4.5 Doubles Pickleball - Craneway Pavilion Highlights

[@bethechange4726]

Mad skills on Display, thanks!

[@LandoMacD]

thank you!

[@tod5098]

great play and I love how you cut out between points

[@LandoMacD]

Thank you! gotta cut out the boring bits

[@solenyogurets]

3:03 is actually nuts

[@solenyogurets]

didn't even glance at the court

[@LandoMacD]

thank you brother, definitely one of my best forehand ATPs

[@LiamHartman-n8o]

First time I've been recommended one of these vids where the level is actually 4.5 and not 3.5 lol

[@LandoMacD]

haha thanks brother

[@rohitchandra8785]

Exactly what I was thinking. This is a good watch. Great patience and hands obviously.

[@shipwreck8847]

Same here dude. I'm probably the one writing most of those comments too. But this is def 4.5. I'm so glad this wasn't no 3.5 trying to give their ego a boost by saying they're 4.5 when they are not. These guys are all pretty good and nice points too.

[@LandoMacD]

@@rohitchandra8785 thank you my man!

[@LandoMacD]

@@shipwreck8847 thanks for the support, hopeful will say 5.0 within a few months, we are training hard!

[@Sizyphus]

If pro pickleball looked like this we wouldn’t have people calling it a grandma sport. Way more fun to watch.

[@LandoMacD]

hahahaha love the comment man. pro players hands are so fast they can't get away with silly speed ups like us. I am very against powerful / poppy paddles for this reason. People want to see extended fire fights!

[@SubparProgrammer]

Its interesting because there is a delicate balance between fun to watch and skill ceiling. If paddles become very fast, the amount of skill required becomes higher, but it’s not as fun to watch because of there being less firefights. But slow paddles allow firefights to happen more often, but the sport becomes easier. It happened with ping pong, where the ball became less spinnier and slower just because the table tennis federation wanted longer rallies so fans are more excited

[@Sizyphus]

@@SubparProgrammer yeah for sure. I like the speed of paddles and long firefights. I’m kind of more talking about the extended dink rallies and “perfection” play in pros. 90% of games I watch are dink rallies where someone eventually (after a long boring rally) makes an unforced error. More speed ups, lobs, ATPs, etc to get the ball going make the game so much better. I even understand the conservative serves and returns (even if I’d rather see crazy ones) it’s just the long dink rallies I can’t stand to watch. If I’m watching the highest level, I want to see exhibition of skill, not who can hit the ball the softest, the most times in a row. There are exceptions, just not many.

[@klacsanzky77]

I see the style of play has a lot of hand battles, nice! I think that is happening more at this level because players are taking advantage off of higher bouncing balls at the net. Also some nice ATPs and Ernie's.

[@LandoMacD]

the game is changing so much,. fast hands are such a big part of the game today. really appreciate the support!

[@shipwreck8847]

Now this is 4.5. All those other stupid channels of 3.5 players who are saying they are 4.0 or 4.5, just look at this and realize you're not there.

[@LandoMacD]

again these are highlights, but thank you brother. We are grinding for 5.0, so hopefully in the titles soon!

[@shipwreck8847]

@@LandoMacD Just an fyi. Try to develop your dink game a bit more. When you climb higher in the ranks, players have such good counters, you can't just speed it up whenever and expect to win those points or even expect those points to be 50/50. Higher levels will just require more patience. But good job on everything else.

[@LandoMacD]

@@shipwreck8847 thanks, 100% agree

[@bennetrau3441]

Shipwreck I feel as though you are one of those guys. Please correct if wrong!

[@shipwreck8847]

@@bennetrau3441 If I was 3.5, I wouldn't be encouraging people to rate themselves appropriately, I would encourage 3.5 to classify their footage as 4.5. Just be realistic with your ratings. If you're a B student, don't say you're an A student. If you're a C student, don't say you're a B student. Just be honest with yourself. People overrate for an ego boost.