Pickleball! Sometimes It's The Little Things That Make All The Difference. Learn By Watching Others! 

Thank you Rory for not only taking the time to watch my video but choosing it for your breakdown video! I am the guy in the backwards hat and I love the feedback and I will definitely incorporate into my game! Always trying to get better! 💪🙏❤️

As usual, your commentary is spot on. I liked how you emphasized how important getting some angle on your paddle with balls below the net. This is especially true when doing a backhand. Too often when hitting a backhand players have a flat paddle with no angle to get the ball going up to get it over the net. I try to get players to turn their wrist on a backhand so they put an angle on the paddle. Too often they lock their wrist in a way that is flat and the balls go in the net. You mentioned frequently that players had their paddles held too low and couldn't respond to hard volleys in time. One way I have instructed players to keep their paddles up is to have them bring up their non-paddle hand and touch their paddle out in front of them after every shot. You see alot of pros doing this. Some even bring up their hand to do a double grip. Watch Riley Newman do this. He even sometimes hits with his left hand after doing this.

Yesterday, I was talking with a player, we are both around 3.25 I’d say, about a third shot drop and how I was practicing that. She kind of looked at me like she didn’t know what that was, and then said oh those don’t ever work. I said well I’ve been working on it, and I believe it’s a very important shot. Then I actually made a perfect one, she said I should’ve spiked it. I had to chuckle to myself because she just doesn’t get it. I have a lot of fun, even when I lose, the practice is so beneficial!

I enjoyed the replay, freeze frames and helpful suggestions comments. Less cutting than usual so easier for me to understand what I can do to improve my game.

Loved freeze frame

You mentioned near the end of the match that these players should be more patient in the dink battles, and compared them to the pros. One possible explanation, which has two different effects is that these folks just can't dink as well as the pros. One effect is that they hit it into the net, and the other is that since then can't dink as well as the pros, they have the tendency to hit dinks too high, giving the opponent the chance to speed it up.

I appreciate your analysis and tips on this video. Superb job!

Rory, good call for more patience. My goodness! These four players kept speeding up when there was not really a good opening to do so! White player's speed-ups are better-disguised; they look just the same as his FH roll until ... SURPRISE! Black, White's partner, played hot & cold. Possibly he was having a bad day...? Red Sleeves (Not Guilty) if you lowered your center of gravity by flexing your knees a bit, you'd move better and quicker. You are standing so erect in this game you're not responding as quickly as you ought. (Something I focus on for me, as I am tall. I notice a lot of players over 6' 2" stand too tall on the court.) Surprised to read this was a 5.0 game. I'd have put White at 4.5 and the others at 3.75 - 4 .0.

great video..i been working on paddle position throughout the point....thanks a bunch

Rory this was one of your best videos. Much more in depth analysis, which I found valuable. I noticed that there were a lot of speedups too, which resulted in unforced errors. As you said, too impatient. Thanks for taking the time. 👍

BTW - the guy in white is actually using the Power Air, and not the Luxx. With that in mind he is a really good player for him to do those resets like he does with that power paddle

I warm up practicing my serves

Thank you!

Enjoy your commentary. Insightful and funny.

It's easy to be an Armchair Quarterback. For me the biggest "no no" was Grey Shirt Guys hitting off the Backfoot. I saw it the first time he served at the beginning. It's obvious he hasn't had any lessons in raquet/paddle sports. He won't improve until he corrects this. Glad you pointed it out ~ 16:00.

I watch his videos often.

Too bad the whole court wasn’t in the frame. It didn’t appear to me that the white shirt/black shirt team was 5.0, as notguiltypickleball mentioned in the comments. I’d concur with another commenter’s assessment of 4.0-4.5. Thanks for the pick-apart Rory. (When will there be a pickleball emoji added to our keyboards? 😂)

All of these players were advanced. I think there are more errors than usual because the players were aggressive and using a lot of spin. These players were doing things like: Looking for Erne opportunities, regularly using forehand rolls/backhand flicks, resetting into the kitchen, and doing yellow zone speedups (even if not always successful). These are skills that 3.5ish players and below generally do not have. When players hit poor resets by hitting them too high, at least they are getting the ball over the net. They're clearly trying to reset some of those balls, and not just return them back to the other side, as beginners would. They are playing with that level of intention and at least they're not hitting their resets into the net. And we are not seeing bad lobs, either. The guy in black who hit a great reset but didn't recognize how good it was simply didn't have the feel that his reset was good...so he hesitated. I think this happens a lot with decent or even good players. They're actively trying to reset, but sometimes hesitate and stay back because they don't have enough of a feel to just KNOW that their reset was good. So they stay back in preparation for an aggressive put away from opponent if their reset attempt is too high. Definitely agree that having their paddles in ready position and simply bending their knees more often would make these players better! What a great opportunity for them to improve without much additional work.

Do you have any tips as to how to make sure your paddle isn't too open/angled up? Drills/etc?

you should link the yt channel you pull this from so we can find easily!

He really missed that 3:30 shot because he was not watching the ball make contact with the paddle. He was looking straight forward!

Please post a video of a game in which you are a participant and pick apart.

He is not using a luxx paddle that is a power air

Have really enjoyed stumbling upon your videos. I have no really played in many tournaments and have never been formally rated. I do video tape a bunch of our matches out here in suburban Chicago. Here is a match for you to take a look at (it's a longer video, but most of the games are similar).... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T5IArKVwKuk.html Here is a much shorter, highlight version of the day... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a-Q715uQw8E.html. Keep up the good work!

Your giving that guy in the white to much credit. That last play of the video, he set his partner up to fail.