Pickleball Strategy! How To Succeed Using Patience And A Soft Game! 5.0 Game! Learn By Watching! 

Nice analysis. We had just beaten that team the day before very easily but it’s seems like they realized that they had to be much more patient in this game which they did. I think we were expecting a different game at the beginning so we were off a bit. After we switched sides I decided to stack so I could control the game from the left side. It worked but the guys played well and came up with the win. Two very nice guys with great games. Thanks for posting, I was looking for this match. I made couple uncharacteristic errors missing some drives from some short returns. Although these were the right shot, dropping these balls would have been a better option because the drives had to be to perfect to gain the advantage.

Very enjoyable video! These four pb players are a joy to watch and learn from. On the complete opposite end, I'm playing 🤡 clown show pb with other 2.5 - 3.0 players in rec open play. There is zero strategy at the lower level. It's hard drives, pop-ups, smashes, and bash. It's exhausting and not fun. *sigh*

Great playing, very nice pickleball

You are sure correct, that’s why being consistent is the key to winning tournaments

What a great game. The play was really good and for me personally more fun to watch than points over in 2-3 shots. I would guess some of the 3rd shot drives are from the players watching as the game is changing with new paddle technology and general play styles at the pro level. While our general group ranges from 3 to 4 I would say we play very similar to this. Better players in the group will force everyone into the slow game. Even though we do mostly 3rd shot drops and have many points with good rallies at the nvz I don't think we would have anything for these teams. Their control, positioning and simply talent would take advantage of our errors and cause us to make more errors than normal.

Bernard is no joke! Plays senior pro on a NLP team... I have seen him dominate at the senior pro level at times. Did not seem to have his A game going for this game. Great match to watch though.

Other Pro Players claim the bang/hard game will be more dominant than the soft game

This is my game style but it's very hard to find a good matchup in rec play.

I think young guys had to drive more and play more aggressive and fast game to avoid soft part and drops

too much enforced errors ...

Great play by both teams! I strive to be more patient. Doesn't always happen, though.

Hammer that 3rd, drop the 5th! Good match

Nice game, These are definitely high level players. Execution was shaky in the beginning. I disagree with the title though. This is not an example of a soft game. Although there were soft game elements in it you can see that both sides were attacking any opportunity given and that there were many short points. Speed ups, overhead smashes, and drives are not part of the soft game. Shot selection was good. At the pro level 3rd shot drives are used more often then 3rd shot drops. This to me is an example of a balanced game where all shots were used. I've been to a lot of tournaments and there are very few true finesse players at high levels. The best players are all power players. Video time 17:40 It is a 3.5 fallacy that you can win on others unforced errors at higher levels. You need to setup the point and force the error the majority of the time which these players do. What soft shots allow you to do is to go from a defensive position to a neutral position which is important. From a neutral position then you need to use your offensive weapons to force a point winner. Oftentimes you can use dinking to setup a pop up but in the end 90% of shots end with a power play.

Looks like Bernard’s servers are borderline sidearm, no?

these are 5.0 players? gee, I must be a 4.0 if this is 5.0.