¿Qué separa a un buen coach de pickleball del resto? Nuestra experiencia real

0:00Residents, good afternoon. It's just Carlitos and me today. Angelita is in the role of dad; she is with Carlos's sister at the pediatrician. I'm very jealous. So today we won't be with Angelito, but he's present here with all his energy and hopes everything is going well over there. But David, did you forget to tell the residents where we are? You forgot, didn't you? I forgot. Well, today we're at San Pedir Athletic. We're in their

0:30conference room, they were very kind, they lent us this space to record a podcast and right now, in fact, we're waiting because we're going to do a podcast with Duper's CEO, Tito Machado, but we're taking advantage of being here early because it's better to prepare like we're doing here for this episode and we're going to take the opportunity to do an episode that I've been wanting to do, which is about cars.

0:59Carlos, I think we've played quite a few sports and you always get a different coach, right? They can be the advantage, and the beautiful thing about coaches is that, in my opinion, a good coach isn't necessarily the person who just tells you everything you have to do; it's the person who looks for different ways to transfer the information so that each person understands it, right? So, maybe it can be funny, maybe it can be serious,

1:27but tell me what coach you remember from any sport, it can be tennis, it can be golf, it can be soccer, that made a mark on you. For me, the best coach is the one who uses RPM paddles, [laughs] use house 15 so you get a 15% discount. [laughs] They're in the back there, I mean, there are no palettes, I think they're ordering new ones from wherever they're produced and they'll be three

1:56weeks. But hey, the best coach is the one who uses the P RPM and can also be a tremendous player if you buy it. 20212 if you use our code. Well, I've actually had many coaches for tennis, golf, football, soccer. I have fared , and have fared, much better with coaches who were serious and got straight to the point. There have been many who have, I don't know, not many, but there have been several who

2:27could be considered to have been psychologically abusive. I don't think I've ever had an experience like that. I also know many people who have had bad experiences. What I did do better, much better, in golf and tennis with coaches who were very serious and straight to the point and who didn't try to sugarcoat everything or try to be your best friends. Uh, that's how I did best when I was a high-performance golf and tennis player.

3:04Obviously, as the type of coach I am, I adapt a lot to what my student wants, depending on who they are. If they are adults who just want to enjoy themselves, then maybe I will be more fun, I will try to be their best friend, so that that hour of work is the best hour of their week. But I also have other coaches, uh, other students that I do touch a little more

3:35seriously. It's like, look, I mean, you come wanting to get to 4.0, 4.5 and you don't want to do this. So, why are you coming to train? I think it depends, but for me, I mean, to get back to your question, the best coaches I went to were very serious. Uh, I have an anecdote. When I played golf, uh, I had like five cars and the one I did best with was one named

4:05Scott. I remember his name was Scott, and I remember that on the second day of practice he was there, I arrived like 5 minutes late because the golf course was literally 20 minutes from campus and there had been a car accident, so instead of 20 minutes, I was 40 minutes late, and as soon as I arrived in front of everyone he told me like, " You have to leave, you can't go into

4:31the class because of this and that and that." And I might get upset, but like, look, I apologized to him and he kind of accepted the apology, and it's not like I had to make a clear point to all the players. And that's when I understood what I wanted to do, it made us understand that we were going to be serious about doing the season with the golf team and we

4:57all did very well. Now I think my answer was too long. Tell me, what [clearing of throat] has been your experience, right? In other words, I feel that I agree with you too. Off the top of my head, the first coach who comes to mind is a soccer coach, and he instilled in me the value of discipline and punctuality in everything I do. For example, he was one of those cars that if practice started at

5:253, and you weren't there at 2:55, you could run without lying to yourself, like 20 minutes of punishment, he could run. So that motivated people to put in effort, to work hard and all that, but I also feel that he had a personality that told you things straight up and said them without beating around the bush , as you say, but he could also be kind and could be motivating when you needed it, right? Yes,

6:02I feel that when we had games where we played badly, for example, and everything could be very strict and I could be very honest about the things we're doing, but also when we had games where we played well, we gave it our all , I saw that we really put in the effort on the field and the results didn't come, I also found the right words to make you not feel so bad,

6:26because obviously if you're competitive at the end of the day, if you lose it's very difficult to go home and say, "I feel great." Know? I think the philosophy with which he taught also helped me a lot to learn that it's okay to have a grief, it's have a moment of pressure when you end up losing a game and everything . I think it's very valid, I think it's very good to accept it, but it's

6:53also important to know how to turn the page and the next day use this loss as a learning experience instead of just staying depressed and saying, "I'm never going to win again. This is what happens, I always lose." You understand me? That's what I feel is one of the cars that has motivated me the most to coach, and I feel that's something I try to do. I used to do it in

7:24high performance with young children who already came from a very high level and already had a lot of discipline, which in a way was much easier because you can be much stricter. These are already children who move from their countries to train 6 hours a day. So, they're practically already doing a job. So now that most of my students are over 45, between 45 and 65, you know, I feel like I have that same

7:57philosophy, but I'm much gentler, I 'm much more patient, you know? It's no longer like, well, you were late, okay, why were you late? Oh, well, this is what happens to me . Ah, okay, well, try not to be late, you know? I mean, I think I've learned to be a little more tolerant, obviously, because my students now are older and I don't think they just want to be late for the sake of being late

8:21. I think they have more valid reasons versus, for example, before, you'd know my players had stayed home watching TV, or we'd turn around 5 minutes before training and see them at home because we lived in an academy where part of our responsibilities was to go around to all the dorms and you'd see them playing video games or something like that. So, that's clearly why they were late for stretching, you know?

8:49So yes, I feel that it has been one of the cars that has motivated me the most. And you, do you remember one that has done the opposite to you, that has almost made you want to quit playing a sport? I think we're going to summarize what we've talked about. I think that a good coach, in our opinion, everyone has different perspectives, right? Our good coach is the one who knows how to read the

9:14student. You're not going to treat a 15-year-old player who wants to be a professional the same way you treat a retired person. But you do have to give them a clear path of what they want, whatever their goal may be, whether it's playing Roland Garros or playing the US Open of Pickball or just having fun. I think that's more or less what we've summarized here in this conversation, you know. Clear. And I think,

9:40to add a little bit, in my opinion I feel that a good coach also has to be honest about the goals you can have as a student and as a coach, because I feel that the problem I see now with many people, especially more in the pick, tennis is a little more structured because it has been around much longer , excuse me, but I feel that in pickball a kid can

10:15play a tournament and win and suddenly he's become a coach, you know what I mean? So there are n't that many credentials that validate it that much. So I feel that being honest with your students and saying, "You know what? I mean, I think that no matter how much effort and time you decide to invest in this, I think your idea of ​​becoming a professional in 6 months is completely unrealistic.

10:45Yes. And that also takes away a lot of validation , a lot of credibility, because if anyone can become a professional in 6 hours, in six months, that's going to change. But yes, anyone who tells me, "I want to be a professional in less than this much time," I say, "You have no respect." In my mind, oh, yes, fine, but I think that to respect the profession, we also have to respect the timelines. Of course,

11:20at the beginning it was different because it was a completely new sport, but now, reaching the level that Fericro is at, that takes years, many. Yes, right? And because, for example, I just remembered this situation. I have a student that I've been training with for over a year and a half, but when he first told me He contacts me because he wants to play singles, he wants to become a really good singles player, right?

11:47So I give him his first lesson. The man is already over 45 or thereabouts. Give me his name, give me his name. No, no, [laughs] I do n't want to. I want to respect his privacy. He'll know we're talking about him, but I give him two or three lessons and I realize that, first, he's overweight, second, he has no background in any racket sports, and third, his footwork is nonexistent. Yes. Yes.

12:25So, after the two lessons we do, I talk to him and I say, "Look, I'm going to be honest with you, I love your ambition to be a good player, but if you want to become a good singles player, it's going to take you three times longer than if you become a good doubles player." Then he says, "Why?" I said, "Because doubles is much smaller." " In doubles, you don't need as much

12:58speed, you don't need to be as athletic, you don't need to have as much knowledge of racket sports, especially tennis, as we do in singles. Doubles is more like chess, and he 's very intelligent, he's very successful." Then I told him, "I think you have a much better chance of improving quickly and falling more in love with the sport if we focus more on doubles than singles." "Once you're improving in doubles and everything, then maybe

13:31you can go back to singles if you want." Of course. Obviously, I said that in all sincerity, without meaning to hurt him, but I feel that sometimes we risk losing those students, you know? Because if I tell you that and then you, Carlos, the snake oil salesman, come along and say to me, "That guy doesn't know anything." "Give me three months and I'll get you playing 5-0." Sure, sure. And I'll charge you

13:58three times more, but I guarantee it, you know? I feel like that's the problem I've sometimes noticed in situations where I think a good coach is also going to be honest, and sometimes that's going to cause you to lose some students. Sure, I think, I mean, you have to be tough like we've talked to them. If someone tells me they want to play, they want to play in the PPA next week, the

14:26professional tournament, and they're a 3.5, it's like, hey, go to the 4.0 at least to see how you do, and if you win the 4.0, in the next tournament you play the 4.5, and so on. But if it's an older lady who's overweight, what's my problem if I can't move? Don't tell her she's fat, I mean, I think it depends a lot on the player. But I think, to answer your question, no, there hasn't

14:53been a coach who's wanted to make me I've forgotten about the sport, but if there have been people I've worked with, it's been like they've tried to micromanage me, or people who've been my bosses and are so incompetent or don't know how to solve problems that they've made me completely lose respect for myself and made me want to forget why I worked at that company. I've been lucky that it hasn't happened to me with

15:31any coach. I think I've always been more independent, self-driven, and motivated. I know many people need that external motivation, but it's been more like, at work, when I ask someone for respect, it's not so much that I want to quit playing, but it's like I want to stop playing with him. Okay. Do you understand? Okay. Yes. For me, to wrap up this little episode, I feel like the worst coach I've ever had was

16:02one who was a very good player, but much younger. I mean, I was 15, he was 22, he was very young, he had a girlfriend at the time, and many times he would just tell us, "Hit cross balls." "In tennis," nothing more. He'd glance at you once every five minutes, you'd see him on his phone, he'd often invite his girlfriend to be there with him at practice. Yeah, he had some serious kinks.

16:30So, that worked for me because I said, I never want to do that kind of thing. It's awful, and I see it a lot at the club, at work. Sometimes, when I'm on a break, like, picking up the balls, I look at my phone to see if I need to answer messages, but it's never, ever to text my wife or my family. It's mostly to answer emails or work stuff or make sure everything's okay. But

17:02at the tennis club where I work, I see tennis coaches on a call while they're giving a lesson to a girl, and I feel like it's the worst. Yeah, I also feel like it's disrespectful to your student, right? Yeah, because you have to understand that most of the people who take lessons like this—tennis, pickle, golf, those skill-based sports—are people who have money. And For people who have money, their most valuable commodity isn't money, it's

17:34time. If you waste their time, they wo n't come back, or your reputation will suffer because you're not giving them the time they need or the value they expect. So, for many of you coaches, you have to understand the different dynamics, but you understand that for most people who take classes with you, time is the thing they value most. So, make sure that hour, two hours, fifteen minutes are the

18:13best fifteen minutes or hours of their day, or even their week, or even their month, even if it's someone traveling on vacation that weekend and taking a class with you, that they don't stop talking to their friends, wherever they are. Oh, this coach was the best part of my old San Pete. Yes, that's what happened to me when I traveled To Orlando. I had heard a lot about a coach there who was really good, and I

18:41literally traveled two and a half hours. The class was 55 minutes long, it cost me $200, and I remember when we were driving back, I called you and said, "That was the best class ever." I felt like it changed my life. The way this coach taught the class, which gave me so many ideas for improvement, was that he had already seen videos of me playing. He already knew what I wanted to work on. He already had

19:11everything recorded on his iPad, he already had video clips of where I was making mistakes. I feel like even though it was a 55-minute class, he gave me information worth five hours, you know? So I feel like that 's another example of a coach who was amazing and really changed the way I see and teach. So, well, I hope you liked this quick episode. But to sum it all up, how does the

19:46RPM paddle work? If you buy the RPN paddle with the code house 15, you're going to be better. Coach and person, and your wife and family are going to love you even more. See you. Say hi to Angelito. Angelito. Bye.