3 Pickleball Tips That Made Her a 5.0 Player

These 10 pickleball tips can make you a 5.0 player. We'll break down these tips and pickleball strategies into simple, easy to follow steps so you can start using them the next time you play. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced player, this pickleball lesson includes tips that are designed to improve your pickleball game to the next level.

What we'll cover:

Learning Topspin: Learn how to apply effective topspin in your serves, drives, and dinks to keep your shots in play and make them more challenging for opponents.

Handling Power: Tackle powerful drives and speedups from advanced players. We’ll show you how to react quickly, maintain control, and counterattack with precision.

Deception: Enhance your strategy with deceptive shots during rallies. Discover the art of timing and disguising your speedups to outsmart higher-level opponents.

0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Tip #1
7:44 - Tip #2
14:35 - Tip #3

[kirkrozelle]

Great teaching video and it was nice to see Kenadi take more of an active role in the video.

[docjest]

Connor you always have the most helpful pickleball videos available, thank you! And Kenadi it has been great to watch you advance to a 5.0 competitor, congratulations!

[DrFarris]

This is great. I played for the first time on Monday and lost all 3 games, lol

Affective techniques are what I need. Thanks!

[finisnerd]

I like how you show it in slow motion, great video👍

[TheMary]

Great advice re: topspin and spin in general!

[mddale]

Knowing shots make you 3.7. Being 5 is doing them consistently at the right time to the right place. It's the thinking + the doing.

[bethechange]

Thanks for this excellent an quick instructional PBall Vid!!

[DannyBPlays]

Good vid to let your sis explain some. She's in so many thumbnails, it was weird to almost never hear her talk

[TS-vyxd]

Hi, Conor, love your Youtube videos and you do a great job with your coaching techniques along with your sisters & friends. I am interested in your products but live in the United Kingdom, are you likely to start shipping internationally at some point? I am sure that there are many new pickleball players all over the world that would love to purchase your products after watching your videos.

[afterthesmash]

Deception is outside of my current pay grade. I think it's dangerous to work on this before you have full command of what shots you _should_ be using, without needing to add disguise.

[LATIKARANIROY-re]

Your video is very nice. I like it very much

[ChristopherBond-if]

Dang: beautiful….
I mean the court, wherever that is that you are playing.

[barryweissglass]

Hi. I have just two questions. It looks like Kennedy has a slight upward toss to the ball on her serves. Is that legal/acceptable? A lot of the folks with whom I play insist one must simply drop the ball before the strike and have no upward movement to it. Also, what is the grip she is using? It looks like it is western. Does she change her grip for other strokes? Or just keep it western (if I am correct about that)? Thanks.

[MRmrROro]

Later during a game, instead of a normal (flat) smash (overhead), I'll do a slice smash to add some deception.

[j]

Using the sister as click bait. I'm not even mad

[Markomyt]

The slow motion shoes Kenadi is doing just a little bit of a toss on the serve.

[shipwreck]

I feel like there's a lot of professionals and a lot of 4.5-5.0 who are bangers. But they just choose when to bang. I feel like there's absolutely no bangers in the 3.5-4.0. When I think of bangers, I think of ex-college tennis players who are picking up pickleball who can seriously drive the ball at you. That happens in the pros but they just don't do it all the time on every shot but they can still hit the shot hard it's just not on auto fire where it happens on every shot non stop.

[evelynmurphy]

Kennedy said she’s playing with extra grip. Does she mean a longer handle?
Do longer handles slow down your reaction time?

[yasim]

For the serve, it is better to have contact point higher then in this demo

[krismraz]

I just watched another “pro” say don’t use your wrist for roll volleys. 🤷‍♂️