Learn from the most creative player in pickleball: @thejackmunro joins the pod. We dive into his origin story of being the youngest ever 5.0 player (before ALW), how he got dubbed “Junior Mint” (just don’t call him that anymore), how his hands got so fast, how he likes to train, where his content strategy comes from and how to fix a backhand.

Jill and KW break down the dollars and “sense” of signing a PPA contract for a player like Grayson Goldin. We do a deep dive on why a pro player who isn’t having success on the APP would sign on the PPA tour. Catch our recap of the APP NYC (Jack won double gold!) and K-Dubs wrote a Pickleball poem!

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SEGMENTS:

0:00 Intro/Teaser

3:00 Pickleball: The Poem

5:50 App NYC

20:49 The Grayson Goldin Example

30:18 Jack Munro Rapid Fire

35:00 Junior Mint, The origin story

50:25 Day Trading and Pickleball

53:25 Do you want to play the PPA?

1:03:00 Lefty Magic and Fast Hands

1:13:40 How to fix your backhand

1:23:25 Outro/Bloopers

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