Let’s just say your regular Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday routine might be doing more for your mood than your morning coffee. If you’ve ever walked off the court grinning ear to ear and thought, “Man, I needed that,” you’re not imagining it. Science just caught up to what every die-hard player already knows: the more you play pickleball, … Read more
The pickleball court is meant to be a refuge from our busy lives. Here’s how you can clear your mind and set yourself up for success. I would bet a lot of money that most of the pickleball advice you’ve received and coaching content you’ve consumed have been technical – shot mechanics, footwork patterns, grips. … Read more
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Life is fast. And stressful. Challenges fly toward people from all different directions. Some of those trials are minor, short-lived annoyances. Other moments mark the beginning of long-lasting, life-altering events that reshape us whether or not we want them to. Even hockey, just a game that is an escape for … Read more
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Jacques Plante once quipped that goaltending is the only job in the world where a flashing red light and 18,000 fans cheering – or booing – accompanies the mistake that you just made. Well, fair point. Every job brings its own kind of stress and anxiety. Some of it is … Read more
It’s happened to all of us, no doubt. And nobody is exempt – not even the PPA’s third ranked mixed doubles team of J.W. Johnson and Jorga Johnson. Like so many other pickleball competitors, we, perhaps unknowingly in the moment, take our foot off the gas and transition our mental game from playing to-win to … Read more