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How to Develop a Strategy to Identify a Players Strengths or Weaknesses
Tip 1: Exploit your opponents’ weaknesses Find your opponents’ weaknesses and exploit them. In the beginning of every game, one…
Strategies for Targeting an Opponent’s Backhand
Tip 1: Locate your opponents’ backhands Locate your opponents’ backhands. Locating where your opponents backhands are is one of the…
How to Return and Run to Kitchen and Keeping the Ball Low
Tip 1: Return and Run One of the first strategies that you learn in pickleball is to “return and run.”…
How to Create Topspin Drive and Driving to get out of trouble
Tip 1: Topspin drive Pace doesn’t phase strong players. That is a universal truth in pickleball. The stronger your opponents,…
Drive Preparation and When to Hit a Third Shot Drive
Tip 1: Drive Preparation In pickleball, preparation is key. This could not be more true of the third shot drive!…
Third Shot Drive, Fifth Shot Drop and Driving Slice Return
Tip 1: Third shot drive, fifth shot drop When hitting a third shot drive, the best possible outcome is that…
How to recover a lob that goes over your head and keys to hitting an overhead slam
Tip 1: How to recover a lob that goes over your head If your opponent hits a good lob that…
How to get maximum power and prevent pickleball overheads from going into the net
Tip 1: How to keep your overheads from going into the net There is nothing more painful than missing an…
Where to Hit Overheads and Where to Lob
Tip 1: Where to hit your overheads Pace doesn’t phase strong players. That is a universal truth in pickleball. The…
How to Get Max Power on Pickleball Serve
Tip 1: How to Get Max Power Contrary to popular belief, power on the serve does not come from the…
Benefits of the Volley Serve and Varying Your Serves
Tip 1: Benefits of the Volley Serve If you want to get the most power and spin out of your…
Take Advantage of The Drop Serve
Tip 1: Take Advantage of The Drop Serve The drop serve is a great way for beginner and intermediate players…
How to Disguise Your Speedups to Create Offensive
Tip 1: Holding Your Dinks Adding deception to your speedups is a great way to make them as effective as…
Successful Speedups Using a Target
Tip 1: Speeding Up to the Wide Backhand If you want to have as much success as possible with your…
What Is a Speedup and When to Use a Speedup
Tip 1: What Is a Speedup? Being able to create offense in pickleball is key to winning matches. Just because…
Where to hit your drops
Tip 1 When in doubt, hit your third shot drops to the middle of the court. There are a couple…
Topspin Drops
Tip 1 If you feel like you’re able to hit your third shot drop consistently and you want to get…
Basics of the third shot drop
Tip 1 The third shot drop is one of the most important shots in pickleball. It is a strategic bridge…
Defensive vs. offensive volleys at the kitchen
Tip 1 Being able to distinguish between defensive and offensive volleys is a valuable skill when it comes to playing…
How to hit a backhand punch volley
Tip 1 If you’re tired of losing to bangers who hit the ball hard over and over again, you need…
How to hit a backhand flick volley
Tip 1 Backhand flick volleys can be an extremely effective way for us to put pressure on your opponents by…
The one footwork step every player needs to know – the split step
Tip 1 One of the most important footwork steps in pickleball for all players to know, that can be used…
Advanced kitchen line footwork patterns – offensive and defensive
Tip 1 One of the most common fallacies in all of pickleball is that you should not cross your feet.…
Basic kitchen line footwork to move more efficiently
Play Video Tip 1 Good footwork habits can make or break your game, so you should make sure your movement…
Pickleball Reset Technique To Keep the Ball Down
Tip 1 When you’re hitting a reset, grip strength is key. Your grip strength should be very loose when you’re…
Pro Level Pickleball Reset Strategy
Tip 1 One of the beauties of watching pro players compete is they often do subtle things during points that…
What Is A Pickleball Reset Shot and How To Hit It
Tip 1 The reset is an incredibly important shot to have because it allows you to slow down the…
How to Dink and Why It’s Important For Your Success in Pickleball
Tip 1 The dink is arguably the most fundamental shot in pickleball, which plays on pickleball’s defining characteristic: the inability…
Tips on How to Not Pop Up Your Dinks
Tip 1 If you want to become an advanced pickleball player, you need to get comfortable with dinking 10, 20,…
How To Hit and Create Topspin Dinks
Tip 1 Once you reach a point in your game where you can dink consistently and are ready to take…