How you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship. Danielle French and Briar Jamieson
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Two Friends: entrepreneur, teacher. One love: pickleball.
Danielle French and Briar Jamieson met playing pickleball and love talking (and laughing) about the game, sharing tips and strategies and creating community. Each week they meet to chat about their game on - and sometimes off - the court.
Danielle is the founder of South Pond Farms and host of the Netflix series, Taste of the Country. Briar is an educator.
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Friendship
This week we are talking about friendship. Seems like a broad topic. Why is friendship different in pickleball than in any other sport. It may not be any different but we think pickleball promotes friendship more broadly, more easily.
It is how we met, and it is how I met others after moving to this community a couple of years ago.
Let’s talk about how friendship is interwoven in pickleball
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Mentorship
In this episode, Briar and Danielle speak about Mentorship in sports and most specifically in pickleball. We are thrilled to have the insights from a female pickleball star and mentor here in our community as our guest, Robyn Percival. Robyn is an elegant, skillful player who I first met in our Friday morning drill session and has been a mentor and friend of Briar for a long time.
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Episode 7. Elitism
Elitism.
Standard dictionary
Being elitist in the context of sports refers to the adoption of an exclusive or snobbish attitude, often associated with a sense of superiority, towards individuals or groups based on their perceived athletic abilities, achievements, or participation in particular sports.
What does that mean to you? Let's talk about it.
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episode 6 How you play the game!
Briar and Danielle talk today about equating how you play the game of pickleball and how you play the game of life.
When you think about it, there are so many parallels between sports and life. Here are just a few topics
Rules and ObjectivesDecision-MakingFocus and ResilienceChallenges and OpportunitiesTeamwork and CollaborationPersistence and PerseveranceBalance and Self-CareThank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback.
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Pet Peeves.....
Briar and Danielle talk about pet peeves....court etiquette.
We've been feeling lately like, well complaining. Court annoyances and irritations about pickleball. Are we becoming those people? These really aren't problems at all in the context of the world but in pickleball, they are real.
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Injuries and preventing them!
No one wants to talk about this but just like every other sport, it is a thing. It can happen. And more and more people are playing pickleball so naturally, injury will be and is on the rise as well.
Most people think pickleball is a low-impact sport - not too much running, not like lifting weights, playing rugby or football…..but still - strains, shoulders, elbows, knees, ankle injuries abound.
Pickleball is full of quick lateral movements, sudden stops, reaching up quickly for that overhead slam. Briar and Danielle talk about the kinds of injuries pickleballers get and what you can do to prevent them.
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Customer Reviews
Points of view- episode 11
Interesting topic but from the point of view of elite players and would certainly be more applicable to a private pickleball club for restricting play to your own group or friends. Unfortunately, it could seem exclusionary to other level of players, maybe the solution is to have a time slot for partner play as you mentioned, through your association by permit. If that was the system at a certain time slot other players could stay away.