CHIX talk with Pro Pickleball Coach Mark Price (PPR Certified)

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CHIX talk with Pro Pickleball Coach Mark Price (PPR Certified)

Bring me the next shiny new thing. The pickleball chicks are obsessed with America's fastest

growing sports pickable. Get ready for on and off the court hot topics, lots of last cocktails and champagne with your hosts, Annie and Rebecca. This is the pickleball CHIX nineth episode of the Pickleball Diaries where fun and laughter abounds, and the pickleball CHIX celebrate over 4000 Instagram followers. This episode is a great one, the CHIX chat with Mark Price with Mark Price Pickleball, making waves with pickleball as a Pro Pickleball player and coach with over 25 years of experience brings pickleball tips, strategy and more on Instagram, facebook, through his camps, clinics and children’s foundation.

Today’s “Word of the Day”

TIP (you guessed it) You know what to do – when you hear the word, “tip” have sip – join the fun with the CHIX!

Today’s In the Kitchen Cocktail

Iron Butterfly in honor of Rebecca’s Birthday.

History of the Shot:

Rebecca loves this drink, her husband drinks it, and Annie first heard about this from her friend Barb –oh so many years ago. YUM!!

What is the shot?

Bailey’s, Tito’s Vodka and Kahlua with some special sprinkles (love it) and a candle for Rebecca’s birthday!

Introducing Mr. Mark Price with Mark Price Pickleball. So special that he came across the pond,

making waves in the pickleball space with his instructional videos, camps, clinics and children’s foundation. Mark came to the United States for love! And – we love it! They met on Instagram – how cool is that!!

Tip Master (that is what the pickleball CHIX call MARK)

Rebecca asked what's your number one tip that you've ever given out? The one that the most people have commented on your Instagram? Mark needs to check with his media manager he's the Stat Master. (ha!)

Mark uses letters to coach with because he finds it is easy for his students to remember.

Pickleball Tip: The Three O’s of resetting

Off balance

Off course

Outstretched

When we are when we're pushed off court or we're off balance, we want to get them back. So we want to attack the player who made us feel uncomfortable. And it's the wrong move!

By attacking when you're off court, your whole court opens. So often, beginners will tend to get pushed off court or off balance and they're attacking back. And they're in a vulnerable position because they're not balanced, or they're off court.

New Pickleball Players

New pickleball players often are met with everybody and anybody who wants to tell new players the way pickleball should be played, where you should stand, and so forth. It becomes overwhelming and actually...