Serve: change of pace, spin and trajectory. Always trying to keep it deep. I like to spin (kick right) from the left side and jam my opponent on that right hip. I've found that hitting that hard does not work as well as when I take some pace off. The ball moves better off the court when it's hit a bit softer.
One terminology that a lot of people use differently is “push dink”. Tyson McGuffin says push dink to mean a topspin roll dink. Brayden from Pickleball Effect says push dink to mean a dink with no spin. You use it to mean an aggressive dink at their feet at the kitchen line. We should try and come together and unify the meaning of push dink.
push dink is any offensive dink, while lift dink is a defensive/reset. push is more horizontal force, while lift is obviously vertical. i think that's how most ppl define those terms
@@bicyclethief I agree with Brayden from Pickleball Effect that a push dink is a flat dink without topspin or backspin on it. An offensive dink with topspin is called a roll dink. A dink with backspin is called a slice dink. And a push dink is a dink hit flat. You never want to be popping up a dink, all dinks should be kept low, so I can't imagine why someone would use a lift dink.
@@douglasmurdoch7247 lol you think you can hit an offensive dink everytime? when you're under heavy pressure, you reset w/ a lift dink, dropping it short and let the close proximity of the net help defend you.
@@douglasmurdoch7247 the problem here is that you want names for the different types of dinks according to spin or lack thereof. that's fine. but push and lift dink are also conceptual names to relay the idea of offensive dinks that can pressure an opponent into an error or popup vs defensive dinks that help someone under pressure get back to neutral.
This video is by far The BEST ever seen; so much so that I am sharing it with my local team which plays several other communities in our county league. I'm confident we'll win more lines by its strategies shown.
As always, great points illustrated by great videos. Do you have a video explaining how to return different types of spin (top, side and slice)? Thanks, Charlie
Hey, in a 2v2 match. Does both players on the serving side have to play back or is that just the best way to start the serve? As in is it illegal to serve when your partner has their foot on the line or he's still inside a bit
The servers partner can be anywhere, but it makes no sense to be anywhere but far back because in the serving team’s next hit, they have to let the ball bounce.
@ThatRaisinTho 👍 thanks, My teammate was mocking the other team by prowling on the ground with his hands over the line as I called ace with a nasty curve that froze both opponents. It left all of us looking like why no one hit it. So because I called ace, the only comeback was that my teammate wasn't behind the line. I told them what you just said. It's legal but benefits them.
tip #8 is gonna be a game-changer for me...i was definitely getting killed in/around the transition zone since i wasn't sure on when to move towards the kitchen
Thanks for putting this one together guys! I really did appreciate the aspect of being able to mix up serve spin types(12:55)which showed how affective you can be on your first shot...continue posting this awesome content!!😉
screwball serve is my favorite after the topspin serve... lob serve I'll use 2-3 x a game, at least once with each player and see how they handle it. If they completely screw it up I'll give them a 2nd lob serve in the game.
