Appreciate the support man. Can’t wait to release these new shirts

Next IG post will be today on @buildingpickleball Full YT videos will be out 1.30

Glad you found it helpful, lmk how it goes

Ultra people really are built different haha Ahhh use a tube sock, that’s a great idea. I have sand leftover from the other sandbags but tube socks would go great since they’re a bit smaller Totally agree on the heel strap, such an underrated feature

Kane’s. My most frequently worn shoe. Unfortunately don’t have any discount code

@@buildingpickleball Are these shoes a running shoe or a casual wear?

Prob me Real talk, my bad on the mic stuff. It flipped on his collar. I’m gonna be better about that in the future

Glad you enjoyed it!

Appreciate the feedback, really helpful. Especially about cam angles. I’ll improve the audio and the angles next time.

Soon!

its a toss up

So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching, more coming

Thanks for watching 🤝

Thanks for watching! And the thoughtful comment. I’ll keep these coming and I’ll improve them. Apologies about the audio and camera angles

Thanks for watching, Kim! I can’t stop 🏃‍♂️ though 🥲

Great, appreciate the feedback, I’ll improve these as they go on. Definitely, I have some ideas on how to prevent the mic issue next time. Thanks for understanding

You could very well be right 🥲 next time I’ll have em down!

Hm not sure, might be a brace of some sort? I’m sure you might be able to DM him on IG and get a response!

@@buildingpickleball🤙

💀💀 wait till this part comes up in the podcast

@@buildingpickleball lmfaooooo

He stopped getting carded at 19 cause surely he has 2 kids and a mortgage

He addresses this and apologizes for it in the video! mic kept getting under his polo flap thingy

@@wulymammoth Those are some attentive observations. However, I didn't fully understand how you intended to connect misdirection, severe angles, and flipping back and forth from forehand to backhand at a practice wall. Are you suggesting that the misdirection involves which side of the paddle Noe finally uses? If so, that's misdirection in unusually grand strokes. There's a dinking lesson on a channel called Josh J, which sometimes features Josh _receiving_ a lesson from Ben Johns. In the lesson on dinking, which Josh teaches, for the backhand crosscourt he emphasizes having your backswing complete before your feet arrive at the ball, especially when pushed out wide. It's vaguely possible that I got this tip from Cincola or another high-level personality, but wherever I got that, man did it it instantly make a huge difference. The court suddenly felt five feet narrower. Honey, who shrunk the court? Also, I can tell from your giant attention span that you are the perfect audience for the masterclass Ben Johns delivered to Josh J about a week ago on your fourth shot options. It's almost beyond a masterclass. Ben lays out six different options just for taking the ball on the volley, and then he goes "you've got another six options, actually more, for taking it off the bounce". They didn't manage to cover the fourth shot options off the bounce, because Josh's head was exploding with what Ben gave him just for the volley. I think Josh is about a 5.9, and he's a professional coach to professional players, and he could barely cope with the lesson. If you've got time to burn, don't miss the series of interviews between Jilly B and Scott Crandall, also on KZbin. Scott was MLP coach of the year for 2023, and he originally has a mathematics education. In other words, he's one of us: attentive to detail beyond reason, and relentless in spewing out words. Jilly B is constantly trying to call out of "nuggets of wisdom" and reflecting back that "you could print that on a T-shirt" but when she's not selling, she has a good mind of her own. It alternates between being extremely dense, and then a bit fluffy, but this is absolutely up to date on how the professionals were rethinking pickleball on the fly through much of 2024. Bottom line: because of the increasing threat of the Erne, the professionals now regard the court as narrower than it used to be. Scott's attitude is that you can do a lot of things, but many of them will work out badly unless you have a _very_ specific reason. At the same time, he's all over having a large set of narrow, specific reasons, and playing to your strength, so there's hardly anything he ever rules out entirely. The other place you can pick up very specific insight into how the pros see the game is from James Ignatowich. The episode he did on when to choose forehand or backhand went into the weeds of the decision tree in a truly glorious way. In another quarter, Tanner's film analysis of his own matches is invaluable on the use of conditioning you opponents to worry about many things. What Tanner doesn't admit openly is that what he's doing is not that easy for most of us, because it requires nearly total recall of what attack variations you have recently used in many different situations, so that you know what prior conditioning you are building upon. He seems to have the kind of mind where he sees a dead dink at a particular location in the middle, and his brain instantly informs him of what speed-ups he used the last six times he had the same opportunity. He's super analytic, but then he completely flubs his own philosophy and his own advice. "The moment got too big." He says that a lot reviewing his own video. Even his nimble brain loses the bubble on his careful planning and analysis much of the time in the heat of battle. Those are all the KZbin gems of 2024 for thinking the game at a 5.0+ level. My own journey was to simplify the game by only learning one spin (brush topspin applied to the top of the ball) and working almost exclusively with placement, pace control, and depth. My game is 100% slow and patient when the ball is below the net, and I only hammer it when I get a really good look. I've got the same body type as Andrei Dăescu, so I generate a lot of offense by reaching in, and I haven't needed to flirt with hooking spins from below the net over the net cord. I'm not a big roller. I like to get 95% of my balls over the net, in all situations. I also have a squash background, so I can add wrist without messing up my accuracy, which compensates for not using much spin. With my own math background, spin just added too many variables to the equation to master all at once. Pace and placement is finally more important, anyway. But without spin, you are hard-capped at around a 4.5 level, regardless of your other tools. I can see this fate looming, so now I'm thinking more about spin. I'm actually far more motivated to begin to apply traditional topspin on my 4th shot, rather than for speed ups in a dink rally from below the net cord. I'm going to begin with all of the Ben Johns options for the 4th shot, some of which will take months to master. He likes the 4th shot, because you have more time to decide and prepare. From my perspective, this makes it a good situation for methodical practice. The problem for me on the court is that having Dăescu's stature, I don't typically see many 4th shots during game play. I'm mostly playing in the 3.75-4.0 range right now, and none of my regular opponents are masochistic enough to target their drops from the warning track to land in front of an arm attached to a guy who is 6'5", who also admires the way Tardio kicks one leg out behind him, to lean even _further_ forward, when opportunity presents itself. I'm actually using my gym sessions to increase my leg strength so I can add a flamingo kick to a 90 degree knee bend, which is what it takes to get my shoulder down to the net cord. I think I only need to pick off about three balls from 5 feet into the kitchen, and then I can live rent free in my opponent's minds for the rest of the match 🙂, without having to do too many more 90 degree bends on one leg 🏋‍♀😖. Couldn't sleep this morning, up an hour too early, before my court time opened up, but this note took care of that problem🏓✨.

I'd prefer a better angle of Noe, the coach, or primary subject...they are the one we are here to observe, not the student attempting to copy them

Hi, coming from a tennis background / taught tennis for several decades/ traveled to academy and camps all over the USA and Europe. The big tips he was spot on was to have a wider base with your feet. You just have better balance that way .. and 2, keep your feet behind the ball ( or the ball. In front of you) letting your body weight and forward momentum working for you

Nobody is interested in your shots. We wanna see HIS shots, his technique, his footwork. Not yours.

@@porteyboy I was interested, why. Because if the instructor is pointing out any flaws or less effective techniques, then this gives me something to look for when I’m playing someone new

We can’t be stopped

Thanks for watching! Plan is to make this a regular thing

Love it! You're one of the good ones bro

I always tell myself I have to push thru the ball and follow through in a compact motion and it helps a ton.

We get to crosscourt my guap!

You're totally right about how the majority of dinking is cross court, but I think there's a couple of reasons why dinking face to face is useful for drill. First, it has less margin for error so it naturally forces you to dial in your dinking. Second, when they were practicing speed-ups or other offensive stuff, that is stuff that is mostly going to be down the line so it's better be face to face to set up for that. And then probably not necessarily a reason here, but it is (subconsciously?) in most warm-up situations, if you miss while dinking down the line (into the net) the ball stays there so you're not wasting as much time running down the ball.

To analyze footwork

This guy

Glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate the sub 🤝

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching

Definitely

DUPR is flawed imop