,320 You're going to see there's a commonality in today's podcast, even though the rift 87 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,560 is about Wurtle and connection, the thing like that. 88 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,560 It's a similar concept, the idea being enjoying the moment that we're in and also 89 00:05:02,590 --> 00:05:08,060 enjoying the process, enjoying our progress as players. 90 00:05:08,090 --> 00:05:12,860 But part of that is when we think about that, we think about 91 00:05:12,890 --> 00:05:20,840 as humans, we have limited time, we have limited energy, and we have 92 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:23,440 limited focus, limited bandwidth, if you want to think about it that way, in terms 93 00:05:23,470 --> 00:05:29,540 of what we can focus on, in terms of what we can get done. 94 00:05:29,570 --> 00:05:30,980 In our pickleball. 95 00:05:31,010 --> 00:05:32,800 We want to play, I get that, right? 96 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,280 You're probably spending most of your time playing, and that's perfectly fine, right? 97 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:37,340 Enjoy the sport the way you want to. 98 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,600 But let's say that you have 30 minutes or 99 00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:43,340 an hour, or maybe a couple of hours in a week, right, to work on your game. 100 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,760 It could be a small chunk, 10 or 15 minutes before you step out and accord to 101 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,240 play, a wall near the facility where you're at, anything like that, right? 102 00:05:49,270 --> 00:05:51,720 That'll help your game. 103 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:53,440 We need to prioritize, right? 104 00:05:53,470 --> 00:05:57,260 We need to say, Okay, what is it that I need to focus on right now? 105 00:05:57,290 --> 00:05:59,580 We've been talking about this idea about 106 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,600 figuring what's right for you right now and things like that. 107 00:06:01,630 --> 00:06:03,340 That's important. 108 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,600 We have some blog posts coming out soon on our website. 109 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,460 If you're on an email list, you'll get notified when they drop, 110 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,820 but basically, they're going to give you some tools in terms of navigating 111 00:06:16,850 --> 00:06:22,900 information out in the information system, out there in the world of pickleball. 112 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,280 But in terms of prioritizing, we need to 113 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,320 figure out, Okay, what is it that I should spend my time on? 114 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:33,200 What I want What I want to lean into here, the shot I'm going to lean into here is a 115 00:06:33,230 --> 00:06:37,340 shot that if you listen to the podcast, you know that we believe is not 116 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,100 fundamental, not important to your game, not important to your results. 117 00:06:41,130 --> 00:06:43,320 But I want to talk about this shot because 118 00:06:43,350 --> 00:06:48,920 I want to explain to you how not impactful it is in the world in 119 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:54,760 which it can be the most impactful and how the players who issue that shot, 120 00:06:54,790 --> 00:06:59,580 who stay away from that shot, do better than the ones who chase it. 121 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,460 We're talking about at the pro level of pickleball, we're talking about the erne. 122 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,560 The erne is where you jump over the kitchen of the non-bolly zone. 123 00:07:06,590 --> 00:07:10,260 You jump over, you hit a... 124 00:07:10,290 --> 00:07:14,600 It's a super aggressive, very exciting 125 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,840 shot where you can execute it because you're hitting the ball so close to the 126 00:07:16,860 --> 00:07:20,860 net, you're smashing it, and then you jump to the outside, and it's great. 127 00:07:20,890 --> 00:07:23,540 But what you notice 128 00:07:23,570 --> 00:07:28,100 is that the players who do the best, the players who win the most, 129 00:07:28,130 --> 00:07:36,380 for the most part, do not have a very low earnings per game attempted number. 130 00:07:36,410 --> 00:07:37,700 I'll give you an example. 131 00:07:37,730 --> 00:07:40,200 This last Sunday, watching J. W. 132 00:07:40,230 --> 00:07:44,740 Johnson and Dylan Frazier, who are expected to be, once the ratings, the 133 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,360 numbers of points are settled after this last tournament, will be probably the 134 00:07:48,390 --> 00:07:52,880 number one men's doubles team in pickleball. 135 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,040 J. W. 136 00:07:55,070 --> 00:07:58,240 Johnson executed an earning. 137 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,860 When he did it, it was super noticeable. 138 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,080 I was like, Oh, my God. J. 139 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,420 W. Did an earning. 140 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:04,880 Why? 141 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,580 Because he doesn't earn you that often. 142 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:07,660 Why? 143 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,380 Because the ernie is just not important. 144 00:08:09,410 --> 00:08:12,400 What is important is his dinking. 145 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:13,520 What is important for him and his player, 146 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,120 his hands, and his power on his shots, on his volleys, and things like that. 147 00:08:17,150 --> 00:08:19,460 That's what matters to him, not the ernie. 148 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,540 When you watch players who ernie a lot, usually they're not in the finals. 149 00:08:23,570 --> 00:08:24,540 They're just not. 150 00:08:24,570 --> 00:08:29,800 Even Ben Jones, arguably, if not the greatest, one of the greatest players of 151 00:08:29,830 --> 00:08:33,620 all time of all, he earnies every once in a while. 152 00:08:33,650 --> 00:08:34,860 Every once in a while. 153 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,840 You want some other players at the pro level, they're just jumping over the line, 154 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,780 jumping over the line, jumping over the line. 155 00:08:39,810 --> 00:08:42,300 It's tiring, right? 156 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,900 It just doesn't really do much for them. 157 00:08:45,930 --> 00:08:49,180 Let's extrapolate from that to our games, right? 158 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:56,500 Let's come back down to the amateur player level of thinking, right, of the sport. 159 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:57,640 That's not a bad thing. 160 00:08:57,670 --> 00:08:59,920 It's just, obviously, earnies are even 161 00:08:59,940 --> 00:09:02,980 less impactful at this level, at our amateur level. 162 00:09:03,010 --> 00:09:05,080 But at the amateur level, what 163 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,940 we can get distracted with are things like spins we've talked about before, 164 00:09:10,970 --> 00:09:15,560 are things like power serves or power Power Shots. 165 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:16,360 There's nothing wrong with power shots. 166 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,660 In fact, one of our summer presentations is about a powerful serve. 167 00:09:19,690 --> 00:09:23,880 If you're at a place in your life where I got everything else down pretty good and I 168 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,980 want to add that, there's nothing wrong with that. 169 00:09:26,010 --> 00:09:28,080 But if there's other things that you need 170 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,500 to worry about, then you need to worry about those first. 171 00:09:30,530 --> 00:09:33,140 I will also say things like a power serve. 172 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,000 Don't think the power serve is just something that makes you smile. 173 00:09:35,030 --> 00:09:36,680 It makes you happy. Fine. 174 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:38,060 Do it for that reason. 175 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,720 But if you're trying to say, You know what? 176 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,260 I'd like to play a more well-rounded, competent game. 177 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,700 Power Serve is a fine thing, but it may not be what you need right now. 178 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,440 You may just need to get your serve in more deeper and consistent, which will 179 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,080 also be covered in the same presentation as in the summit, how to hit a high deep 180 00:09:52,110 --> 00:09:56,940 serve, which is super safe and just a nice serve. 181 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,880 The point of this is that when you think 182 00:09:58,910 --> 00:10:04,240 about your game, when When you think about your progress in the sport and you think 183 00:10:04,270 --> 00:10:09,620 about becoming more confident and more competent, think about fundamentals. 184 00:10:09,650 --> 00:10:12,600 You've probably heard me joke about this before, but C. 185 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,640 J. And I and the Better pickleball Coaching 186 00:10:14,670 --> 00:10:19,260 team, we stay away from that word when we talk out in the public. 187 00:10:19,290 --> 00:10:21,480 Not because it's a bad word. It's a fantastic word. 188 00:10:21,510 --> 00:10:26,240 It's a really good word in the English language. 189 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,220 The reason we do is because it's not sexy. 190 00:10:31,250 --> 00:10:34,820 It's not algorithmically pleasant. 191 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,960 And because when players hear the word fundamentals, think about it. 192 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,180 What's the first thing that comes to your mind? 193 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,140 Beginner, right? Or this is basic. 194 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,420 And so what do players think? Not for me. 195 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:46,800 I'll tell you another side story. 196 00:10:46,820 --> 00:10:49,040 When I went to the courts today to meet 197 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:52,580 Mike and some other folks, there was a gentleman there who 198 00:10:52,610 --> 00:10:56,600 is a flag football coach here in Florida, and he's won nine state championships. 199 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:57,920 I don't know exactly what league or what 200 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,260 group, but I know he's won nine state championships. 201 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,960 I asked him, I said, Coach, let me just ask you a real general question. 202 00:11:02,990 --> 00:11:05,420 I said, Just a coaching question of cross sports. 203 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,000 I said, The way that we view it, the way CJ and I and the better pickleball 204 00:11:09,030 --> 00:11:13,640 coaching team view pickleball is that it's all about fundamentals. 205 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:14,940 That's what matters. That's what wins. 206 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,220 He looked at me and goes, That's exactly right. 207 00:11:17,250 --> 00:11:23,680 He says, If you can get the fundamentals down, you're going a long way towards 208 00:11:23,710 --> 00:11:29,460 being just a better-performing unit, a better-performing sports unit. 209 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:30,880 In In this case, he was talking about, I 210 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,240 tell my players, I'm like, It's flag football. 211 00:11:32,270 --> 00:11:37,620 He says, Grab flag, catch pass, 212 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,000 probably going to be a lot better than most of the other teams out there because 213 00:11:40,030 --> 00:11:42,340 you're focusing on what you need to focus on. 214 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,440 As you think about your game, maybe think about the razzle-dazzle, putting that off 215 00:11:46,470 --> 00:11:50,540 to the side, and leave the razzle-dazzle to other players. 216 00:11:50,570 --> 00:11:55,020 Focus on fundamentals, focus on aspects 217 00:11:55,050 --> 00:11:58,420 of the game that will actually elevate your game. 218 00:11:58,450 --> 00:12:02,260 If you want one shot, I'll If you with one shot, it's your return of serve. 219 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:03,280 There is no shot in pickleball that has 220 00:12:03,310 --> 00:12:08,920 more impact on the entire outcome of a game than a return of serve. 221 00:12:08,950 --> 00:12:11,180 If you're a system member, you know this. 222 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,880 If you're a system member, you have some materials inside your course that you can 223 00:12:14,910 --> 00:12:20,240 go to to specifically dive into it more, into your return of serve, and how to hit 224 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:21,800 it, and where to hit it, and all that type of thing. 225 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,720 But just focus on getting your return of 226 00:12:23,750 --> 00:12:26,560 serve in and deep, and you're going to be amazing. 227 00:12:26,580 --> 00:12:29,060 You're going to see big improvement in your game. 228 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,840 All All right, so that is the main subject. 229 00:12:31,870 --> 00:12:36,000 In the RIF, I'm going to jump into Wurtl and Connections. 230 00:12:36,030 --> 00:12:39,100 So stay tuned for the RIF. 231 00:12:39,130 --> 00:12:45,200 As I do, right after our summit in July, so the 232 00:12:45,230 --> 00:12:48,540 summit is July 14th or 16th, the online summit I mentioned. 233 00:12:48,570 --> 00:12:56,520 We are rolling out a awesome batch of new courses with several guest pros, some new 234 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,980 courses from us and some new courses from guest pros. 235 00:12:59,010 --> 00:13:01,640 I think you're going to find the courses really good. 236 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:02,840 There's different voices in there, 237 00:13:02,870 --> 00:13:06,740 different ways of thinking about different parts of the sport. 238 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,840 If you think about the academy, you just already mentioned the system. 239 00:13:09,870 --> 00:13:13,520 The system is our A to Z system. 240 00:13:13,550 --> 00:13:15,360 It's the whole thing, whole kit and 241 00:13:15,390 --> 00:13:18,240 caboodle, as they say, that'll get you to really good 4. 242 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,320 0 plus pickleball with what you have in there. 243 00:13:20,350 --> 00:13:24,500 In fact, some of our students inside the system have been senior pro players, 244 00:13:24,530 --> 00:13:28,340 players who are now playing at the senior pro level who learn the 245 00:13:28,370 --> 00:13:32,180 core of how they play their game inside the pickleball system. 246 00:13:32,210 --> 00:13:36,340 The academy is more of a specialized course place. 247 00:13:36,370 --> 00:13:40,020 Basically, you're having trouble with lobbying. 248 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:41,300 We'll have a course on that. 249 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,800 You want to learn how to stack, which is super powerful, right? 250 00:13:43,830 --> 00:13:46,120 If you're ready for it, we have a master 251 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,700 class on that, not just a course, because I will tell you one thing. 252 00:13:48,730 --> 00:13:50,400 I know a lot about pickleball. 253 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,200 Say out of pickleball, the pickleball 254 00:13:52,230 --> 00:13:54,620 knowledge, I'm a seven or something like that. 255 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,400 Out of 10, if you want to, I'll be humble. 256 00:13:56,430 --> 00:13:58,100 Let's say seven out of 10, right? 257 00:13:58,130 --> 00:14:00,860 In stacking, I'm an 11 out 10. 258 00:14:00,890 --> 00:14:02,800 We have a stacking masterclass. 259 00:14:02,830 --> 00:14:04,520 We have several courses in there. 260 00:14:04,550 --> 00:14:06,600 So check out the academy. You go to betterpickleball. 261 00:14:06,630 --> 00:14:11,760 Com and just click on, I think it's classes and it's academy in 262 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,600 there, and you'll see the list of courses that are available for you. 263 00:14:14,630 --> 00:14:16,660 And then right after the summit, 264 00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:22,420 end of July, we're going to have a whole new batch of courses launching. 265 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,000 And we'll also have a really nice panel that you can join. 266 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,880 If you join the summit, there's a really nice panel on the 18th. 267 00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:32,040 Put it on your calendar on July 18th with several of the pros that are going to be 268 00:14:32,070 --> 00:14:36,380 talking about we're going to be going over three major areas of the sport 269 00:14:36,410 --> 00:14:43,640 and areas to concentrate on if you want to really, not, if you really want to 270 00:14:43,670 --> 00:14:48,640 focus on your game for the latter part of 2024 and see what you can do, see how well 271 00:14:48,670 --> 00:14:52,020 you can play, you're going to want to join us for that pound. 272 00:14:52,050 --> 00:14:53,900 All right, let's talk about Wurtl. 273 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,300 Let me tell you what it is real quick, just in case you're not familiar with it. 274 00:14:57,330 --> 00:15:03,460 Wurtl is a game that comes out every Basically, it's 275 00:15:03,490 --> 00:15:08,920 five-letter words, and so you have five squares and you put in a word. 276 00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:13,280 As an example, a lot of people who play Wurtl will put 277 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,080 down learn as their first word because that's an L E, N, A, R, net. 278 00:15:16,110 --> 00:15:18,020 Those are pretty good letters. 279 00:15:18,050 --> 00:15:19,400 Then you get feedback. 280 00:15:19,430 --> 00:15:25,440 You get either a green means that you have a letter in the right spot or gold means 281 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:26,520 right letter, wrong spot, things like that. 282 00:15:26,550 --> 00:15:29,560 Then if it stays black, it's not a letter 283 00:15:29,580 --> 00:15:33,760 for the You got, I believe it's six tries, and you go down, and it's really cool. 284 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:34,940 I mean, you basically have to really... 285 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:35,880 I don't think you have to struggle with it. 286 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:37,800 You're sitting there going like, Okay, I know three letters. 287 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,000 I know this one's in the right place. These two are in the wrong place. 288 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,560 What else could it be? These letters aren't available now by the 289 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,700 time you get to the third or the fourth try. 290 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,200 That's a really good, challenging game. There's another game called Connections, 291 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,320 which I won't describe it, but it's basically another type of game where you 292 00:15:50,350 --> 00:15:53,380 have to make associations and things like that. 293 00:15:53,410 --> 00:15:56,260 But here's the point of this. 294 00:15:56,290 --> 00:15:58,720 I've fallen in love with Wordle and Connections. 295 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,880 I play them every day. It's like I look forward to it. 296 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:02,480 I get up in the morning, I'm like, Oh, let me look at the word hole. 297 00:16:02,510 --> 00:16:04,140 Let me see what I could do. 298 00:16:04,170 --> 00:16:07,180 It's a good way to get the brain going and things like that. 299 00:16:07,210 --> 00:16:08,780 But here's the question. 300 00:16:08,810 --> 00:16:12,500 Because, for instance, the Wordles, I 301 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,320 think I've gotten the Wordles right so far, and I'm fairly new with it. 302 00:16:15,350 --> 00:16:17,260 It's just 12 or 14 days. 303 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:18,660 But the connections, I have not. 304 00:16:18,690 --> 00:16:20,640 I have made errors on connections. 305 00:16:20,670 --> 00:16:22,080 I'll tell you what happened. 306 00:16:22,110 --> 00:16:24,340 A couple of days ago, I got stuck. 307 00:16:24,370 --> 00:16:25,940 There was a word. 308 00:16:25,970 --> 00:16:29,020 I associated these trees, these words for trees. 309 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:30,740 But there was one word that wasn't a tree. 310 00:16:30,770 --> 00:16:31,900 It's chestnut. 311 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,140 Chestnut comes from a tree, but it's not a tree. 312 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,300 I'm sitting there going like... 313 00:16:35,330 --> 00:16:38,700 I had chestnut, cherry, ash, and gum, I think. 314 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,200 I click on it and it says I'm one away. I'm like, Oh, man. 315 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,200 Then I'm like, Oh, ebony. I think ebony is a tree. 316 00:16:43,230 --> 00:16:46,740 I dropped, I think I dropped gum. 317 00:16:46,770 --> 00:16:49,800 I was like, Ass cherry chestnut, ebony. I'm still one away. 318 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,380 I'm like, What is going on here? 319 00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:54,180 I could not get chestnut out of my mind. 320 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,360 For some reason, I just couldn't drop it. 321 00:16:55,390 --> 00:16:57,300 I could not drop the word chestnut. 322 00:16:57,330 --> 00:16:59,480 I ended up striking out because you get 323 00:16:59,510 --> 00:17:03,100 four tries, and I tried something else, and then I was done. 324 00:17:03,130 --> 00:17:05,700 So I lost. 325 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:06,960 I'm putting that in quotes. 326 00:17:06,990 --> 00:17:09,620 You can't see it, but I'm quoting it. 327 00:17:09,650 --> 00:17:11,480 I, quote, unquote, lost. 328 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:14,480 But did I lose? 329 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,960 Because here's the thing, and I'm going to relate this to pick a ball in a second. 330 00:17:17,990 --> 00:17:20,040 Don't lonely me yet. 331 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,600 Why am I playing word? 332 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,290 Why am I playing connections? 333 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:31,530 Is it to get the word or even the associations and connections? 334 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:32,980 I say no. 335 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,530 I mean, that's what I'm trying to do, right? 336 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,380 But it's not about the word, and it's not about the connections. 337 00:17:38,410 --> 00:17:42,290 Because frankly, I don't remember the connections from a week ago. 338 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,250 I just can't remember them. 339 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:48,940 I guarantee you that six months from now, I won't remember how many connections I 340 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,880 got successfully and how many I failed at, right? 341 00:17:50,910 --> 00:17:52,620 How many I struck out. 342 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,120 I'm not going to be able to remember what words I've done in Wordle. 343 00:17:55,150 --> 00:17:57,050 I mean, that's not the point. 344 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:01,940 The point is, I know it's good for me. 345 00:18:01,970 --> 00:18:04,360 I know that my brain is firing, and I'm 346 00:18:04,390 --> 00:18:08,200 like, if I was on one of those brain scan machines, it would be all lit up. 347 00:18:08,230 --> 00:18:11,290 I'm struggling with what... 348 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:16,960 Even today, the word today was a little bit It's not a common word. 349 00:18:16,990 --> 00:18:21,940 The letters I had identified, I had identified an A in the next last spot. 350 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,500 In the fourth spot, I had an A. 351 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,250 I knew I had an L and an N that were in the wrong place. 352 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:27,800 I'm sitting there going like, How many words have... 353 00:18:27,830 --> 00:18:31,760 I couldn't use an E, I couldn't use There was an E was out of it. 354 00:18:31,790 --> 00:18:33,660 There was an R was out of it. 355 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,290 All these other letters that I thought were good were out. 356 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,840 I'm sitting there going like, I'm struggling. 357 00:18:37,870 --> 00:18:41,620 I'm like, Man, what word works here? 358 00:18:41,650 --> 00:18:44,660 Anyway, the point is, it's the process. 359 00:18:44,690 --> 00:18:51,200 I know it's the act of working on it that is where the joy is. 360 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:53,480 It's the act of trying to establish those 361 00:18:53,510 --> 00:18:59,460 connections, of sitting there struggling and going like, What word goes with what? 362 00:18:59,490 --> 00:19:01,620 Trying to make sense of it, right? 363 00:19:01,650 --> 00:19:05,770 Is where the joy is. 364 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,420 Here's where a pick-a-ball comes in. 365 00:19:08,450 --> 00:19:10,120 It's the same thing. 366 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:14,330 No, it's not the score. 367 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:18,520 It's not the end result of even the rally. 368 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,530 It's the playing. 369 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:21,740 It's the trying. 370 00:19:21,770 --> 00:19:24,050 It's the doing your best. 371 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,660 It's the hitting the forehand, hitting the backhand, running, 372 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,360 trying to figure something out on the other side, trying to hit the best spot 373 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:34,280 you can, trying to learn something new every day if you want to. 374 00:19:34,310 --> 00:19:34,840 You can. 375 00:19:34,870 --> 00:19:38,600 You just add another little layer, add another layer. 376 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,570 That's the joy of the game. 377 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,330 Not did you win the game or lose the game. 378 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:44,920 Because the same way that I can't remember 379 00:19:44,950 --> 00:19:48,320 my wortels from last week, and I definitely don't remember 380 00:19:48,350 --> 00:19:53,530 in the future as I move forward, we can't remember our scores. 381 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,560 Frankly, 382 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,560 I don't want to go too far on this path, but as an example, 383 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:04,640 I have a hard time remembering what tournaments I've played that I've won 384 00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:09,010 medals in because I have lots of medals, but I can't tell you where they're from. 385 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:09,720 Some I can. 386 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:10,440 I mean, there's a couple that stand out, right? 387 00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:12,760 But you know what I mean? 388 00:20:12,790 --> 00:20:14,720 I guess in four years from now, I'd 389 00:20:14,750 --> 00:20:17,860 probably want to remember where those are from. 390 00:20:17,890 --> 00:20:20,700 Because that's not the thing. 391 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,440 It's not the medal or the winning or the score or whatever. 392 00:20:23,470 --> 00:20:26,010 It's the activity itself. 393 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,290 The more you embrace the activity itself 394 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:35,660 and find joy in just doing the wordle, just playing the rally, 395 00:20:35,690 --> 00:20:39,050 the more you'll get out of it and the more you'll enjoy pickleball. 396 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,380 I hope you like that message. 397 00:20:40,410 --> 00:20:41,530 I enjoyed giving it. 398 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,520 It felt even better than I was thinking about it as I delivered it. 399 00:20:44,550 --> 00:20:47,740 So hopefully it landed as well as I think it did. 400 00:20:47,770 --> 00:20:50,010 If it did, maybe let us know. 401 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,480 Yeah, ready to review us, let us know. 402 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,080 If you're on YouTube, throw a comment down 403 00:20:53,110 --> 00:20:57,090 below and let us know whether you like this, the Wurtle idea. 404 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,280 Because I know sometimes like bowl of ice 405 00:20:59,310 --> 00:21:02,050 cream is That's probably our most resonant podcast. 406 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,960 Maybe Wurl will be number two. Maybe it'll be number one. 407 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,530 I don't know. 408 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,180 Anyway, so I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast. 409 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,280 As I already mentioned, rate and review if you can. 410 00:21:10,310 --> 00:21:13,660 Comment on YouTube helps us reach other players. 411 00:21:13,690 --> 00:21:16,770 As always, I cannot ask enough. 412 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,380 Please share with your friends because my guess is you have friends, 413 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,920 just like I have friends, who sometimes struggle with their relationship with 414 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,530 pickleball, and hopefully, pickleball therapy can help them 415 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:31,420 find little nuggets of joy and wisdom in the sport we all love. 416 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,040 I hope you have a great week, and I look 417 00:21:33,070 --> 00:21:37,220 forward to seeing you next week during pickleball therapy. 418 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:37,480 See you then.