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.
2026-06-25 — 3-Game Match
Take me to my practice ↓A closer look at your day
Here is your outing, plus one practice to take onto the court.
You against you.
What’s working
You're dinking more than ever: 33% of your swings were soft.
Your late pace rose to 84% of your opening pace. One focus: soft backhand touch with Wall Reset Touch.
Quiet paddle, soft return.
Your on-court experiment
Drill · Authored practice
Prescription: 3 sets, stopping each set at 12 controlled contacts or the first loss of control.
Stand 5 to 6 feet from a wall and mark a low target area.
Count completed 12-contact sets.
Step farther from the wall or add left-right targets, one change at a time.
Keep your count with the setup above. Open this outing in the latest PickleBear app to save it.
Comprehensive Guide to Practicing Resets
The soft wall-reset method comes from the cited guide; the stop-at-12 protocol is OUR countable dose.
PLAY STYLEAll-Courtbalanced
You took 246 swings across 3 games. 32.5% soft touch shots in your dink range, 32.9% medium drives, 26.4% hard drives and 8.1% put-away swings. 70.3% forehands and 11.4% backhands, and no overhead swing all day.
1,412 steps inside the 49 minutes of play, 28.9 a minute and 5.7 steps for every swing. Your May outings ran 29.8–31.1 a minute and 4.6–6.4 per swing. That is just under your usual range. The game where you moved most for each ball was game 1, 5.8 steps a swing.
You hit a backhand on 11.4% of swings, up from 6.5% in 2026-05.
| Round | Swings / min | Seconds between swings | Soft % | Backhand % | Avg HR | Steps / min | Steps / swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.9 | 2.67 | 33.3 | 14.6 | 140 | 28.8 | 5.8 |
| 2 | 5.7 | 2.52 | 30.1 | 9.7 | 146 | 33.3 | 5.8 |
| 3 | 4.1 | 3.02 | 36.2 | 8.5 | 130 | 21.8 | 5.3 |