If you liked the paddles in the video, check them out here! www.fridaypickle.com/discount/FRIDAYY 4.0 vs. 5.0 pickleball featuring the good ole rally meister! Thanks for Chicken N Pickle for having us! #pickleball
Rally Meister! If you asked me a year ago I honestly would not have seen myself watching pickleball games on RU-vid but here I am. Love the context guysss.
So I come from the Vancouver BC area, and there people typically start out on wooden paddles. Some move onto graphite paddles over time, but not all. I've been playing with wooden paddles for the last 14 years and can't attribute many losses to the use of wooden paddles. Granted I play recreationally with no stakes whatsoever, but wooden paddles aren't a barrier to a good game. Even if my paddle is 13.5 oz, I've still yet to develop any tennis elbow or similar condition. This year I may be moving onto a graphite, but that's because Pickle-ball Inc. (the manufacturer of my paddles) has apparently gone out of business, and my existing stock of paddles have started to get damp under the weather. It's a sad moment for me because I like improving my technique far more than changing paddles. I feel if I were to change paddles too much, I would lose track of my game. Over the years I've seen people cross the net to check whether my paddle was actually plywood or not after they see the spin I get on services and banana shots around the net. I keep telling people that generating spin has much more to do with technique than paddle, and even if I were to play with a glass paddle I could still spin the ball, because the ball itself is grippy enough to take spin. You just have to see how the ball starts spinning by itself after it hits the wooden floors to see that with the right swing, you can spin the ball in a variety of ways with wood. I've hit aces on both deuce & ad sides, slice and top serves, jumping overheads at steep angles, running passes DTL and extreme angle cross (landing within the kitchen line), stop volleys that bounce back over the net, half-volley passes, half-volley lobs with top spin... in short many, many types of shots. I don't wish to sound obtuse but it seems sticking with the same paddle has permitted, if not encouraged me to obtain a large repetoire of shots that I don't see a lot of other players use consciously. Amongst my crowd I'm also more likely to play the angles and move players around and exploit the gaps in the opposing team's teamwork, rather than relying on crushing the ball all the time or dinking until the cows come home. I won't say paddles don't matter, since they do. I can very well tell my current paddle is swollen due to the climate and slightly warped. I can detect that wooden paddles in the same line have slightly different characteristics. dMaybe there are some shots under some situations that aren't feasible to achieve with a wooden paddle...? If they do then I have probably learned not to put myself in those situations in the first place.
It's very much different in Table Tennis. If you give an Olympic Champion the cheapest hobby racket, their skill level drops down to high school varsity level.
Panning left-and-right rapidly is never the right choice for video coverage of a game. Stick to standard fixed camera angles and cut between them or lightly panning to cover a single pair not both pairs in the same pan.
I don't know those new carbon fiber flat top Friday paddles aren't it chief. Sweet spot is mega wack. Love the original round top ones though. Unbeatable deal on the originals.
There should be wooden paddle pickleball tournaments. Like how table tennis has hardbat and sandpaper tournaments along with the regular rubber tournaments.
I like the videos but the camera that moves around during points gives me such a headache. Just use still cameras like the one in the back its way better.
"I don't know why, but I thought this would be close." Very amusing to watch. Skill over hype. I'm guessing Rally Meister sells for $10=$15 and even the cheapest honeycomb/graphite/kevlar blah blah blah paddle sells for $100-$300+. I demo'd a $300 paddle for a day because I've been researching an upgrade to my $29 no name paddle after playing for a few months. I literally did not feel a difference except that the new paddle was prettier. larger and made by a well known sports brand. I would've paid maybe $50 more for the upgraded looks but not $270 more. I'm still using my no name paddle and my game is improving steadily. I'm still searching for a paddle to show me that it's worth almost 10 times what I paid for the first paddle. Again, good video!
The paddles make a big difference. Just not enough to offset their high skill level. The 5.0+ players missed a lot of drives they probably wouldn’t miss with the good paddles.
