Positive Pickleball Psychology

Unlock Your Potential. Elevate Your Game. Enjoy Every Point.
By mastering positive psychology in pickleball, players can elevate their game, improve their mental fortitude, navigate player dynamics and fully enjoy their journey—whether playing for fun or competition.
Positive Pickleball Psychology blends pickleball best practices, sports psychology and cognitive training to create a stronger, more confident, and fulfilling pickleball experience. 🏓✅ 🧠
Join our Pickleball Coaching Community to sharpen your skills, strengthen your mindset, and connect with players who share your passion. ⬇️
You Can Master the Mental Game of Pickleball!
Let's dive headfirst into the often-overlooked pickleball aspects.
Aside from focusing on boosting your pickleball IQ, we'll explore expert strategies to:
- Improve your mental game in pickleball
- Develop better emotional intelligence on (and off) the court so you can better manage your emotions, energy, decisions and behavior
- Increase your confidence
- Learn to build better rapport with partners
- Stay focused under pressure
- Gracefully handle unwelcome comments and behavior
- Navigate personalities and relationships -- and tricky dynamics -- with partners, opponents, players, captains, coaches and facility managers
We have an abundance of personal growth tools that can make you a smarter, more resilient individual and pickleball player.
The Pickleball Coaching Collective
Join our private Pickleball Community.
Your 24/7 Community for Pickleball Best Practices, Authentic Connections, Real Conversations and Personal Growth
Inside the Pickleball Coaching Collective, you'll get access to:
- Live facilitated video-based pickleball mindset & performance group coaching sessions*
- Trending topic-based pickleball discussion boards ("courts")
- Real-time chats and direct messaging to take conversations further
- Live watch parties during livestreamed professional pickleball tournaments. Not only can you watch with other pickleball enthusiasts and players, participate in audio, video and/or real-time group chats to cheer, groan or discuss game points and doubles strategies.
- Member-initiated video meetups (24/7 availability). Meet up with your pickleball friends by video whenever you want to.
- Q&A feeds for peer feedback and community-driven insights
- Personal challenges complete with leader boards for competitive players
- Networking for local drilling partners to virtual accountability partners
This is where passionate players gather to train, grow and get unstuck - together.
Learn about our Free MembershipPrivate Coaching
One-on-One Pickleball Mindset & Performance Coaching.
Personalized Support to Strengthen Your Game from the Inside Out
Sometimes pickleball players need a little more support. Because...
- Sometimes pickleball improvement requires more than lessons and drills -- it takes mental clarity, emotional resilience and game-time focus.
- Sometimes it feels like you'll never break the glass ceiling that's holding you back from advancing your game and being seen as a more competent player.
- Sometimes pickleball players experience poor behavior or sportsmanship, difficulty finding the right partner or group, or personal setbacks and they start to question if they even want to keep playing...
With private coaching, you can learn and implement strategies to:
- Recover quickly after unforced errors and bad points
- Stop self-sabotaging in close games
- Create mental routines and habits for consistency
- Identify, communicate and enforce personal boundaries
- Become a better partner -- the kind of partner people gravitate towards
- Play with more joy -- and less pressure
Whether you're prepping for a tournament or tired of doubting yourself, this might you for you.
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e-Books, Checklists & TrainingTools
e-Books, Round Robin Charts & Game-Changing Tools for Pickleball Players (and, Coaches, too)
Track, Improve and Play with Purpose
Level up your training with downloadable, digital and printable tools that make a real difference. Explore our collection for pickleball players:
- Game tracking journals
- Post-session pickleball coaching journals
- The 100-point Pickleball Self-Assessment(tm)
- The Women's Pickleball Journal & Planner
- Drilling and coaching logs
- Round robin organizers
- Educational blog posts and articles
We also have professional resources for pickleball coaches and instructors:
- The Coach's Definitive Guide to Practical Pickleball Drills
- Creating a World-Class Pickleball Coaching Practice
- The Pickleball Lesson Planner
- Your Pickleball Business: an interactive community
Stop guessing about what's working and start seeing progress on paper - and, more importantly, on the court.
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