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Also known as the “Power Serve” or “Hard Serve”, the drive serve is a low, hard serve. This is used to put pressure on your opponent to make an accurate return more difficult. It’s a hard-hit ball with a low trajectory usually hit to the backhand corner of the...
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The “first three shots” drill does exactly what you’d think. It helps you improve your serve, return of serve, and third shot (drop in this case). It’s also sometimes called “Long, Long, Short”, or “Serve, Return, Drop” (and I’m sure many more names). How do we do the drill?...
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What is the Lob Serve? Also known as the “High Soft Serve”, the lob serve is a high-trajectory ball that’s hit with medium or slow speed (based on the height) and aims to land close to the baseline. Pickleball is unique to other similar sports (Tennis in particular) because...
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Firstly, what IS “Shadowing”? Shadowing is defined as “lateral movement with your doubles partner so that you always stay around 10 feet (or 6-7 feet depending on your strategy) apart to maintain maximum court coverage.” That’s fairly clear, but let’s explain it better and detail why it’s so important. If you’re...
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Ace: A serve that is not hit at all by the receiver. Point for serving team. Approach Shot: When the ball is hit while moving forward towards the net. Backcourt: The area from the baseline to around 3-4 feet inside the court. Backspin: Applying spin to the ball...
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A “line call” is what happens when a player (or judge) sees the ball close to or outside of a line and makes a judgement of whether the ball is “in” or “out”. For the purpose of this discussion, we’re only going to talk about the ones that are...
Also known as the “Power Serve” or “Hard Serve”, the drive serve is a low, hard serve. This is used to put pressure on your opponent to make an accurate return more difficult. It’s a hard-hit ball with a low trajectory usually hit to the backhand corner of the...
The “first three shots” drill does exactly what you’d think. It helps you improve your serve, return of serve, and third shot (drop in this case). It’s also sometimes called “Long, Long, Short”, or “Serve, Return, Drop” (and I’m sure many more names). How do we do the drill?...
What is the Lob Serve? Also known as the “High Soft Serve”, the lob serve is a high-trajectory ball that’s hit with medium or slow speed (based on the height) and aims to land close to the baseline. Pickleball is unique to other similar sports (Tennis in particular) because...
Firstly, what IS “Shadowing”? Shadowing is defined as “lateral movement with your doubles partner so that you always stay around 10 feet (or 6-7 feet depending on your strategy) apart to maintain maximum court coverage.” That’s fairly clear, but let’s explain it better and detail why it’s so important. If you’re...
Ace: A serve that is not hit at all by the receiver. Point for serving team. Approach Shot: When the ball is hit while moving forward towards the net. Backcourt: The area from the baseline to around 3-4 feet inside the court. Backspin: Applying spin to the ball...
A “line call” is what happens when a player (or judge) sees the ball close to or outside of a line and makes a judgement of whether the ball is “in” or “out”. For the purpose of this discussion, we’re only going to talk about the ones that are...