Episode 77 - Mike Takes on Missouri: Exploring Branson Pickleball, The Pickle & Chilly Dill Cryotherapy

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[00:00:24] Visit us at castlerockchiro.com or call 303-663-8365. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good, I guess. I guess we were having technical difficulties here a second ago, but we got to tell everything to work.

[00:00:48] And both of us were having it each. And you were with the microphone and I again with those headphones. I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe we named this the wrong name. It's not Pickleballers Next Door. It's Goofballs Next Door. But yeah, I'm glad to be back. I mean, this is nice to see you. So where were you? I was in Branson, Missouri, Springfield, Missouri. And then it's like there's a bunch of little towns in between that. And I, you know how well I remember names.

[00:01:14] So there's, I know Springfield and the big place I was at as my daughter lives in Branson, Missouri. And she lives on Table Rock. It is gorgeous. It is like a TV show. I mean, it'll make you laugh when you go to this place. When you drive into her area, it's like a little, you drive in, they live by the lake and you kind of go around and then you go into this community. And as you pull in, it's like a TV show. There's people mowing their grasses. They wave to you. They're honking. They're in their little carts.

[00:01:44] They're walking. There's yeah, there's there's dogs playing kids running. Wow. It is the weirdest thing you've ever seen your life. It is beautiful. It's now that I did a few Instagrams and a few Tick Tocks. It's 90 degrees when I was playing pickleball there in 92% humidity. Oh, wow. I felt like a sprinkler. Like if you wanted some of my DNA, you got some of it even if you didn't want it because it was just squirting out my ears everywhere.

[00:02:14] Even places I don't want to talk about. Yeah. Nice thing. Yeah. Sorry. Maybe that should be on that other show. Other show. Yeah. Yeah. But otherwise I had a great time. Met a lot of great people. Uh, what's neat there, um, is pickleball is you can hit it's, it's at sea level. So you can hit that pickleball pretty hard, like you can serve. And I think that makes the game a little faster there. I don't know. You know, I felt like the game was just like here.

[00:02:43] I mean, the dinking's gone away in a lot, but I think the game felt faster. Like the ball was moving faster. So when I first started playing there, I felt like everybody was on even the beginner. The people were just going at 100 miles an hour. But, uh, but also sweats going in your eyes. You can't see, you have to have a literally a towel hanging or sitting next to you on the court because you can't see it burns your eyes. And then you come back to dry Colorado. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

[00:03:09] Then you, so I just got back a day ago and, um, I went and played this morning and the dry heat from, you know, I couldn't serve. I could, I might serve because I was hitting the ball so hard on my serves out there. Yeah. I couldn't adapt to this. So what were you doing here? I had a baby serve it. It was the, look, I'd missed the serves. So you kept missing it out. I was missing it out on the line or I was just hitting it, trying so hard not to hit it hard that I was messing up the serve and going out and stuff. Yeah.

[00:03:38] It was horrible, but, um, I played really well. I mean, so again, you know, the funny part is when you travel and play in different places and you come back, it's different play. And when I came back, I felt like I was just a little level up from the people that I've been playing with. So that, you know, and, and, and again, you have good and bad days. And anybody can call in and say that you're not. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.

[00:04:01] It could just be my brain, but, but overall, uh, yeah, now I'm in the dry heat and, um, it's a different whole thing. You know, just tomorrow it was pretty beautiful. I mean, I think it was 75 and no wind, a little cloudy. So it was almost like perfect conditions. Yeah. Um, you go there and I go at seven o'clock in the morning, it's 80 some degrees and 90 some percent humidity. You walk and you sweat, everything sweats. And when I leave, it looks like somebody took a hose and hosed me.

[00:04:30] Then when you take your clothes off every inch of your not there, your from your underwear to your socks are soaked. I know this is a little more information than people want to know, but it is. And then you think, well, I'll just hang them up. They don't dry either because it's in the humidity. So how do you dry them? You have to wash them or dry them or they get stinky. Oh, wow. So it's, it's like, and you got to do a lot of laundry. You're a pickleball there. You go through a lot of laundry. Yeah. You just don't hang them outside. And, and there's another, the other part, there are a lot of different types of bugs.

[00:04:59] So they have these little, I don't like bugs. No. And I think it's just when you're in those higher humidity places. Yeah. It's kind of like a jungle. It's kind of, you feel like you're a little more jungle. So there's a little more. Do they have cockroaches? I didn't see that. And I don't, I'm glad. No, I don't think so. Cause I do not like that big flying bug. No, they just have a lot of locusts. They have a lot of the locusts. Like at night, it sounds like I thought they were birds for a long time. It is so loud. It's super loud. And then they're ugly. You ever see these things?

[00:05:29] They look like giant flies and they're ugly. How about crickets? Uh, not, I bet there is crickets, but these locusts are so loud. It's crazy. But, uh, so what's the pickleball like out there? I mean, what do you, what do you, what do you, I don't think they have in the courts and stuff. Well, I don't think they've come. They're not where we are here in Colorado. Yeah. Um, it's crazy. I mean, they really indoor facilities are just starting to pop up, but they're not the indoor facilities we have here. Like we have state of the art stuff here.

[00:05:57] These ones are the nice courts, the outside courts in, but they haven't, they don't have all the, the purdy, the pickler, the ace, the, all the, the clubs. Not like the franchisers. Not the franchisers or third shot. The huge. Yeah. They're, they got eight courts. I mean, that's the biggest I seen there. They had eight courts. Which actually we're going to be having on the, um, the owners from the pickle and, uh, that is out there in Springfield, right? Yeah. And the, uh, pro. Yeah, that was pro.

[00:06:25] That was, that, that was a neat, uh, establishment. This, these people were about golf and then they got into pickleball and when they got into pickleball, they were like, cause they, they said, you know, they were starting, Garf was, you know, they're getting older and the golf was starting to take its toll on them, but they still love doing sports. They found pickleball and they fell in love with it. And, but they thought, how do I help other people from golf to pickleball to everything? So they went at this in a different direction than all the other courts. They actually have rubber courts.

[00:06:54] And so they, they're better for your knees and your back. They don't, they don't, they just don't wear on you so bad. But the neat part was right next to it is they had a cryogenic facility, which had all the bells and whistles. And I want to go back. They have a plunge, right? Oh, they have, they have a, they have a plunge that you don't get wet. So it's neat. You sit in this plastic and it sinks you down in the plastic. So you still get the, you get the coldness. So you get cold. Okay. But you don't get all wet. So, cause a lot of people, that's a shock, that water.

[00:07:23] So this, you still get that cold and you get the, the, the, the bio from it, the coldness. And then they have another one. That's a warm one. So it's like, it's 140 degrees and you sink down and it doesn't have water, but it's in water too. Which is nice because sometimes when you're like, you don't want to get wet. Right. Oh yeah. They, they, they had, and they had those, uh, these freezers. They opened like a sauna too. Oh, they had, they had red light sauna. Yeah. They had the, uh, the pressure bags that go on your legs and your arms and your shoulder.

[00:07:52] They had everything to rehab you. They had a massage therapist there. I mean, this was pretty neat. And I think what they're trying to do is they love the pickleball and they wanted to do the pickleball. They want to continue keeping well. They, they, they were having their own troubles and they went to a cryogenics and said, well, this works so well. Why don't we do it for other people that are in pickleball? And so the establishment has the pickle on one side, I'm assuming. And then it has the, uh, chili deal cryotherapy on the other. Yeah.

[00:08:21] They built a whole, they built their own building. So they built this whole building. And then in the middle of that is actual, they don't own this, but they brought in a physical, uh, a personal trainer. So he actually does personal training. He works with them. Beautiful establishment. This place is gorgeous. Wow. Like it's very nice, uh, very well ran. And, um, they are there about the pickleball people getting to stay the long time. Longevity of pickleball. So I thought that was neat and very inviting.

[00:08:47] Like they call, when I went into visit, I just found them, went in, um, uh, uh, Oh gosh, sorry. Uh, Dylan. Yeah. Sorry. He's their GM and their, their pro there. Yeah. Um, was welcome arms to me. Nice. Like, Hey, why don't you, I said, do you want to, you know, I said, I'd like to do a podcast on this. And he says, that'd be great. Yeah. But why would he come play? He says, what level do you play? I said, hi, you know, four plus I like to play. He says, we'll come back on Saturday and you'll just come for free and come play.

[00:09:17] And so that was super cool. And, um, so I did go and, um, I played at their open play and that had a lot of good players. Again, the pickleball just seems a little more advanced and they don't really do. They're not big about the duper yet or any of that. They do talk about it, but they're just more about plan and they just play. And, uh, so then that night, that day I went around two o'clock and then at five, they had these guys that were four, four fives and five O's play. And that was a lot of fun. Oh my gosh.

[00:09:47] A lot of fun. Now how to get used to this court. Cause the court of the rubber court. Now it didn't skip. Cause that's what I thought I was afraid of when you'd serve, it would kind of skip and you miss the rubber, but it didn't. Now, you know how I spend the ball a lot. It grabs the ball and really spins it like it shoots off the rubber. Oh, wow. You've got a little more action on the floor. Um, I felt like you could really set yourself to like when you set yourself, but you had to release yourself.

[00:10:14] Like it almost grabbed you and you had to like, it was almost like suction cups. Like it grabbed you and you had to release. And, um, I thought it was great play. Um, you know, these, these people, the owners are very, very, very nice. Oh, they said when we had the podcast, you know, I was, I was here and you did that. They sounded like great people. They are. Um, so would you suggest like, would you suggest going there as a trip? And then you would be able to, if you're a pickleball player, you definitely want to go to these places.

[00:10:41] I think that if you're on a, you're at a, you're on a trip pickleballing. First of all, when you're changing altitudes, you're changing humidities, you're changing temperatures and you're, you're flying or you're driving. That's a lot of stress on your body. I think if I was a pickleballer, this would be my recommendation. Go there, play some pickleball, but do some of the therapy there because that's going to put you in the play for the rest of your time while you're playing pickleball. They're going to kind of get the blood vessels open. It's going to get you breathing. It's going to get your heart going.

[00:11:09] I mean, it's so good for you. Um, I didn't have enough time because they offered to let me try some of this stuff, but I'll be back there in a few months and I am going to go do a full workup on myself, you know, freeze myself, you know, whatever. Could that help with your brain? It might help. I don't know if that'll help, but it might slow it. It might get my brain working or something. Yeah. It might. It might. And then you may be able to turn on that mic. Yeah. Like you don't know how. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:11:37] I could, I could do, I could know how to work my equipment that we've been working for two years on, but, uh, I really recommend going out there and I hope that you can come out to the next one. That'd be fun because the lake, there's a lake by your daughters and that's, and you guys got to go out boating. Table rock. Oh my table rock. There's, there's also pick outside pickleballs. Now they're outside pickleball courts. There's a lot. They have a lot of outsour, outside pickleball courts out there, which doesn't make a lot

[00:12:04] of sense because of the humidity, but they're used to it. They really are. Like I look like I'm squirting out water at every, out of my hair follicles, every orifice is like I am dripping all over. I have to even be careful. There's water on the court and they're like, where'd that come? Well, it came from me. That was all me. That was me. Mike makes a trip. Yeah. You could have a drink if I mean, if you like salty water, I mean, I could have wringed it out in a shirt. Wow. That's not sound good. Does it? But I enjoyed playing.

[00:12:34] I played a lot at one place that was about 30 minutes from my daughter. I did go to another place in Springfield. I was invited to. It was a church. And you are alive. I was worried about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know. I mean, I just, I got a text saying, Hey, you were, we love playing with you. Do you want to come? And so they gave me this address. I pulled up. There's no courts. I'm like, I thought it was going to be outside or something, you know? Mm-hmm. And I see the other guy get out and he's like, well, I think there's courts here.

[00:13:02] So he got invited and I'm thinking, Oh, they're sacrificing us for sure. There's a table in there and they're going to duct tape us or something. They play too much pickleball. Yeah. But they, they, these, this, this, this, this pastor has two courts. He put in there. They were tight inside. Inside. They were inside there in their gymnasium and they were tight. I mean, you, I mean, you had fun. I had a lot of fun again, very good players. I mean, they play pickleball. Like it's not like you're, I'm not saying there's not people learning and coming up,

[00:13:31] but it felt like everywhere I played, people were just playing at top notch pickleball. Maybe I hit the right time. I'm sure that, I mean, at the other court that I played every day by my daughters, there were some, you know, basic players and they, and they were learning and having fun, but it felt like they were just moving as fast as they could possibly move. Like, it's crazy. But I, you know, if you get to Branson or Missouri, uh, look up courts, uh, it's a little harder to find.

[00:13:58] Um, I was literally at a Springfield mall and there was 10 courts that was behind the mall and I didn't even know it. Oh, wow. Yeah. I found these 10 courts through somebody who runs them. Um, the mall, the cities, it's just like here, the cities own them and run them. There's no charge. Yeah. There's no, there's no charge on the inside courts. They have to charge. We got a little, you must've brought a bug with you. Yeah. There's one here buzzing me down. Yeah. There is some weird bugs there.

[00:14:25] I mean, like I said, you there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a spider there. And I just, I think two of these, I don't like spiders. Well, these have like little pinchers and they get, they're aggressive. This is the weirdest spider I've ever seen. It looks like a crab. It'll come at you. Yeah. It's like not as scared of you at all. So, um, I didn't like those. Yeah. So, uh, but otherwise, other than that, this, uh. So you would suggest going to Branson, try out the pickleball and you got to go see,

[00:14:51] um, the, uh, owners and, uh, Dylan at the pickle at the end and try out their chili deal cryotherapy because if you're hurting, it's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. You, you, you'll love it there. Um, and you, if you really want to have a good time, go during, I go to the fourth because there, because of the humidity, I'm sorry, Colorado, that all the fires and all the stuff going on, it's terrible. But there you, it's just like when you were a little kid, you can go, you go to the fire

[00:15:19] stand, firework stands and you can buy M eighties rocket bottle rockets. We were shooting off mortars. Wow. I mean, it was just a bomb in front of my daughter's house. I mean, it was so fun. Oh, good. I mean, if you haven't, I mean, if you remember, if you're, I'm a little young, but I mean, you know, you're older, you probably remember it a little better than I do. Yeah. Um, when you could really buy any type of firework, right? You have to go to Wyoming here, but then they banned it. Oh, they banned it. So any, you wouldn't want to do it here anyway. I mean, so dry. Yeah. So dry.

[00:15:49] I hear people doing it and I'm thinking, and you're just, you're, they still were though. Yeah. How many people were doing it? And, and the problem with that is, uh, you know, that could just destroy somebody's life. You know, it, think about it. I'm in Lewisville working in a lot of those homes that, um, and, oh, that winch. Yeah. And that wasn't from fireworks. That was from the electrical, you know, they had a, but still that was an amazing fast fire. Oh my gosh. It burned you the new, the houses there, just how many homes got burned up.

[00:16:17] So, but anyway, if you guys, uh, you're going to go into that Arkansas or Branson or not Louisiana, um, Springfield, Springfield, uh, definitely going to have, look at pickleball. You'll have a good time. Yeah. Well, Hey, stay tuned. We got, like I said, we got the owners from the pickle and, uh, Dylan, the pro at the pickle. So stay tuned for a good podcast. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.

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[00:17:19] Hey, Chris, Anna. How you doing? I'm good. How are you, Mike? I'm doing great. I'm playing a lot of pickleball. How about you? Um, you know what? Tonight I'm going to be playing pickleball at the Hilton. And, um, so where are you at today? I am in Springfield, Missouri, and, uh, it is warm here. Okay. And it feels like it's raining when you're standing. Really? Yes. I bet you it's great for the skin.

[00:17:46] Uh, I, I, I should be like 10 years younger by the time I get home. Oh, fun. You needed that. You did need that. Yeah. I'm at a special place today, which is awesome. Um, I found this place. Uh, I was looking up pickleball clubs and, um, I called a gentleman named Dylan and he said to come on in and try this club out. And I love it here. And, uh, Dylan himself has been awesome.

[00:18:12] So you're at the, uh, the pickle, uh, chili deal cryotherapy. And, um, so you're with, uh, Dylan Dean and you're with the owner, Christy Blasey. How are you guys? And Tim. You forgot Tim over here. Oh, I'm sorry. Who else? Tim. That's all right. It's all right. Oh, Tim. Yeah. Just co-owner. Doesn't matter, right? Poor Tim. He's my better half. Whatever. You know. Oh, sorry, Tim. I didn't mean to forget you.

[00:18:42] I didn't know you were there. Mr. Christy. Mr. Christy. Okay. So how are you guys? Good. Good. Blessed. Glad to be inside in the AC. Much nicer. They keep it very cool in here. I don't want to go back outside. We come inside. So we get away from that humidity and heat that Mike's talking about just dripping. So. You don't even have to move. You just breathe and you start to drip.

[00:19:10] So it's like 92%. I think that today I checked it was 92%. Wow. And 95 outside. Those two numbers don't go well. No, no, no, no, not at all. So this facility they have opened is incredible. They are doing a little different than normal pickleball. They love pickleball. You can tell when it's pickleball, but they're doing more there. They built courts that were for recovery. They were for your, your knees, your ankles, your back.

[00:19:37] And, you know, I was a little skeptical when I first came to play because I'm thinking this ball is going to skip, you know, I've that spin serve, you know, so I thought this thing, it played like beautiful. They were beautiful courts. That didn't help. We, I had a great player to play with still in here. Very patient. This is a very good player. And, uh, but anyway, uh, go on. You guys tell a little bit about your club. Well, we started this a couple of years ago. Um, well, the concept came to us. We were, uh, on vacation and enjoying the pickleball.

[00:20:06] And we thought we need someplace in Springfield that, that provides pickleball courts. And for the age demographic that, you know, we typically see the older crowd. Um, we 40, 50 and above. And so we wanted to put in the flooring that was conducive to help them play and stay, stay in the game longer. So that was kind of how it grew, you know, and it does play well. I mean, am I, I was telling, I was actually, my knees ached a little bit because I think

[00:20:36] they weren't being beaten down. I play a lot. I play three to four hours every day. Not more. I mean, if you, if you keep asking me to play one more game, I'll play one more game until I fall down. Yeah. That's what the guys say. One more game. One more game. One more. One more. Come on. I think you've got to leave as a winner. I think that's what happens. You don't have a choice. You don't have a choice. That's right. So, but then on top of- And Mike always, go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry.

[00:21:02] No, no, this is, it's a little harder because I'm actually remote, but, um, I was just going to say, do you ever win when you leave there, Mike? Or are you always losing? I think Dylan gave me a couple. He gave me a couple. Um, he's a very good player. I mean, he's heading up to the pro level. He's at pro level. I appreciate that. Mike. Thank you. I play with a lot of players. I love, I guess what I have to say about Dylan is I played this morning and I played with some four or five, five O's and there's a bunch of players that are three plus.

[00:21:31] And what makes me crazy is I know we want to play all that. I'd love to just play with four O's all the time and have those great games. But the way we all had, we all started somewhere. So I still like to help people play. And I think that the neat part when I was here the other night, Dylan was filling in for people is he didn't matter what level the people came on. He would give them some good balls. He'd watch and push them a little bit, but he didn't just try to win points. He would try to make it a fun game. And I think we all need to do that. It's really been bad.

[00:22:01] I mean, you know, I get it. If you want to play those high level players, there's players who set those games up. Go play those. Exactly. And that's one of the benefits. What, what Dylan does really well is he, he's able to play to his competition. He's a good player, you know, but he does know what it's like to begin to play with the beginners and to make them feel as comfortable as the, as the five, five O players. And so that's a real blessing. That's nice.

[00:22:27] It's very fortunate to be in my position and I'm not here to, to blow or say anything about myself, but I will say, um, being able to test people's abilities is what makes this job fun and which makes coaching what it is. Uh, everybody picks up a paddle at some point. And then, um, I get a lot of people here that walk in the door and they don't know how to play. And then two months later, they're talking to me about what level they want to enter the tournament at. And that's the beauty of it. And that's the fun of it. And as a coach and as a person, that's, that's what I enjoy the most.

[00:22:56] About this, where I'm at. So it's, you're going to last a long time because that's what we need in this sport. There's a lot of people that just go too far. I mean, you know, they take it a little too serious and it's okay. You can play. That's why there's tournaments. That's why you want to become pro become pro, but it's a lot harder than that. As you know, a lot of work. It's a lot of work. I mean, it's not just going to play rec play every day. You'll never, you'll almost never get there. Yeah. Absolutely. I've been back to when I originally started four years ago and I went back to players that, that real, I thought, oh, they were pro.

[00:23:26] You know, but now I go back and play and I'm like, wow, they've never changed. You know, they're still hitting the same balls that they're having fun. And I don't, you know, to them, they're having the best day of their life, you know? So what am I to tell them how to, if they, if they are happy where they're at, that's just fine with me. And I think the benefit of pickleball itself as a sport is it can be that sport. You don't have to continue to push yourself. If this is your fun event, you know, um, then you can do that and still have a great time and get the exercise and stay active.

[00:23:56] And, but it does have the ability to move up too. I played with a 70 year old lady today that made me like work hard today. And she kept smiling. She had a cute little, old smile. Like, watch this, Sonny. Boom. Bye, baby. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Did you cry? I did a little bit. I mean, it looked like I was crying anyway, cause the, the sweat that's coming out of The humidity. Nobody could tell if you were crying or not. It didn't tell it's coming out of my ears.

[00:24:25] It's coming out of my eyes. I've never sweated. So I, I remember playing football when I was young and yeah, we're going to get those good sweats. No, you just have to come here. And if you want to lose weight, just put a plastic bag on and play for 10 minutes and you'll lose. If you don't pass out first. So not only do they, they respect the people at the club here, but they built the club to perfect it, to help other players of all ages. Especially if you have some knee or ankle problems or back problems, the court really

[00:24:55] plays well. But not only that, you go next door here and I just got a tour. I mean, there is everything from, you can be in the, the, the cryogenic to sitting the, what's the, the leg things that swell. The leg compression, which I want to really try. Um, the tub that actually the, you don't even get wet. You go into the, the, the, it's a cryo dry float. Try a dry. Yep. And it's just like the old fashioned ice basket that you would have had when you were playing football, but you don't get wet.

[00:25:24] So it, it's down at 39 degrees. So we lower you into that. And it's just like an ice bath for three minutes. And then the guy who's given us a tour, he took us in this room and he opened the door, your head sticks out of it and it's 211 below or something. Yeah. There was icicles in there. Like, yeah, but, and then I like the cryogenic. What I really thought was neat is if you have an injury, you had the cryogenic to go on your knee, your face, your ankle. Mm-hmm .

[00:25:53] How incredible. You, you have purchased all the equipment for everything. Yeah. So you're a lot different than a lot of pickleball courts than it sounds like. Uh, why did you do both? Why, um, were you part of cryotherapy before this or you just know the combination is really helpful? Well, the way it started is, um, my husband and I, Tim and I were both golfers.

[00:26:19] And so about five years ago, um, I've had a lot of back, back problems, had some surgeries and, um, in order to stay active, I still play golf, um, you know, competitively. And we found, uh, a cryo spa here in Springfield that offered the ability to spot treat my back. And then we did the full body cryo and really saw, saw huge results.

[00:26:45] So we were true believers in trying to get off of any medication. We didn't want surgeries. We don't want shots. We want to make it so that you can recover and play well. And you don't have to go through all the doctors and surgeries, you know? So we, it was beneficial to us. And that's when, when we decided we wanted to build the pickleball courts, we're like, well, let's combine the two because how many active older adults for the most part, you

[00:27:15] know, still need some help and need that help recovering. So then you can do the leg compressions. We've added a red light bed. We have infrared saunas and besides the two full cryo spas. Um, so it, it really does help with the inflammation and the recovery. And we just want, I mean, we would love to have everybody know the benefit. It, it keeps grandparents that they can play with their grandkids. Yeah. You know, it's all the things that we want to stay active.

[00:27:44] We don't want to be couch potatoes. And, you know, so in order to keep those joints and everything moving, you have to stay active. And, and a way to do that is to reduce that inflammation that, that just everyday movements cause. They even have one for your head. I think they have one that will reduce them. You needed that one. We sent Mike to that one first. Did you, did it help? I just need to know that. Did it help his head, that big head that he has?

[00:28:13] It must've because he's very chill and humble at the moment. Very chill, but all good. Yeah. Well, and I think that what I, as we all know, playing pick ball and I'm just as guilty as this. And Dylan's going to stay, all of us are going to step up. What's the warmup. We smack a ball right at the net. Absolutely. That's our warmup. And we take our body to 200 miles an hour. Right? Absolutely. It's the worst thing that we can do. And, and we know better, but our game, that little ball, I call it crazy brain ball. You know what I mean? You just got to hit that ball. You're ready to go.

[00:28:43] And you want to be first on the court. Right. You're like, let me get out there, you know? But I think that if people don't start to take the little back step in the pickleball, that's why we have the number one injuries in the world. Right. Any sport right now, it's pickleball. Oh yeah. The orthopedic surgeons love us here. Oh, they're like, yeah. They're like, yeah. Another knee. We got a knee. Oh, we got an elbow now. Come on. But I think, I think that's a good point.

[00:29:08] You know, we, we treat this as just a recreation, but yet we play it as a competitive sport. We do. And in order to do that, you really do need to stretch. You need to get warm. You need to loosen. And then afterwards you have to recover. And so those are two important aspects that we feel, you know, we're trying to introduce to even the social aspect of, you know, our crowd. Yeah. Well, I think that's a fact too, is we've all have injuries and those injuries heal, but they never really heal. Right.

[00:29:38] They come back. If you're older, like I have injuries from sports when I was a kid that I feel now in pickleball. Right. And I mean, we just kind of ignore that, you know what I mean? And like I said, the other day, I had did a pod, I did a little thing on a tick tock and I said, my ankle will hurt. My back will hurt. I'll wear a brace. I'll put Ben Gay on. But if you asked me to mow my lawn, all of a sudden my toe hurts. I can't mow my lawn. Right. I'll go play pickleball. And that's the fun thing about it is it's, it's that almost pickleball crack.

[00:30:07] It's a, you always, you always come back and that's the fun of it is you can be hurting. And it's, it's amazing. Even the people I have here that play in leagues of all ages and whatnot, they'll tell, they'll come in, they'll tell me, well, my knees banged up. My doctor told me I can't, I shouldn't be walking for a week. And I was like, Oh, well, when will, he told me that yesterday, but I'm here to play. Right. And that's the point we can never stay away. It is really fun, but it is important to keep in mind that it is, um, it is fun and

[00:30:35] we always encourage it to be fun, but it also is harder on your body than a lot of people like to pay mind to. So taking care of ourselves. And that's why I think this facility is so great as we emphasize recovery and health and awareness of this is what it'll do to you. And this, we're trying to help you recover from that. Cause our goal ultimately we want people to have fun and play pickleball, but we want you to do that for longer periods of time. We want you to be able to come here every day if you'd like, because it is, it weighs us down.

[00:31:03] And even as a young athlete myself, I feel it when I go home at night, my back hurts, my feet hurt, you know? Yeah. It doesn't matter. And the beauty of the game is all ages, all sizes. We can all play, but it all has the same effect on us and we need to treat our bodies properly and recover properly. And we don't. And if you're out here, I'm going to say a shout out, drink water. You need lots of water. I almost need one of those, are they called camel packs?

[00:31:26] That thing on when I'm playing here, I'm telling you, like, you know, and I have a lot of people that are going to talk about this, I'm going to shout this out to everybody that's coming and visiting. You get a lot of visitors from all over the world. Like I just, we played my granddaughters here and we played the license plate thing. There's more, there's less Missouri plates than there is on a state plate. Absolutely. Absolutely.

[00:31:55] But if you want a good pickleball and you want a place that you want to recover, this is where you want to come. This is awesome. So what's the future look for you guys? We'll keep doing what we're doing. The pickleball and the cryo, they're both working their way up. And I think honestly what we do is we don't try and force anybody here. We have a lot of neighboring places and parks and stuff that everyone's aware of and likes to play.

[00:32:23] But ultimately, man, and I say this about Chrissy and Tim and everybody else that I'm fortunate enough to work with is that it's nothing compares to the, the friendliness and the camaraderie that we have at this facility. And that's not just from the staff. It's from all of our members get along and are super polite and super nice. And it is, it is tricky because the competitive side of the sport is, you know, everybody gets excited. And sometimes you don't make a lot of friends when somebody is being mean and hitting you

[00:32:53] in the chest every ball. Right. It's tough. But we do encourage here that like, at the end of the day, we can all shake hands and be friends and go sit down and talk. And I think that's what I think we're in the right direction. And that's what brings me to this facility and why I enjoy coaching and being here so much as it's the camaraderie. It's the friendliness. It's the compassion that everybody has to be better, but also, you know, to make friends along the way. And that's what, that's what pickleball is about. That's what the community is about. Well, that's why I'm here.

[00:33:19] I actually, you invited me to come play on this last Saturday and said, Hey, Mike, come to open play. And then we got a little, you want a little competitive stuff. We got a little thing after this. And it was all that. It was all good people. And again, I'm the same as you. I'll play somebody to their level. I'll give them a few shots to give them to wake them up a little bit, but I don't go try to do the winning point every time. I'm not going to do the top spin serve with spin that goes up, you know, jumps off the ball. I'm going to hit it so they can hit it back. Right. How are they going to learn? Keep just doing winners.

[00:33:48] Well, and it's also not fun for you. It's not fun. You know, if you're just scoring points every time, you want, you want to have a game, you want to get some, something going. And then I tell players that are playing with, you know, you're playing with lower level players, practice your shots, practice your, your drop shots, practice your, your laws, practice your draw. I mean, practice your shots. This is the time you get to do it and practice to place that ball. Cause next level up when you hit four or five and up, it's no longer about, you know, how to hit the ball. Now it's about where you put the ball, right?

[00:34:18] It's about what the person's doing in front of you. Absolutely. And I think that's what, that's the fun of what separates the next level to me is me trying to work my way up and feeling all these higher level players. And, um, the fun of it is they're not going to beat me by hitting it 90 miles on my chest. They're going to beat me cause they're going to roll a slow ball to my ankle that I have trouble reaching down and getting right. And that's what separates those levels. And I think that's the fun of sure. We have people of all different ages and skill gaps, right?

[00:34:46] But the fun is challenging people and not, I would encourage everybody that plays pickleball, the way to get better is not to bang the ball. And I know it's fun and I know it looks easy cause it's a wiffle ball, but challenge yourself, hit the slower shot, hit the consistent shot. And that not only makes you better, but it makes the people that you're playing with better as well. And that's what we all want. And so, um, I get a lot of guys that come in here and they, you know, they're like, how does my serve get faster? And I'm like, it doesn't have to, it doesn't have to. Yeah.

[00:35:14] So I play with people that do this little consistent serve, but once the game's on, it's on. Like it, it goes from zero to a hundred really quick and they just hit a perfect little roll serve. Sure. But after that, they put the ball where they want it. And I also recommend if you're out here, come see Dylan because you want coaching without coaching. You don't get better. Sure. You can't see yourself. I mean, you think you are, you can, you feel good cause you won some shots, but it's so funny when I get up and

[00:35:40] play with the four fives and five O's and six O's, I feel like I've never played. It's like all of a sudden they put me back in my place. You know, it's like, wow, they're, they're eating some lunch while they're hitting the ball at me and I'm missing every shot. You know? Truly. Yeah. And there's people that'll make you feel that way at every level. And that's the fun part is even where I'm at. I, yeah. Being fortunate enough today to have, um, Caitlin Christian here today. Uh, yeah. Top three women's singles player in the world.

[00:36:07] And she was, you know, blessed me enough to have a match with her. And that's what I learned so quickly is that man, there's just levels no matter where you're at. But, you know, I can come play with, um, you know, some people who make me feel really good about myself and then I'll go play her. And I'm like, wow, I have a lot to work on. So, and especially when it becomes a girl, right? You know, it just, when it's a child or a girl, you're a man, it does something to us. It's like, I know I'm better, but these ladies can play.

[00:36:36] You watch these people, the ladies, they just have a finesse and they just look at you and smile and they make your ball at you just as fast and hard as you. If you hit it hard back, you're getting it that hard. Right. That's the funny part about it is, uh, yeah, she'll hit me in the chest with the ball and she'll look at me and she'll be like, you're doing great. And I'm like, Oh, well, it doesn't feel like it. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Well, Tim, you're over here. We haven't heard much. How's it going, Tim? Just, uh, fortunate to have the, the, uh, staff as an owner that we do have. Yeah.

[00:37:04] And, uh, we've, we've done a good job of, as I think we've done a good job of putting the right team together. You have, you have, everybody's inviting. I forgot the gentleman that gave me the tour. Luke. Luke. Another great guy. Yeah. You know, he's like, he's over here. He's probably over here already. He says he uses this every day. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We all, you know, all of us that are here every day understand and realize the benefits of, of what's over there equipment wise.

[00:37:33] And it's a slow build for, for, uh, education. Yeah. You know, nobody really understands what cryo is, but. Well, you're either going to get surgery, medicine, or come do this. And I recommend to come do this before those other two. Mm-hmm . Because those other two are not long. They are bad. Oh. It's an investment and what better to invest in than your body. Absolutely. Yeah. Exactly. And it's going to give you longevity, right? To play. Yeah. Sure. And give you longevity just to live your life. Yeah.

[00:38:00] I mean, so many of us get, get in situations where, okay, I can't play pickleball anymore, but what can I do? Yeah. And so just to be able to play with your grandkids, play with your family, play with your kids, you know, um, it, it just really builds on that. And I think our community here is just, uh, very special.

[00:38:19] I think our employees have made everybody feel very comfortable and just kind of trying to introduce them to the, the other options that are out there for recovery and wellness as well. Well, and it's a trick almost, right? I don't mean this in a funny way, but you get in and you're going to play pickleball, but you're going to see them limping. And you're going to see them hurting and it's like, Hey, let me help you. Yeah. You know, because we're all, I am the worst. Ask my wife about doctors. I will run. I avoid them. I'm the same way, Mike. Yeah.

[00:38:48] It takes, you have to take me down. Like you have to put sleeping medicine in me. And I wake up at a doctor's office cause I will not go. I don't like them. I don't trust them. I hate medicine. So, you know, and I know we all have to, there's, you have, there's things we have to do, but if you start here, you probably have a long ways before you have to go that other direction. Absolutely. Well, are you there, Chris? Oh, I am. I'm just, I'm not there.

[00:39:14] So I don't know what I'm looking at, but I was going to ask you, are you guys, um, you guys are 24 seven. Did I read that right? We are for members. You can come in 24 seven. Um, and we're open eight to eight normally, but members have 24 seven. 24 seven access to the pickleball. So come in at 10 o'clock if you get off a late shift or come in in the morning before work. And I think our courts are pretty much full from six to eight in the morning with people coming in before work and going. So yes, ma'am.

[00:39:44] And with being where we're at here in Springfield, um, with a fortunate enough to have the college campuses around what better than to grab your buddies and come play pickleball at two in the morning. Right. So we just, uh, we're the 24 seven access is really a blessing for a lot of people, especially my, my night shifts and my, yeah, it, it's so fun. It's such an opportunity and it, that's what we're all about here is trying to provide. So we're just trying to help you guys achieve what you want.

[00:40:10] And, you know, it is tough cause we understand some people don't have the opportunity to play during the day like they'd like to. So if it takes, you know, opening our doors for other people that don't get those opportunities elsewhere, that's what we're going to do. So yeah, they have hotels everywhere here too. I'm sure people take advantage of that. And I love the vending machine. Yeah. Pickleball vending machine. I want one of those. That is awesome. Oh really? There's tape, there's balls, there's, there's everything in there. I'm like, I was ready to start with my credit card. I'm like, I'm ready to go.

[00:40:41] So, but, uh, well, I just want to, why don't you guys do a shout out of where they can find you and look you up and get your, your, your, your Instagrams, your.coms, whatever. Yeah, we are at, at 3350 East Montclair street in Springfield, Missouri. It's right off the highway at battlefield and 65 highway. Um, give us a call. We have, you can go to our website, the pickle mo.com. And that will give you your, our schedules, a list of services, um, has Dylan's information.

[00:41:10] We can schedule lessons with Dylan. Um, he's got a couple good events coming up. Um, four lessons, dinking with Dylan and pickleball one-on-one, which will help you. Help the beginner players. Uh, we have a couple of tournaments, so, um, please come out and see us and play some pickleball. You'll love this. It's family orientated here in Dylan. I, I, I've just been, it's been, you know, they invite me in like they know me. I feel like part of the family, you know? So, um, and that's nice.

[00:41:40] And what a good player. I'm telling you, he's moving up guys. This, this, this name Dylan's going to be up in those lines. He's coming. Dylan Dean. That sounds like a professional name. It sounds like a professional name. Me and Mike, we're coming up together. We're coming. We're coming. I might be at the old man's level, but I'm coming. So, but anyway, anything else you guys like to say? No, not at all. Just, um, you know, uh, for any of you that are interested in visiting, um, we're all about

[00:42:07] getting players better, no matter what level you're at. So don't be discouraged if you've never picked up a paddle before we see it all the time. I see it every day. A lot of my people that I teach lessons to have like never play the racket sport, never played softball or anything where they've had to hold anything. And so we start from scratch and I start, you know, I get the advanced players. I get the four O's. I get the five O's that want to learn and be better. And that's what it's all about. So if you're encouraged and you're, you're looking to learn, then you found the right spot. That's what we're here for at a low rate.

[00:42:36] I, I do this for the experience of teaching and not for trying to run everybody for their money. So I, I schedule these events and these thinking with Dylan is coming up, which is a, all a three in me style event where I get to play live balls with people and help you guys learn and coach by playing with you and, you know, not looking, not looking to run your credit cards, but looking to get you better at pickleball. And that's our goal here at this facility. So if you, if you're fortunate enough to have the time to stop by, we would love to have you here.

[00:43:06] Well, and if you guys need a little spa time, I'm telling you, they got this, they got the place that's going to help. Yeah. Massage therapist over there too. We do. Yeah. I already said, Hey, what time are you here? She, she is phenomenal. She's just, um, she's a really good ad added a lot of value to, to the cryo, the chili dill side. Um, but also to the pickleball in the community, I think how many of us go and get massages. So to have a one-stop shop.

[00:43:34] And, um, so it's, it's been a blessing. Come see us and we'll take you on a tour and show you everything. Oh my gosh. I forgot one thing too. And I know this isn't part of you, but it's here. They have a training facility here too. They have a personal training facility guy here and his place is beautiful. I mean, you built this, what you built here is incredible. It does everything. It does everything. So, well, thank you guys for being on the show. Um, people are going to love to hear it. And, um, I'm going to be back. You'll see me. I'm, I'm here every few months.

[00:44:03] So y'all hopefully I'll come. No, you don't get to come. If you only knew he's not really that nice. Just so you guys know. I'm joking. Hey, he's good. Well, thank you guys for being on our show. Take a lot of next. Thank you guys. Um, we'll get you some info about them. We'll put it on our website and, uh, thank you for listening. We appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Thanks. Hope you guys have a great day. Thanks.

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