Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Well, Skye, it's Tuesday night and we're in the studio and it's not where we should be on a Tuesday night. No, but we did play pickleball earlier.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: We did. And that's what we're going to talk about.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Yeah, we're going to have to apologize to everybody. Let me make sure we're setting up. Yep, we're all set up and running. So let's just get into it. Young ladies, say, I'm Kevin Huff here at the studio with the lovely, sweet love, sky huff. How are you, Skye?
[00:00:29] Speaker B: I'm good, and you?
[00:00:31] Speaker A: Good. But we are starting off with an apology.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: We need to, there was a lot.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: Of content to go through from this weekend, and I simply couldn't get through it all in the last couple of days. So I said to sky, we need to buzz over, record a quick pod. That way, we continue to make sure that all three of our fans are completely taken care of because, you know, they're waking up at midnight to download this thing and listen to this podcast.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: That's right. They're on pins and needles.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Absolutely. They probably can't sleep at all because.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: I need it as a sleep story.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: I could talk to him like this.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Yeah, we could. We could do that. If this doesn't work out, we're going to switch to a sleep story.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Right?
I'm just going to sit this window and stare at raindrops for the next.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: Oh, dear. Also, our youngest is graduating high school. This.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: So there's a lot on our plate.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: But you deserve a podcast from this, from the sweet Lobs team. And so here it is. Quickly, we played tonight, and you and I were briefly discussing on the way to grab dinner that we would need to do in random backup last minute podcast to cover our butts. So your suggestion was?
[00:01:38] Speaker B: Well, first you were just going to record like a four minute apology, and I was like, well, we were already discussing some of the things that I can improve on.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: And so you decided to call this what episode?
[00:01:53] Speaker A: It's her fault.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: No, it was my idea. Oh, yes, it's her fault. We already did that one.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: This podcast is her idea.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: It was my idea. And here's why. I want to get better at the game. I want to be better for my husband when I play with him. I also want to, I'm hoping to have a future partner, female partners, that I can do more tournaments.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Thanks for qualifying. It's a female partner. And that does not hurt my feelings that way.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, of course. So, you know, Kevin is a great coach. He makes people better.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: I do not make people better.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: You help people, they make themselves better.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: That change the beliefs, change the behavior.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: Okay. Anyway, so on our way in the car, I thought, oh, well, you know, I had questions. We kind of went over some of the things that I did right and I did wrong, and I thought, you know, this could help.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: I don't remember a list of things you did right.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: What were you.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Actually, I'll start with one right now.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: One of the things we teach our beginners and our other intermediate players that come to our clinics or our free beginners courses or whatever, is about how to respond to a slice shot coming back at you.
Not a top spin or a pure backspin shot that are straight, but a ball that's going to bounce either to the left or to the right. And it's simple, simple, simple rule. The player who's hitting the ball is essentially pointing in the direction before they hit the ball that you will expect the ball to bounce when it does.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: With their paddle.
[00:03:31] Speaker A: With their paddle, but also with their arm. So if I'm. If I've got my hand way out here to my right, and then I come slicing through the ball toward my body where I started, which is my hand out to the right. From my perspective, when that ball goes across, it's going to bounce to the right.
From your perspective, it's of course, bouncing to the left, but it's going to bounce in the direction I'm pointing. And the same thing goes when you hit the other direction. And you are doing a really good job of predicting and watching and knowing where to go.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: Anticipating.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: Anticipation is making me wait.
That's my old coming out.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: You don't know that song?
[00:04:07] Speaker B: No.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: Anticipation is making me wait.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: I do not know that song.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: Okay. I'll sing it better for you next time. But there are some things you need to work on. And so let's get to one of those.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: I can say it?
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: It doesn't sound like you're picking on me.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: Sure. So, by the way, she lets me coach her.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: I do. I want. I want to get better, but I.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: Want to add one thing.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: What's that?
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Not always.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: No.
I also.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: Certain games you do.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: Certain games you do not.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: I will let you know. Please don't coach me right now.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: And so that way I can get out of my own head and I can focus back on the game and having fun.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: If.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: And usually that's just a look. I don't really have to.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: A side glance that mom look but one of the things that happened tonight is I kept popping the ball up too high. And you call that making it attackable?
[00:05:03] Speaker A: You were hitting attackable balls to the other team.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: Meaning they could attack him back at us. And we were getting abused by one of the young guys there. That's very good.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: He mostly abused you.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: Correct. Which is probably why I called it out.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
I also am not used to playing with left handed people, and so one of the things that you taught me tonight is I kept heading to his left side because I, again, used to playing with people who are right handed, and that's one of my go tos. And he obviously attacked it. Well, yeah, you taught me to let it. It has to bounce on his side.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, has to is always a stretch. I hate.
I hate having so rigid of a rule that there's no exceptions. But it's smart if you can get that ball to bounce on those dink shots, especially because it takes away most of their opportunity to really attack us.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Right.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
So lesson learned.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: Definitely.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: But lesson applied.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: I hope so. We'll see.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Hope is not a strategy.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Okay.
Oh, man, I just walked right into that. Yes. Lesson applied.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Okay, good. I will watch next time and we'll see how you do. You did actually start to fix it tonight. I just want to make sure that that continues.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: I did.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: I did start fixing it.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Okay, well, we'll be back next week. Again, we didn't want to disappoint our massive fan base, and we owed you something. And so thank you went from three to massive just in the last eight minutes. We are sorry, but we love you and we are so grateful for you.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: And don't forget to follow, like, share and thank you again for listening all those things.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: We appreciate you. We're out of here.
[00:06:58] Speaker C: I'm ahead now. I'm ahead of the game. I'm ahead of the game.
