If you can remove the negativity from your side of the net, you’ll be amazed at how much better the team performs as a whole
It’s the first week of January, and you’ve convinced yourself that this is the year you finally become a 5.0 player.
You’ve bought the $250 paddle, signed up for a gym membership you’ll never use, and promised your spouse that you’re going to drill five days a week. But let’s be real: by February, most of those resolutions are gathering dust next to your other $250 paddles.
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Tanner Tomassi has another way. He calls it the "laziest way" to get better at pickleball in 2026, in fact. Instead of trying to add complex new shots or grueling cardio sessions, he suggests a philosophy of addition by subtraction.
The Power of Subtraction In the world of sports performance, we’re often obsessed with what we can add . We want the nasty backhand roll or the perfectly disguised lob.
But Tanner argues that for most recreational players, the fastest route to a higher DUPR isn't a new weapon; it's removing the self-inflicted wounds.
Think about it like a business. You can try to increase revenue all day, but if your overhead is bloated and you're leaking cash on bad investments, you're never going to be profitable. In pickleball, your "bad investments" are the unforced errors and the mental lapses that gift points to your opponents.
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