Your outingOct 5, 2026

October 5 — 2 rounds of play

A closer look at your day

Your game,
a little clearer.

Here is your outing, plus one practice to take onto the court.

SINCE YOUR LAST OUTING

Backhand dinks

~~44%~~34%

of your backhands were soft

You against you.

What’s working

You're dinking more than ever: 41% of your swings were soft.

From last outing’s focus

Last outing’s focus was Wall Reset Touch (quiet paddle at the kitchen, with a count at the same setup). No practice count came back on that setup. This time late pace cooled to 97% from 144% and soft backhand slipped to 34% from 44%. Same wall drill. Bring back your count at the same setup.

Your coach’s read

The next practice focus is kitchen touch. Soft backhand touch slipped 44% → 34%. Soft touch eased from round 1 (45.6%) to round 2 (39.5%). One focus: soft backhand touch with Wall Reset Touch.

One focus for your next outing

Soft backhand touch

Then Wall Reset Touch.

Try the practice experiment

TAKE THIS ON COURT

Quiet paddle, soft return.

YOUR PRACTICE CUE

Your on-court experiment

Drill · Authored practice

Wall Reset Touch

Prescription: 3 sets, stopping each set at 12 controlled contacts or the first loss of control.

The setup

Stand 5 to 6 feet from a wall and mark a low target area.

Feed gently into the lower target.
Absorb the return with a short motion.
Keep the ball close enough to continue without chasing.

Count it · Player / coach check

Count completed 12-contact sets.

Step farther from the wall or add left-right targets, one change at a time.

Next check

What will your next practice show?

Keep the setup the same and bring back your count. Soft backhand share next outing — beat 44% at the same setup.

Keep your count with the setup above. Open this outing in the latest PickleBear app to save it.

Practice source & what we adapted

Comprehensive Guide to Practicing Resets
The soft wall-reset method comes from the cited guide; the stop-at-12 protocol is OUR countable dose.

Marathon Outing🔥 3 weeks running

724swings

1.2 miof footwork

178peak heart rate

PLAY STYLEAll-Courtleans touch

What stood out in your game.

What changed since last time?

The late fade was bigger than on September 21: your last round kept 97% of your opening pace, against 144% then. The soft backhand slipped: 34% of your backhands were soft touch shots, against 44% on September 21.

What kinds of shots did you hit?

You took 724 swings across 2 rounds. 41.0% soft touch shots in your dink range, 25.6% medium drives, 25.6% hard drives and 7.9% put-away swings. 74.4% forehands and 14.1% backhands, and no overhead swing all day.

Did you move a lot, maybe too much?

2,897 steps inside the 86 minutes of play, 33.8 a minute and 4.0 steps for every swing. Your May and June outings ran 29.8–32.2 a minute and 4.6–6.4 per swing. That is just over your usual range. The round where you moved most for each ball was round 2, 4.1 steps a swing.

Did you avoid your backhand?

You hit a backhand on 14.1% of swings, up from 6.5% in 2026-05.

Your pace

Late pace cooled off from last outing.

In this outing you kept 97% of opening pace (8.4 swings a minute against 8.7). Against September 21's finish that is a cool-off, not a hold to celebrate.

Round by round
Round	Swings / min	Seconds between swings	Soft %	Backhand %	Avg HR	Steps / min	Steps / swing
1	8.7	1.99	45.6	12.1	155	33	3.8
2	8.4	1.73	39.5	14.8	157	34	4.1