Pickleball Strategy
Develop and execute a pickleball strategy that will help you defeat various styles of play — including "bangers," lobbers and dinkers.
Pickleball Doubles Strategy
Pickleball strategy – particularly when playing doubles – is what will distinguish the better players from the good players. In "today's" pickleball, it's no longer enough to just "play soft" or, conversely, over-power your opponents. The better pickleball players will be able to adapt their strategy to their opponents and to the situation.
Top 10 Technique & Strategy Flaws Impeding Your Pickleball Progress
We’ve all been there. We exhibit meteoric pickleball improvement and progress during the first several weeks or months of playing — or perhaps, even years — and then, we hit a performance plateau. We just can’t seem to bust through any further. It’s happened to all of us. When this ...
Top 10 Pickleball Doubles Strategies to Up your Game!
Shown below are ten doubles strategies – particularly helpful, I’m certain – for those of you just embarking on your pickleball journey. Obviously, there are considerably more than 10 strategies. These doubles strategies, however, represent the foundation for all others and will help you to become a smarter – and ...
Pickleball Stacking: What it is and Strategy How to
Stacking in pickleball. You’ve likely seen it in some form or fashion on the courts – and, perhaps, at first – you were convinced that it was illegal. Afterall, both the server and the server’s partner were positioned side-by-side (as if in a stack), on one side of the court. ...
Pickleball Split Step – Balance, Baby!!!
I see it happen regularly in rec play. A team pinned to the baseline understands that, strategically, they need to get to the kitchen line in order to give themselves the best chance at winning the rally. That’s definitely a true statement and a winning strategy. After all, approximately 80% ...
More Pickleball Doubles Strategies
Pickleball Singles Strategy
The pickleball singles game is evolving. It's no longer simply a serve, return and a passing shot that is either made or missed. Singles points are lasting longer. Drops are being executed. Angles are being played. And, as a result, more and more people are beginning to play and are rethinking their strategy on the pickleball court.
Bisect the Angle – A Pickleball Singles Court Positioning Strategy
I see it seemingly all the time when playing pickleball – particularly in singles from players who don’t have a tennis background and haven’t yet learned proper court positioning strategy. They execute a nice, deep return-of-serve or a penetrating groundstroke that pulls their opponent wide to one side or the ...
Top 10 Pickleball Singles Strategies to Up your Game!
If you’ve played singles previously, you undoubtedly know all too well that playing singles in pickleball is very different than playing doubles. It has the feel of an almost entirely different game. Whereas doubles is more about precision, patience and placement, singles tends to reward power, speed and stamina. Although ...
Pickleball Singles Strategy – Hit Behind your Opponent & Wrong Foot ‘Em!
Playing singles in pickleball is, unquestionably, a different animal than the traditional doubles game. Singles requires physical stamina, anticipation and a different strategy than that in doubles. Be prepared to sprint, split step, stop, change directions – and do it all over again. And again. And again. Not that doubles ...
Pickleball Singles — Scoring & Strategy
This past Thursday at Woodside – presented with an open pickleball court (a rare occasion) and not enough people to play doubles – my friend and I took advantage of the opportunity to play singles. In nearly two years of playing pickleball on Tuesdays and Thursdays, this was the first ...
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