STOP Hitting Out Balls (3 On-Court Drills) 

In the future!!

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Yeah I've thought a little about this. Sure you could set it up and have balls fly past your head, but not sure the actual transfer to a game because you're not getting real time cues. You'd know each time what shot you're receiving. I think its much better to do this with someone.

A lot to think about for sure. I'm still struggling with this, honestly. Its just so hard, ESPECIALLY when players are good at disguising. Which they become much better at at higher levels. As far as disguising, try not to shift your feet as dramatically or have as big of a backswing.

Yes. Coming from tennis, that's my number one issue: trying to use backswing much less. Cheers!@@thatpickleballguy

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Thanks for watching. Glad it's helpful! Yeah the ball machine can be a good start but it doesn't let you practice reading the cues. So I definitely recommend a person on the other side. As far as getting out of the way, I'm still exploring best way. I do think often, we should lean toward the outside, (chest facing middle of the court) because more balls are sped up through the middle than they are down the lines. As far as technique, I typically do a "matrix lean" like NEO. But honestly don't know the best way yet. Still experimenting myself :)

@@thatpickleballguyThank you so much, Kyle, for your reply and thoughts! I worked on it with a partner, and it was extremely helpful! I am so much grateful for this tutorial! Changing the mentality and development of the reflex to not hit the ball is such a big part of this process! It takes definitely more than one drilling session to get rid of the old habit of trying to hit every ball, but even after an hour of drilling there is a significant improvement. I discovered that with a ball machine, if I place myself right in the path of a fast ball, it requires a lot of agility to get out of the way and ball often hits me or grazes my clothes despite my best effort to avoid it. In practice with a partner, instances when ball flies straight in my chest (or in my face) seem to be less common. I would love to be more Neo-like, but for now, I figured out that if a ball is very fast and flies straight into my body, I have relatively low rate of success of getting out of the path of the ball, but a fairly high success rate blocking the ball. After all, chest is a perfect location for backhand block. If it is headed towards my shoulder, or past my body (where I can reach it if I follow my "old" instincts, it is not nearly as difficult to get out of the way. If you come up with good ideas or good drills straight from the Matrix, please share!

this is dependent on the player more than anything. do they have a good backhand or not? Can they generate topspin or not?

FOr sure. Let it go. Get more data. See what happens with those shots!

Very real situation you're talking about. Idk the best answer as far as playing in those DUPR recorded matches. My gut is, play them. It's good to get experience with different partners. Ideally, you're playing with similar skill level so theres not as often a weaker player that can get picked on. At the end of the day, I do think players start to get rated around the correct area with enough data. Don't live and die by every match. Think Long Term. As far as hitting winners on marginal opportunities. To me, that's actually a sound strategy IF you know your partner (1) is weaker (2) is getting picked on And you may only have one or two balls to hit before they go back to picking on them. the best chance to win the point may be for you to take a higher risk shot.

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These ones are specific for playing. They are actually a camera too. ha! That's why I was wearing them. I know Riya eyewear has some good ones.

Thanks! and maybe some time in the future :)

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oo good idea. maybe in a future video!

Completely agree. I said the drills up like that on purpose. Progression. 1 - you know its coming, must let it go. PRogression 2 - you know its coming, can counter or dodge. Progression 3 - Speed up comes within 5 balls. So for progression 3, you don't know exactly when its coming, BUT, to your point, you still know its coming. I opted not to add another progression in here, bUT.... ... the next level of this would be putting it into skinny singles, where both players can attack and no one knows when the other is speeding up. Then, I'd put it into a 4 person kitchen game where your main focus is on letting balls go, but theres not a prescribed rule on who's speeding up and when.

Can you give me an example?

@@thatpickleballguy I was complimenting the fact that you so thoroughly break down complex concepts into their most basic components. I really love your approach!

That'll happen for sure. But over time you'll get better at predicting!

Pick up tennis then 😅

Thanks!! Matrix inspired!!

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? You didn't touch the ball, so no. But let out of the kitchen quick because opponents will hit it at you to trap you in the kitchen!

@@kathleenmontavon8630 Thank you. great tip too. I didn't even think of being a target in the kitchen.

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Thanks for the feedback! I did my best to simplify as much as i could. Tough thing about this topic is, its not easy to get good at, as ive heard many people say. Sure 40 years of tennis can definitely help, but many have no sports background or limited racquet sport experience. So most hit everything, and i believe whats in this video, is the reason why. And a good start for how to begin correcting it.

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Hey Daniel! Always open to feedback! Especially constructive notes. You mentioned "silly" graphics. Can you point to which section you think is silly? And you mentioned distracting and too quick. Can you give a time stamp on those sections as well? Also, could you suggest an alternative? Would it be better with no graphics at those places? Also, with the sound effects, all of the sound effects, or just some of them are "ridiculous? And on speed, noted. I gotta work on that :) Thanks for the notes.

Personally, I feel the opposite of each statement you made :) The graphics are absolutely amazing, some of the best I've seen on RU-vid for educational content. I like the sound effects as well for staying engaged. The pace is great for me. I'm not knocking your opinion at all. Cheers. Kyle (and editor/s) keep up the great work.

​@@thatpickleballguy the response of a true gentleman. I'm here watching, and I don't even own a racquet yet. You're that level of informative and fun.