Media Kit
Why do pickleball players play brilliantly one day, then tighten up, overthink, and lose touch the next?
Pickle Juice: The Fluid Motion Factor for Pickleball explains how players can quiet the inner commentator, reduce conscious interference, and let the body’s natural movement intelligence play the point.
Steven Yellin and Paul Stokstad are available as podcast guests to discuss the mental game of pickleball, flow-state performance, pressure, overthinking, partner tension, and how the Fluid Motion Factor system translates from golf and tennis into pickleball. Steve brings the performance system and pro-sport credibility. Paul brings the pickleball translation, book language, recreational-player insight, humor, and the story of why this book matters now.
Core Ideas
Suggested Episode Titles:
Suggested Episode Angles
- Why Your Paddle Turns Into a Frying Pan Under Pressure
- The Quiet Mind of Better Pickleball
- How to Stop Coaching Yourself During the Point
- Playing in Flow Without Trying to Force Flow
- The Fluid Motion Factor Comes to Pickleball
- Why Your Best Game Disappears and How to Invite It Back
Possible Interview Topics
- The “Day 1” experience: why players sometimes play freely and brilliantly without knowing why
- Why conscious control disrupts timing, touch, and reaction
- Soft eyes, court awareness, and relaxed attention
- Why dinking exposes mental noise
- Partner pressure and emotional contagion on the court
- Why recreational players over-instruct themselves
- How coaches can help players without overloading them
- How FMF moved from golf and tennis into pickleball
Sample Questions for Hosts
What is the Fluid Motion Factor?
Why do pickleball players overthink easy shots?
What happens when a player is “in the zone”?
Why is pickleball especially vulnerable to mental clutter?
What should a player do after missing a simple dink?
How can a player play freer without becoming careless?
What does “soft eyes” mean in pickleball?
How can partners avoid spreading tension to each other?
Why can too much instruction make performance worse?
What is one FMF idea a player can use in their next game?
About Steven Yellin
Steven Yellin is the developer of the Fluid Motion Factor, a performance system designed to help athletes access more fluid, instinctive, quiet-mind performance. His work has been applied in golf, tennis, and other sports, helping players understand how the mind can either interfere with or support the body’s natural movement intelligence.
About Paul Stokstad
Paul Stokstad is the co-author of Pickle Juice: The Fluid Motion Factor for Pickleball. A writer, teacher, and pickleball player, he helped translate Steve Yellin’s Fluid Motion Factor system into the language of dinks, resets, partner pressure, tournament nerves, soft hands, and the wonderfully strange moment when a paddle stops feeling like a frying pan in the kitchen.
Together
Steven Yellin and Paul Stokstad offer a two-voice conversation about pickleball performance: Steve explains the Fluid Motion Factor system, while Paul translates it into the everyday experience of recreational and competitive pickleball players. Together, they explore why players tighten up, how flow appears, and how players can invite freer, more fluid play.
Want a lively, practical conversation about the mental game of pickleball? Steven Yellin and Paul Stokstad are available for podcast interviews, video interviews, and author conversations about Pickle Juice and the Fluid Motion Factor.