Top Tips for Improving Your Pickleball Serve

[@allanrosenthal8563]

CJ, where do you think a player should stand when serving? Great job as usual.

[@veerut2820]

Can you please let me know the paddle name you are using?

[@cbunix23]

Looks like a Selkirk

[@BetterPickleball]

This one is a Selkirk SLK. However I have since started using the Diadem A52 solid paddle at a great price.

[@beewear122]

1st comment Yes🎉 Enjoy your channel. I’m a drop server.

[@BetterPickleball]

Great! Thanks!

[@cfoskeeter]

Are you allowed to impart spin with the paddle on the serve? I play with someone who puts a slice on the serve, however in watching professionals play, they never do this which made me think it's not allowed.

[@TrueNorthCamping]

With your paddle - yes you are….but you can’t impart spin using your hand/fingers when releasing the ball for the serve. But using your paddle/stroke to impart spin is perfectly legal.

[@BetterPickleball]

Yes you can spin the ball using the paddle motion. There are however different rules for a drop and a volley serve. In a traditional "slice" the paddle is not moving in the right direction. Here's a video that explains the rules for the two serves. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqarhq2ehbaAeNUsi=rhIYi8jl5F3scDYq

[@joeluis98]

I just started playing 3 was ago, and you are so correct. I have received close to a hundred tips, and they all contradict each other. Then I can teamed with higher players, who not only get frustrated with my lack of knowledge and playing ability, but they start to ball hog. I guess they expect for me to start out as a 4.0 from the start.

[@BetterPickleball]

Welcome to pickleball! We were all new once and very few were 4.0 when we started. Hang in there. BTW we have a special free video course for new players if you didn't see it in the video here's the link. betterpickleball.com/beginners

[@shelkatz]

Short backswing = no power. You need big body rotation when you serve. Therefore, paddle goes back far.

[@BetterPickleball]

The length of your backswing is not the main power generator in a swing. The core or body rotation are important but not as important as a serve that is consistently in and deep. The main job of the serve is to make it harder on the returner. 😀

[@anoka114]

Inventors of the game never intended it to be like tennis where the serve can win the game. This changing of the serve will be a controversial skill forever now that all the jerks want to change it. Ruining a once great sport, piece by piece.