How to SPIN your Serve in Pickleball (LEGALLY)

Adding spin to your serve in pickleball is a surefire way to challenge your opponents. In this video, we're diving into three effective spins you can master for your serves. At the recreational level, these spins can be deadly, so give them all a try next time you're on the court!

🚀 Here's What We'll Cover:

Banana Serve:

An uncommon serve that's both tricky and rewarding if you get it right.
Discover how to generate the perfect spin, starting from hand positioning to the follow-through.
Where to aim this serve for maximum impact, and how to do a half-topspin version.

Screwball Serve:

The opposite spin of the banana, it's easier to pick up but still powerful.
Learn where to toss the ball and the right balance of cut and power to get this spin down.
How often to use it, and why it works best as a changeup to keep your opponents on their toes.

Topspin Serve:

The topspin serve should be your go-to default.
Get the technique right on the windshield and court, and learn how to find the right balance of spin without sacrificing depth.
Adjusting the height of your serve for acceleration after the bounce.

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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Lesson Overview
1:45 - Banana Serve
4:49 - Screwball Serve
7:53 - 3 Tips For Better Topspin Serves

[EnhancePickleball]

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[waynekurtz]

Banana serve is my natural serve when serving from a drop serve. I find unless its windy its easier to hit this hard with a combo of top and side spin for a deep serve that runs when it bounces.

[dannynavarro]

it's amazing how you could repeat yourself consistently for 10min good job.

[Leonardokite]

I didn't come from a real tennis background, but I played ping-pong a lot in my younger years. Spin was king! Pickleball is pretty much a bigger ping-pong paddle and a bigger ping-pong ball.

[alanpranke]

Note that your wrist has an angle that allows the paddle tip to 'drag' back. Combine this with a little looseness at the wrist, early in the swing, can result in more topspin. Great video !

[rebeccabrady]

Good to know!! Friends of mine whom I play pickleball with on Saturdays were impressed with how my ball had a spin on it every time I hit it. I always wondered what the reason was...

[marvindennis]

You are always good at explaining how and why. Thanks. Great to hear you have started your own paddle line, too.

[mikebeckerman]

Good information. I like to occasionally throw in a backspin serve just to mix things up a bit.

[vanadyan]

I also use the banana serve swing on a lot of ATP's that people don't expect me to be able to bend around the post, when I get it just right i can get a ball deep in the kitchen around from inside the post to bend around it and back in to just land in the back corner.

[KuidongLi]

For the Banana Server, what grip should we use? continental or eastern?

[leofontana]

Really great serve information. I especially liked the bit about how to put more topspin on the serve. I also think the legs come into platy. You have to explode out of the legs which turns the hips. The hips twist the shoulders, the shoulders whip the arm, the arm moves the wrist on the windshield wiper.

[josherdude]

Never thought about banana serve. I actually use a banana forehand ATP. I'll have to try this thanks.

[frankster]

True, higher rank players can handle any spin but it's still something to 'annoy them'. If it takes players 'out of position's to disrupt their 'stacking strategy ', why not?? And maybe only ONE of the two opposite can handle spin, so it's still a good option as an arsenal of attack.

[ralph.real.estate]

Great tips. The banana serve is a keeper 💪

[eh]

Are you using the Eastern or Continental grip for these serves? Good video and demonstration of technique.

[dobehart]

Appreciate the explainations, easy to understand, been wanting to learn spin serves! Would b helpful if you could slow-mo the video😊 do I will practice

[martinperrin]

I do a backhand screwball (so serving from the right hand court, it will spin out wide). I'm still perfecting it, but when I get it right it's very effective. I also tend to do a bounce serve which keeps the serve very low, and more difficult to return. I did one of your screwballs the other day and it really kicked out wide, very satisfying!

[cbvoicenotes]

Thanks guys for the vid! SOO helpful as always!!!🤙

[Maverick-kfis]

Congrats on the launch of your own paddle!

[baseballgenius]

Why do videos like this never address the drop serve? Because you don’t have to worry about all the swinging up, keeping the wrist above the paddle, etc., you can really crank up the spin. For example you can hit a really aggressive slice serve that curves a LOT and bounces very low, making it much harder to return with pace and topspin. Plus it eliminates the “illegal serve” complaints that happen a lot with any serve other than basic topspin. I’ve hit people in the knees with my slice serve because of all the movement and weird bounce, even 4.0+ players. 5.0 players can return it, but realistically they can return basically anything, and the slice is a very effective change of pace, occasionally drawing a return error. Seems like a no brainer to teach to newer players