Paddletek Pickleball Athlete and No. 1 Pickleball Podcaster
Austin, TX
Joined October 2021
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Ben Johns has lost 4 men's doubles tournaments in a row.
I went through the Hong Kong final point by point, and the numbers don't lie. It's not that he's playing bad. He's playing safe. And right now, safe isn't winning.
We also got Christian Alshon mysteriously withdrawing with zero explanation. He was warming up at the venue. Then gone.
Oh, and we need to talk about Harry Brown's mustache. Serious journalism only on this channel.
I breakdown all this plus more in today’s recap 👇
Dislikes from Hong Kong 🇭🇰
- Asian breakfasts. I’m not trying to eat prawns 🦐 while drinking my coffee ☕️
- Elevator Etiquette - let people off before you get on…
- Masseuses stretching you to the breaking point. If I wanted to stretch, I’d go to yoga 🧘🏾
Likes from Hong Kong 🇭🇰
- Hotel room slippers
- Upper middle aged women doing low intensity workouts literally anywhere (this is an elite shout if you know Asia ball)
- Asian KFC 🍗 is 10000x better than American KFC
- Cheap and good sushi
Dislikes from Australia 🇦🇺
Nobody actually says “crikey” 🐊
Trough urinals - It’s barbaric and undignified.
Everybody drives on the wrong side of the road 🚘
Giant Bats 🦇 - regular bats are creepy enough
Vegemite - They’ve gotta be trolling us, right?
Likes from Australia 🇦🇺
Food - Australia has better Asian food 🍜than Asia
Swearing - Fuck yeah mate
Meat Pies 🥧
Accents - There’s no better version of English
445 AM Sunrise - heaven on earth as a morning person
Kangaroo Scrotums - You can purchase them 🦘🍑
Getting paired with a new partner and having almost no time to build chemistry is one of the most common problems in pickleball and it doesn't matter if you're a pro or a rec player.
The warmup is your scouting report. Watch your partner, not just your own strokes.
Figure out the middle early! Hesitation kills way more points than both of you going for it.
Talk constantly. Silence is the enemy of chemistry. Full breakdown 👇
Ben Johns just lost three men's doubles tournaments in a row for the first time in his career.
Mesa with Federico. Vegas with Gabe. Chicago first round with Jack Sock.
He's been written off before and came back every time. But this is new.
Anna Leigh won her 200th title. A French grad student upset Hunter. Hayden said that word on mic again. Full recap 👇
Ben just lost all three finals in Vegas. Naturally I'm dropping a breakdown of what makes him so good 😂
Short answer: no real weakness, elite pattern recognition, and he absorbs everyone else's innovations faster than they can use them against him.
Full 2K rating card and breakdown on the channel. Who should be episode 3? Full breakdown 👇
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Ben played for a Triple Crown in Vegas. Went 0 for 3.
Ben and Gabe’s streak snapped by Christian and Andrei. Hayden and Anna took mixed.
Kiora upset Kate Fahey. Might be the best shot at ending Anna Leigh's 2 year streak?
AI line calling had another bad one. Eric gave the point back out of sportsmanship 🤝 Full breakdown 👇