I'm looking for a bit of advice... We play a large range of players, which may be part of this issue. In general, I play just behind the line when receiving the serve. I understand all the benefits of playing deeper but even though I'm fairly quick, if someone plants a high angled server or a short serve then it ends up being trouble. When I know players, I'll position a bit better based on my knowledge of their play. I'm looking for advice if someone has the ability to really hit short shots or serves with tons of spin shorter toward the side lines if we should be starting deeper than I generally am. I'm thinking again, it's only an issue due to the level of play since the goal of any team is to keep players back as long as possible, but I see a lot of this at the 3-4 level.
Great job i would add the importance of split stepping i know it s not a shot but it one of the most important skill to improve to have good positionning prior to your shot
A certified coach can watch you play and give you a ranking, but the easiest way is to create a DUPR account. It’s actually very advanced. It will base your level off of your win/loss record as well as points. I’m not affiliated with DUPR in anyway… www.dupr.com
A certified coach can watch you play and give you a ranking, but the easiest way is to create a DUPR account. It’s actually very advanced. It will base your level off of your wind loss record as well as points. I’m not affiliated with DUPR in anyway… www.dupr.com UTPR is another one
@@picklebrainpod i agree. I never put much creedence into DUPR but our league uses it and now with 50 games input I find it's accurate. I used to say I was a 3.6 or 3.7 ---but my DUPR is 3.35 against the local players in my club. Self assessment is really way off by most people.
@@tleparskas great point! I do think part of the giant spike in Pickleball growth has to do with the fact that the majority of people think they are better than they actually are
I am waiting for the hour long episode on the return of serve. If the serve comes deep, I target one foot short of the baseline, and only put about one ball in twenty actually out of bounds. But I don't use much topspin, and my return is a bit floaty. It is _still_ an excellent shot, except against the rare banger who can hammer the snot out of a high sitter with no great inbound velocity. For those guys, I use my "squash" serve, where the second bounce lands on or just past the baseline. In theory they can run up to the ball, to take it off the apex of the very low bounce, but it's not that easy to do in practice. And a lot of these guys are no good at accurately steering the ball while in full stride, so they stand deep and scoop it off their shoelaces. Idiots, but who am I to offer unsolicited advice to my adversary?
As a banger, the problem is not to counter attack. It's to have the wisdom to recognize a weak position and reset rather than making things worse by hitting up into power.
Appreciate the comment. Your goal should be able to learn to counter attack in a downward trajectory. It won’t happen right away but overtime that’s the only way to beat better and better players. Resetting is certainly an asset as well. Hope that helps!
Resetting against a banger is exactly what they want you to do. If you Just keep hitting soft to them and they’ll keep pressuring you. “Forcing bangers to play slow” is trrrrrrible advice. Watch any of the major coaches on RU-vid and they say keep pushing shots back at them with counters instead of trying to reset over and over.
