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Collin Johns Is Dialed
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In the first episode of Dinking With Dow, we talk with one of the marquee player in the game, Collin Johns. We dive into everything, including Collin's strategy insights, to pickleball groupies. Informative and hilarious, it's safe to say we came out with a bang.
Transcript
Introduction and Guest Colin Johns
00:00:04
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Welcome, pickle people, to Dinking with Dow. We have a phenomenal guest on this week. It is the right side goat. They call him CJ. That's his only nickname, but his name's Colin Johns. Great guy, great guest.
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Colin Johns' Expertise and Training
00:02:14
Speaker
We have this very special guest today.
00:02:18
Speaker
very special. It's Colin Johns, king of the right side. They call him CJ. Colin, thanks for coming on, man. Appreciate it. Yeah, no problem. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, man. Okay, let's just get into it, bro. I'm a right side guy, okay? So I look up to you in a lot of ways, okay? What are you doing
00:02:45
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Just, can you take me through like a, just a day to day, like training regimen as far as just, I mean, playing, working out, diets, bowel movements, skies, and frequency. Like, let me just, just take me through it.
00:03:05
Speaker
Take Greg through how to become a great right-sider. But you do have a win over me when you were on the right. I was playing in front of you on the left most of that match if memory serves in Charlotte last year. And I listen, I appreciate you bringing that up because I was not going to bring that up. When I was texting you about coming on, I was going to say, hey, I won't bring up my 1-0 record against you.
00:03:33
Speaker
No, I'm honest about it. Yeah. We played in Charlotte last year. And yeah, you got the W with Scarborough against me and Pat Smith. And it came down to the wire. I think it was like 11-9, the third indoors on center court. So yeah, that was the best I had seen you play. And I hadn't seen the Dow backhand punch before. And it definitely got me a couple of times.
00:03:55
Speaker
Thanks. Listen, I am just overjoyed by you saying that. Listen, we got very lucky during that match. Pat Smith had seven to nine foot faults. I'm characteristically a lot of foot faults, yes. I was literally saying, I was like, sorry. I was literally saying sorry to him because it actually got kind of pitiful.
00:04:21
Speaker
I appreciate you saying that it's it's it's been all downhill since then for doubt but but yeah man take me through because you know we're gonna a lot of guys are gonna start being full-time pickle and everything like take me through just a day you wake up you just just take me through it man give it to me
00:04:42
Speaker
Well, I've been studying and trying to get as good as I can be on the right side for a long
Mastering Right-Side Play
00:04:47
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time. So I think that's part of the secret and, and some people don't fully realize that because when I first started playing pickleball back in, I guess it was 2018, uh, Ben was already the best player and he's like, Hey, it would be great if we could play together and I'm going to play left and why don't you get really good at the right? Like you've got tons of potential year.
00:05:08
Speaker
former pro tennis player, really good at table tennis, you learn quickly, I'll help you. So why don't you just become my partner? And from the get go, I was like, yeah, that's the goal. Like that's what I want to do. And all of my efforts from that point forward have been to be as good as I can possibly be on the right side and be the perfect compliment to Ben and to ultimately be the best team in the world. So.
00:05:32
Speaker
that sort of led my training regimen and I will say it has hurt my mixed game or even necessarily like if I'm playing with somebody else and that's not Ben that doesn't have his skill set it doesn't necessarily do me all the favors in the world but we have come up with a system that is very hard for other teams to figure out and be when we play together so the strength of the team unit is stronger than the individual players themselves
00:05:57
Speaker
Um, which I think is really important, especially now these days, you see more teams play together full time, full time, right side or left side. So I should predicate all of that on saying I've been studying the right side for a very long time. And that's where I feel most comfortable. And as you progress through your pickleball journey, you start to figure out what shots are most important when you're playing a specific role. Um, so for example, you figured this one out where the backhand counter on the right side is so much more important than the forehand counter.
00:06:27
Speaker
just because the sideline is going to protect you and your partner's going to protect you in the middle. So just to be clear for the people listening, if I shift to my right when I'm on the right side and I just sit on my backhand, I basically got all of my side covered with my backhand counter and I don't really have to guess whether it's a forehand or backhand. I know it's a backhand. And then if the ball's to my right, it's wide and then it is to my left, it's my partner's ball. Versus if you're on the left side, that wouldn't really work because you're fading towards the middle with your backhand and then you're leaving the sideline exposed.
00:06:57
Speaker
Definitely a shot that you hit well. Some other ones that we put our finger on early is just taking the ball out of the air well at the kitchen line and rolling it cross court. That's just an aggressive dink as well as dink consistency of course, but that one.
00:07:11
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I remember the first tournament that Ben and I ever played and won together. It was back in 2019 at Triple Crown, and I was kind of learning that shot on the fly that day. And I remember playing Wes Gabrielson in that right on center court. And Wes has that nasty slice cut as a lefty cross court. And it was kind of eating me up at first. And Ben's like, you've got to take that one out at the end. You've got to roll it back.
00:07:33
Speaker
And it wasn't as easy back then. You had the fiberglass paddles, and you didn't have the grip that you have now. So it took a little while to figure it out. But I remember by the end of that tournament, I was like, I really feel a lot better with that shot. And we came back to win that tournament. So little things like that along the way, which I don't even think about necessarily now, are part of the evolution of my right side game, among many other things. Interesting, man. Yeah.
00:08:03
Speaker
You're the guy. I mean, I, and, and, and it's interesting. Like you say that like talking about playing with Ben and like, I don't know. I mean, do you think you're the elite right side player? Like let's say you played with like a J dub or Riley or one of the other top guys who's playing the left. Are you, do you still see yourself as the number one right side player or do you think
00:08:30
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you know, like how much has been help you? Like, I mean, you're obviously like at the top of like you versus Matt, right? With, you know, the top five or 10 left side players, like how, I mean, how do you think you stack up there?
00:08:41
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Yeah, I think that I would certainly be in the conversation with any good left side player as one of the best compliments to their game. But certainly game style makes a big difference. You look at someone like Matt Wright, he plays a very different right side than what I do. And then when it comes down to it, the right side player is going to have a certain role that's sort of set. But he's much more aggressive than I am and intends to do things a little bit differently. And that works for him. So maybe he compliments a certain player better than I compliment a certain player.
00:09:09
Speaker
And I have JW on my team for MLP the second half of the year. And we're still figuring out how to play together. So I expect to do a lot better on the second and third events. As I kind of get to know his game better, he gets to know my game better. We talk it through. And that's something that you've seen throughout the last few years. The teams that stick together and play together a lot start to get really good together.
Team Dynamics and Partner Play
00:09:30
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So the faster we can pick up on each other's tendencies and what we do well, what we don't do well, and how to cover those things,
00:09:36
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the better team we're going to be. And I think part of the success that he's had with Dylan Fraser is because they played together so much. So I can be a little bit more like Dylan, he can be a little bit more like Ben, and we start to meld that into a nice partnership. So to answer your question, I think I'm right in that conversation. But again, it just comes down to the given skill set that that player has. No, I agree. That's a good answer.
00:10:02
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Okay, so take me through because you know, I'm a right side guy like take me through just just just give me like give me a drill give me something because you seem like what I've noticed by you is like you're Really really good in the mid-court a lot of people said this but you're great in the mid-court your drops are very good too, but you're extremely comfortable
00:10:24
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in that mid-court area, do you do specific drills for that area? Or like, I mean, how do you, cause that's like my, dude, I'm just, I'm good at the kitchen.
00:10:35
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my drops are on and off, but usually they're pretty good. It's like the mid-court, I'm just struggling, man. Dude, the fifth shot, it's tough. I just got to run to the kitchen line or I don't know what else to do. So is there anything that you're doing drill-wise or practice-wise that helps you improve that shot?
00:11:00
Speaker
Yeah, I think part of it is knowing how important that part of the court is. And especially for me and the role that I play, I know that it's extremely important to get us up to the kitchen line. And even when we're at the kitchen line, I stereotypically block more than your average player. And the reason I do that is not that I necessarily can't counter attack, it's that when we're at a kitchen line,
00:11:24
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in a kitchen line battle and Ben has an opportunity to attack. I feel like that puts us in the most winning position of any of the four players. So obviously any of the four can attack or counter attack. And there will be times where I'll get attacked or I have an attackable ball where I will pass on that opportunity because I have confidence in blocking the ball back into the kitchen and putting off that battle because I know that in two to three shots, Ben will probably get a ball that he likes and
00:11:51
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the likelihood of us wanting to point has been increased. So, in other words, if I get a medium ball where I was like, I could pull the trigger and might win this 51% of the time, that's not good enough to me. I would rather reset it and make that almost every time and then let Ben hit a 60% attack five balls from now.
00:12:10
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So once I kind of figured out who I was playing with and how I could set him up best, I was like, well, it makes a lot of sense to practice a lot of mid-court and a lot of blocking because the kitchen never disappears on you. You can always keep going back to there and putting off that battle unless it's very obvious that you should counter-attack.
00:12:29
Speaker
So I think the first part of that was recognizing the importance of it. And then also just charting a match in general to see where people make a lot of mistakes. I mean you talked about struggling there and I know a lot of people tend to struggle there.
00:12:41
Speaker
I think that a larger portion of the match is won and lost in the mid court simply by virtue of getting yourself to the line more often and getting more bikes at the Apple, so to speak, by getting to the kitchen line on a ball that, you know, a lot of players would have missed because not every third is going to be perfect. That's just the reality of it. But if you're really good in the mid court,
00:13:01
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and you can back up pretty good thirds with really good mid-court, you're going to get yourself the line more. That's the first thing about recognizing the importance of it. After that, it was more drill and kill than anything else. Once I recognized that it was important, I used to work at this country club and I had a ball machine there. In my downtime, I would set it up and I would just drill the heck out of mid-court and put up targets in the kitchen and just over and over simulate
00:13:31
Speaker
topspin rolls or really high pace shots coming down to my feet. And if you practice enough, you figure out certain things that work or work for you. And I think that's really led to me developing that mid-court game. And recognition was the first part, but I think cultivating that by practicing it in a very specific way and just making sure you put in the hours to where you get comfortable. And it doesn't come naturally to everyone right away. It's sort of a
00:13:58
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It's an unnatural shot in many ways where you have a lot of pace coming at you and then limiting your backswing, because the most natural thing to do is to swing hard back. But the more you practice it, the more stuff you figure out, and it's not a static process. It's not just, hey, go out for 10 hours a day for a month and you're going to get better.
Mid-Court Strategy and Mindset
00:14:15
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hey, what am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? And then adjusting. And we'll figure one thing out like, oh, maybe that leads to the next thing. So really not having a static mindset about it and just expecting that the hours will make you better, but really figuring out how can I make this work? And then one thing leads to another. And I think that's what I can attribute to my mid-court team coming along to what it's at right now. Interesting.
00:14:40
Speaker
Yeah, no, that's great, man. I hope the pickle house guys are taking notes. Are you aware of the pickle house? Do you know who these people are? That's the first I've heard of pickle house guys.
00:14:59
Speaker
Couple of guys in Delray who are sort of James Ignata, which proteges their buddies with James and tennis, and they're now taking on this pickleball journey. Pickleball Dave, ever heard of him? I don't think so. Maybe he's coming. On my Instagram post, I don't know. James introduced me in Atlanta to one of them. I think that was Davis though.
00:15:25
Speaker
I think, yeah, yeah, Davis, Davis, Davis, we call him pickleball Dave. And there's another guy named Jericho Grohlman who played with Zane last week. And they are, they're in this house in Delray, they're dinking, they are right side fiends. And these guys, I mean, dude, like literally, bro, like,
00:15:46
Speaker
These are like, you want to talk about fans of Colin Johns, like these guys, dude, they're, I mean, they are, every day I get a video, every single day of you hitting just like kind of like a non, like a, like a reset, just a perfect reset in the mid court or like a little kind of forehand flick down the line, like whatever it is. So you, so I just hope those guys are taking notes. Cause this is, this is big. I mean, you are literally their idol.
00:16:16
Speaker
It's just funny because most people will be like the idolized Ben or whoever else, the ones with the flashy shots. But the working class blue collar shots also are very important. And I think some people can relate to that a little bit more because sometimes Ben will hit a shot and you're like, how did you even see that? Or why would you even attempt that, let alone hit it perfectly? And I just I don't think I could ever do that versus the way I play. I feel like it's maybe a little bit more attainable for more people.
00:16:46
Speaker
Yeah, but but I don't know that for sure No, yeah, I mean like it like I mean you make it look kind of easy with like the
00:16:55
Speaker
I think especially the mid-court bro like that's really where because it's like a lot of people can make drops consistently and a lot of people can make dinks and speed up off their forehand off you know out of the air but what you do in a mid-court is is especially good and and you're right like it does look kind of easy it's just like oh he's just he's just putting his paddle out and it's just
00:17:19
Speaker
It's that easy. It just drops right in the kitchen. But it is difficult. I'm trying to do drills, man. I'll give you one tip that I like to give it. Yeah, give me a tip, bro. A tip for the big court. And it's a little bit counterintuitive.
00:17:34
Speaker
I mean, it isn't, it isn't, but I say the mindset is super important when you're resetting the ball. And the right mindset is almost nonchalant. It should be almost casual like, Hey, bring your best shot at me. It's not going to bother me. And if I do that, I'm putting myself in the right physical and mental condition to reset because most people are the opposite of that where they're panicking because they're like, I don't have any time. I don't know what I'm going to do with this ball. Let me just stab at it. And nothing good ever happens from that.
00:18:03
Speaker
So the first thing I'll tell somebody is your approach is really important. Like literally I'll just stand there and I say hit as hard as you can at me and I'll just stick my paddle out. Like why are you guys so inclined to panic? Like it's a little plastic ball. You're far enough away. You're going to get a paddle on it and you're going to have a lot more success if you can just sit back, realize that you have more time than you think and just be a little bit more nonchalant about it.
00:18:27
Speaker
And then I'm not saying that it's easy from that point because you got to line up the paddle and hit it cleanly and lots of other things, lots of other factors coming to play. But if you're not right off the bat in the right mindset, it's very, very difficult to reset consistently. Yeah, that's I think it's a good tip because I feel like when I'm playing well,
00:18:46
Speaker
And I'm like, in the mid court, it's like, oh, yeah, it's it's exactly what you said. It's like, oh, yeah, of course, just speed it up. I'm just going to make it and get to the kitchen. And then when I'm, you know, freaking out and I'm like nervous or whatever, it's like, oh, I hope they don't speed this up. I hope they just kind of dink it back to me and I can hit a little easy fifth.
00:19:07
Speaker
Interesting, so you think like you're, I feel like that also helps like with even something as little as like grip strength on the paddle. I feel like if I'm tight in the mid court and I got like a seven out of 10 grip on the paddle, like that's gonna be a lot tougher versus if I'm relaxed, three out of three, four out of 10 grip strength, like that's, I feel like that's way better for those shots.
00:19:35
Speaker
Yeah, so funnily enough, a lot of people do like to think about grip strength or they hear about it. It's not something that I personally think or teach much because your seven out of 10 is going to be different than my seven out of 10. Right. So I always say just don't do one of the two extremes, which you don't want to death grip and you don't want to be almost dropping the path as long as you're in between one of those two.
00:19:57
Speaker
and you feel comfortable with it and you're starting to have some success stick with that because I always like to say that the grip will naturally firm up as you're about to hit the ball. Maybe sometimes people squeeze it too hard that generally speaking is probably what most people do on a block but still it's really hard to define oh six out of ten seven out of ten because like I said here seven out of ten is different than my seven out of ten. Yeah true um
00:20:21
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I agree. I want to move on because this is something me and you have a special bond
Dealing with Net Cord Frustrations
00:20:29
Speaker
over this. You don't know this. We have a very special bond. This is the net course.
00:20:36
Speaker
Okay. You are, you are famous for your, you know, just, uh, just kind of throwing your hands up or kind of, I mean, you know, whining about the net cords and stuff. I'm so bad. Dude, I'm, I'm so sick of, I feel like I don't get any nets. I feel like I, I feel like it's two to one with people. Cause I, I feel like I'm, I'm tall. I hit down on the ball and I don't hit much spin. I feel like I don't get any net cords.
00:21:02
Speaker
And I just think it affects the game too much. Collin, is there a solution to the net course? Is there a solution? Because I feel like it does, bro. Honestly, there's two or three shots per game. It really depends.
00:21:24
Speaker
It's kind of a nightmare, especially at the kitchen. Like you are screwed if there's a speed up or a counter that tips the net.
00:21:34
Speaker
Can we figure this out, man? Like let's, let's talk a little bit more at a physical level about this. Cause a lot of people will talk about, Oh, you've only grown about it. But there is a reason why pro matches are never played on temp nets. And that's because the temp nets, they always let the ball over. So the more like a temp net that a regular net behaves, the more unfair it is. So.
00:21:59
Speaker
You probably never played Ben on attempt net, but he's literally good enough to aim for the top of the net on attempt net and hit it on purpose, like consistently. And you basically have no chance of getting this back because it tips the net and you have, don't have enough reaction time to readjust. So these nets recently, I don't know what tension they're putting them at or how like.
00:22:18
Speaker
heavy or sturdy that the net cord actually is because it seems like a lot more net cords go over these days. And it could be a change to the material of the nets and also the tension that they put in the nets. So I would like to see a standard put in place for how tight the net cord actually is and how heavy the netting actually is.
00:22:37
Speaker
Because like I said, we don't play on tempnet, so don't make it a would-be tempnet by stringing it too loosely. So that's what it is at a physical level. At a mental level, it just annoys me because, number one, there's nothing you can do about it. And number two, a lot of times people are getting away with what I consider to be a low percentage, relatively dumb
00:22:57
Speaker
trigger pool. So especially if it's like a mid court from your shoelaces and you swing really hard, there's no way you should be winning that point or I should at least get a paddle on it. And then nothing annoys me more than someone getting rewarded for that dumb decision in my mind by hitting the next court. And then there's nothing I can do to adjust.
00:23:14
Speaker
It's like, oh, I hit a good shot. I'm like, no, you really didn't. And you should have paid a price for that one. And maybe at some point where you can standardize a little bit of a heavier netting and tighter tension, or we should just continue to talk about how much Colin hates net cards. No, you've got to figure it out. Because you're the one, bro, you're the one guy. Because I've been whining about this for years. I mean, since I've been playing, I've just been like, why is there two or three points a game that are decided by some BS net?
00:23:42
Speaker
Because in tennis, it's not like that, bro. No, it's not. It's an occasional latte or whatever. But it's such a night. And it pisses me off. Oh, god. People kind of say, oh, Colin shouldn't whine about the net cord so much. It's kind of funny that you do it. But it's like, bro, it is BS. And I don't know. It's just, I don't like it. So I'm with you on that. I'm glad we can agree on that.
00:24:11
Speaker
That's yeah. Okay, let's let's end this conversation. I know you got to go. I want a couple couple kind of kind of kooky questions for you. But okay, listen, I'm getting into the I mean, I've been playing for a while, but I'm getting into it next year, like really locking in.
00:24:33
Speaker
Are there Colin John's groupies? Have you ever experienced this? Is there any, I mean, is that a thing? I mean, specific to Colin. I'm not saying you've ever indulged, but is there Colin John's groupies out there? Because I'm interested in getting groupies myself.
00:24:50
Speaker
You're interested in that. Absolutely. I can't really definitively answer that question. Certainly, there are fans of me and my game and how I play the game. Yes, there are. Especially in the past couple years where the coverage is greater and the exposure is more and people look on YouTube and see who the best players are and they'll see me and Ben and they'll see Ben plays the game a certain way, Colin plays the game a certain way.
00:25:19
Speaker
for whatever reason they really relate or like the way that I play. So certainly I've run into those people and I just did a pickleball getaways recently in Costa Rica where I had some clients there that were in that same sort of vein where they're like, we really like the way you play. Can we learn to reset like you here? What are your thoughts on this part of the game? So I wouldn't necessarily call those people groupies, but definitely there are some fans of how I play. Gotcha. Now I just want some listen.
00:25:48
Speaker
40 plus just attractive women who just follow me around. That's just a dream. That's the dream. That's the dream. Better not. You hit some dinks. You got an attractive 42-year-old. I mean, that's, again, that's not even that I would do any, I mean, you know. But just the attention is mine. Just promise that you'll shoot me a text and tell me that it's happened, if that does happen. I absolutely, it'll all because of you. All because of you.
00:26:17
Speaker
Okay, guilty pleasures. Do you have any guilty pleasure? That can be anything from like cupcakes to heroin or male prostitutes, anything. Anything like that. That's a really easy answer for me actually. My guilty pleasure is definitely milk and cookies. I drink a lot of milk, a lot of whole milk, probably
00:26:42
Speaker
three gallons a week if I'm home. So I'm pretty serious about my milk addiction and it has to be done with cookies. So whether it's Oreos, molasses, peanut butter, chocolate chip, I don't really discriminate a good cookie with a glass of milk. You'll basically see me on the daily getting a little bit of that. So definitely my guilty pleasure. Do you put the cookie, do you dip the cookies or do you put them in the milk and kind of like make a little cookie kind of milkshake?
00:27:11
Speaker
So it's not that I want the cookies per se, I do. It's more that something has to go with the milk. The milk is the more important part. So I dip them in the milk typically, eat them, drink a lot of the milk and then eat the rest of the cookie. So the cookie is almost a side thought and definitely they go into the milk because the milk is just the best part of that.
00:27:35
Speaker
Gotcha, okay, interesting. All right, last- That's the reason I play the right side well, actually. You should start to indulge in that, Greg.
00:27:42
Speaker
I, cookies and, listen man, but I do like a little cookie kind of milkshake situation where I'll put a big glass and I'll sort of like get a spoon and sort of crumble the cookies with the spoon and then I have a little cookie kind of shake situation. It's not good. I mean, it's bad. Listen, I'm on a dot com. Actually, how much do you weigh? What's your weight? What is my weight? My weight right now is 170. Okay. And you're what, six foot?
00:28:12
Speaker
Uh, a little under six five. Yeah. Five, 11 and change. Not quite sexy. I'm actually on a little bit of a fitness slash weight loss journey, man. I got up to about two 20 I'm six four, but as, but two 20, it was just.
00:28:25
Speaker
Yeah, you have a big frame, so you can get away with a little bit. I know, but it was kind of gross, man. It's just the love handles. It was the whole thing. Honestly, it was kind of sick is what it was. It was just all the fat in my abs. It was kind of gross. But I'm down about 205. Now I'm going to get down to about 195. Good playing rate for me, I think. Good fighting rate for you.
00:28:50
Speaker
Good fighting weight for Dowd. I mean, maybe you'll get back on the singles court if you ever were on the singles court. I don't know. I've only played one singles tournament. I am absolutely horrific. It is. I'm just trying to get the mix going, bro. That's really, I'm just, you know, I'm just- Yeah, you and me both. Yeah. Well, you're better not, but it's like, I'm, bro, I'm 6'4", like, figure it out. Like, the reach I have is like, it's just, it's,
00:29:18
Speaker
Gotta use it. Gotta use that. I wish that I had a little bit more. The movement for Dow is just not, it's just not good, but it's getting better. We're going to the gym. We're losing weight. We're 205. We're going to be kind of, I mean, I want you to, I mean, look at. I mean, that's looking pretty good. I think you should have AJ Kohler on your podcast next. He can keep you from like, crab walk all the way across the kitchen line. And then the six floor frame is going to be a lot more intimidating.
00:29:47
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Yeah, no, I agree. AJ is another idol of mine and he's in pretty good shape. He's kind of, he's fit, I would say. I know he's got some- Oh yeah, you got to ask him about his gym routine. Definitely do that. He's got some extracurriculars going on that I'm not sure are great for his physical shape. All right, last thing, buddy.
Court Positioning and Shot Selection
00:30:11
Speaker
Just give our millions of viewers here. Give us a tip. Give us the best tip that Colin Johns has, whether that's like a drill you do or a cue on your dink or something. Is there anything you can give us?
00:30:29
Speaker
I guess I'll go back to what I typically answer for this question. And it's that I think there are two things in Pickleball that are the most important, and neither one of them relate to physical skills. And those two things are court positioning and shot selection.
00:30:45
Speaker
In pickleball, if you do those two things really well, your physical skills will naturally just be better by virtue of being in the right place in the court and choosing the right shot. So you have to figure out what it is for you, but there are definitely some fundamentals that you need to have. So really think about it the next time when you're playing. Like, am I in the right position on the court? And am I choosing the right shot? Am I attacking from the mid court more than I should? Maybe I should be hitting a block from there. Am I missing attackable balls at the kitchen line because I'm backing off the line?
00:31:13
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just little things like that will start to develop your physical skills. So I would just really pay attention to those two things because in pickleball, the benefit of doing those two things well is really, really exaggerated. Yeah. Agreed.
00:31:29
Speaker
Dude, appreciate you coming on. This is great. Audience, I hope you guys thank Colin Johns. Go buy the Scorpius. Actually, maybe- Yeah, I had to represent here. Buy the Ace Club, actually. Buy the Ace Club. You gotta say that, but yeah. Go buy the Ace Club. Look at this thing. This is, come on, Scorpius. Hey, dude, appreciate you coming on, man. Thank you. Yes, yep. Thanks for having me on, Greg.