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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,

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the podcast dedicated to your Pickleball improvement.

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This is an on onsite recording.

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What I mean by that is I'm recording this outside of

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the facility at at HTC in Tampa,

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at the Pickleball courts here.

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These are the courts that I often play at,

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and what I wanted to do is,

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is, is record an episode giving you five steps that you

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can take every time before you start playing,

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so that you can make sure to have the best chance

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when you're out there playing Pickleball.

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This is a bookmark episode.

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What I mean by that is you wanna bookmark this episode

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because it's gonna give you the five steps every time you

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go out to play.

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If you,

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you, you don't have to remember them all.

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Put on this episode and we'll walk you through 'em to

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get you ready to play your best.

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Next time you're gonna play Pickleball.

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Once they become habits,

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then you can knock off the bookmark.

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But for now,

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highly recommend you bookmark this episode so that you give yourself

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the best chance to play when you're heading out to the

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courts. As we jump into the podcast,

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make sure you're on the lookout for our Pickleball Academy courses.

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We have several courses coming out.

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This is,

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this is,

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this podcast is being recorded at the beginning of 2023,

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so you're gonna get a lot of new courses coming out.

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If you're listening to this sometime later.

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There's probably already a lot of courses inside the Pickleball Academy,

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specifically courses designed for to help you with parts of the

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game that are giving you trouble,

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bangers, LOBs,

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things like that.

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So all sorts of things.

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All right,

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let's talk about the five steps to allow you to play

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your best Pickleball.

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Number one is you want to prepare for the day.

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If you're watching this on YouTube,

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you're seeing that I am recording this inside a car.

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I am sitting in the parking lot outside of the facility

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because if I,

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if all I do is I get here,

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I'm thinking about 9,000

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different things I'm thinking about,

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you know,

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I gotta go to the grocery store,

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I gotta,

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you know,

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I gotta clean up whatever it is.

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And then I,

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I get here and I jump out on the court.

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I am probably not gonna have my best day of Pickleball

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if that's my preparation prior to getting out on the Pickleball

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court prior to,

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to, to getting ready to play Pickleball.

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If you wanna play your best,

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you're gonna want to prepare yourself,

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prepare your mind,

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prepare and we'll talk about the body in another step,

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but basically prepare yourself to partake in the sport that you're

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gonna play today.

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One easy way to do this is listen to the Pickleball

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Therapy podcast.

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It's a way to,

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to refocus your mind on something that's,

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you know,

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more, more relevant to what you're gonna be doing out there

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to give yourself some perspective before you step out on the

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court. If you bookmark this episode,

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then you're gonna be already getting ready to play your best.

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You're gonna be thinking about Pickleball.

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You're gonna be thinking about,

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okay, what is it that I'm gonna be,

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you know,

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why am I going to the courts and things?

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The next steps that we're gonna follow on the,

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on this episode,

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but you're gonna get ready to play your best.

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It's simply not realistic to expect that you're gonna,

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you know,

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come from,

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you know,

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your normal,

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hectic day of doing whatever it is that you know,

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occupies your hectic day,

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step out on the Pickleball Court,

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and all of a sudden play amazing Pickleball.

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If you spend just a little bit of time,

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10 or 15 minutes prior to stepping out on the court,

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you're gonna play better.

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And usually when you play better,

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you enjoy your day better.

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So, step number one,

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get ready for the,

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for your day out on the Pickleball Court.

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Now I'm gonna step outta the court.

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I'm gonna go walk to the facility and we'll talk about

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step number two as I make my way over to the

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courts. We're gonna talk about step number two to get ready

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to play your best Pickleball.

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Step number two is be clear on why you're heading to

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the courts.

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Why, what,

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what drives you,

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right? What is it that made you get outta bed today?

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put on your shorts or skirt or pants and get ready

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to go play some Pickleball,

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right? What is it that's that,

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that is your driver for why you're headed to the courts

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right now in order to play this awesome sport?

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it may be,

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I just want to go have fun.

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I want an activity outside of the house and I wanna,

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you know,

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disconnect from the insanity of what's going on in my life.

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I just want some time on the court.

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Awesome. For others of you,

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it might be,

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I wanna go see my friends.

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I just wanna be active,

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I wanna be healthy.

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Whatever it is that your reason for playing Pickleball,

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I'm pretty confident that your reason for playing Pickleball is not

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because you're going out there to win five and lose two

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or whatever the ratio is that that,

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that you want to fill that in with.

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when you go out to the courts,

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if you have a clear understanding of why you're heading out

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there, when you get there,

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you're gonna probably get what you came for,

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right? So if you came to see your friends,

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when you get there,

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they're your friends,

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you smile,

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shake their hands,

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hug them,

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whatever it is you do and that's what you came for.

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now all of a sudden the score and things like that

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become less important because you got why you came to play

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Pickleball today.

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in order to have a really good day on the Pickleball

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Court is reframe yourself,

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right? Remind yourself,

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why am I going out to the Pickleball courts?

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you're a complete,

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I'm gonna go inside now and we're gonna complete step three

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of getting ready to play your best Pickleball.

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I'm halfway to the courts and we're gonna pause here and

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get step number three sorted so that we can get ready

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to play our best Pickleball.

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So step number one was we're gonna go through this process,

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right? We're gonna prepare ourselves for the day of Pickleball.

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Step number two is reminding ourselves why we play Pickleball.

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different areas,

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one to two,

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it can be one,

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one to two different areas that we're going to focus on

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today in our actual play.

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we're gonna try and pick one thing from the mechanical pillar.

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The mechanical pillar,

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if you're not familiar with it,

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is the mechanics of how to hit the shot.

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So it's the how to of Pickleball.

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one area,

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and the mechanical pillar.

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what you want to do is you want to be very

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specific, as specific as you can.

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It's not really fruitful to use metrics or framing,

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like, okay,

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I'm just gonna make less mistakes today because that's too broad,

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right? Mistakes and what area,

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what shots and things like that.

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specific as possible.

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The next level of specificity would be,

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or a level of specificity you can use,

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is I'm going to try and increase my respect of the

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net. And so I'm gonna try and avoid the net and

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that's okay.

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But you can be even more specific.

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Usually there's a shot that particularly affects us with the net.

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volley, some sort of volley focus on that,

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right? That's gonna give you the best bang for your buck

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in terms of your focus for the day.

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you could say,

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I'm gonna pay particular attention to my fourth shot,

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volleys not hitting,

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not landing in the net.

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that alone will radically change your day.

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Plus it gives you something very specific to focus on,

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rather than having to worry about 9,000

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different things out there.

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You're real on the mechanical side,

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you're gonna focus on this one area,

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you're gonna focus on the net and you're gonna focus on

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the particular shot.

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That's a really productive way of framing out your day from

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the mechanical side.

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you can also have a strategic component to your day.

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So the strategic pillar is what shot to hit when it's

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the strategy,

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right? It's taking advantage of position and things like that on

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the court,

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as well as selecting more optimal shots.

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one would be,

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are you making it to the non bozo line after every

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return of serve?

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that's a great place to focus.

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Another example would be like,

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depth of shots.

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My shots or my shots going deeper now because deep shots

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are strategic,

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right? We need,

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they, they bring strategy into the game.

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And so what you wanna do is pick one area on

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the mechanical,

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one area on the strategic and make that your focus today.

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And what you're trying to do is you're trying to quiet

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the noise of everything else that's gonna happen.

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'cause listen,

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things are gonna happen,

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right? There's gonna be weird shots,

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there's gonna be,

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you know,

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there's gonna be adversity when you're playing and things like that.

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And there's gonna be a player who doesn't,

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isn't particularly friendly and open play,

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whatever it is,

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right? There's gonna be extraneous factors out there that can,

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that can distract us as long as we're stay focused on

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the areas of the game that are really important to us,

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we can avoid the noise of getting distracted with popups and

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things like that.

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'cause popups happen and we understand that.

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So we're gonna focus on those two areas,

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one to two areas.

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Again, if you wanna do one perfectly fine,

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no criticism,

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do one.

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do two more than two.

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It's pretty hard to do during one session to play.

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either one of two,

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two areas to focus on from mechanical strategic.

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already doing that right now.

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It's great to do athletic,

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right? But you're doing that right now when you prepare to

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play. And step number four,

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we're gonna continue the athletic pillar preparation for our day.

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So our focus on the core can be mechanical and strategic.

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I'm gonna go out to the court now,

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I'll talk about step number four as I walk up to

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the courts.

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Want to talk about step number four.

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So step number four is we're gonna turn to our body

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now. We're gonna get our bodies ready to play the best

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that they can today.

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First thing we wanna do is avoid the temptation of simply

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rushing out there,

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right? You see your friends on the court,

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they're ready to play.

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You get your paddle,

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you run out there,

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start whacking the balls around.

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it's three hours later you're tired,

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your body feels tight.

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Maybe you pulled a muscle in the middle of the match,

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but you definitely didn't spend any time on your body getting

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it ready.

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So I'm gonna take my bag off here and we are

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going to talk about how to get ready for your match.

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First thing you wanna do is you want to do a

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warmup, okay?

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You want to do a a,

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a body warmup.

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What that means is,

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generally speaking is getting your body a little bit of sweat

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break in your body,

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get a little sheen on your skin perhaps,

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is how you'll know that your body is warmed up.

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You want to get your,

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your body temperature up a little bit so that you're ready

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to, to play.

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Your muscles will be warm,

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you'll less likely to have an injury because your body is

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warm. You also want to do some stretching.

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Now you want to do dynamic stretching.

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Dynamic stretching is stretching and motion,

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right? Not static.

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So static stretching is the kind of stretching that we did

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when we were kids.

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Probably, you know,

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in gym there would,

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they would make us hold the stretches for a certain certain

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amount of time.

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Static stretching is great afterwards,

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right? For flexibility work and things like that.

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It's great.

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Not before you're gonna play,

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before you're gonna play.

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You want to do dynamic stretching,

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you're not sure what that is.

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I'll put a link down in the show notes to a

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video on our Better Pickleball channel with some dynamic stretching to

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get you into it and show you what that looks like.

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But here's the thing,

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make sure you get your body ready,

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right? Don't expect to go out there and play great if

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you didn't prepare your body to play and again,

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resist a temptation of just running out there right away and

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hitting the shot without getting your body ready.

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Because here's the other kicker on that.

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When you rush out there,

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so you get to the court,

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you put your bag down,

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you rush out on the court,

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guess what else gets rushed.

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Your mind,

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your mind will get rushed out there.

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You'll never,

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you'll be able to like reset yourself and,

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and, and slow yourself down because you already started the day

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going a hundred miles an hour.

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Get to the courts,

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get your body ready at your tempo and your time before

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you step out there to hit your first shot.

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So that is step number four and second,

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I give you step number five as we get into step

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number five to have your most amazing down on the Pickleball

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Court. Wanted to let you know that we have added several

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camp locations in 2024,

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and if you're listening to us later,

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probably have a lot of camp locations,

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your as your year as well.

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We have made a concerted effort to make ourselves and our

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training more available to players all over the country because you've

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been asking for it.

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And we wanna make sure that you have access to the

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best Pickleball training available.

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If you wanna join one of our camps,

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go to better Pickleball dot com,

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click on camps,

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then you'll see any look every location that's still available.

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Alright, let's get into step number five.

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So step number five is having at least one technique,

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if not more than one available to you to allow you

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to reset yourself whenever things get kinda wacky out on the

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Pickleball court.

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Because as I said earlier,

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things will get wacky out on the Pickleball court.

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It's just part of how things happen out on the Pickleball

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court. It's a lot unexpected things.

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That's why I keep calling out here.

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We don't know what the,

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what gifts it has for us.

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So I'm gonna give you three options here and if you

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have other ones that you use,

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perfectly fine,

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but you want to have some technique that allows you to

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reset yourself when you're out on the court.

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One I'm gonna give you is from our friend Jen and

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my paddle in my hand to show you this one.

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What she would do is she would come back here to

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the back,

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tap her paddle on there,

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on the on the fence,

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and just basically give the bad shots that the paddle has

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hit, put 'em on the fence.

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Not your on your paddle anymore.

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They're not yours anymore.

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They belong to the fence.

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She also does that with her friends and her,

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you know,

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her partner and she's playing.

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She'll just tap paddles with 'em after they missed a shot

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that they're upset about.

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Take it from their,

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from their friend's paddle,

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put it on your paddle,

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put it on the fence,

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get it outta here.

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Right? That's a good way of resetting.

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Another technique I'll give you is to release your paddle.

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So after the rally,

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take the paddle out of your hand,

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out of your dominant hand,

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put it in the other hand that's great for your forearm,

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relaxes your arm and it resets you.

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It says,

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you know what?

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That rally finished.

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I don't even need the paddle anymore till the next rally.

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So it kind of resets you.

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Actually, I said three,

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I'm gonna give you four.

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The third one I'm gonna give you is basically,

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it's a question you can ask yourself.

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Some players like to say,

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what now?

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What next?

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Things like that.

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You know,

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this is a really good technique you can use to just

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reset yourself.

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Ask yourself,

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okay, basically that's over.

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What am I gonna do in the next rally?

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What am gonna focus myself on the next rally and what

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I'm gonna do next as opposed to thinking about the past?

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The last option I'll give you,

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it's a breathing technique that we use at our camps.

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The camps I mentioned earlier that CJ teaches there,

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which is a two push technique.

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It's a,

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it's basically the same technique that's used in lama,

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but it works something like this and you can follow along

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if you want to.

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You'd be very relaxed when we're done.

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We're gonna,

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we're gonna breathe in once and push out twice,

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so breathe in fully through your nose and then push out

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through your mouth.

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Once, twice,

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do it again.

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Breathe in deep,

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push out twice.

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I dunno about you all,

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but I'm perfectly relaxed right now.

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And it's great to have that available to you when you're

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playing Pickleball before you step out on the court,

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you know it's there.

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You have it in your back pocket.

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Use one or more of these techniques when you're playing to

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calm yourself down.

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Reset yourself when you're playing Pickleball.

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That'll make sure that when things get crazy out there,

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which they will,

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you'll be able to reset yourself and come back to neutral.

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I hope you get to enjoy a great day at Pickleball

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today. The key to these five steps is to get you

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ready to play your best Pickleball.

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Remember, get ready to play.

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Remember why it is that you play Pickleball.

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Focus on one at the most.

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Two things in order to get your mind ready and focused

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on what you want to work on today.

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Then get your body ready.

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Really important and have some sort of a reset mechanism.

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Have a way to get yourself out of those situations when

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things invariably will get a little bit out of whack.

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That'll ensure that you are able to play your best next

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time you play Pickleball.

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If you want to know more about like the perspective of

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playing Pickleball at,

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check out our episode number 85 on bowl of ice cream.

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If you haven't heard it in a while,

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that's a great one to bookmark as well.

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Remind yourself that you always get a bowl of ice cream

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every single time you head out to the Pickleball Courts.

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Hope you enjoyed this week's podcast.

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If you enjoyed the podcast,

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as always,

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Plus, you might enjoy seeing the different parts of the court

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If you li,

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bookmark it so you can listen to it on the way

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to the courts.

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This is a bookmark episode,

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intended to help you every single time that you go out

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to play Pickleball.

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Have a great week and I'll see you next time.