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Pickleball insights that focus on the why behind every shot and strategy. Tips on technique, game plans, and the mental side, from coach Tony Roig.

Vital Realizations, Side Roads, and the 11-0, 10-0 Challenge etiquette pickleball therapy sportsmanship Oct 30, 2026

In Episode 319 of Pickleball Therapy, Coach Tony covers two ideas that seem unrelated at first: how players grow and sportsmanship. Both come down to the same question. Are you clear on why you’re doi...

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Use the High FIVE for better shots mental game pre-shot routine serve shot mechanics visualization Oct 28, 2026

The sounder your shot mechanics, the more consistent you are. The more consistent you are, the higher your chances of success.

Flipped around: the foundation of your pickleball success starts with so...

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The Rules of FOUR mental game pickleball serve pickleball strategy return of serve return tips rules of four serve and return serve depth serve targets serve tips tony roig Oct 27, 2026

Your brain wants to help you. It really does.

The difficulty is that your brain lacks clear instructions on what you want it to do.

Vague ideas aren’t enough. For example, “I want to serve hard.” Or...

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The Three Questions gratitude pickleball camps pickleball improvement pickleball mental game pickleball therapy Oct 18, 2026

What follows is an excerpt from the TRP Super Camp Coaching Playbook. You can hear more about these concepts in Episode 318 of The Pickleball Therapy podcast (releasing 10/23/2026), available on any p...

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Coach Tony Featured in The Kitchen camps pickleball camps the kitchen tony roig Oct 16, 2026

The Kitchen just published a feature on Coach Tony Roig: How Tony Roig became one of pickleball’s most trusted instructors.

The article covers the origins of Respect the X, how Tony thinks about the ...

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We All Play The Same Game: Your Pickleball Improvement Blueprint pickleball fundamentals pickleball improvement pickleball practice plan pickleball therapy picklewall your pickleball coach Oct 16, 2026

Watch a pro match, and it can look like a different sport. The hands are faster. The shots are cleaner. The rallies go places yours usually don’t right now.

So it’s natural to assume the pros are pla...

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I’m shelving the baseline lob — and so should you (mostly) doubles strategy lob rec play safety third shot Oct 15, 2026

Authored by Tony Roig for The Kitchen Community Newsletter

There’s no shot more controversial in pickleball than the lob. For some, it’s part of the game, and all is well. For others, the lob is tabo...

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Pickleball instruction: Static vs. dynamic stacking — and why dynamic is better advanced pickleball doubles strategy dynamic stacking pickleball strategy stack unwind stacking Oct 13, 2026

Authored by Tony Roig for The Kitchen Community Newsletter

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you already know about stacking in pickleball — when you and your partner decide the strongest...

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What If It Works Out? pickleball mental game pickleball mindset pickleball therapy positive thinking self-limiting beliefs service yips Oct 09, 2026

Most players know the question “What’s the worst that could happen?” It sounds like good sense. It prepares you. It keeps your hopes in check.

But on a pickleball court, that question has a cost.

In...

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Too Many Voices? Why You Can't Hear Any of Them camps mental game pickleball therapy respect the x strategy Oct 02, 2026

By Jeff Renshaw

How much of what you know about pickleball do you really understand?

In Episode 315 of Pickleball Therapy, Coach Tony borrows a term that captures this kind of surface-level understa...

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Sorry NOT Sorry: Why It's Time to Stop Apologizing on the Pickleball Court mental game open play partner play pickleball therapy women's pickleball Sep 25, 2026

“Sorry.”

If you play in a regular group, you've heard it. You've probably said it. An “easy” dink lands in the net. Sorry. A return sails long. Sorry. You miss a put-away. Sorry.

Carol, a member of ...

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The NEW Pickleball System announcements foss approach online pickleball training the new pickleball system your pickleball coach Sep 23, 2026

By Tony Roig Pickleball

The Pickleball System has been the best online pickleball training program since 2020. It provided a step-by-step program that players could follow to improve their play.

And...

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