FIRE YOUR PICKLEBALL COACH If They Tell You Any of These 5 Things! 

Zane has absolutely the best instructional videos on the web. He's got a great delivery and honest tips. I've shared these with friends many times. I'm glad to see more content lately while he has the time. Hopefully he'll make it to Pennsylvania someday for a clinic.

Love it! When I started PB a year ago all I heard was don't move off the NVZ line, and soften the hard drive to dink back into the NVZ and get into a dinking battle. No element of surprise, no variation, no alternatives, just a cookie cutter approach to PB. I never listened, and it irritated my dubs partners. But then paddles got more powerful, and technique started to change, and standing off the NVZ, when appropriate, and countering with harder balls, started winning me lots of matches. Moved me from 0 to 4.5 Dubs and Open singles player. Bottom line, I couldn't agree more with this incredibly sage and insightful advice from an active touring pro. I'm also a firm believer in the "Battering Ram" which is drive repeatedly at the weaker player until you break through. Does it work 100%, no, but it really does work. Also, drive-n-drop a la Staksrud and Tellez is a gem. Why drop from the baseline when you can drop from mid court forward. Everything is always going to depend on your opponents' strengths and weaknesses, but go in with a philosophy, and most of all ADAPT, IMPROVISE, and OVERCOME! Then fire your coach when they aren't giving you alternatives when your current game plan is not working!

I love Zany Zane, and his precocious advice. Keep up the good work!

Zane, you are the only coach I have ever had, aside from basic tips from friends my first time playing. When are you coming back to Wisconsin? My wife and I did a clinic two summers ago with Zane in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and it was excellent. I highly recommend his clinics.

As usual, very helpful, packed with good info. Thank you!

THANK YOU for the last one! Your videos are the best!

Zane, do you change your risk on serves doing regular scoring vs rally scoring?

Gonna hit my partner with the "I'm left-handed" next time out, thanks Luke!

This is the best Pickleball video I’ve ever watched, from a former world number one no less

Love the advice, all great tips. Well explained! Good job Zane! I also enjoy the sense of humor, keep it up!👍👍

Your goose is cooked!!! 😂

Great advice.

When you’re ready to move up, you’re ready to start listening to Zane coach.

"I'm left handed!" 😆

This is my fave vid you’ve done. ❤

So many guys are saying that they are "coaches" and they know absolutely nothing about teaching someone the game. I don't know if there is a legitimate certification for this but most of these young guys, and some old guys, are a joke. No mans land should be practiced regularly in drills for sure 100%. My coach fires balls at my feet so I must get better at those shots. Zane is it right on the money again!

ZN, thank you for putting out this information. Hopefully, the pb community can start to have a paradigm shift on what to consider as sound fundamentals. Next generation pickling!

I have fired a coach who calls it No Mans Land, which is old school, and is now the land of opportunity, or the transition zone; but I would give you a pass!

Good advice, mostly, but I really hope certain friends of mine don't watch this. I have some friends who constantly miss overhead opportunities because they back off from the kitchen line too readily. I tell them not to back off from the kitchen unless you absolutely have to, and they always seem to concoct a reason why they needed to, when they really shouldn't have. I expect to have this video thrown in my face, making it even more difficult to get people to play the kitchen.

My favourite one that people say is don’t back off the kitchen line. This forces us to short hop a lot of balls which is WRONG! Thanks for the good tips here! 🎉

you make a fun game more fun. Thanks

My first instructor told me to soften the ball off the bangers. It worked ... about 25% of the time. And I have very "good hands." All good cautions, Zane. Thanks!

hey zane, do u know how to find high-level coaches? great vid btw!

6:50 completely agree... on average, pros miss less than 1% of their serves. But if you look at two of the most feared servers on tour, you'll see Ben misses 2.1% of his serves, and Dekel misses 3.2% of his serves. Those error rates are even higher than your average 5.0 player! (1.8%)

If you're under 3.5, a lot of these things make complete sense to teach. You can't just emulate the pros right away and there is a meta of layering skills over time. Even in motor development, you can't just throw a ball perfectly right away, but overtime you incorporate and change parts to finalize and optimize the throw. Often times, coaches use over simplification rather than explaining this before hand which can be problematic but the idea is still there.

No Man's Land. This isn't tennis. I think it's important to say transition zone for pickleball, as you emphasized that you need to move back and forth as needed.

BEST PICKLEBALL CHANNEL EVER

Thank you Zane.

I actually agree on the serve take. Risk it.

Good stuff!

I've been taught ALLof these!

If I play against two male players (I am female) who can hit the ball like a rocket and anywhere they want on the court, I am not going to be able to beat them with a counter power play because I don’t have their strength in my shots, I want to push them to sink so it levels the playing field. It you 7:48 think this is wrong, I would love a video on how to beat two players who out power you with being aggressive back.

I like your videos!

If you have a pickleball coach. Fire your life coach.

This video exposes most of the bad advice that is still given out there. Great job Zane...

Agree that Zane is the best but I’m guessing he doesn’t coach many 1.5 or 2.0 players. The strategy of Pickleball changes at different levels and at the 2.0 level just getting your serve in is appropriate. All his comments in this video are appropriate for 4.0 players.

5% of serves going long is OK! Thanks for giving permission to be aggressive, Zane.

80% of coaches just got fired.

I wonder how many beginner level players will literally fire their coach for teaching these beginner concepts that are good advice to lower skill levels.

I've heard all of these from people I've given money to....

"Pickleball is a new sport" - Zane. If your favorite pickleball 'you-tuber' doesn't know the age of the sport they are creating content about, fire them! Dude, pickleball has been around since the late 60's! Maybe, you were thinking on a geologic timescale? ;) Love the channel, BTW :)

Young person with young people Ideas

This RU-vidr said Pickleball is a new sport meanwhile Bill Gates been playing this for 50 years