How To INSTANTLY Improve Return: INSTANTLY Make Return A WEAPON

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[@WPB2022]

Your videos are a good refresher of the classes I took locally - you instructions mirror his instructions...

[@universalrackets]

thanks so much!

[@AJ-pc8cl]

This video has taught me alot. The only thing missing is a discussion of how far back the returner should be while waiting for the serve. Could you please elucidate on this topic? Again thanks so much for the great teaching.

[@universalrackets]

faster and deeper the serve the further back you should stand. adjust accordingly

[@ninobur1]

I'm a regular viewer of your videos, and this one is the best yet! It's even more helpful than an in-person lesson because I can watch it repeatedly to absorb all the valuable tips you've shared. Thank you for enhancing my Pickleball skills!

[@universalrackets]

Thank you so much Nino! We are so glad you enjoy the content! More videos to come!

[@alvinc1111]

Thank you for the thorough explanations!

[@universalrackets]

No problem! Glad you enjoyed!

[@dmills7375]

Another good video Tyler. One of the common tips you hear in PB is to drill, drill, drill but people don’t always say “what” to drill. Just going out and hitting the ball like you always hit it is likely just going to reinforce bad habits. Your videos help to give focus on what to work on. Thanks. Good job! Put me in the camp if preferring slightly shorter videos. Don’t reduce your content, I just prefer less repetition. I’ll endure the repetition to get the content thought. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@universalrackets]

Thank you so much, glad you are learning and enjoying the content!

[@groot3371]

Your videos are great. I like how your keep repeating your instructions, because some players need to hear it more than a few times.

[@universalrackets]

Thank you so much! Save the video incase you need a reminder!

[@user-wv4ix2yi4s]

I love your videos ,they are helpful thank you!

[@universalrackets]

No problem! Thank you so much!

[@yasim9435]

That’s great demo mainly because it extends tennis stroke techniques to PB which looks like the right approach for return of serve. In contrast to stroke with relaxed arm the “native” PB approach seems to be rolling with whole body as a unit.

[@universalrackets]

Couldn't agree more!

[@yasim9435]

@@universalrackets Then could you plese demo your approach of tennis-like techniques to other shots. Hot far tennis-like approach could go, where do you switch to non-tennis. Al also curios with applying pingpong techniques at the kitchen with full open stance

[@Ke875]

You are such a good looking” it bonus learning pickleball from you ! Great video I make all these mistakes! I’m going to try following through today ! Thank you !

[@universalrackets]

wow you just made my day

[@PickleballPrim]

Love the videos but would be great to see you implementing the Slinger so we can watch and hear your feedback on various types of serves to different areas of the box. If Michelle is available, have her hit you some of her serves (using the tips from the serving video 😊) or use the slinger to demonstrate some serves so we can see this in action. It’s much easier to feed yourself a ball than deal with fast, low balls with lots of spin when demonstrating return of serve. I believe this would up the value of the video, get more people to watch and make you more $$. So I hope you’ll consider it. I’d like to see these techniques in a game situation or more realistic to what we would see in a game either from you serving to Michelle and her returning or you returning Slinger balls. I hope your Slinger is used for more than just a ball carrier 😊. Would like to see you using it in more videos. Thanks again for the videos, I look forward to practicing these techniques in the lab (drilling) and watching more of your content.

[@universalrackets]

Thank you! We will have more slinger bag videos in the future!

[@diannazugai2640]

I've watched this video 3 times, I took key notes and put them in my bag and played in my first tournament today. My partner and I won 2nd place! All your advice and videos have helped me so much! Thank you for all of your advice and videos!!

[@universalrackets]

omg you made our day! Awesome, congrats on the sliver:)

[@JudySandersKW]

Your video is amazing!!! Just what I needed!!!!!

[@universalrackets]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joeymitchell1899]

I love this and these excercises help me to keep my head down and I realize all my mistakes the way I play now.

[@universalrackets]

Glad we could help Joey!

[@Supgirl63]

Excellent!

[@universalrackets]

thanks!

[@harshadmody2013]

Thanks a lot for the wonderful tips. Really loved it. Will try it out tomorrow. I always hold the paddle too tight 8 of 10. Will try with loose grip and see what happens. Thanks again. Any good tips on how to hold really loose without throwing to your opponent.

[@universalrackets]

Thank you so much for the kind words and let us know how it went and if it helped!

[@alanrossi1058]

You are the best instructor. Where are these video made, what state?

[@universalrackets]

thank you! FL

[@daniellehamelin2183]

Luv your videos short of long but I prefer the longer ones because I rewind them less often to make sure to catch everything. Also if I miss a few words because I was paying more attention to your movements I know you ll repeat the words again. Less rewinding work for me :) Would it be possible for you to make a video about tips to retrieve lobs? Not to many online actually. Always confuse when I switch place what to do after. Do I need to return to my side right after the lob or I remain on the new side until the end of the rally. But then it would be confusing for the next serve?? Thnx

[@universalrackets]

Lets go. We are getting a TON of comments about length. The longer the videos, the more our content gets spread out, the longer the watch time and the more $! Lobs and return of lobs are on the list!. We have tons of awesome shorts for people who prefer shorter content.

[@afterthesmash]

I had the same concerns with the last video I watched on this channel. The host is overgeneralizing the range of things you have to be able to deal with. At the higher levels of pickleball, say 4.5 and up, a lot of the monkey business goes away, because the cost/benefit ratio becomes unfavorable. It takes a lot of practice to keep half a dozen weird serves in good trim, and few players at the 4.5 level lack the basic athleticism to cope well enough with anything you can do to them. Many of these weird serves have the downside of inviting the player returning the serve to the kitchen even sooner than normal. Any 4.5 player will react, hit the ball well enough, then bounce in one big step into the kitchen. The trickster serve accomplished nothing with its surprise tactic. But if you play open rec mainly at the 3.0 level, with a smattering of 3.5s and maybe a handful of 4.0s, you'll run into all kinds of guys (mainly guys) with a huge quiver full of whacky serves. There are slow serves that land six feet in front of you, then instantly corkscrew off the floor four feet to one side or the other. There are low, fast serves that seem to barely bounce more than eight inches off the floor at any point. There are serves with disguised backswings that perfectly clip the front, outside corner of the service box, on a hard outside angle. There are lob serves that almost hit the ceiling (indoors) before landing six inches in front of the baseline, with a bounce almost up to your shoulders. Starting at the 3.5 level, most of the slow stuff starts to disappear: too much of a good invitation to the net. Starting around 4.0 play, all the rest of this nonsense begins to disappear. The risk of misfiring on the clever serve is too great, and you can't be wasting all your practice on a quiver full of whacky serves. You need to be practicing dinks and hands battles. Against a server who can hit hard balls straight, low and deep up the gut (the center line) as well as angle slower serves to your front, outside corner, you don't have much choice about where to stand. You have to stand fairly close to the baseline, near the corner, with your paddle pretty much on the outside line, to prepare yourself to pounce forward to cut off a serve angled hard off court from your front, outside corner. This position also means you have to really lunge sideways to handle a ball blasted low and hard up the gut. I'm tall and I'm only able to do this because I'm in a very low crouch before the ball is served, with my eyes sighting the ball barely above the net cord. Then if the ball is hit to my inside, deep corner, I can tell immediately if it also has sidespin angled toward me or away from me, and I can plan my lunge accordingly. There is no V concept against many of these guys I play against. There are two corners, far apart, and you have to defend both. Against opponents who don't have a high-percentage serve short and wide, I shuffle 12 to 18 inches toward the center, which makes lunging sideways in the worst case about 200% easier. Unless I'm in a hard lunge for a fast, deep, perfect serve up the gut to my inside corner (especially on my backhand side), my returns almost always land around two feet from the opponent's baseline. I like a small amount of loft to give me time to gain the net, but I'll use more or less loft when under pressure to guarantee getting the ball back into play. The only serve I struggle with is the low, slow serve to the middle that lands eight feet in front of me. I haven't figured out how to properly attack a ball yet after taking two large steps forward. I generally just chip the ball back again, low, down the centerline, to a little past midcourt. I don't trust my depth when I'm running forward, so I'm reluctant to aim deeper. The more advanced opponents greatly prefer this over my normal return of serve, and all the smart ones start using the short, easy serve against me all the time, basically giving me the net for free, but it's not like they were going to stop me from getting to the net anyway. I have a relatively slow first step, but my second step eats half the court. I'm getting to the net, pronto, no matter what they do. It's almost comical at times. Some 3.25 with a 4.5 service game is making me dash around to all corners, coping with six different flavours of bizarre bounce. Then I play a 3.75 who does nothing but dribble short, flat muffins to midcourt, giving me the net for free, but preventing me from reliably hitting it to the very back of the court. The 3.75 is protecting his or her 3rd shot drop by encouraging a short return. The 3.25 is protecting his non-existent 3rd shot drop by hoping the ball doesn't come back at all.

[@universalrackets]

thank you for the comment!

[@dmills7375]

What video did you watch? I didn’t hear any discussion of “exotic serves.” It was a video with basic instruction on returning serves. I think Tyler has stated before that his target audience is that 3.0/3.5 player who is trying to get the fundamentals down, so (as he said in the video), every tip may not work for every person.

[@squirtymonkey]

Just some hopefully helpful and friendly advice. Your teaching is fantastic, but your videos are too long and you are quite repetitive. I hope you can be more to the point as I love the in detail tips you provide on shot mechanics... I just don't have time to sit through 40 minute videos or even 20 min videos.

[@universalrackets]

Thanks so much for watching, I would recommend watching our KZbin shorts… could be helpful:)

[@squirtymonkey]

​@@universalracketsI also watch the shorts 👍.

[@universalrackets]

@@squirtymonkey that’s amazing, thanks for watching her content. We just have so much fun making it that we lose track of time.

[@SeanTaka]

Please keep your videos as is. They are helpful. The longer the better.

[@horizondigitaladvertisingl2217]

I'm sorry but, I don't think his videos are too long. I save them and then review them several times. Especially this particular one. Great work!

[@aaronsegal1682]

Your videos are so damn good…I will invest 3 hours watching you. My only advice: keep your wife in them. We love the banter with you and her.

[@universalrackets]

hahaha Aaron, Michele has been very busy this week. If we get the chance to record we will always do together, however I'm trying to keep up the consistency personally. we have 2 young kids

[@aaronsegal1682]

You do a phenomenal job. The teaching tips you give are invaluable. That said: seeing you and Michelle takes it up another level. Keep up these amazing videos.@@universalrackets

[@universalrackets]

Thank you so much Aaron! Appreciate the support!

[@mdst6302]

So lengthy. He says the sane thing 5 different ways!

[@universalrackets]

the same tip explained in multiple different ways HELPS TONS OF PEOPLE. Different tips work for different people, one size does not fit all

[@jestercastillo4168]

Love the vids sir 🫡 sharing this to my pb homies 🫡😁

[@universalrackets]

Please do