5 Pickleball Tips I Wish I Knew Sooner

If you want to advance your pickleball skills, the basics of the game will only get you so far. Take your pickleball game to the next level, including when to move away from the baseline after your return, the best way to hold your paddle, and why you shouldn’t be using your wrist to hit shots (and what to use instead). Learn the pickleball tips you won’t learn in a beginner class that you can work on during your next pickleball game or practice.
0:00 - Pickleball Tips
0:13 - Tip #1: Get to the Kitchen Line (and Stay There)
0:40 - Tip #2: Return & Run
1:16 - Tip #3: Use Your Bigger Muscles to Hit Your Shots
2:07 - Tip #4: Take Balls Out of the Air
3:04 - Tip #5: Keep Your Paddle in the Ready Position
4:15 - PlayPickleball.com
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[@Aaron-mn2ro]

great tips for pickleball, thanks!

[@HalShoenfield-fs3bp]

Tip 1 & 2 are basically the same. Or Tip 1 encompasses tip 2 "get to the kitchen line". Instead I'd suggest tip 2 should be "serve & stay". New players sometimes rush in when their partner is serving and then hit the ball before letting it bounce.

[@GLAMGENX]

Great tips!

[@PlayPickleballCOM]

Thank you for watching!!

[@SDPBALLCOACH]

Nice house. Pool, Pickleball ciurt AND Trampoline!!!😊

[@Mel_Brosky]

Thanks 😊

[@rum2play]

What paint colors have you used? The court is gorgeous

[@Goofymonkey11]

I’ve never seen anyone dink and put the paddle down by their side. After getting hit with a few speed ups that would change quick. I do agree with excessive movement though.

[@scottlaney5192]

Yeah, ummm, how can I live in this house ALL WINTER LONG?!?!

[@NicholasRomano-ho7kc]

So so weird that you think that the problem with using the wrist is the "tiny tiny muscles". Weird.

[@TuongNguyen-ot1lx]

Still got the point across. Cry a river

[@NicholasRomano-ho7kc]

@@TuongNguyen-ot1lx The point that she doesn't understand mechanics? Why yes, she certainly did!

[@alohaleslie9407]

The point is to use the "larger" shoulder muscles as compared with using the wrist. This is also why we see so many players with wrist and elbow supports because of injury to lower arm muscles...they use the small muscles vs the larger ones. Great advice from the instructors. :)

[@NicholasRomano-ho7kc]

@@alohaleslie9407 Here is the transcript of what she says. “This next tip will help you in most of your shots, but especially dinking. One of the biggest mistakes I see in beginners make is they're very wristy when they're dinking meaning that they'll use their wrist to get the ball over the net. What that does is it causes a lot of unforced errors because you're relying on these tiny muscles to muscle that ball over the net and that's really hard. It ends up being really inconsistent.” So she says “What that does is it causes a lot of unforced errors because you're relying on these tiny muscles to muscle that ball”. Using the wrist does cause a lot of errors but the errors are NOT DUE to the fact that the wrist has tiny muscles. That is NOT THE REASON at all, or even close. She doesn’t understand why the errors occur and blames it on the fact that the muscles in the wrists are tiny. She goes on to say “It ends up being really inconsistent.” Why yes, using the wrist too much does lead to inconsistency, but not because of why she professes it does. If she doesn’t understand the “WHY” in this video, then she is misleading her viewers on the root of the problem. And if she is misleading them in this video, then the reasonable question is “how many other videos does she have where she misleads them as well because she doesn’t understand the underlying mechanics?”

[@mex5341]

dont be a nerd .the advice is correct, the wording could be more correct, yes

[@jacqueslemieux6235]

Racquetball is way better than pickle ball

[@PlayPickleballCOM]

😂

[@mex5341]

nice try but no

[@jacqueslemieux6235]

@@mex5341 it requires more skill to play racquetball 😂 everyone knows that

[@mex5341]

@@jacqueslemieux6235 ofc no , its way easier to play racquet/paddle . I ve been playing for a long time both and pickleball and the last one is more intereting . you must be able to think while playing PB , racquetball not so