Agree wholeheartedly! The beauty of pickleball is that you can play it as a game or a sport depending on how competitive you want to be. And you can play it both ways; playing fun recreational games and also entering tournaments. Love the sport.❤

So right!! I remember those small moments from sports my entire life, where it was a pass or shot in basketball or a pickleball drive down the line. At 65 it never gets old!! Thanks for sharing and motivating us all.

Superb analysis and insight = This is for sure my favorite new KZbin channel!! Also, I'm very new to Pickleball ( 4 weeks now ) and yet, the health benefits from currently playing 3 hours a day have been quite extraordinary in just this short time.

Loved this video and can relate to all your points!

Outstanding. I just posted this video on our "Pickleball for Seniors" Facebook site and suggested our members take the time over the holidays to watch it. Thank you.

Great video! Injuries are a real concern. Thanks for showing us your warm-up routine. I usually skip a warm-up simply because I feel silly, but yours looks reasonable. And I wholeheartedly agree with the strength training suggestion, as well. I'm hoping to play pickleball for many more years, so I've got to do what I can to remain injury-free.

It's hard to control my enthusiasm for this video. Brilliant analysis, wonderfully presented. I only wish I weren't coming up on 80 so as to better use the wisdom I've now acquired. My goals the past two years of playing have been to improve my strokes (backhand, serve, etc) and to have fun. The score doesn't matter. I'd rather our team lost 15-13 than we won 11-2. I've seen progress in my game, and expect to see more. Again, wonderful video. Many thanks, wise lady.

Love your video !!! Just what I needed 💜 my thing/goal is being present, I get so excited while playing that my body goes into auto-mode and hit everything that comes my way 🙈 after that the list on goals goes on… 3rd shot drops, not missing a serve, drives, etc. Thank you !!!

Thanks for creating this - Plenty of good take aways for newbies like myself 💚

Glad to see some Pro Senior play since PPA won't stream their matches. NLP has been my go to.

Great info! Thanks. I have chronic ankle instability from lots of prior sprains from tennis and other abuse when younger. As a result I have peroneus brevis tendinopathies too. I am thinking strength training, stretching and maybe a good pair of mid height court shoes. Any other thoughts?

Great video! I wish I had some pre-pickleball blood work or a DEXA scan to show how my health has improved, but sadly I don't. After playing pickleball pretty much every day for over a year, I feel so much better. I also started weight lifting twice a week in order to improve my game, so that's another way Pickleball made me healthier. As someone who does not enjoy "exercise", Pickleball is the only activity that I have stuck with for more than a few months. Reminds me of the old saying, "The best exercise is the one you will do."

_True_ sedentary is when you age out into a rancher with the master bedroom, master bathroom, and kitchen all on the same level, because ten or fifteen years from now, those stairs might become a problem. This floorplan swap is equivalent to losing 1 MET, a full decade ahead of schedule.

If you really want the deep reason, it's because pickleball looks easier when played at 1.0 speed than it does when replayed at 0.5x, or even 0.25x. My wife rides dressage. People watch this event and say "the horse is doing all the work". Actually, at a high level, the rider is making five small adjustments per second with feet and hands and spine and butt. This level of detail is even more invisible in dressage than it is in pickleball. Dressage played in slow motion just looks like a slow horse. Recently, I watched a slow-motion breakdown of ALW and Collin Johns loading up their left hip in preparation to punish a backhand every time it was merely _possible_ for the opponents to make this shot. For every three times they torqued their torsos in anticipation, two out of three were false alarms. At standard replay speed, nobody sees any of this. They aren't the player striking the ball and they aren't the player the ball flies toward. They are just an unnoticed third fiddle on the play. And then ALW uncorks that monster twoey, and you think "wow, she's strong even for strong", but actually, no, she is _systematically preloading her torso_ before the play even for strong. And other thing, the camera deceives. You watch a 5.0 player in a causal game on KZbin and you think, I do that with my mixed 4.0 crowd. No you don't. At the 5.0 level that ball arrives 4 inches closer to an awkward place and 5% sooner, with a droop or some extra junk on top, every single time, and every one of your slight errors is punished 2x more viciously. The problem is that the perceptual range for the outsider from the sleepy, everyone-welcome version of pickleball, to the highly nuanced high-octane nature of more competitive play is highly compressed. Jekyll differs from his twin brother Hyde in having only a few more freckles. One is playing seniors' pickleball, and the other is leaving no survivors. "I play pickleball." "Oh, that's sweet. Say 'hi' to Jekyll, and ask him how his hip replacement is panning out." In reality, for more competitive players: "Say, Hyde, you look good today. What's up?" "New hip." "I didn't even know you needed one. So quickly? How did that happen?" "Don't ask." "BTW, how is Jekyll, anyway?" "Laid up."

In open rec play, you need to have a combination of performance goals with the ball and process goals without the ball. Here's how it plays out for me. First, I'm 6'5" and I really squeeze into the middle if the opponents don't actively attack my aggressive shading. When I'm playing left, it's my backhand side that is wide open. If I'm in a deep crouch with a wide leg stance, I can stab my backhand out a surprisingly long way without moving my feet, so I often get away with my central positioning. Second, from a low crouch I can reach surprising far _into_ the kitchen, to cut off crosscourt dinks on the volley. I'm even using the Tardio from time to time, sticking my non-dominant leg out behind me to lean even further forward, flamingo style. They can send me for a long run after a crosscourt ball, but the channel is narrow. Third, with my long arm poking into the center of the court, the opponents become nervous about landing central dinks. Fourth, I'm pretty much unlobbable at the 4.0- level. Any ball fired sharply upward from close range that manages to clear my upstretched paddle is likely to hang up there long enough for me to backtrack under it before it comes down again, and that only earns the opponents a smash from deep court. Finally, I also have a play style where I'm defensive/slow on balls below the net and aggressive/fast on balls above the net. I'm not one of these people who tries to stretch the yellow zone down to the top of my socks, trusting the grit on my paddle to bend the ball fair. I prefer easier shots with higher percentages. The net effect is that I steer the ball into slow kitchen play early in the rally, and then my opponents spend the rest of the rally freezing me out, until an errant ball finally pops up to my side, and my only contribution is initiating the kill sequence. This happens a lot, because my partner is often covering only six feet of the net front, crowded off to the size by my looming limbs in the middle. Then it is both opponents against my partner, but they can barely ever make my partner move his/her feet inside that narrow coverage zone. They have a narrow target to aim at, and my partner has a wider set of targets to aim at. If my partner has a steady hand, unusually my partner gains the upper hand. Consequently, I often play 75% of a two-hour block without the ball coming to my side, although my size and my nuanced positional play contributes greatly to the outcome. At first, when I finally became good enough to be worth freezing out, this annoyed me. Gradually I figured out that there is so much you can do while frozen out, if you care about positional mastery. It's surprising how many of my opponent's balls I manage to steer out of bounds by twitching like I'm about to go full poach just as they take their backswing. All the body mechanics of efficient footwork, staying on your toes, being in the right crouch, having the tip of your paddle at the right height, shaded to best advantage (forehand/backhand), whether to lean forward to attack or stay centered to defend, moving at the right speed and stopping in the right place at the right time, etc. can be practiced without the ball. All the mental mechanics of noting your opponent's techniques and tendencies can also be practiced without the ball. "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."- Fran Lebowitz But in pickleball, not having the ball is _not_ waiting if you are not asleep on the many process opportunities.

Where I play, we always warm up by dinking 2 or 3 minutes, then when we play, we almost never dink again. I guess I’m a 3.5 player, but possibly 4.0 at speed ups and volleys. Dinking, on the other hand… maybe I’m approaching the 3.0 level. My goal after watching this video is to practice dinking against a wall and apply my new skills in games. I also want to learn to use dinks strategically to move my opponents around and set up better opportunities for myself.

I love your content! This is only the 2nd video I've watched, but I will definitely search out more of your videos. For me personally, Pickleball has given me better health, more endurance, more friends, more energy & enthusiasm for life. I'm so glad I found nearby courts that were welcoming to beginners and also provided a league to help me develop my skills. As far as future content, I would love to hear how you became a Senior Pro and what exactly that entails.

my goal: hit less than 3 shots out

Keep up the good work! Love to hear more about injuries and prevention

I played my first game ever in July 2024, at age 70. I AM HOOKED. Now, I just have to get better. Your advice is just what I need to analyze my goals. No comparisons, just process and above all have fun!

That was a really fun match to watch!

I have so many things to work on but control is top on my list…sending the ball where I want it, resetting, and staying within the no volley zone. I often end up backing away…I have to stand my ground. Practicing is a challenge because there is no place to do so indoors during winter but come summer, I will.

This is good stuff. Rings true for me and I need to do better

Very to the point and informative keep posting!

4 MODS! 😂 Are those 16 mm or14? And why? What level?

100% agree with your packing list - Mine might have a few less rackets though! lol Curious about your theragun..that's the only item I don't own, and at age 59 I think I should consider owing one. Would you recommend your model or even suggest a better model/brand if you had to choose another? If your happy with yours, could you let me know which one you have? Thank you and have a fun tourney!

Very well said! I've played league basketball until 65 and now pickleball. I'm constantly playing and introducing young people to the sport and they get as addicted as I die. After 38 years working, I have met and made more friends and neighbors in two years then all of those years in business. Proud to say I play Pickleball. Thanks for your channel!!

Love your honesty! I love pickleball ❤

With that hate, no embarrassment necessary

Ignore the hatters - embrace the passion.

I really enjoyed your video. The information was well presented without getting too bogged down in the weeds.

Great video. Well done. 👏

Doc friend of mine said pickleball was the #1 injury source for new patients over 40 of his. I play but I think the issue is people don't warn up and take that aspect seriously the way they do tennis.

Nice ATP!

As an occupational therapist, I like how you presented this content and how functional the tips are.

I'll take it over white paddle faces, especially Selkirk paddles. Good stuff

Need that quiet and silent tech together with the illegal propulsion

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