How to Stay Strong When It Goes Sideways + MLP Virginia Recap | This Pickleball Life (Ep 52)

How to Stay Strong When It Goes Sideways + MLP Virginia Recap | This Pickleball Life (Ep 52)

Author: This Pickleball Life with Jilly B and K Dub October 14, 2024 Duration: 55:53

Fistfights on the pickle court! Oh my! The MLP waiver wire is like a game of hot potato. Think like a pro, play like a pro. Find out Jill's secret to success in Virginia Beach (#1 in the player stats) and her gold medal in APP Columbus Women's Open. How do you right the ship in the storm and come out ahead when things are NOT going your way. 


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SEGMENTS:

0:00 Coming Up

1:38 What is Lizard Pickleball?

6:00 What is “worldly” about Worlds?! 

9:40 Why are all the serve rules different?

12:45 Jill’s Secret Potions

15:05 Elder Cat-Fight on the Courts?!

16:25 The Mentality of Winners

22:30 the L.A.U.G.H. Method

25:30 MLP Virginia Beach Recap

31:00 Your EYES 👀 are the key 🔑

34:00 Cracked Pickle

39:00 How do you take positives from the losses?

42:50 It’s all Brendon Long’s fault!?!

43:20 Reign Storm is the answer

45:10 Traveling alone (no K-Dubs)

45:00 APP Women’s: Playing for a Cause

52:30 MLP Waiver Wire

55:10 The International Kingpin of Pickleball



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