October 19 — 6 games
Take me to my practice ↓Measured against you, not the scoreboard
The scoreboard measures who you played. This page measures how you played.
Late-game pace rose from 97% to 116% and backhand dinks rose from 34% to 46% since Oct 5.
What’s working
Your backhand dink showed up: 46% of your backhands were soft, from 34%.
Your output held to the end.
Your last game kept 116% of your first game's pace, and 39% of your swings were soft. Nothing slipped this time. The one focus is keeping that late control as the games get tighter.
One focus for your next outing
This time your last game kept 116% of your first. Keep Control Late keeps it there.
Try the practice experimentReset, then choose the next ball.
Your on-court experiment
Drill · Authored practice
Prescription: 3 rounds of 6 rallies, with at least 60 seconds of easy recovery between rounds and more rest whenever requested. Do not practice to exhaustion.
Partner rally on half a court. Agree that the goal is control, not winning the rally.
Player or partner records how many rallies reached six controlled balls before pace changed.
Repeat the same protocol and compare the player-recorded first and last rounds before adding difficulty.
Keep your count with the setup above. Open this outing in the latest PickleBear app to save it.
The Pickleball Athlete's Guide to Mental Stamina
The source teaches simplifying to high-percentage patterns and using a breath plus one verbal cue after points. The paired six-ball rally and non-exhaustive dose are OUR adaptation, not a drill claimed by the source.
PLAY STYLEAll-Courtleans touch
This one went 3–11.
Scores are the ones you entered at the end of each game.
You opened 3–11 and 3–12. You finished 11–9.
And the backhand dink showed up: 34% of your backhands were soft touch shots on October 5, 46% this time.
You took 412 swings across 6 games. 39.3% soft touch shots in your dink range, 34.7% medium drives, 21.4% hard drives and 4.6% put-away swings. 75.2% forehands and 11.7% backhands, and one overhead.
1,785 steps inside the 72 minutes of play, 24.9 a minute and 4.3 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 below your usual range. The game where you moved most for each ball was game 5 (8–11), 6.2 steps a swing. Game 2 (3–12) was the opposite: 1.06 seconds between swings and 4.9 steps a swing, hitting more and moving less. You were being hurried, not overrunning.
You hit a backhand on 11.7% of swings, up from 6.5% in 2026-05.
What is holding your game back
Game tempo: games you won ran 1.5 seconds between swings, games you lost 2.4.
| Game | Score | Swings / min | Seconds between swings | Soft % | Backhand % | Avg HR | Steps / min | Steps / swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3–11 | 5.1 | 3.29 | 46.5 | 11.6 | 148 | 26.8 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 3–12 | 5.8 | 1.06 | 41.4 | 7.1 | 136 | 28.6 | 4.9 |
| 3 | 1–11 | 6.4 | 2.92 | 48.6 | 17.1 | 142 | 23.2 | 3.6 |
| 4 | 2–11 | 7 | 2.36 | 35.2 | 14.1 | 142 | 26.6 | 3.8 |
| 5 | 8–11 | 4.5 | 2.57 | 29.6 | 11.1 | 141 | 27.7 | 6.2 |
| 6 | 11–9 | 5.9 | 1.52 | 39.6 | 11.5 | 143 | 20.7 | 3.5 |