The Proven Pickleball Strategy to Beat Hard-Hitting Bangers

Are you tired of losing to bangers on the pickleball court?
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In this video, we reveal the proven pickleball strategy to effortlessly beat them. Whether you're a beginner just learning the pickleball basics or a seasoned pro looking to improve your game, this video will provide you with tips and strategies for all levels of play. After all the tips and tricks we added, this video will help you enhance your pickleball skills and take your game to the next level. Whether you're playing in a pickleball tournament or just looking to have fun with friends, this video will provide you with the pickleball knowledge and insights you need to beat those pesky bangers.

[@JoshuaKeel]

This is awesome stuff, Connor. I especially liked how you gave a description of what to do in each scenario (high ball, low ball, etc.).

[@EnhancePickleball]

We’ll keep making more of this style 💪🫡

[@EnhancePickleball]

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[@madmax6654]

When are you gonna make your other pickle ball courts look as nice as the one you’re posting with every video?

[@paulyoung9714]

One of the best demos I've seen. Great job!

[@mindright9771]

You are so on it with your instructions. I had this situation just today so I told myself to slowdown the game at the net and dink against our banger opponents. We played some great points but they got the better of us. Still, it made the game way more fun and I couldn't wait to play again. You definitely gave me some food for thought. Especially on the high balls. I tend to misjudge when I'm in the transition zone so your "if it's high, let it fly" advise is definitely something I will remember. Thanks for the excellent video!

[@EnhancePickleball]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mikem825]

So solid! Thank you!

[@redheadedgolfer]

Clear and fantastic tips! 🎉

[@tennislite]

Spot on. You covered so many items that are so common among 3.5s.

[@rjsophia3712]

Fantastic video! Me and my buddies are totally committed to playing pickleball “chess” and not “checkers”! Thanks for these great tips on how to beat bangers!!!

[@EnhancePickleball]

Rock on!

[@dogloverjb6873]

best instructional PB videos out there. just subscribed!

[@EnhancePickleball]

Wow, thanks!

[@dianepavlick8440]

Very well done! So much good information

[@EnhancePickleball]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@partyheartyboy]

Hi. This is an amazing video for a brand new rec player! Played only four sessions. Great tips and illustrations of technique. Thank you! 😀

[@EnhancePickleball]

Awesome, thank you!

[@denisthibodeau3044]

Great video

[@jazzdad52]

Thanks! Great instructions!

[@EnhancePickleball]

Thanks for watching!

[@melindaherman2169]

Thank you for clear explanation and modeling of best positioning and ways to meet the ball.

[@EnhancePickleball]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Nrahotep]

great refresher on countering bangers. when to use firm and stiff wrist is insightful. going to order some lead tape. appreciate the video.

[@EnhancePickleball]

Glad it was helpful!

[@molliemcgeever1]

really helpful video... thank you! Just subscribed :)

[@EnhancePickleball]

Awesome, thank you!

[@davidgertman5721]

Connor, great video. Should help a lot with the some of the folks with whom I play.

[@DeesBees85]

Bangers gonna Bang

[@northvanlarry561]

This is what I'm looking for. Thanks

[@EnhancePickleball]

Glad we were a help💪

[@theresaperry7376]

GREAT tips!

[@EnhancePickleball]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mitchellt7868]

I'm confused about loosening our wrist to perform resets (which makes sense)... but earlier in the video, you mentioned we needed to stiffen our wrist to prevent lofty pop ups (which also makes sense). How does all this tie in together?

[@chrismorris5241]

I have so many subscriptions so I don't sub to much anymore but this channel is really helpful so I dinked the subscribe button.

[@captainpeckerhead4551]

Just purchased your dink backboard can't wait to get it thanks

[@EnhancePickleball]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@sam_wich647]

Holy smokes... thanks for the tips Johnathan, these are some serious bangerfs.

[@sam_wich647]

oopsie I did a typo

[@Flip4Dollars]

Great video. Can you please tell me, or link, your exact SLK paddle?

[@Themayor88]

As a new rec player this is the video we’ve all been looking for!

[@EnhancePickleball]

Thanks for watching 🙏🙏🙏

[@alejandrocintron3722]

That was a great video

[@EnhancePickleball]

Glad you think so!

[@tommymorgan9293]

Great content

[@EnhancePickleball]

💪

[@rongarrison3246]

Another little tip is to target the bangers backhand.

[@brikap]

Excellent video. I'll add one more strategy -- Regarding the fourth shot, I have found it useful for the partner who did not return the serve to pinch to the middle, and take the fourth shot if they don't have to go too far over. While the non-returner partner still has to cover the line, this partner frequently has an easier take on a well-hit third shot drive down the middle, especially if he can get it with a forehand. The partner who returned the serve is moving forward, watching the ball, organizing their body, maybe not making it 100% to the kitchen (if the serve was deep). That fourth shot can be tough for the player who returned the serve.

[@zzw26n]

One of your Best Video's yet ...

[@EnhancePickleball]

🙏🙏🙏Thanks for supporting

[@bobdoe4689]

One thing I didn't see people talk about banger is that good banger does not aim at the body but aim at an open spot which make it very difficult to counter

[@kimleith1378]

Right on. Can't "block" what you can't reach.

[@pickleballxp]

Drew is a good friend

[@bmrrogers]

Great video, thanks! I am a new player to pickleball (coming from tennis) - I have to constantly remind myself to not be a banger on the majority of my shots.

[@EnhancePickleball]

I went through the same process🤣

[@user-wv4cc7hd6w]

I am tall 6'3" and bangers hit the ball as hard as possible at my chest and hard to get a paddle on some. I have found by crouching atleast one foot I make myself a smaller target. This helps me escape the high balls that go out.

[@robertnewlander8303]

Good lesson

[@EnhancePickleball]

Thanks for watching

[@anthonycialdella5021]

Thanks for the great video. I feel like lower level players constantly want to hit the ball hard. Can’t wait to practice

[@EnhancePickleball]

Happy to help!

[@adamh7947]

Additional tip regarding your first tip - not only watch for the height of the ball, but also watch for the spin. If the ball has a lot of backspin, even if hit very hard and very close to the net, the backspin creates a floating trajectory and the ball will often sail long. Opposite applies to topspin. The ball may be well over the net and hit very hard, but if hit with topspin, it can easily drop in.

[@zakmadison7517]

Another great skillset that I find works is drilling hitting to backhands. Find the backhand lanes on the other side of the court and exploit it. You will be flirting with the sideline, but just drill the crap out of those shots. Sure some bangers will run around their backhand but in doing so they lose enough horsepower on their forehand drive so the ball they hit is way more manageable to return. Just a thought.

[@joycesanders3544]

Your tips aregreat, but it would be great to watch some of these shots in slow motion.

[@jimramsey1312]

When the Banger is at the baseline, what do you think about a mixing in a drop-volley so the Banger can't just sit back and tee off ?

[@user-wv4cc7hd6w]

That is a great strategy and works on me a lot. Bangers tend to stay at the baseline after a smash.

[@afterthesmash]

This is all great, but I would say of the drill toward the end that Tyson McGuffin's video on volley roll drills is a better way to punch the ball deep again. I have this common problem in mixed play when my luck-of-the-draw partner lingers in the transition zone for no good reason, right after dropping the ball on the white mid-line, middle of the transition zone, with the bounce coming up to at least knee height, to a powerful yet accurate banger, who then wires it at me with barely an inch clearance over the net, and usually with top spin: a frozen rope with a sinker attached. Actually, in my play experience so far, women are usually much worse for this than men, because the precision of net clearance is so much tighter relative to the pace achieved. I find it visually hard to read the sink on the ball (I'm very tall which might add to my difficulty) and there's so little time to achieve a fully controlled touch on the ball. It's really like defending a horizontal smash with just enough top to bend down and land a foot inside the baseline without flying out. It also complicates matter that I tend to cheat into center court when my partner is slow to join me at the net. I don't like to see balls fly straight down the while line through the gap in the middle of the partnership with neither person in position to do anything. After sliding into the middle to defend this, I feel like I'm defending 12 feet of net front, so having to react side-to-side as well substantially adds to the difficulty. Maybe that's my problem with the banger at midcourt. I can successfully cheat to the middle when my opponent is speeding up right in front of me (my long arms can cut off acute angles), or when my opponent is banging from deep court, because now there's time to handle the lateral component. Statistically, I'm managing a fully controlled response about 40% of the time, a viable but sloppy return another 40% of the time, and then there are the horrible pops, the long balls, the balls that get eaten by the white tape at the top of the net, and the outright misses. My next experiment is to answer speed with speed by attempting to master the volley roll on incoming frozen ropes, barely skimming the net, with plus plus velocity, and just enough top spin to land in bounds. Wish me luck. That's my personal horror show. Female ex-tennis enthusiast teeing into a ball at thigh height from on top of the center white line, somewhere in the middle of transition zone, while my partner is slow to form up the wall with me at the front of the net. One of these gals on the other side was in her early seventies, and she was killing me over and over again. Never seen so many stiffly struck horizontal balls clear the net by exactly 1 inch.

[@afterthesmash]

Another consideration. Quite often I've been trying to do resets on these balls, which is exceedingly delicate work. Perhaps if I dropped back a step defensively I could attempt a volley roll from a little further down into the yellow zone, but with that much more time to execute.

[@stevedolan2208]

Where do I get the board to practice on for hand speed

[@EnhancePickleball]

enhancepickleball.com 👌

[@edhern619]

Why is that lead tape so expensive?

[@PickleballMike509]

That’s a weird sound on blocks on your halo with the lead tape

[@arnieleavitt1140]

After 50+ years of tennis I find that it's not as much fun to play the dink game. How about a video demonstrating how bangers can win in pickleball?

[@greatscott88mph]

Try that with me and you will get a Franklin tattoo…

[@ardynites1733]

I bang on some people just because I can see they are cowards. One hard drive to the backhand and their whole mindset tanks 😂

[@heavenlypickler]

I lost to the bangers all the time. My hands get tired to block them. Unfortunately, their balls are few inches above the net and are in most the time.

[@gg80108]

Lol That partner never hit a hard shot in his life! The good bangers hit the low topspin ball and if it does not hit you its staying in.

[@EnhancePickleball]

My partner played #1 for the UCLA men’s tennis team. He was hitting significantly harder than most 4.0s.

[@gg80108]

​@@EnhancePickleball Except he got pickleballed and now hits from an open stance with no power. Get the guy who still has the sideways setup who uses his body!

[@hunterbooker7916]

Playing the dink game sucks I make so many players suffer no matter rank they are I blast so many balls I have gotten it down I got just my 2 power shot hits pretty much guaranteed no return they got My amazing spin shots love spin and hitting the ball over there head to teach them do not play at the net I have hit so many players with the ball hard not to be mean but it's the only way to teach them dont play at the net or I hit lobs over there head Like playing back so much more fun so much more time to react to the ball for way better ball placement and safer

[@buckwheat178]

Out 7 foot?? 🤣🤣🤣

[@Largecanyondog]

That is “banging” ??

[@bogeybeamish3772]

Not as easy as he makes it sound. The majority of players reactions and volley skills won't be up to it.

[@IronOak64]

Here’s what was wrong with this video and why I won’t be watching anymore from this channel. Video was way too long. Too much filler and not enough actual advice. All of the example shots weren’t bangers. And I’m all for plugging your products, but 3 times in 1 video is too much.