How to get that pure pickleball strike every single time

[@saxmason]

Great video! I'm coming from playing volleyball for 7 years, which means I have no transferable skills for pickleball! 😅 Started playing weekly recently so your content has been instrumental! Thanks!

[@PickleballKitchen]

That's awesome! The pleasure is all mine and thank you for watching!

[@AdeeFelfleProductions]

Great video, I applied the whole letting the core lead the swing concept and noticed a huge difference.

[@PickleballKitchen]

Amazing isn't it! Thanks for stopping by!

[@ggsd4903]

I love your teaching style. It works perfectly for me.

[@shlomesh]

Masterclass .Easy to follow and highly motivating. Thank you

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thanks a million! Really appreciate it!

[@shelkatz]

What helps me with this technique is a grunt as I turn. I noticed you do it a lot of the time!

[@infomercialguy]

Best videos ever. Simple. Effective. Direct! Short. Love 💕

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thanks and it's great to see you around again!

[@fartfalcon]

Love this breakdown!

[@PickleballKitchen]

I'm glad you like it!

[@sharoncampshure8947]

I have missed you. Really miss your podcast. It was my favorite Pickleball podcast. Looking good.

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thank you!

[@thuydao5405]

Thank you so very much for your great tips!! Awesome 👍

[@PickleballKitchen]

My pleasure and thanks for stopping by!

[@colvingazelle]

I’m taking group lessons from very good instructors who keep telling me I’m all arms and to use my core. They even show the motion. My unatheletic self could not translate what they were demonstrating into my actions. Your 3 step breakdown had the light bulb go on for me! Thanks! BTW I bought the CX14 you recommended a while back and it has upped my short game and top / back spin. Ground strokes need work 😀!

[@marshallcrosby5159]

Fantastic lesson!

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thanks!

[@effemamancio8571]

Awesome lesson. How about the angle of the face of the paddle? usually when I practice ground strokes, half of my shots go way out.

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thanks a lot. If that's the case, then push you wrist forward a bit and let the paddle lag behind. Think "wrist first".

[@AnnMitt]

That was fantastic 👏 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@lhuffman8343]

Can you please do a tutorial on the flick or windshield wiper?? Thanks !! Please keep doing videos you explain the best of all I have researched on here.

[@PickleballKitchen]

I may be able to do that

[@Vince-qm7bc]

You’re actually so good at explaining things

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thank you very much!

[@edburgler5161]

Great instruction, keep up the good work.

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thanks, Ed!

[@howardjuliewiley5629]

You are a natural teacher Barrett.

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thank you very much!

[@frank88ster]

Never disappoints. Always spot on... Many thanks.

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thanks!

[@Musicaltwig]

I love your unconventional style of teaching! I've been playing 5.0 lately since recovering from back surgery and feeling great, but am working on my forehand groundstrokes (I favor my backhand) and getting more aggressive. I understand more of what you say because I've never been a tennis player and can appreciate the engineering mind. Btw, how' much do you charge? I live in Utah and am coming to nationals in Nov. By profession, I'm a pianist, so that doesn't carry over to pickleball, but I do have great eye/hand coordination! 😁

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thank you very much. I do have a video on bangers if you'd like to see that.

[@BruceAChristie]

For the majority of your ground strokes, do you like to hit the ball: a. as it is still rising b. top of bounce c. as it starts to fall? Which of these 3 positions best suits your ground stroke swing? Thanks so much.

[@PickleballKitchen]

You should hit groundstrokes at the top of the apex on the bounce. So right before it starts to drop.

[@BruceAChristie]

@@PickleballKitchen Fantastic. So that would be half way through its horizontal bounce distance. Probably the most effortless place to strike the ball. (I know some squash coaches who also teach hitting ground strokes at its apex.) Thanks so much!

[@thehomez]

Do you swipe up or turn up with your wrist or just keep wrist pretty static?

[@PickleballKitchen]

Wrist is mostly static. Most of the motion is in the shoulder and forearm.

[@thehomez]

@@PickleballKitchen awesome thank you!

[@PickleballKitchen]

My pleasure, thanks for stopping by.

[@mthompson7823]

Wow! It is so helpful!

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thanks!

[@AlphaTennisinPittsburgh]

Pickleball is America's fastest-growing sport and we like it #Pickleball

[@trinhinc]

need one for double backhand. my tennis double backhand did not transfer over to pickleball. feels so foreign.

[@PickleballKitchen]

That will likely be coming soon.

[@Canobeful]

Thanks!

[@PickleballKitchen]

Thank you for the tip!

[@sassydragonfly5063]

What kind of ball machine are you using?

[@PickleballKitchen]

Tutor Plus

[@wilkietsang2002]

No backhand?

[@danhotel5961]

Only problem I have is my dominant foot is my left but I'm right handed 😢

[@Vince-qm7bc]

I’m curious, do you lock your wrist on contact or is it loose all the way through

[@PickleballKitchen]

It's pretty much loose all the way through. I think it's important to just not think about it too much.

[@lizlemon9632]

I see your wrist bending backward…and what about topspin to keep the ball in the court? Explanation?

[@PickleballKitchen]

Topspin would be another topic entirely. But you want to brush up on the ball and sort of make a windshield wiper motion with your paddle.

[@autry2012]

👍👍👍👍!!!!!!

[@trinhinc]

for a sec I thought you were Federer ... =)

[@PickleballKitchen]

Oh please! Thank you for watching though! :D