Briar and Danielle toast to another season of pickleball podcasts. How much fun has this been? Paddle up!

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While perfectionism can have both positive and negative impacts on pickleball players, finding a balance between striving for excellence and maintaining a healthy perspective on mistakes and imperfections is essential for overall enjoyment and success in the sport. 
Briar and Danielle talk setting high standards and the positives and negatives in pickleball. 

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Let’s talk about physical conditioning. It’s been the single biggest concept on my mind for a variety of reasons. Being in shape, training for tournements, improving our game. Being ready for old age. Ug. 
Briar and Danielle talk about setting goals and the hard part, following through. Life gets so busy. What are you goals?

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This week we are talking about friendship. Seems like a broad topic. Why is friendship different in pickleball than in any other sport. It may not be any different but we think pickleball promotes friendship more broadly,  more easily. 

It is how we met, and it is how I met others after moving to this community  a couple of years ago. 

Let’s talk about how friendship is interwoven in pickleball

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In this episode, Briar and Danielle speak about Mentorship in sports and most specifically in pickleball. We are thrilled to have the insights from a female pickleball star and mentor here in our community as our guest, Robyn Percival. Robyn is an elegant, skillful player who I first met in our Friday morning drill session and has been a mentor and friend of Briar for a long time.

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Elitism. 

Standard dictionary

Being elitist in the context of sports refers to the adoption of an exclusive or snobbish attitude, often associated with a sense of superiority, towards individuals or groups based on their perceived athletic abilities, achievements, or participation in particular sports. 
What does that mean to you? Let's talk about it. 

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Briar and Danielle talk today about equating how you play the game of pickleball and how you play the game of life.

When you think about it, there are so many parallels between sports and life. Here are  just a few topics

• Rules and Objectives
• Decision-Making
• Focus and Resilience
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Persistence and Perseverance
• Balance and Self-Care

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Briar and Danielle talk about pet peeves....court etiquette.
We've been feeling lately like, well complaining. Court annoyances and irritations about pickleball. Are we becoming those people? These really aren't problems at all in the context of the world but in pickleball, they are real.

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No one wants to talk about this but just like every other sport, it is a thing. It can happen. And more and more people are playing pickleball so naturally, injury will be and is on the rise as well. 

Most people think pickleball is a low-impact sport - not too much running, not like lifting weights, playing rugby or football…..but still - strains, shoulders, elbows, knees, ankle injuries abound.  
Pickleball is full of quick lateral movements, sudden stops, reaching up quickly for that overhead slam. Briar and Danielle talk about the kinds of injuries pickleballers get and what you can do to prevent them. 

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What are drills really? We have already done one podcast about drilling, we sure talk about it a lot amongst our friends. Unanimously  it’s the one topic of conversation we talk about, and talk about how we need to drill but then we don't really do a lot of it. Why is that? More fun to play games than work at improving our games? C'mon. 

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