5 tips to improve your pickleball game

5 tips to improve your pickleball game | IMPROVE Your GAME With These 5 PRO Pickleball Tips

5 Tips with Video Links

1: Dink With a Purpose
2: The Drop isn't that hard
3: Ready Position
4: Court Position Matters
5: Learn to Handle Pace

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Dinking with a Purpose
1:49 The Third Shot is not as hard as you think
3:12 Ready Position
4:53 Court Positioning Really Matters
7:17 Learn to Handel Pace

[lindanlcholson]

I am new to pickle ball and have no experience at any paddle sports. I like the way you explain everything you’re very clear you take your time you’re calm. Thank you.

[kimsentman]

Great stuff! I’m a retired PE teacher & teach pb at our local Parks & Rec. A mantra I use for my beginners is “Serve stay back”, “ Return run in”. Reinforcing the idea that you treat serve & return of serve like 2 different animals!!!

[chip]

You did a great job making this video. My first one of yours that I watched. Speaking of pace, your speech was well paced clearly understood good volume. Material. Well presented. Just got into the game. Looking forward to employing your five lessons.

[laurijorgenson]

I love that you add the psychological side of things. I’m referencing your comments about giving the mind a positive task, not focusing on what NOT to do. So helpful! Love your videos John. They are so well done. Also, shout out to whoever created your logo. Genius!

[theresarebert]

I have certainly learned more from John than any other online instructor. This is instruction with a focus on technique and purpose.

[CuriousCreature]

Love how you understand how the mind needs specific instruction. Well done.

[vincentgorman]

Another well crafted lesson. You are the best John ! Content, presentation, and message always top quality. Thank you!

[Mr.Martini]

So clear and concise. Many channels spend so much time on what not to do first that it gets muddled with the things you need to do. A 10 minute video becomes unnecessary 25 minute video. A clear difference here is John provides precisely 5 basics skills to focus on without any fluff. Now get to it folks!

[redequal]

I like your explanation about the middle being a safer shot than the sides, and that a team can crowd the middle to protect a shot down the middle.

[GmaOphir]

Thanks from the Ripley’s in Utah — we bought our paddles just yesterday and hope to be able to learn this game that we keep hearing so much about

[omarsanchez-sseq]

Ever since I started watching these I have been going out to my local park everyday at 7 am and practicing everything you show me in these videos I really appreciate it

[dennispena]

I know it's redundant at this point, but Cincola videos are th most clear and concise. Other YT coaches could learn about editing by watching Cincola. I really liked his 2 on 1 challenges up the ranks.

[braddaddis]

Just perfection. This video also quite a few debates to bed. Hope other YouTube instructors watch this.

[deannacarstens]

Coming from a tennis background, I really need reminding these very important tips in PickleBall. As always, John, your advice was spot on! Thanks!

[cwarner]

Thanks John, valuable information. It's hard to find rec player that have the patience to play the soft game or willing to put in the time to learn so speed ups are the norm. I can definitely relate to your section on handling pace.

[afterthesmash]

I like this video and today I'm rewatching it. I've come to a new understanding of the third shot drop. What John neglects here is that a potential speed-up response to a dink that floats up a bit is very different from a potential speed-up response to a drop that floats up. In the case of a drop shot from the baseline, if the opponent can threaten a speed-up because your drop floated, you are forced to play back, and now you are vulnerable to a soft reset that dies in the kitchen. Dinking never puts you in this conundrum. The drop shot from deep is read and react in a way that dinking is not. The third shot drop does little for you if you can't decide quickly, as a team, when it is safe to follow it in. So it's not a difficult shot, as such, but it is a different tactic until you learn the read. A very long arm that can reach deep into the kitchen from a crouch volley to tap the ball back so that it dies in the kitchen is a problem for the long drop shot, but not so much for dinks or mid-court dinks. As a professional, John forgets how many rec players don't enough power in their first step to fetch those from far away. If you are afraid of the tap volley by a long arm, then your drop window is quite small, much smaller than when dinking. With a looping ball, it's only about six or eight inches in depth that separated what I can pick up on the crouch volley to tap back and what I can pick up on the punch volley above the net. The margin is less frightening on a flatter drop-drive, but this drop style requires really tight control on pace or you expose yourself to a swing volley. It's not the hardest shot, but it is the first difficult shot that you must confront. If you have an elite power game from the baseline, you can avoid this by taking the 3rd drive — 5th drop bypass. But at the rec level, 75% of people who like their 3rd shot drive love the 5th drive even more, despite massive evidence that it leads to bad outcomes. The 5th shot drive is the best way in pickleball to prove that your partner has worthless hand speed. You won't win, but the consolation prize is that you can happily believe it's always your partner's fault.

[hoilandBrothers]

John, great video

I'd love to see a "tour" video of your space

It looks straightforward in a light industrial / flex shell, but it'd be helpful to see how you found it, what build-out work went into it, what the space was previously used for, etc.

It'd also be helpful to hear rough costs - rent ~$3k/mo (base rate, NNN, other monthlies)? Floor prep and painting cost, sound/noise mitigation, etc

I'm up in MN looking for non-traditional courts, particularly in the winter. The addition of automated video systems, easy plug-in sound system, electronic code door access, and other perks could make for great court rental for casual play, coaching, or other uses. Thanks

[lynnelucas]

John, I agree with you and discipline is what I need. One of my tennis pros said don’t try it, do it. 😊
Vince Lombardi said “Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
I think this along with what you said makes awesome sense. Thank you!

[andycarlson]

I am a tough judge of Pickleball content on the web, and I look at all of it, and I would tell you that your stuff is the best out there and nothing else is close IMO. 👍👌👊

[TheDerd]

Another excellent video. I always find at least a couple of gems in your “5 Things” series.