Ep. 306 - Your Filtration System

Hello, I'm Rockin' to Pickable Therapy, the podcast dedicated to your Pickable Improvement.

My name is Tony Roy, I'm your host of this weekly podcast.

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Hope you have an great week.

This week we're going to talk about filtration.

I think you're going to find it really interesting and it's going to help you perhaps minimize

the amount of bad, negative, worthless, incorrect, and complete information that you're receiving,

pickable, and also in life, right, this idea of filtration.

And then the riff we're going to talk about, you know, the question that we get asked

a lot about a camp.

Now, I want to be clear that the conversation we're going to have is extends well beyond

the camp context.

But the question we get asked a lot is like, what camp, what level is this camp for?

What level is this information for?

As you know already or probably know already, our camp schedule is up, so that's why we've

been getting these questions about the different camps that we offer and then like which camp,

you know, like how do I know which camp is right for my level of play?

This idea of level, right, what level is this for, can be disruptive to your receiving

information.

So I thought it was an interesting concept to talk about in conjunction with the filtration

idea we're going to talk about first.

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So all right.

All right.

Let's talk about filtration and this came from a content creator whose name escapes me

right now, but he's a, he presented as a Buddhist monk basically dressed and looked like

a Buddhist monk.

So I'm going to assume that based on the preparation or the presentation and also the subject

that the gentleman was talking about that he was in fact a Buddhist monk.

And he was on a podcast and he asked the podcast host.

He said, he asked some three questions.

He said, number one, you have a sink.

I'm sorry, do you have a kitchen?

And then the podcast host was like, yeah, I have a kitchen.

And then number two was a sink.

Number two, do you have a kitchen sink?

And the podcast host was like, yeah, I have a kitchen sink.

And then number three, do you have one of those little filters that goes on the drain in

your kitchen sink?

And the podcast host was like, yeah, of course, I have one of those little filters.

I don't want stuff getting into my plumbing.

Then the monk paused for a second and he says, interesting, isn't it?

Now we are concerned enough with our kitchen sink to put a filter on it, which makes sense.

But how many of us have filters for our mind?

Filters for the information that we receive into ourselves, right?

That we get into ourselves.

And I thought that was fascinating, right?

When you think about it that way.

It seems so obvious in the moment that we understand well enough that we don't want debris

from our sink, from our dishes going down into our plumbing and clogging up the plumbing.

Yet I would suggest that, I would suspect I should say that for many of us, we don't

spend the same amount of energy, the same amount of concern and time in figuring out the filtration

system for our mind, for our brain.

And that is something that you can address, right?

Something that now that is brought to your attention and say, you know what?

Yeah, I probably do want to have a better filtration system for my mind because otherwise

you're just receiving whatever information is out there.

It could be wrong, it could be complete, it could be not relevant to you.

It could be there's a million different things that it could be that are not, this is information

that I should be receiving for RAM right now, especially in pickleball, right?

Because the amount of information out there.

And in fact, I would submit to you that this podcast, right, should go through the filter.

Now I do believe it would pass the filter.

But what if it's just chance?

Like what if it's just chance that you ended up on this podcast, a podcast where I can

tell you that and hopefully you know by now that I'm genuine in my, in my interest to help

you, right?

In my attempt to bring you information that's going to be positive and helpful and thoughtful

and logically connected, right?

That I'm not going to intentionally give you any information that is incorrect or would

cause you harm, right?

What if that luck of, you know, what if that, that spin of the wheel had ended up with

you on a podcast that wasn't designed like this or on another source of information that

wasn't designed like this?

What then, right?

That's where that filtration system allows you to let one piece of information in but block

the other one out.

Now filtration is, you know, is a process, right?

It's like anything else, right?

It requires some work, it requires some intentionality, some effort.

But it's well worth the, the lift of, of deciding what comes in and what doesn't come

in in your pickle ball as well as in your life I would submit to you.

In terms of pickle ball, right?

You know, what one way to do this is initially, while you're working on it, is to initially

have like a list of approved ventures, if you will, right?

Approved information sources.

I would respectfully submit our company, you know, Tony Roy Pickball has been myself as

a coach to you in that capacity, meaning that when you see something that is from us,

right?

Has my name on it or my image on it and my voice and things like that that you go, okay,

you know, I know where Tony's coming from and he's trying to give me good information.

He's thought it through.

He's certified in what he does.

So let's say a strategic thing you're looking at, like, you know, just Tony know what he's

talking about.

Actually, this is a funny story.

I'll relate to one of your fellow community members and a student of mine for the last

couple of years said to me one time, we were working on a certain part of the game and

and he was bucking me, right?

He was resisting the area, which is his right.

But then he said one day he said he was out there in a game and he was like, you know,

I'm going to try the thing Tony said.

And then he and his rationale was this.

He says, you know what, Tony, he does play senior pro pickable.

And he is a full time coach and been doing this for a long time.

So maybe just maybe he knows what he's talking about, right?

So that's a form of filtration, right?

It's it's, you know, he was resisting it because he just, you know, he bucked what he

knew.

So he was resisting.

He was filtering it out.

I would submit on the on the grounds that didn't there weren't really sensible, right?

Because he was blocking them out on grounds that didn't help him.

And then he opened up the filter based on, okay, well, Tony's, you know, plays well and

knows the game and this is what he does.

And he doesn't say he's a match teaching professional, but that's why I would add that to

it, right?

So I'm serious about what I do, right?

I add, I spent a lot of time thinking through these things and I'm happy to explain to

the why.

That's another thing though.

I think we give me some some cred.

So initially, right, when you're working on your on your improving your filtration, you

can you can set up kind of a crude filtration that says, if I don't know this voice I'm

hearing out until I can decide where they come in.

And then you work on your filtration.

And so your filtration would be based on your understanding of the game.

The better you get at understanding the framework of pickleball, the better you get at understanding

how the game is constructed, then the stronger or the better able you are to use filtration

successfully to then exclude pieces of information that aren't helpful.

Give me another example that is another idea that you can use for like a kind of easy

filtration is when the sentence begins or the coaching begins with just only, this

is what I do.

And so the player or coach saying it is saying, well, this is what I do.

Interesting maybe, right?

To know what they do.

How does that apply to you?

And you know, you see that oftentimes with professional players who are asked to make a

video.

Okay.

And no criticism of the professional player, I want to be clear, they're doing their thing,

they're not coaches, they're players, right?

But they're beginning to put into a coaching environment and they're just, okay, well, show

us this shot, right?

And so they'll generally begin with, this is what I do.

This is how I hold the paddle.

This is how I move my body.

This is what I do.

Great.

What's that got to do with the player watching, right?

So that's a way you can filter information too is, is, if you know, if you're not sure

what the information is for you, then lean or air on the side of maybe I don't let that

information in right now, because I'm not sure exactly whether it's good for me.

And then maybe you have to study a little more, think about a little more before you let

it through.

So your filtration system may be a little delayed, right?

Maybe a little bit of like several gates has got to get through in order to make it to

you.

But I would suggest you that filtration as a concept is something that you should embrace,

something that you should move forward with, something that you, something you should

work on.

Because just like you don't want, you know, the pieces of lettuce and corn and whatever

going on into your sink drain, you don't want the, whatever YouTube video, whatever short

you saw, whatever thing you heard of the court, whatever over here, just popping into

your brain and making it into your plumbing.

Because what ends up happening is it actually clogs your thinking.

You're thinking ends up all mushy and they're all clogged and you can't get anything through

there, right?

So filtration is going to be the best way to avoid some of that stuff from getting down

into your pipes into your plumbing and clogging things up.

So work on filtration and start with the idea of trusted sources.

I, again, I will put my name forward as a trusted source.

I've been at this for a long time.

You can look at my body of work.

You can look at, you can read the feedback from players who have worked with me.

So I put myself forward there.

There are other coaches out there.

I'm confident who may also be eligible for your, you know, be in your, on your access panel

as a green light.

But that'll be up to you to source those coaches and to make that determination before

you just let them in before you green light them.

So again, protect yourself, right?

Protect your information just like you would your kitchen or just like you do your kitchen

sink.

All right.

So in the riff, we're going to come back in a minute.

I'm going to talk to you about this idea of what level is this for.

And this is another type of filtration if you want to think about it that way.

But this filtration, I'm going to suggest to you.

It's actually not good filtration.

So we're back in a minute with the riff.

I mentioned earlier in the podcast that we've been getting some questions about what level

is this for, right?

What, you know, is this camp or activity for my level of play.

And I suggested that that may be a filtration system that is something that you don't want

to use in your thinking about your improvement as a pickable player.

And so what I want to do is talk about that a little bit now in the riff.

That said, I do want to let you know that if you are thinking about one of our camps

and you're just not sure what to do, there's a button on the camp page that says schedule

a call for free to schedule a call.

One of our members of our coaching team will get on a call with you and help you select

the camp that works for you.

I will.

I'm going to tell you though, from my perspective, most important thing about coming to

one of our camps is finding to date and the location that works for you.

Don't get bogged down in like which one of the camp experiences it is so much.

We offer different camp experiences because that's what players want us to do, right?

That's what you expect as a player.

But I'm going to tell you that all of our camps, every single one of our camps, you're

going to get taught how to play better at the sport that you play.

You're going to improve in the sport of pickleball along the three pillars, or on the mechanical

strategic and athletic pillar.

So we don't leave anything to chance at any of our camp experiences.

Now why is what level is this for potentially distracting for you?

It's because when you think about pickleball and playing your best version of pickleball,

your focus should be on your fundamentals.

No matter what level you play.

I don't care whether you're a three, five, four, or four, five, or pro player.

The game is won and lost based on how well you execute your fundamentals.

It's not your earning, your ATP, your behind the back shot, your whatever.

When your drives, it's all about your serve, your return, your valleys.

Now you probably thought I was going to go a third shot there because it goes after the

return in terms of order, nine terms of importance.

Serve, return, valleys.

How good are you at these things?

How good are you staying alive?

How good are you?

How good are you?

How good are you?

I should say how good are you at not hitting that?

How good are you at not unnecessarily hitting the ball out of bounds?

Sometimes balls go out of bounds.

It's impossible not to hit any ball out of bounds.

But how are you hitting it unnecessarily out of bounds risking it like that?

Those are the things that will improve you as a player.

When I think about my job as a coach, my job is to teach you the sport pickleball.

We all play the same game.

I don't care whether you're a two point five player or you're a professional player.

You're playing on the same court, same basic equipment, same rules, same general rules,

anything's the same, right?

Strategies are very similar.

Everything's the same.

The question is, can you execute those strategies better than your opponent?

Can you execute the shots better than your opponent?

If you can, you're going to play great.

That's how I'm going to suggest to you that you come at your pickleball, come at your

pickleball from a fun idea of fundamentals and doing them better than you did.

Doing better tomorrow than you did today and today, but you did them yesterday, that's

how you move forward in your game.

Don't chase magic.

I do not have a drawer in my office that includes magic shots that are going to like launch

you forward.

What I do have in my office is a clear curriculum, a clear delineation of what matters to your

game and what matters to your game is, again, fundamentals and doing those better tomorrow

than you did today.

That's how you, that's the path for a few as a player.

Don't get bogged down with what level is this for.

That is a filtration system that is actually working against you and against your improvement

because oftentimes what happens is you get to three five.

You get to between three five and four oh somewhere in that range, you're in a four oh

plus and all of a sudden you're like, oh, okay, now what I need is I need whatever you

think you need over here.

What you really need is just keep under the fundamentals better.

I like to think of like Analy Waters here.

Now this Analy Waters has the extra special shots too, right?

She has the extra sauces over there, right?

But what makes her the best is actually her fundamentals.

She does not sleep on the fundamentals.

Other players on the tour can hit a lot of the same shots that Analy can hit, right?

If they cross go a shot, jumping, or any, or whatever, you know, a powerful putaway shot.

But what she, this instances herself from the other players is that she has o-shots,

but she also doesn't sleep on the fundamentals.

And her fundamentals are so good that it really is what separates her from the rest of the players in the pack.

So be careful about the, or be wary as you're not careful.

Be careful, be careful, be strong.

But be, you know, just be sensitive to this like what level is this for idea.

Don't let that hold you back from a really is going to help you improve your play,

which is to be better at the sport of pickable.

So hopefully that helps you on understanding that a little bit better.

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