Pickleball Therapy

Join us on February 22, 2025, for a FREE online event where we will share with you the State of Pickleball Play for 2025. You are not going to want to miss it. It is free, but you need a ticket. Click the link to get your FREE ticket: https://bit.ly/411cey4 [https://bit.ly/411cey4] 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 that we talk about at Better Pickleball.  In this special episode we feature Ty Woody, a sports performance coach. Ty specializes in preparing pickleball players, both pros and amateurs, for optimal performance and injury prevention.  He shares with us why we should take care of our bodies because, at the end of the day, we want to play the sport that we enjoy. Listen the full episode to learn more as Ty takes us through; - A walk through on his experience with pickleball players and what he has seen in terms of suffering injuries and more - As to whether warming up can improve performance, make you play better, and help reduce injuries  - What is it that a pro player thinks about or does in terms of recovering and dealing with the stress of playing pickleball the way they play - How he would talk to an amateur player who plays five days a week, six days a week, in terms of figuring out how to do this weight training and practices.  Find Ty Woody on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickleballsportsperformance/

Join us on February 22, 2025, for a FREE online event where we will share with you the State of Pickleball Play for 2025. You are not going to want to miss it. It is free, but you need a ticket. Click the link to get your FREE ticket: https://bit.ly/411cey4 [https://bit.ly/411cey4] 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 right answer is, like pickleball, we're likely to err on the side of letting the information in.  This happens because we're just curious or we heard something and we're not sure how to discern that it's not correct for us. The algorithm dictates for you information (as it knows you better than you know yourself) and even well-meaning advice from friends at the courts may not best suit our specific needs.  All that information about pickleball can be overwhelming to sift through. Ask yourself, given the framework of the game and the objectives I'm trying to accomplish, what's going to help me the most play the sport of pickleball? The answer to this question will help you set clear goals for your practice. Gatekeeping your journey is as important as gatekeeping your information, perhaps even more important and will have an impact on your improvement journey on the court.

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 percentage would you be satisfied with over your pickleball playing career? Would you be happy with winning about 50% of the time?   It is common to react with a “No” here. After all, why should 50% be an acceptable result.   But reflect on that for a moment. If your win rate is more than 50%, what happens to the win rates of your fellow players (most of whom are your friends)? If your win rate for all time is 80%, that does not leave a lot of winning for anyone else.   Seems odd, doesn’t it?   Having a better perspective on what it means to perform – in terms of our results – can help us avoid needless pitfalls in how we feel about ourselves and our pickleball experience.   We explore this in more depth during this week’s episode of the Pickleball Therapy podcast. Find it on Apple, Spotify, or at BetterPickleball.com under “Free Insights.”   See you there. Check out our offerings and get on our email list; https://betterpickleball.com/ Coach Pete's book; https://betterpickleball.com/resources/

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 ball was struck.  Rules change in pickleball can rob us in different ways leading to unnecessary stress, conflicts on the court or detract us from the enjoyment of the game.  In this episode we also discuss how to deal with criticism and how we determine, at the first level, whether what's happening is a criticism or constructive feedback.  Nobody likes criticism, especially criticism without a point. Before you consider something being criticism, be aware of a couple of things;  i) What we think of something is a result of how we interpret it in our own mind. That's the everything.   ii) Ask yourself, why is this criticism as opposed to feedback? Why am I looking at it that way?  iii) Consider the source and the context or the environment in which the feedback is being provided.  iv) Focus on the positive aspects of feedback that will help if you are feeling criticized about your pickleball or anything else.  Join our Camps; https://betterpickleball.com/camps Better Pickleball Academy; https://betterpickleball.com/academy/ Join us inside the Pickleball System Class; https://betterpickleball.com/system/ Conveniently store all your essential equipment in one place using The Titan Ball Machine; https://titanballmachines.com/?sca_ref=5916769.Ghuy0VgJ0B

Imagine having the same stats about your game like the pros.  Things like: 1. How fast is my serve?  2. How accurate is my forehand?  3. Am I making more mistakes on my backhand?  In this podcast episode podcast we feature Swupnil Sahai, co-founder and CEO of Swingvision. SwingVision is an app that provides such stats by offering AI-assisted game analysis. The app provides real-time stats, tracking elements like ball speed and trajectory, and generates game highlights. It includes additional features such as automatic line calling and a challenge system using an Apple Watch. The app is optimized for standalone pickleball courts, with adaptability for courts overlaid on tennis and basketball courts.  Get a $100 Swing Stick for FREE with a year of SwingVision Pro HERE (and FREE international shipping!): https://swing.vision/r/betterpickleball [https://swing.vision/r/betterpickleball]