October 26 — 7 games
Take me to my practice ↓A closer look at your day
Your first game set the pace. Here is how much of it you kept, and one thing to take onto the court.
Late-game pace fell from 116% to 71% and backhand dinks rose from 46% to 52% since Oct 19.
From last outing’s focus
Last outing's focus was late-game pace, with 100% to beat. This time your last game kept 71% of your first, 5.6 against 7.9 swings a minute. It slipped. So this focus stays: Keep Control Late. Next outing, beat 100%.
Your first game ran 7.9 swings a minute. By the last game it was 5.6, 71% of that pace. That late drop is the biggest gap on this outing’s page, so the one focus is keeping control late: reset between points, then choose the next ball.
One focus for your next outing
This time your last game kept 71% of your first. Keep Control Late gives you a reset to lean on when the later games get harder.
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.
This one went 9–11.
Scores are the ones you entered at the end of each game.
You opened 9–11 and 11–8. You finished 7–11.
The late fade was bigger than on October 19: your last game kept 71% of your opening pace, against 116% then.
You took 532 swings across 7 games. 43.0% soft touch shots in your dink range, 32.5% medium drives, 22.7% hard drives and 1.7% put-away swings. 75.4% forehands and 13.0% backhands, and no overhead swing all day.
2,611 steps inside the 88 minutes of play, 29.6 a minute and 4.9 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 under your usual range. The game where you moved most for each ball was game 2 (11–8), 5.6 steps a swing.
You hit a backhand on 13.0% of swings, up from 6.5% in 2026-05.
Your pace
In this outing you kept 71% of opening pace (5.6 swings a minute against 7.9). Against October 19's finish that is a cool-off, not a hold to celebrate.
What is holding your game back
Game tempo: games you won ran 2.1 seconds between swings, games you lost 2.1. When the opponents sped it up, you sped up with them.
| Game | Score | Swings / min | Seconds between swings | Soft % | Backhand % | Avg HR | Steps / min | Steps / swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9–11 | 7.9 | 2.09 | 40.7 | 19.8 | 143 | 32.7 | 4.1 |
| 2 | 11–8 | 5.5 | 2.32 | 52.5 | 17.5 | 148 | 30.7 | 5.6 |
| 3 | 11–2 | 5.5 | 2.15 | 28.6 | 7.1 | 148 | 25.5 | 4.6 |
| 4 | unscored | 7.4 | 2.25 | 43.8 | 12.4 | 147 | 31.4 | 4.3 |
| 5 | 5–11 | 5.4 | 2.42 | 38.2 | 14.7 | 153 | 29.5 | 5.5 |
| 6 | 11–4 | 5.6 | 1.71 | 44.8 | 9 | 150 | 28.3 | 5.1 |
| 7 | 7–11 | 5.6 | 1.7 | 44.8 | 8.6 | 150 | 28.9 | 5.2 |