Latest / Yips and Giggles / Best Moments & Top Tips [Ep 5-9]
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- speaker-0: guys. Welcome to our podcast. speaker-1: she finally realized that it was all mental. speaker-2: Hannah burner. So for anyone that doesn't know, she's a famous comedian now. And she also has a podcast giggly squad with a page to Sorbo and hilarious, really, really good podcasts. And so the funny part is she played tennis at Wisconsin. I think she was baller as well. she was trying to explain like tennis etiquette to page to sort of her cohost who does. Yeah. speaker-0: He was never a tennis. speaker-1: in shot. speaker-2: She was like, what do you mean? was talking about things that people would consider like rude versus not rude. So for example, when tennis players win a point, you can say like, ⁓ come on, something like that. But right. But you can't say it at the person. Like you can't look at the person and say, come on. You know what I mean? So walk. ⁓ speaker-0: lock eyes with them and scream at the top of your lungs, come on, which some people do, but you're not supposed to. speaker-2: Exactly. And and she was also talking about like putting your hand up, like saying, sorry, if you hit like a lucky shot, that's another one. They're like, yes, you're basically apologizing for winning the point that way. It's like, yeah, that is a bit weird, isn't it? speaker-0: Also, you're never sorry. You're never ever. speaker-2: No. Thank God. speaker-3: I remember speaker-0: Um there was a girl I used to play with in the juniors and I was watching her play one of like a match when we were like 13 or something and I still like vividly remember this like it was a it was like five all in the third set or something and like she hit it was deuce and she hit like a net court and dribbled over and she goes. Yes. Sorry. speaker-2: That's such a fair reaction. speaker-0: I was like, yeah, that's it. It was so funny. speaker-2: But it's like, it's just, it's crazy stuff. mean, I always said, I said this, think at every tournament, there should have been a reality TV show about junior tennis. ⁓ That hasn't happened. Shocked. I'm truly shocked. speaker-1: How that happened, I'm sure speaker-0: Payton, let's produce it together. Honestly, screw this podcast stuff. Screw this podcast stuff. We're gonna make so much money. Just get people in on for confessionals. Get a 12 year old in after losing like seven, six in the third set. She's like bawling her eyes out. Her parents just like ripped into her. She's she hooked like seven straight points in the tiebreaker. God defaulted. speaker-2: I'm like... I think we've hit the jackpot. I think we've come up with our new idea. speaker-4: playing my last ever college match and then lost it first. And I came off the court and just like seeing my parents, I was like more sad like for them. Especially like seeing like my dad, like hugging my dad after my last ever match. I was sobbing and I did not think I would like cry at all. I was sobbing crying because I was like, it's over. I was like. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-4: It's over. And it was like, I know how it was with you guys too. It was our lives forever. It's like my identity. I was like, it's over. And I was so sad. speaker-2: ⁓ my God. was to just took me like a minute. It was on. It took me a minute. I was like just kind of staring around and I was like, wait. I was like, OK, I know we're like stretching as a team and everything right now, but I'm literally about to bawl my eyes out. was like. speaker-1: It's. speaker-0: What? speaker-4: I bawled my eyes out the rest of the night and then I like the next day I was like speaker-2: It's like a very surreal feeling. Very surreal. speaker-4: and you think like your world kind of stops. Yeah. it keeps and then it goes and then there's pickleball. speaker-2: Yep. speaker-1: There you go. You guys won the NCAA team championship in 2023. speaker-3: senior year, my last ever college rowing winning the NCAA championship which is honestly the stuff of dreams. Athletes sacrifice so much to get into sports so to be able to have that kind of dream finish was very very special and a very very fond memory. speaker-0: You were the best performer on the team and within the NCAA, you know, team competition, were undefeated in match play and you finished T7 in stroke play, which was only about like four strokes behind the winner. So just like when you, when you're looking back at that, that tournament, that time, what, what was going through your mind during those matches? How are you able to perform at such a high level and kind of step up for your team? speaker-3: Yeah, was, yeah, it was, was a really special week. was one of those weeks that, you know, athletes described, like, you know, when everything kind of just falls into place and as a team, were all feeling really, really good. You know, we just about scraped through regionals. you know, we were obviously one of the favorites going in and then almost didn't qualify for nationals because regionals kind of, you we didn't really perform very well, but, so I think the relief of coming up, coming from that then internationals, we were all like, so relaxed going in with like such a great mindset. I think our coaches did an incredible job. of, we had a team meeting a couple of weeks before that. And we spoke a lot about like this whole idea of like neutral thinking and just nothing's inherently like too positive or too negative. We were all neutral for the week. ⁓ which kind of allowed us, whatever kind of came during that week, we were kind of able to deal with. ⁓ we were playing out in Phoenix in, you know, the end of May. So was really, really warm. know, my teammates got heat strokes, she was in the hospital and then like, you know, were all battling all these things all week. But, ⁓ Yeah, so it was really cool to be able to kind of pull together the team. then obviously, from an individual perspective, had a pretty good week that week. You know, I played really well, and then it came into the match play. And I think as individuals on the team, we're all so competitive and very, maybe feisty is the right word. We're all kind of have that edge to us. So think match play was made for us. And we all went there and knew what we had to do. Yeah, it was very special. the whole thing came down to my match at the end and to be able to get the winning point was, oh my gosh, this is stuff a dream. speaker-1: I think is very helpful for players that are dealing with a new injury or a long injury or anything is to actually kind of start a journal of, what's going on with your rehab, what's going on with your training. And I think from that point, once you actually start writing it down and seeing what you're thinking and feeling every day, you're just bringing so much more awareness to your thoughts and feelings kind of around the injury. A big part of it is, you know, not denying those feelings. because in the first place, trying to avoid feelings or deny that they're there or change them is really energy demanding. Like it takes a lot. Change your whole thought around how you feel about this injury. So I think it really helps to just learn how to be open to those feelings of it's almost like a feeling of loss. So it's kind of just being open to that, you know. ⁓ And. speaker-2: Yeah. ⁓ speaker-0: And also one thing I wanted to mention about the journaling of like also how your your rehab is going like that can help with seeing the progress that you're making. ⁓ like every single day if you write down how you're feeling like you might not feel like you're getting better. But if you look back over the past, I don't know, three weeks of notes that you have for the first day, you're like, ⁓ wait, actually, yeah, I have made small incremental improvements that is are hard to see day to day. Yeah, because I'm living it. But going back and reading through all these notes actually helps you get a bit bigger sense of hope and just seeing that things are progressing slowly but surely. speaker-1: And I really love the idea of having not only a captain, because I think a captain is important, but also almost like informal leadership roles on a team. so again, you'll have the obvious leaders and you'll have the captains. But when you really look at the team dynamics, there's probably a lot of people on one team that can serve as a leader in a different way. So you might look at it as. you could have like a motivational leader. So that's somebody who you can count on to kind of encourage teammates and encourage the team and motivate them. Even, you know, even if you are dealing with bad injuries on the team or those losing streaks and things like that. And so you can just kind of designate that person as the motivational leader. And I think a lot of the times it'll depend on a person's personality, like For example, in tennis, you might have somebody who is really loud on the court or is like always pumping everybody up and they're like on. speaker-2: court five, they're like, let's go. And so I think that's. speaker-1: whatever your team is. almost something that you can give to that team member as, as their role. And it also probably makes them not special, but valued, you know what I mean? And so not just having a captain, but having leaders underneath that captain that they can kind of count on. And another example might be like a social leader. So, which I think is very important. So things going on, you know, off the field, off the court, they can help deal with conflict there. speaker-2: feel. speaker-1: someone who is trusted on the team by everyone and is very good at listening. And so, you know, there's, different character traits that I think can fit into certain leadership roles within a team. But again, you're always going to kind of look to that captain who is going to make those decisions and is going to be that liaison between the team and the coaches, which is obviously still very important, but you can have, can have the subcategories of leaders too.