Every few months PPP will put out several new drills & strategies to improve your pickleball game. It is so important to remember, that "we play like we practice!" So take your time, review the drills and strategies below and get out there and practice!!
You have read on these web pages and seen on our Facebook page: we play like we practice! Many of the premier pickleball players and coaches will tell you that their ratio of practice to play time is 3 hours to 1 hour at a minimum. Practice does not have to be mundane or boring or lacking in a great work out. Checkout the videos below to get you out on the court and drill-drill-drill yourself to a better pickleball game!!
In pickleball there is a set up skill shots required to advance your play and improve your game, typically the drop shot, dinking and the ability to reset the ball into the NVZ to regain control of the speed of the game and act rather than only react to the ball coming at you! Notice, it does not include a "bang or smash on every shot directed at you!" Every shot is not a put away!
If you have been playing pickleball for sometime, you have undoubtedly heard the phrase that the "game is won at the net!" If that is the case, then we need to develop our reaction time and eye hand coordination to respond to the pickleball coming at us at varying speeds and directions. The ability to reset the ball into the NVZ is vital to advance one's skill beyond the intermediate level and work toward the advanced skill level!
Watch Simone Jardim's set of drills to work on these skills!
If you have been playing pickleball for sometime, you have undoubtedly heard the phrase that the "game is won at the net!" If that is the case, then we need to develop our reaction time and eye hand coordination to respond to the pickleball coming at us at varying speeds and directions. The ability to reset the ball into the NVZ is vital to advance one's skill beyond the intermediate level and work toward the advanced skill level!
Watch Simone Jardim's set of drills to work on these skills!
OOPS or Oh-oh!! Are two words everyone just hates to hear or use as it generally means my partner or I have popped up that little pickleball and one of us will have a pickleball lunch served right back at us. Here is a great video to give us some usable skills to practice to reduce that misguided shot and hopefully put your opponent on the defense rather than give them that offensive opportunity!!
Do you always have a reason for where you are hitting the pickleball or what type of shot you want to use to challenge your opponent? Are you sometimes feeling "I am just happy I hit the ball over the net!" There is a lot of information and videos out there about the serve and return of serve and the need to do a drop or drive shot on the 3rd shot. Well, this drill talks about the 4th shot!
Can't get enough of this drilling information, watch on and get out there and practice!!
Paddles Up!!
Can't get enough of this drilling information, watch on and get out there and practice!!
Paddles Up!!