All Episodes
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'...
Factor A is the only Factor you control
On a pickleball court, there are four factors that affect the outcome of the game; us, our partner, and our two opponents. We'll use an analogy where factor A is going...
Play Net Positive Pickleball
Pickleball, in its essence, is a zero-sum activity because it's built around the concept that there's going to be one winner and one loser. In a zero-sum world, our o...
The Best from our Archives Part 5 - Our BEST Episode - You Be the Judge. Your Journey PLUS Lots More
In this episode we're going to re-up one of our most popular and best episode. How do we customize the journey best for ourselves?Think of your journey as a customer e...
Successful Pickleball - Your Way
You can be successful as a pickleball player with different types of approaches, both hard and soft game strategies, and being a proponent of the soft game, doesn't me...
Constructive Pickleball Play With All Levels
Sometimes we'll play in situations in open plays where there's really no gathering of levels. So it's basically a free-for-all. How do you keep the game fun? How do yo...
Special Episode: Therapist Edition - What is Pickleball?
In this special episode of Pickleball Therapy, we have a meeting with fellow pickleball therapists who share their insights and happenings from their own pickleball jo...
The Ratings Game PLUS Gaining Focus When You Play
Let's talk about ratings, one of those double-edged swords that really don't say anything about how you play. While there's definitely a place for ratings in our sport...
Don't be a Pickleball Vampire PLUS Middle School Antics
As a pickleball player, I want to feel good and play without doing that at the expense of my opponent. Taking advantage of my opponent and paying attention to my oppon...
Two BAD Words that Are Holding Your Back
Good pickleball, and the best pickleball you'll ever play, is built upon a foundation of sound FUNDAMENTALS.I was reminded of the 'imagined' bad word, fundamentals, du...
Special Episode: System Class Starting Soon PLUS Our Virtual Clinic
How to learn more about our upcoming course: ThePickleballsystem.comTo sign up for our Virtual Clinic: BetterPickleball.com (click at the top header)To join us for our...
Whose Fault Was It? PLUS Evolutionary Empathy PLUS 5K at a time til the record
In this episode we talk about three subjects; assigning fault, increasing our evolutionary empathy and staying focused.I got to play in a mixed group recently where I ...
Applying the 20 Second Rule to Your Pickleball Journey PLUS Don't Underestimate Your Sport
Have you've been dreading doing something or having a conversation for a long time? The pool is an interesting way of thinking about it where you're standing by the si...
Special Episode - Interview with Sara Weiss
In this special episode of Pickleball Therapy we talk with the incomparable Sara Weiss about her pickleball journey and the idea of being an animal on the court.We als...
Knowing the "Rules" to Apply and the Ones to Skip PLUS Forest > Trees
The idea of strategic fluidity (wanting to be adapt to everything) and pickleball is a fine concept that sounds great in theory.But how does that work in practice when...
The Other Side of Your Game - Balance it out
There is another side to your game – and there’s plenty to be proud of I want you to list all the things you do not do well as a pickleball player – or that you could ...