She Dances Herself onto the Court

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Where to start? [00:00:01] Speaker B: You tell me. [00:00:03] Speaker A: You said on our last podcast that you quit your job. [00:00:09] Speaker B: I did. You made it sound like it was so that I could play more pickleball. [00:00:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:15] Speaker B: Is a nice side benefit, but that wasn't, that wasn't quite true. So. [00:00:21] Speaker A: So there's more to the story. [00:00:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Is this what we're talking about today? [00:00:26] Speaker A: Kind of. [00:00:27] Speaker B: Oh, dear. Put me on the spot. [00:00:35] Speaker A: Welcome, everybody, to the latest Sweet Loves podcast. My name is Kevin Huff. I'm here with the lovely, ever lovely, sweet love, sky huff. [00:00:42] Speaker B: Hello. [00:00:43] Speaker A: Also known as the one take wonder. So he says, I keep saying it, someone is gonna call you that. And when they do, I'm gonna jump for joy. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Oh, I will pay money for that. [00:00:53] Speaker A: You will? [00:00:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Watching you jump, sure. [00:00:59] Speaker A: That was one of the best ones you've had yet. Really? Very well done. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Oh, awesome. [00:01:05] Speaker A: I still think you quit to play pickleball with me more. [00:01:08] Speaker B: That's what I put that in your heart. That's great. [00:01:10] Speaker A: It's in my heart. It's in my mind. Fully believe. And by the way, we've played more. We have a lot more. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Definitely. [00:01:17] Speaker A: So we talked a while back, a month and a half ago or so, about how you, how you signed us up for a tournament so we could go out and play more. And then we never did until the tournament. [00:01:26] Speaker B: Right. [00:01:27] Speaker A: Let's talk about the tournament. How did it go? That was, um. Gosh, that was recent. That was just last weekend. [00:01:31] Speaker B: That was Sunday, five days ago. [00:01:33] Speaker A: Four days ago. [00:01:33] Speaker B: Yep. We lost every game. [00:01:37] Speaker A: It's a week and a half ago by the time our lovely three listeners listen to this. [00:01:40] Speaker B: But sorry about that. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Let me, uh, start over. [00:01:43] Speaker A: So start over with lost every game. Okay, go ahead. [00:01:45] Speaker B: We lost every game, but we had a ton of fun. [00:01:49] Speaker A: Mostly. [00:01:50] Speaker B: Mostly. We are still married and raise the roof. And I feel like we have improved since our previous tournament, our first tournament together. So even though we lost every game, there were definite signs of improvement. [00:02:09] Speaker A: You played a lot better. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:02:12] Speaker A: My game was fine. I I wasn't worried about my game. [00:02:16] Speaker B: No. We were really there just for the cause. The cause as well as the experience. And I did have to play up. And then I misunderstood a comment you made at the end. You know, after the games were over, I heard you talking to somebody and you had mentioned that I was playing up. And for some reason, when I say it, it's fine. When you say it, it makes me angry. And so we had a little argument on the way to dinner afterwards, but. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Yeah, we still went to dinner together. [00:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah. But it was. It was nice. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Here's what I love. Well, I love playing with you. You know that. I've been looking forward to this for six years, so this is awesome for me. We were at the tournament, but we also been at drills on Tuesday and Thursday mornings together. [00:02:58] Speaker B: Yes. [00:02:58] Speaker A: So that started up after you. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:00] Speaker A: Community emotion drills at Shadyside, 07:00 a.m. thursdays and Tuesdays. I guess I should say Tuesdays and Thursdays, but whatever. Great group. I mean, we had 21 this morning. We had 25 last week. Tuesday we had, like, 17. It's just been awesome. We've had close to an average of 20 for the last month or so, so it's pretty cool. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Yes. And it's been. We've been blessed with great weather, too, which is helpful. [00:03:25] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. This July has been stunning. Just flat out stunning. If you're not from Indiana. Best kept secret. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Yeah. We try not to tell too many people about the good weather in Indiana because we like our. We like our population. [00:03:40] Speaker A: But it's 10:30 a.m. and it's 72 whopping degrees outside right now. July 25. This is the. Almost the dead center of summer. High today, 81. High tomorrow, 81. [00:03:53] Speaker B: It is a bit muggy, but it's. Yeah, whatever. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Get over that. [00:03:56] Speaker B: There's a nice breeze. [00:03:57] Speaker A: We do get to 86 at some point in the next ten days, but 86, I mean, we average. This is cool. We average ten days or less per year of 90 degree weather. I think we've had one or two so far this year. What's funny is it's usually May. You know that may is. The month ends May or June. Early June. Spring. [00:04:16] Speaker B: I will say it is prime outdoor pickleball weather. It was nice. Kind of overcast, too. So it wasn't like sun in your eyes. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Oh, this morning was gorgeous. [00:04:22] Speaker B: Yeah, perfect. [00:04:24] Speaker A: We also in a league together. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:26] Speaker A: And that started last night. [00:04:28] Speaker B: It did. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Tell me about that. Tell our three listeners all about how last night went for us. [00:04:33] Speaker B: Well, first of all, the last time we talked about me playing in the league was our episode how I ruined your duper. And you had mentioned that we maybe won four games, the whole league. And that wasn't true. [00:04:46] Speaker A: It wasn't. I was wrong. [00:04:48] Speaker B: But. [00:04:49] Speaker A: But we didn't win that many. [00:04:50] Speaker B: We didn't win maybe. Maybe two in the evening, maybe not a majority. Not a majority. So last night was the first night and we won four out of six games. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Games. [00:05:02] Speaker B: And we almost lost. Or we almost won the last game. We lost only by two points, um, to some great players. And, uh, so I feel really good. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Me, too. [00:05:11] Speaker B: I was definitely sore this morning, too. [00:05:13] Speaker A: But I feel good 100%. I was real stoked. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Four and two, and we won the first game of the night, which traditionally, for me, I lose the first game because it's kind of like my warm up game. And, um, we won that one. That was pretty. That's nice. It's nice to break that streak. [00:05:30] Speaker A: What I love is the first game is usually everyone's warm up game. So that does help offset the odds of winning or losing that first game. [00:05:37] Speaker B: And we were. We played a mixed group, so there were some. There are people that were higher rated than me, and then there was a lot of. There were people that were probably my same level, and then there were people maybe right below. And so it was nice. It was a nice mixed. [00:05:55] Speaker A: Was every game a mixed doubles game? Do we have any teams with only women and any teams with only men? [00:06:01] Speaker B: Last night, I think for us, last night, every team was a mixed, but that wasn't true for the next group that came in. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Our league. For those of you that run leagues, we'll talk about leagues real quick. Our league is run at 06:00 p.m. and 08:00 p.m. for the same league, which is abnormal. And the way we do it is your rating that night determines if you move up, so to speak, to 08:00 or down, so to speak, to 06:00. I think we are moving up maybe for a week. That's possible. That's quite possible. See you guys all next week. [00:06:39] Speaker B: Might be short lived, which I actually like. That 06:00 hour. I like to be home. [00:06:45] Speaker A: You know what? Being home, you know what? Last night was wonderful because we have great friends, Eric and Kerry Vauwinkel. Eric is, who is my men's partner on Monday nights. He also affected my duper score, which we talked about before, but I affected his as well. Good way. So it's all good. By the way, you went up. You went up almost a whole 10th of a point last night. Uh huh. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Wow. [00:07:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:06] Speaker B: I don't even check. [00:07:07] Speaker A: I actually think all the games aren't in, and you will end up over. Going up over. So you are an abysmal, horrible 2.4 something on Duper. It's not who you are, but whatever. And I think you're gonna be about 2.6 ish with one night. [00:07:22] Speaker B: Wow. [00:07:22] Speaker A: So give it a few weeks, and maybe Duper is. Maybe duper's gonna actually figure itself out and kind of. I have hopes, but we'll see. [00:07:28] Speaker B: Okay, that's great. [00:07:30] Speaker A: I keep going. It's kind of like going back to your first love over and over again. [00:07:32] Speaker B: It's like, oh, dear. Anyway, so it was good. Definitely still things to work on. But we communicated much better last night than we did in the tournament. We're calling our balls. And I think you're used to people, you're used to partners where you don't need to do that. I need you to do that because I am still learning strategy and I'm still learning how you play and you're still learning how I play. And since I'm improving, I'm not necessarily consistent yet. So it works. Worked for us. And I think that made the big difference last night. [00:08:14] Speaker A: A lot of truth in what you said there. [00:08:16] Speaker B: We also got to play with some of our close friends and hang out. And it was just an enjoyable night all the way around. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's what I was saying. So afterwards we went to Eric and Carrie's and just got on the back porch and had a great time. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:28] Speaker A: Yeah. That's why the 06:00 hour rocks. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. [00:08:34] Speaker A: You just said something that made me. Okay, I know what it was. You said there's some things we still need to work on. What are those? What did you pick up last night that we need to work on? [00:08:44] Speaker B: Well, we need to get our balls in. And that was both of us. First of all. No, I still am struggling with popping it up at times and getting mad. [00:08:59] Speaker A: At me for not getting it back when I'm getting slammed at me. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I expected those. They learned to make us run and so, you know, being able to anticipate that and read their body is something that I'm still learning. And my serves were off last night. I hit more out of bounds. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Way off. [00:09:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it was weird, but I think it was just the nerves. The first night nerves. [00:09:28] Speaker A: I don't know, more than the tournament. [00:09:31] Speaker B: You know, I think the tournament. I don't know. You talk about the mental aspect of the game in the tournament. I went in thinking, I'm just going to have fun. I know they're going to pick on me because I'm the weaker player. I, you know, I'm playing up. So I anticipate having to work hard. And we did. We worked hard at the tournament and I was proud of our, our outcome because I think we only got. Do we only get pickled once? Maybe the very last game. Very last game. They were really good. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Against our friends Barb and Steve. I mean, it's fine. [00:10:13] Speaker B: Yep. [00:10:14] Speaker A: They beat us. They weren't even. [00:10:16] Speaker B: And they were being nice. Yeah, they could've been worse. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:20] Speaker B: But the others were tough competitors, and we still got, you know, five points, six points, maybe more on some. So I felt good. And at times, we came back from behind, which was also good progress. And seeing that, when I went into the league, though, I'm playing with friends. These are people I see all the time. And I was hungry for winning since we lost so many over the weekend. And so I think that made me a little anxious, but not in a bad way, but just in a, you know, in a competitive way. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Okay. So most of the things you're saying are you believe we need to work on the mental game for me. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:11:03] Speaker A: That doesn't surprise me at all. No, not. I'm just saying. Sorry, babe. Yep. We'll just leave it at that. No, what I mean is, I think for most people, honestly, mental's at the top. That's what I mean. [00:11:18] Speaker B: Definitely. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:20] Speaker B: That's part of the strategy, too, because you're trying to, like calling a timeout right in the wilder. In the middle of the serve, or you're trying to break a streak of points, you call a timeout. I mean, some of those things that you do are part of the strategy to knock them off mentally from, you know, a winning streak. So, for me, though, it was self sabotage. It wasn't other players trying to do that to us. [00:11:53] Speaker A: Well done. When you can self identify what's wrong, it's much easier to remove the obstacle. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:11:59] Speaker A: It's much harder to remove it when somebody else tells you what you're doing wrong. [00:12:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:02] Speaker A: Right. It's no fun to hear, first of all. And, you know, I think I just. [00:12:05] Speaker B: Need to dance my way into the core. Like, I mean, like I came in. [00:12:10] Speaker A: What's. So. Hey, what's your song? What. What would be the sky? Huh? [00:12:14] Speaker B: I'm gonna need to make my own playlist or something. I don't know. [00:12:16] Speaker A: What's the one take wondertainous want to hear as she dances herself onto the court? [00:12:22] Speaker B: I don't know. I guess our theme song. I don't know what? Our theme song over here. That'd be fun. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Maybe that's what I need. I don't know. I'll think about it. I know you have your playlist, and I like your playlist. There are some fun songs in there. But I think I just went in super serious, and I just need to remember that I'm having fun. [00:12:50] Speaker A: Okay. That's one thing we did well last night. We talked about that ahead of time and said, it's league. Are we here for fun, or am I coaching you tonight? And you said, fun. [00:13:00] Speaker B: Yep. [00:13:01] Speaker A: No question. Probably didn't even have to look at me. Your body language told me right away, you don't even have to ask this question, hubby. Fun. But I did anyway because we agreed to make sure we knew. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Yes, and I appreciate that, because I did not do that in the tournament. You were coaching me during the tournament, and that also started to get on my nerves. I know you loved it, and I didn't tell you. I should have stopped and said, hey, that's enough. Let me just play. I also deeply want to learn and get better, and so sometimes I have to check my attitude. Am I saying I don't want to be coached because I'm having an attitude issue? [00:13:35] Speaker A: Yes. [00:13:36] Speaker B: Or. [00:13:36] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sorry, it's rhetorical. [00:13:39] Speaker B: My fault, is it? Because I'm now, you know, so frustrated that I'm not able to focus because I've been to coach too much today. So. [00:13:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:13:50] Speaker B: I mean, in taekwondo, they used to say, only give them three things to work on that day. Otherwise, you overwhelm them and they're not able to focus on anything. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Do you have your own official coach now in pickleball? [00:14:02] Speaker B: I think so. [00:14:03] Speaker A: So Jessica Jones, superheroine, who we had on the show before, is now my lovely wife's coach, which offloads me. [00:14:11] Speaker B: Aw. [00:14:12] Speaker A: No, it doesn't replace me. It offloads me. Like, it's good for me. [00:14:15] Speaker B: Yes. [00:14:16] Speaker A: Because you would rather someone else coach you than me. Probably. [00:14:21] Speaker B: You've been great. I'm not trying to replace you. It was really just a wonderful opportunity that presented itself to us. [00:14:27] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but, I mean, husband and wife, it's a little. [00:14:30] Speaker B: It can be too much. [00:14:31] Speaker A: We have a great relationship, but it's a little dicey sometimes. [00:14:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Because we. We get on each other's nerves faster than we get on anyone else's nerves. [00:14:38] Speaker B: Let's be honest, I don't think Jess will be as gentle with me as you are. That is probably good for me, because then I can be like, okay, okay, okay. And I'm used to coaches, you know, being real and, you know, well, in martial arts, I don't know if I'm. [00:14:57] Speaker A: Gentle with you or if I'm loving with you. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Right. [00:15:00] Speaker A: Does that make sense? [00:15:00] Speaker B: Right. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Because I certainly call it out and say, you need to fix this. But I think it's I do it in a much more loving, tender, kind way. I hope to, anyway. [00:15:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Jessica, if you're listening, do not be nice. [00:15:11] Speaker B: I'm sure she already smack her around. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Like a rag doll. [00:15:14] Speaker B: But in martial arts, if you make a mistake, you get hit in the face, so that is pretty normal. [00:15:20] Speaker A: I loved last night. One of the guys just absolutely drilled you right in the chest. [00:15:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Right in the middle, right in the torso. I don't know exactly where it hit you, but it was. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Shoulder, maybe. [00:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And he was like, oh, my gosh. I'm so, so sorry. And I was. I was like, you were chasing the ball. And I'm like, she's fine. Trust me, she's fine. And you stood up and looked at him. You're like, I'm a martial artist. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Go get him, Jackie Chan. [00:15:41] Speaker B: Well, in last night, too, just out of reflex, I ended up getting my foot under the ball instead of my paddle. Just every once in a while. A volleyball. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Yes. That was my favorite one. [00:15:52] Speaker B: Muscle memory or martial art? Muscle memory will kick in, and I'm literally trying something else. [00:15:57] Speaker A: For those of you that played volleyball, she literally, at one point, put both hands on the pedal, pointed it down towards the ground, brought her arms together like she was getting ready to take a dig and do a bump or something on the volleyball court. And I was like, what was that? And the ball went straight sideways. [00:16:13] Speaker B: In my defense, I played volleyball from second grade all the way through our college years and into our marriage. And so it is. I mean, we didn't play in college. [00:16:23] Speaker A: My defense, it's been 25 years. [00:16:27] Speaker B: I know, but do you know how many times over my lifetime I have dug a ball or at least had to practice? Oh, my goodness. Hours. [00:16:34] Speaker A: That's why you need to use the machine more. The lobster. It's ready for you. We got it working again. It's. The battery is holding a charge. It's running at least an hour. We'll break those volleyball habits of yours. [00:16:45] Speaker B: Yep. [00:16:46] Speaker A: You may not break your martial artists habits, but we'll break the. [00:16:50] Speaker B: A lot of that is just fight or flight. [00:16:52] Speaker A: I don't think the. This is a thing for me. I think so many things translate, and this is really funny. I think martial arts translates really well to pickleball. [00:17:01] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Especially with eye hand coordination. [00:17:04] Speaker A: Sure. [00:17:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:07] Speaker A: But the quickness and the blocking, if you think about how you do all the down blocks and the other blocks that you do, that's a natural motion in pickleball, you might have to take to slice a ball or to get a ball that's coming your body really fast or otherwise. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Well. And then with escrima sticks, you know, a lot of that slicing and dicing with your paddle is very similar to those. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:17:25] Speaker B: We did a lot of that as well. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Absolutely. That's funny. So I still. I think we talked about this before, but do you remember what we talked about when you were doing the yoga? Not yoga. You were doing the zumba type thing, and you were doing the sticks on the ground, the drumsticks, and how I grabbed my paddle because there's a lot of same motions. It'd be kind of fun to create a yoga. I keep saying yoga, but an aerobics class that had, like, five or six elements from other sports, but they were all designed around getting you better at pickleball. Let's talk about. You have tried recently. That's not a fair way to put it. You just started working on a top spin drive with your forehand. Tuesday morning, you got the lobster out. [00:18:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Cindy was on the other side of the court, and you were heading to her, and she was actually. She was serving to you, I think. Right. You didn't use the lobster, and then you were trying to topspin drive it, like, by brushing it coming up. I saw a lot of improvement. Did you try it at all last night during lean last night? [00:18:28] Speaker B: Not intentionally. I did have a really good shot today where it literally just dropped right over the edge of the net. [00:18:35] Speaker A: And you had several that did that. [00:18:37] Speaker B: So that one was prompted like, you're like, hit it this way, and I did it because you're yelling from the sideline. But I don't intentionally try to do it. I'm not confident enough in it yet, and I wanted to win, so I stuck with what I knew was that. [00:18:54] Speaker A: The very last game? [00:18:56] Speaker B: It was not the very last game. It was a game before that. [00:19:00] Speaker A: I believe you've got to practice it in a game setting. I love the idea of drilling them ahead of time. Like, it doesn't make any sense to me that I would jump on the court with somebody and they would say, hey, I'm trying to figure out how to hit a two handed backhand. Okay. And I'm going to practice it during this game with you. Okay. I'm the guy that seems like, sure, go for it, because I would say the same thing, I suppose. But if you're not working on it outside of the court, like, during the game, please don't bring that onto my court. Tell me you're working on it. But if you're willing to drill it outside of the court. [00:19:30] Speaker B: Right. [00:19:31] Speaker A: And then you want to test how well you're doing in a game all day long. I'm for that. So I'll tell people, and most people know this Saturday morning, I try out my new serves. [00:19:42] Speaker B: Yes. [00:19:43] Speaker A: And, folks, I've earned that right. You know why? I've hit thousands and thousands and thousands of serves by myself. It's not like I'm just randomly going, hey, I'm going to maybe lose some points here and hit it in the net or hit it wide or hit it deep or whatever. You know, I've put myself in a position to at least have get. I find that if I get about 40% to 60% in, so average around 50% in drilling, then to me, it's worth it to try and do it during a game. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Absolutely, man. [00:20:10] Speaker A: I've hit some crappy shots. Like, I've hit serves that have bounced 2ft in front of me. But, you know, I mean, it's. I'm trying something different and it. And it pans out because last night we were down six to zero to the new couple. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Yes. [00:20:24] Speaker A: The fresh meat team. [00:20:25] Speaker B: They are pretty fun. [00:20:27] Speaker A: They're great people. But they were getting abused by all the other teams up to us, and now they're ahead of us, 60. We've switched sides. And I just looked at you and I was like, time to score. And I got five straight points off of serves. [00:20:41] Speaker B: You did? It was awesome. [00:20:42] Speaker A: Because I've practiced those serves. [00:20:43] Speaker B: Yep. [00:20:44] Speaker A: And they were just so mad. I mean, they were really, like. They were laughing. They were kind of laughing. And we ended up being him. Eleven six. [00:20:50] Speaker B: We did. [00:20:50] Speaker A: So they had 60. We beat him. Eleven six. It's 100% because of drilling. I wouldn't have had the confidence to go in there and be like, I've got this. I literally looked at you and I said, we're getting a point here. And I served the first served to her. Easy, ace. I ripped it towards the front outside corner, bounced the foot inside the line. Boom. Way out of her reach. And she just looked at me. [00:21:11] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:21:12] Speaker A: And it was a beautiful thing. [00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:15] Speaker A: And then I did the same thing to the other. The other guy on the other side and put him down the middle, and he just barely reached out the end of his paddle straight towards his wife. I'm not picking on them. That was because I have worked hard to have that shot. [00:21:29] Speaker B: And they were new to our league, so it was. They came in kind of like the unknowns, and we weren't sure how good. They are. [00:21:37] Speaker A: They were great. [00:21:37] Speaker B: And they beat one of the, like, right from the. [00:21:39] Speaker A: They did. [00:21:40] Speaker B: They won one of the best teams there. [00:21:42] Speaker A: That's good. [00:21:42] Speaker B: And so we, after that, we're like, okay. We don't have to be nice to the new people. [00:21:48] Speaker A: She was a tennis player for sure. Maybe is still. And you can see that in her swing. He's just athletic. I don't know if he's put any racket sports, but he's athletic. He had good hand coordination. [00:21:56] Speaker B: They were fastest. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Yes. [00:21:58] Speaker B: And they got pretty much everything except. [00:22:00] Speaker A: For those five serves, baby. [00:22:01] Speaker B: For those tough serves. [00:22:02] Speaker A: And you actually only. I think I actually only aced on one of them. I mean, all five of them were winners because they didn't get any returns, but one of them, I think only one of them wasn't touched because they. [00:22:11] Speaker B: Are quick and, yes, I think only one. [00:22:13] Speaker A: They're gonna be great by the end of league. [00:22:15] Speaker B: They are. [00:22:16] Speaker A: This was their first time to play together in doubles. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Yes. [00:22:18] Speaker A: They've only gone out and hit the ball by themselves as singles. [00:22:21] Speaker B: Mm hmm. But that's a great way to play because you get used to having to. [00:22:25] Speaker A: To get everybody to the balls. Absolutely. Question for you. What are you going to work on this next week so that when we get together on Wednesday night, you've got something you're ready to put into practice in a tough setting? [00:22:39] Speaker B: Well, there's still things that we started working on that I'm going to continue, and that is dinks getting the set and the drop shot where it lands in the kitchen. [00:22:48] Speaker A: Your dinks are really good. Now. It's the drops and resets that you're talking about. [00:22:51] Speaker B: But I still need to work on my double or my two handed backhand. [00:22:56] Speaker A: Also called a tui. [00:22:57] Speaker B: A tui. [00:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:58] Speaker B: That's cute. So my two is my drop shots into the kitchen, and then I definitely need work on. I started working on just punching it from chest level when I'm taking a body shot. And then something we haven't been working on yet that I want to work on are retrieving balls from my feet area. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Okay. The best person I know at that punch shot is Joe Clark. He's very good at it. Yeah, that's another taekwondo thing that just comes right across. This is, bam. Straight ahead. [00:23:31] Speaker B: I'm getting my paddle on it. I just always get him in. I do kind of a little flippy thing. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Just a straight punch. Bam. [00:23:38] Speaker B: But that's a lot of the martial art, trying to trap. Is it trapping it? [00:23:44] Speaker A: Well, I love that you're playing with me more. It is awesome. I love that I've got you at drills now on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings. I love that we have Wednesday night league together. That's already three days of the week we're together playing. I think Saturday mornings you generally will come out and play. You've been once or twice already to shadyside on Saturday mornings. That puts us to four days that we're playing together. [00:24:06] Speaker B: I have to be invited to Saturday, though. [00:24:07] Speaker A: No, you don't. It's wide open. It's just we don't want you to come at seven. [00:24:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:24:13] Speaker A: By 830, everyone else rolls in. [00:24:15] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Okay. Not this Saturday. We have a big event this Saturday, but. Yeah. [00:24:19] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. Yeah. People won't hear this in time. By the time you hear this, we will have made 30,000 meals. And many of you that are listening are to thank for that. 30,000 meals for people who are in disaster situations, hurricanes or whatever, and don't have access to food. And we're gonna make 30,000 meals to help people. Prepackaged meals around the world. We do this around the world. Ides is the name of the group. International Disaster Emergency Service. And they're at local. They're out of Noblesville, I believe. [00:24:44] Speaker B: I don't know that. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Yeah. So they're an Indiana company, for sure. Indiana nonprofit. And I believe they're out of Noblesville. [00:24:49] Speaker B: That's very cool. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Yeah. So our church is partnering with the pickleball community, which is super cool. [00:24:54] Speaker B: Love it. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Where we've raised all the funds. Well, we're still raising the funds, but we're raising all the funds to cover 30,000 meals. [00:25:00] Speaker B: It's just amazing. [00:25:01] Speaker A: So stoked. Okay, everybody. Well, on behalf of me, Kevin, here at the pod pod studio in Anderson, Indiana, as I like to say, the mecca of Pickleball. And on behalf of the lovely, sweet love sky, the one take wonder you're. [00:25:18] Speaker B: Still working on that. [00:25:19] Speaker A: I am. And on behalf of our newest sponsor. [00:25:23] Speaker B: Yes. Pickle play. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Pickle play. [00:25:26] Speaker B: We're excited. [00:25:27] Speaker A: What? [00:25:28] Speaker B: I know. They're great people. [00:25:29] Speaker A: We will tell you more soon. We love them. Blake is just fantastic to work with. She's one of the founders. She and her husband and I check. [00:25:36] Speaker B: Out the app, if you haven't seen it yet. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Yeah, she and I probably text. I mean, every couple weeks, we get on the phone probably at least once a month or so. I don't know. Maybe that's about right. More to come on that. [00:25:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:49] Speaker A: All right, we're out of here, everybody.