{"id":133,"date":"2026-09-15T01:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:03","slug":"pickleball-mental-game-win-the-internal-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Pickleball Mental Game: Win the Internal Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Pickleball Mental Game: Win the Internal Match\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g4g4YIg22rs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Koszuta\u2019s short on the internal match: the real opponent is often your own doubt after a miss, ego, and the urge to force the next ball to erase the last one.<\/p>\n<p>Calm the storm in your head first \u2014 train composure the same way you train strokes \u2014 or the scoreboard fight stays uphill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After a miss, one-breath reset before the next serve\/return<\/li>\n<li>Ban \u201cmake-up\u201d winners for one practice set<\/li>\n<li>Notice spiraling thoughts mid-point and cue a single process focus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Koszuta\u2019s short on the internal match: the real opponent is often your own doubt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[212,213,211,55,62],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental","tag-composure","tag-doubt","tag-ego","tag-mental-game","tag-thatpickleballguy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/09-ready-position-closeup-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}