The setup
Stand 5 to 6 feet from a wall and mark a low target area.
- Feed gently into the lower target.
- Absorb the return with a short motion.
- Keep the ball close enough to continue without chasing.
August 10 doubles — 2 games
Take me to my practice ↓Measured against you, not the scoreboard
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You against you.
What’s working
You're dinking more than ever: 33% of your swings were soft.
Your output held to the end.
Your late game held. One focus: soft backhand touch with Wall Reset Touch.
Quiet paddle, soft return.
Your on-court experiment
Drill · Authored practice
Prescription: 3 sets, stopping each set at 12 controlled contacts or the first loss of control.
Stand 5 to 6 feet from a wall and mark a low target area.
Count completed 12-contact sets.
Step farther from the wall or add left-right targets, one change at a time.
Keep your count with the setup above. Open this outing in the latest PickleBear app to save it.
Comprehensive Guide to Practicing Resets
The soft wall-reset method comes from the cited guide; the stop-at-12 protocol is OUR countable dose.
PLAY STYLEAll-Courtleans touch
This one went 7–11.
Scores are the ones you entered at the end of each game.
Late in the day you used to fade and this time you got stronger. On June 25 your last game ran 4.1 swings a minute against 4.9 in the first. This time your last game ran 6.1 against 5.3.
You took 149 swings across 2 games. 32.9% soft touch shots in your dink range, 39.6% medium drives, 18.8% hard drives and 8.7% put-away swings. 75.2% forehands and 10.1% backhands, and no overhead swing all day.
845 steps inside the 26 minutes of play, 32.6 a minute and 5.7 steps for every swing. Your May and June outings ran 29.8–32.2 a minute and 4.6–6.4 per swing. That is just over your usual range. The game where you moved most for each ball was game 1, 5.7 steps a swing, and it was also the slowest game of the day.
You hit a backhand on 10.1% of swings, up from 6.5% in 2026-05.
| Game | Score | Swings / min | Seconds between swings | Soft % | Backhand % | Avg HR | Steps / min | Steps / swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unscored | 5.3 | 1.97 | 39 | 10.2 | 148 | 29.7 | 5.7 |
| 2 | 7–11 | 6.1 | 1.83 | 28.9 | 10 | 151 | 34.8 | 5.7 |