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Ep. 238 - Your Mind Needs Water Too
When we think about pickleball, there are three pillars that comes to mind which we developed a few years back; the mechanical, the strategic, and the athletic pillar....
Ep. 237 - Why Are You Upset?
You can't control every event in your journey, but you can control how you respond. And control goes beyond the physical aspect to include a mental dimension too. Some...
Ep. 236 - Does Smiling Improve your Pickleball Game?
Pickleball System Spring Boot Camp starting on March 27th; https://betterpickleball.com/march-bootcamp/Will a smile help your pickleball game? While there might not be...
Special Episode - Pickleball Stoicism with Pickleball Pro Richard Livornese, Jr.
We had the pleasure of featuring a pro pickleball player, Richard Livornese Jr., in this special episode. It will be interesting to listen to the discussion, not just ...
Accepting Frustration is the Key to Growth
Join us for the March Bootcamp; https://betterpickleball.com/spring-bootcamp/ This week, let's dive into a concept I stumbled upon through an insightful video featurin...
Reanimating Open Play PLUS It's Normal to Take a Step Back
Open play can be interesting with players of varying skill levels playing and enjoying the game together. But that's not always the case when dynamics of it set in and...
Handling Mental Interference PLUS Losing from Too Much
'The good thing about pressure is that it lets you know that you care.' Billy Jean King. The difficulty comes in when you let the pressure build up too much that it sp...
Special Episode - Interview with Shelley and Sher of Life Lessons from Pickleball
In this special episode of Pickleball Therapy we sit down for an insightful and fun conversation with Shelley and Sher, the duo behind Life Lessons from Pickleball.We ...
Anna Bright's Positive Perspective Win or Lose
In doing some video review for a project I was working on, I came across some really good interview answer by Anna Bright, a top pickleball player in the world right n...
Peeling the Pickleball Onion
At first glance, pickleball might seem simple—just a paddle, a plastic ball, and a court. But as you play more, you'll realize the sport's complexity. It's a puzzle th...
Mental Warmup: Prepare to Play Your Best - Bookmark Episode
Whenever you're getting ready to play, you want a little bit more focus, framing for yourself and perspective. This special bookmark style episode of the podcast is de...
Your Individual Perspective
In this weeks podcast we talk about different strokes for different folks. We got a couple of reviews I'm going to read to you here because I thought it was interesti...
Special Episode - Better Body, Better Play - Interview with Ty Woody
Strength training and proper exercise are essential for improving pickleball performance and should be a regular part of training, it's part of the athletic pillar tha...
Gatekeep your Pickleball - It's in Your Hands
How can we gatekeep information and use that to best enjoy our pickleball journey? A lot of times when we're exposed to information in an area we're not sure what the ...
Are you Performing when You Play?
What Does it Mean to Perform? How many games do you expect to win the next time you play pickleball? All of them? Most of them? Half? Extend that out: what win percent...
Don't Let the Rules Ruin the Game for You
In 2025, the rules change has a little bit of impact on the non-volley zone when the volley starts. Basically the volley included the swing of the paddle before the ba...
SwingVision: Is AI Assisted Game Analysis Right for Your Game? - Special Episode
Imagine having the same stats about your game like the pros. Things like:How fast is my serve? How accurate is my forehand? Am I making more mistakes on my backhand? I...
Big Wins Start with One Small Step
At the beginning of the year, we have all that enthusiasm and most of us are filled with hope, promise and a lot of excitement for the coming year. When players set re...
Are We There Yet? - Avoid Progress Frustration
Happy 2025! Let's think about our progress journey through pickleball as worth experiencing and enjoying to see the game better. Because here's the fact, there's reall...
The Perfect Partnership - for Ben Johns and You
Ben Johns is no longer going to play with his brother, Collin, and is looking for a partner for 2025. It's a little bit sad in the sense that they're brothers, they pl...
Framing Adversity and Bite-Size Chunks
Think of a perfect world as one that includes adversities because things will occur to us that are not in line with what we would hope or like. That in and of itself i...
Our 2025 Trends Class and Pickleball Central Partnership - Special Episode Announcing These for Year-End
You can register for the class and find the Pickleball Central link and code at BetterPickleball.com.Have a great week and we will see you this Friday for our regular ...
Fighting Variability
Obstacles will naturally arise and are the reasons why you cannot reasonably say that you will not miss a single shot the next game you play. If obstacles are unavoida...
Mistakes Aren't a Failure
When we're playing a match and we miss a shot, particularly one that we consider 'easy', we can get down on ourselves. Missing shots is usually the most negative feeli...
Reframe Your Frustration: Ditch the Struggle by Embracing the Process
This week we dive deeper into a recent episode by Tony on a very powerful perspective that had me reflect on my journey about learning. What I discovered about the rea...
Turn Distractions Into a Positive
A distraction pulls our attention away from the main thing that we're trying to focus on and it could either be physical or mental. For instance, if you're trying to p...
2 Secrets to Pickleball Success
I got to play in one event at the USA Pickleball Nationals in Mesa, Arizona, that I'm going to be using as the centerpiece for today's conversation- How do we play bet...
Pickleball Mastery - A Click Away
Let's talk about the concept of clicking when it comes to knowledge acquisition. How do we acquire knowledge and how do we know that we've acquired it? Sometime there'...