Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,
the podcast dedicated to your Pickleball improvement.
I am your host,
Tony Roy.
I am a certified Pickleball professional,
as well as a full-time dedicated Pickleball coach.
This is what we do.
I'm also the host of your weekly podcast,
Pickleball Therapy,
where we work through different aspects of the mental part of
the Pickleball game to help you not just feel better,
but also play your best Pickleball.
This week we're gonna be talking about the wall.
There's a wall that we can sometimes run into when we're
out there trying to improve as Pickleball players.
This is an improvement episode.
We're gonna talk about big picture improvement,
but there's a wall that a lot of players spend a
lot of time standing in front of 'em.
They're not able to scale that wall.
What I'm gonna talk about this week,
I'm gonna talk about the,
the, the mindset that you want to bring to your improvement.
If you want to,
in fact,
scale the wall,
get over it and keep going with your play.
There's another concept that we use a lot about climbing a
mountain. That's a very appropriate one as well,
and there'll be a future rapid.
So we're talking about mountain climbing.
This one I'll wanna get very specific to,
it's a very,
it's a big obstacle.
It's not just a mountain that we're climbing.
This is actually a wall that,
that oftentimes blocks us from being able to continue down our
path. As we dive into the podcast,
I wanna let you know if you're listening to this podcast
at about the time that it gets published,
we are in the middle of our March,
2024 Pickleball system class.
Hopefully you joined us for our Winmore series workshop to introduce
you to some really powerful concepts to help you win more
games, and also introduce you to the Pickleball system,
which is our leading.
It's, is it,
it's this industry leading,
if you want to call it ta,
but it's,
it's the best training program of its kind available in Pickleball.
You know,
it's just,
it has everything that you need to play.
Really awesome,
awesome Pickleball.
So we're in the middle of that.
So if,
if you're ready to take that kind of step in your
Pickleball journey for over the next 12 months with us,
with CJ and me,
check it out at the Pickleball system.com.
I'll put a link down in the show notes and you
can join us for our March class.
This is not a course that you can just join anytime.
This is an actual real,
it's a real course.
It's led by CJ and by me.
We rolled it out a certain amount of time.
You have live calls with us.
So this is a class and you're making a commitment to
yourself for 12 months to really dedicate to your Pickleball and
see how far you can go with it.
So hopeful.
Hopefully you'll join us inside our March class.
Alright, let's talk about this wall idea.
So, what happened was,
like, I,
I received an email from a fellow coach about,
you know,
the, the kind of frustration that we face sometimes with coaches
when we're talking to players who maybe,
maybe they're,
they've been playing for a little bit,
you know,
a year,
year and a half.
That's a little bit of Pickleball terms.
You know,
they, and maybe they've gotten to a three high,
two low three,
even, three,
five level.
And, you know,
it's difficult Sometimes.
'cause when we speak with players who are around there,
they buck us about fundamentals,
right? They buck us about,
you know,
anything that's deemed to be too basic for that player.
As coaches,
we know that what makes a difference between a player who
goes for in Pickleball and a player who does not,
more often than not,
boils down to the dirty word fundamentals.
And you may have heard me say this before on the
podcast, you know,
CJ and I,
we really shy away from that word in,
in anything that's outward looking.
Anything that goes out like a a,
any kind of marketing,
anything like that.
We don't use the term fundamentals.
It's not because there's something wrong with the term.
The term is a great term,
fantastic term.
It makes a lot of sense.
Problem is,
when we use that term,
it's a turnoff because a lot of players out there will
simply turn their ears off as soon as they hear that
word of fundamentals.
It's like a bad word,
right? But the,
the, the,
the the messed up thing,
right? The iron,
the, the,
just the,
the irony of it is that that's exactly what the players
need in order to scale that wall or break through that
wall. If you wanna be Kool-Aid,
Kool-Aid man about it,
right? Just bust through that wall.
What happens is,
you know,
players are looking for like some kind of a quick fix
or a shortcut.
Actually, I'll tell you a funny story.
We just published a video on the same subject on the,
in two pickle channel.
I'll put a link to it down below.
You could check that video out as well if you want
to ask some.
It has me drawing on the board.
So it's pretty,
pretty entertaining I think in terms of the,
the drawing and the explanation.
But, you know,
and the video talks about this three oh dash three five
wall and,
and, and,
and you know,
the, the,
the limitations that players who are trying to shortcut or bypass
or just jump over the wall in some silly way,
don't, don't ever get over it.
And how you actually get over it.
And a couple of comments.
I don't know if the,
if the commenters saw the irony in their comment or not,
I don't know.
But some of the comments were basically,
one of 'em was like,
oh my God,
this is taking way too long.
Right? Meaning the video's taking too long.
And I think the irony was lost on the commenter because
that's the problem,
right? Like the player,
they want something quick,
they want like,
I don't know,
they have like a 75 second time replay to tell them
what's going on.
That's just not how this works.
You know,
I don't frankly know anything in life that's worth anything worth
doing that's quick like that,
you know,
that's like bam,
bam, bam,
I'm done.
You know,
whether it's reading a really good book,
whether it's learning,
you know,
a, a hobby,
whether it's improving as a big ball player,
whatever it is,
listen, this takes some time,
right? It,
it, it takes some,
some time,
it takes some dedication,
it takes some work,
takes some patience,
right? To,
to be able to,
to get here,
to, to get to where we want to go.
What I,
what I'm interested though is in like,
okay, so what happens Is what players are looking for to
scale the wall,
right? Is they're looking for shortcuts,
right? They're looking for quick ways to scale that wall or
to get around it,
or under it or whatever.
And so,
you know,
like YouTube videos promise that can't deliver friends at the courts,
you know,
listen, the friends at the courts,
they mean,
well, I know they mean well,
they're, they're trying to share with you what they know about
the sport.
And there's goodness in their hearts,
right? For the most part.
But they just don't know enough.
They don't know enough about the game,
or they don't know enough how to communicate it,
or they don't know how to put it in the right
order, or they don't know how to figure out whether it's
right for you.
And the picture I did in the,
in the YouTube video,
it's, you know,
like a player trying to lift a player over the wall,
give them a hand,
the wall's too,
too high.
You know,
that that tip or that piece of advice,
even if it's right,
even if it's right for you,
it's just not gonna be enough to get over that wall.
And then there's not like a catapult or trampoline or something
like that that's available to you.
The bottom line is that to make significant improvement as a
Pickleball player,
meaningful stuff,
like, like,
you know,
like where you really start understanding Pickleball in a different way
than just,
you know,
you heard somebody say,
oh, I should hit the ball over here.
And I,
I don't know why I do that,
but, you know,
so-and-so said that,
so I'll start doing that.
Where you start,
you're the one going,
you know what,
I'm gonna try hit the ball over here.
'cause I,
here's the reason why.
And you understand the how to get there,
right? You under have a process for getting there.
You understand the framework and objectives of the game so you
can build a game that makes sense given your skillset.
That's just a beautiful filling.
When you,
when you have that kind of,
you know,
CJ likes to say that,
you know,
we know Pickleball in our bones,
right? We've learned it in our bones.
And that's something that's achievable for you.
You know,
you can do that.
But to get there,
there's no shortcuts.
You know,
there's no,
like, there's no quick fix,
shortcut, magic pill that you can take to get there.
Now that said,
there is a shorter path and there's a longer path,
right? The Pickleball system that I mentioned earlier,
that's a short,
shorter path,
right? That's very clear.
It's a straight line to get you where you want to
go in terms of the path,
right? It'll take you a little bit longer in certain steps
and things like that.
That's natural.
But the path is laid out there to get you from
where you are now to where to where you can go
is pretty straightforward.
You know,
you can go the long route.
The long route is,
you know,
I'm just gonna figure it out by myself,
you know,
and that's nothing technically wrong with that.
That's your choice.
You know,
whether you wanna do that or not.
Now, I will tell you this,
the long route sometimes works,
sometimes it doesn't work because sometimes along the long route we
end up taking branches,
you know,
forks down the road that lead us nowhere and we have
to backtrack and then get back on the correct route again.
It's kinda like,
you know,
the way we're using during the workshop,
what we're using to explain the system is like a map.
Okay? So,
you know,
you want to go somewhere,
right? You know,
you want to go to Omaha,
Nebraska, I want to get to Alba,
Nebraska in my car.
I could just start,
I kind of know where Nebraska is relative to Florida,
where I live.
So I could just start driving west and north and west
and north and west and north and west and north,
and maybe I should shoot over it or shoot past it,
right? And then maybe I go,
okay, I made it to California.
Okay, that's too far.
Now I know I have to go east.
So I go east and maybe I made it,
you know,
maybe I make it to like,
I don't know,
Chicago. And I go,
Ooh, I think that's farther east than I need to go.
And then I turn around again and then I make it
to Canada.
Oh, that's too far north,
you know?
So I keep driving around and eventually there I am,
I'm oh,
Maha, Nebraska,
excellent. Or,
you know,
I can use a map,
right? I can use a GPS to get there.
And that's essentially what the Pickleball system is.
The Pickleball system is a GPS.
It's a map that'll tell you how to go from where
you are now to get to Omaha,
Nebraska, to get to your goal as a Pickleball player,
without you having to guess that,
you know,
okay, I think it's might be east of where I'm right
now, but I'm not really sure.
You know,
you don't have to guess of the Pickleball system.
And it also,
it, it,
it meets you where you are.
So if you're leaving from Boston,
if you're leaving from Florida,
I am,
if you're leaving from Texas,
California, Arizona,
Oregon, doesn't matter.
It'll take you to Omaha,
Nebraska to where you want to go.
So, you know,
understand that for you to have meaningful advancement in your play
and for you to overcome that wall,
that that will definitely,
it, it affects every player out there.
We face that wall to scale that wall.
There is no shortcut,
there's no catapult waiting for you,
no trampoline waiting for you.
You're gonna have to put in some work.
And from our perspective,
the best way to climb the wall is one step at
a time.
You get on that ladder and you,
you, you put your,
you plant your foot on step one until it's firmly embedded
on step one.
Once you're nice and secure on step one,
you take your other foot and bam,
you put it up on step two,
get that nice and embedded,
get your balance,
and then you go up to step three and you keep
going. Next thing you know,
you're looking up over the wall,
you crested the wall,
you're standing on top of it going awesome.
Now you can keep going on the other side of the
wall. So,
wanted to talk to you about improvement.
Wanted to talk to you about the wall.
Why don't you to understand that if you're feeling frustrated,
you're feeling stuck,
you can in fact get over the wall.
Again, your choice,
whether you want to take a short course or a long
course, whether you want to drive around all over the country,
till you land on Omaha,
or whether you wanna have a map to get to Oma,
that's up to you.
But we have a map and we're happy to have you
join us inside our course too.
So you can have access to the map as well.
If you are listening to this anytime near its publication.
Again, our class is opening right now.
You can come in,
learn more about it,
and then make a decision whether it's right for you.
If you're listening to us at a different time,
make sure you're on our email list 'cause we'll let you
know when our next class opens towards the fall of this
year. It's always spring and fall,
a fair for us on these classes.
And then you're in it for one year really working on
your game and really gaining improvement in your Pickleball.
I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast.
I wish you well along your improving journey no matter what
you decide to do.
And as always,
if you have a friend who's thinking about improving,
wants to improve,
you know that they're,
they love this game,
but don't know exactly how to get to Almont Nebraska.
Share this information with 'em,
and perhaps it's their time to pull out the map and
stop driving all over the country trying to find Omaha,
Nebraska. I hope we've been able to,
I hope you've been able to join us inside the workshop
and learn some more about how to win more no matter
what your decision is.
And as always,
you know,
happy to be a part of your journey as your podcast
host at Pickleball Therapy.
We'll continue to bring you quality content like this to help
you achieve your Pickleball objectives and hopefully give you a little
bit more peace of mind,
both in Pickleball as well as outside of Pickleball as we
continue to grow as human beings.
Because Pickleball is super,
super important,
but Pickleball is a part of a much bigger picture that
is us as human beings and our growth as persons.
Have a great week and I hope to see you,
some of you I'll see inside the Pickleball system class for
March of 20,
24 or the rest.
I will see you and next week's podcast.
Have a great week.