2. Sidespin dink to pull people wide. 3. Defensive slice dink if you are pushed off the line Start low, stay low. Bend your knees, squat on your dinks. Pretend there is a roof over your head that if you stand up, you hit your head. You are using 90% on your left-hand in twoey …
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Slice drop – Forehand and Backhand
Priority Checklist: Advantage compared to a flatter drop like a scoop drop, the backspin adds control and makes it harder for opponents to do it. Word of warning: if ball is shoulder height and above, don’t hit a slice drop, just drive it.
Hesacore – six month use review
I’ve had a lot of people ask me about the Hesacore so I will answer people’s questions here. I got golfer’s elbow from playing Pickleball like 3 sessions in. Granted I was practicing hitting serves 100 times on day 1. I came from table tennis background where serves are a huge part of the game …
ATP
If you cannot ATP, your opponent’s will continue to dink you out wide, pulling you out of position. Just being able to ATP and threatening it is huge in leveling the playing field. The key with ATP is to get low and hit the ball right before the ball makes contact with the floor right …
Common Pickleball Advices To Ignore
At rec play, you are going to get a lot of bad advice mixed in with some good advice. The hardest part as a beginner is knowing which advice to follow. If you follow the bad advice, improving becomes a winding road full of u-turns instead of a straight path. What hinders beginners is that …
Hand Speed – What is It?
Due to my table tennis background, since starting pickleball I had faster hands than basically anyone else on the court. People on the court have often commented on my hand speed and asked how to get fast hands. Most people think hand speed is just pure reaction time, they think how fast your hands are …