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The Drilling Mistake That's Keeping You Stuck (And how to fix it)
Here's a pattern we see constantly at Ontario Pickleball Academy.
A player comes in motivated.
They drill resets for an hour — hundreds of reps, solid technique, consistent placement.
They finish, feeling confident.
Then they walk into open play and the reset disappears entirely. Twenty rallies go by without a single one.
What happened?
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