There are serious losses that we encounter that's part of being alive. If your favorite team did not win a contest, it's not an upset and does not mean that anybody suffered a loss. It just means that the contest ended with one team having more points, or other defining measurement of that sport, than the other team.  That's why in this week's episode we're talking about how we reference losing sporting events. And as always, thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you ..read more

We've had great conversations with our therapists that we will share here. One of our therapist talks about the importance of the mental game as we age & the mental and physical challenges. How do we deal with those as we get older? Here's my take; - As we get older, we have to be cognizant of life, the change in our bodies and our mind because it can change our ability to, for instance, stay focused for longer. - Use the FOSS approach of understanding the game to understand what you can do in different situations that's going to be more effective. Then repeat what works. And as always, th ..read more

Playing a tournament but are not sure what to choose? We've got your covered in this special episode. You can confidently make your selection, knowing that there is a cogent reason you are doing so. Your opponents will likely be baffled. But you will know - and that's what matters. Join us here for our awesome tournament class: https://betterpickleball.com/tournament-play ..read more

There's a wall that players can sometimes run into when trying to improve. But there's a wall that some players spend a lot of time standing in front of that they're not able to scale it. This week I'm going to talk about the mindset that you want to bring to your improvement. This is an improvement episode where we talk about big picture improvement. The term fundamentals is a turn off to some players but the irony of it is it's what exactly the players need in order to scale that wall or break through that wall.   It takes some dedication, work and patience to be able to get where we wa ..read more

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do. It's through recognition that we can make adjustments as we move forward in our pickleball play. A lot of times players have difficulty recognising or relating to what just occurred in the rally they just played. For instance, who hit what shot, where was the ball hit and things like that. It even includes sometimes players having difficulty remembering that they hit a particular shot ..read more

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do. If pickleball was easy and always a calm sailing wind at your back, you probably wouldn't enjoy it as much. That's why in this episode we look at the play aspect of pickleball, and more specifically how to navigate a game because oftentimes we'll find that the wind has shifted or the waters have gotten a little rough and all of a sudden we have to tack in a different direction.  Mo ..read more

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do. Our upcoming Win-More Series got me to thinking about, well, winning. We talk about it a lot because it takes up a lot of our mental bandwidth. Winning is a fine thing and it is A-Ok to want more of it.  And based on that, here are two areas worth exploring: 1 - How do we win more? In actuality not just conceptually 2 - Does winning become the end all and be all? Keeping our eye on ..read more

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do. In this special episode we're going to talk about some concepts involving taking care of our body and preventing or reducing the chance that we're going to potentially get injured in the future. One of the most important things that you can do to take care of your body is wear the right shoes, designed specifically for pickleball.   Now how and when does injury happen? Injury is re ..read more

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do. In this episode we take a recipe approach to pickleball. There's nothing wrong with following a recipe but if you're going to use this approach, you would need to have the recipe in front of you in order to be able to bake a cake. If you're like me, you'll have to look back at the recipe probably several times while baking just to make sure you cover all the steps. This explains why the ..read more

Thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do. We are output-oriented creatures based on our efforts. How do we improve our outputs in our pickleball play? In this episode we talk about input and output to help you understand the process by breaking it down to see how we get to the outputs that we want when we play pickleball. We'll use an illustration of baking a cake. If you're trying to bake a cake and you don't have a good recip ..read more