Good Stuff...specifically the overhead shot. Coming from a racquetball background, I never used an overhead shot. And when playing new players with tennis background I notice they have this overhead shot down. Thanks, demonstrating the technical breakdown of this shot, I now know what to work on step by step. : )
With a lefty and right handed player are together, do you recommend stacking for beginner to intermediate players (to keep both forehands to the center)? And then play to the X ?
1st sign- still working on this with my members at the end of season 3. It is about being present in the game and putting yourself in position to hit whatever 3rd you want to. Floppy wrist is a great key as well! This is a great video for people wanting to elevate their game especially those wanting to improve from 3.5 to 4.0 and beyond!
Awesome tips. The more than 1 bounce on the drop serve... Not sure what the benefit. Could be subject to mis-hits, as the ball is already so near to the ground on its 2nd bounce
great video ! I like the when and how do the shots.. I like the grip meter (red and yellow) to show we need to loosen out grip or adjust depending the shot when reseting. I am left handed and usually I try to ATP if the ball goes in the left side and try to do Ernes, if it goes to the right side because that is my forehand but with this video I will try to do forehand and backhand also Thanks for pointing out the pancake style for Ernes.
What if the ball bounces back to your side but the other team never hit it? That happened to me the other day and there was disagreement of whose point it was.
interesting advice on the dinks about locking the wrist. In an effort to have achieve soft hands, my wrist is noticeably loose. I didn't realize that this could be a reason my dinks are so attackable...
I usually return the serve deep as I can do accurately with pace in order to put “pressure” on the server and degrade their 3rd shot resulting in a pop up or unforced error.
Great tips and dissection of techniques! One thing the perplexes me is the top spin drop. From tennis and my own experience, I had thought top spin makes the ball bounce higher but you stated the opposite. The ball dips quicker but bounce higher imo.
I tennis, you have to hit across a much longer court which means typically people hit higher shots in general especially when going for extra topspin. A topspin drop in pickleball only has to cover half a pickleball court so your shot doesn't need to be as high an arc. This means your drops won't bounce super high if hit correctly with top spin. But, even if they do, the worst your opponent can do is speed up at you which means you just need to reset and work your way in to the kitchen slowly. Either way, the topspin drop is the way to go!
Excellent video! But I’ve encountered some confusion among people I play with about the legal volley serve….. at 17:25 you said “Your paddle tip has to be below your wrist at the point of contact” would you please explain which part is the “tip” and does “at the point of contact” mean at the TIME that the paddle contacts the ball, or the actual point that the ball touches the paddle. In other words, if the bottom corner of the end of the paddle is below your wrist, it might be possible to hit the ball at the upper edge, which might be above your wrist. I know I’m being pickey, but I’ve seen players with the paddle pointed straight out, insisting that they hit on the lower part of the paddle, below their wrist. My understanding is that if the paddle isn’t pointing in a downward direction, it’s not legal. (?)
I am not convinced by your position during bounce serve. If the return is deep, you will take in your foots. I prefer to stay behind the court line. It is easier to move forward than to move backward.
Agree, I play with a guy who has an uncanny ability to hit or get near the line in the back so I’ve seen him get many a players, whereas I stand way behind the line because it’s easier to run up
ATP is not unique to pickleball. The shot has been used in tennis forever, although it’s called “around the net post”, not ATP because that abbreviation stands for the players’ group - Association of Tennis Professionals.
It's not necessarily unique to pickleball but it wouldn't be a shot I'd recommend spending much time mastering in tennis since it's much more rare. In pickleball, it's common to see it in high level matches and needs to be part of your arsenal to advance to the next level. In that way, it's very unique to pickleball.
@@CrackedPickleball this is very much used in table tennis though. So again, not uniqe to pickleball. And yes you actually have to practice this in table tennis.
Your partner can be a cause of losing the point too. :D And what makes it less fun is when the opposing team keeps on hitting it to him/her just for them to win the point.
If anyone doing local open play notices your team mate never leaves the baseline it’s usually because you’re handing the opposing team everything on a platter. They’re just too nice to say anything. Try and go for deep returns and try and take risks at the net it’s the only way to get better. Beginner usually fail to see the concept of loosing on your own shot even if it’s in.
Great video. Regarding what you call the bounce serve, it is called a drop serve, which helps to clarify that the ball can not be tossed up or thrown down; it must be dropped.
Excellent point. I agree, and I see that from another perspective. I do the backhand serve, after a month of severe service yips. (I was serving about 40% of my balls out, without even trying to do anything fancy.) With the backhand volley serve, it's almost impossible without tossing the ball up a bit, which several people have told me is a fault. (It's not.) The rule about not throwing or "imparting any momentum in any direction to the ball" pertains only to the DROP serve.
when discussing the Erne I wish someone would cover the plane of the net. I get so many people making contact on their opponents side of the net or their body crossing the plane of the net before making contact, ie. Their feet
Another well presented video that explains what I need to do and why. The hard part is breaking my old habits and actually following their great advice.
In the end, the rules are wherever your friends agree to. It's all recreational. Have fun y'all. Don't take this sport to seriously and turn it into all the other over rated, commercialized sports.
