Your outingMay 7, 2026

2026-05-07 — 4-Game Match

A closer look at your day

Your game,
a little clearer.

Here is your outing, plus one practice to take onto the court.

YOUR OUTING

THIS OUTING41 min

outing length

ONE FOCUS TO TAKE ON COURTSoft backhand touch

Your outing, at a glance.

Your coach’s read

Soft hands help you absorb pace and keep the next ball low at the kitchen.

One focus for your next outing

Soft backhand touch

Then Wall Reset Touch.

Try the practice experiment

TAKE THIS ON COURT

Quiet paddle, soft return.

YOUR PRACTICE CUE

Your on-court experiment

Soft hands help you absorb pace and keep the next ball low at the kitchen.

Drill · Authored practice

Wall Reset Touch

Prescription: 3 sets, stopping each set at 12 controlled contacts or the first loss of control.

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.

Count it · Player / coach check

Count completed 12-contact sets.

Step farther from the wall or add left-right targets, one change at a time.

Next check

What will your next practice show?

After trying it: Can you complete 2 of 3 sets at the same setup next practice?

Keep your count with the setup above. Open this outing in the latest PickleBear app to save it.

Practice source & what we adapted

Comprehensive Guide to Practicing Resets
The soft wall-reset method comes from the cited guide; the stop-at-12 protocol is OUR countable dose.

229swings

0.6 miof footwork

164peak heart rate

PLAY STYLEAll-Courtleans power

What stood out in your game.

What kinds of shots did you hit?

You took 229 swings across 4 games. 31.0% soft touch shots in your dink range, 30.1% medium drives, 29.7% hard drives and 9.2% put-away swings. 71.6% forehands and 7.0% backhands, and 4 overheads.

Did you move a lot, maybe too much?

1,347 steps inside the 41 minutes of play, 32.7 a minute and 5.9 steps for every swing. Your May 6 outing ran 29.8 a minute and 6.4 per swing. That is a little above that outing. The game where you moved most for each ball was game 4, 9.3 steps a swing.

Did you avoid your backhand?

You hit a backhand on 7.0% of swings, level with 6.5% in 2026-05.

What is holding your game back

Late in the day the same heart rate bought less.

In game 4 your heart rate averaged 140, the same effort as game 1 at 141, for 3.2 swings a minute instead of 7.1. Same cost, less output.

Round by round
Round	Swings / min	Seconds between swings	Soft %	Backhand %	Avg HR	Steps / min	Steps / swing
1	7.1	1.82	32	4.1	141	34.1	4.8
2	3	1.66	35.3	17.6	131	27.2	9.1
3	6.5	2.82	30.7	6.8	148	35.2	5.4
4	3.2	2.5	25.9	11.1	140	30.1	9.3