We are new pickleball players ourselves, and just played a tournament a couple of weeks ago. We were in the 2.5 bracket, but had to play 3.0+ teams. We didn't win any games, but luckily weren't pickled either. Not sure if you want any feedback on this game or not, and I'm certainly not the expert. If not, just ignore the following. Getting to the NVZ after return of serve is essential. There's really no reason for your feet not to be planted at that line before the serving team hits the 3rd. A coach gave me some very important advice recently. As the serving team, you have to earn your way to the NVZ with well placed drops. If not, stay put. You guys hit some great shots. I enjoyed watching this game!
Thanks for sharing. I see a lot of good on both sides of the court for newer/lower-level players. Keep communicating with each other as that will be needed as you progress. When serving it's better to hit it deeper over trying to hit it hard. This will make it harder for them to return as well as should allow for less service errors. Make sure your own service returns are also deep and with some loft so you have time to get to the kitchen. It is important to make a real effort each time to move to the nvz/kitchen quickly and fully. When you move to far back from the line, then you are no longer able to block or dink like you will practice. A drill to help while at the nvz is called a fast hands drill. It's basically just 2 (or more) standing across from each other hitting shots to each other without letting them hit the ground. Start slow and increase the speed back and forth each time you do it. You'll gain a lot of hand speed and trust in playing tight at the kitchen.
@@562pickleball We do a great drill for this. Put tape four feet in front of the back line on opposite sides. Try to get your serve in past the tape, and have your partner put her return past the tape and in back on your side. Finish with a third shot drop for good measure. Give yourselves a "point" each time you do this when practicing. Once you get three points, move on to another drill. You will have a good deep serve and return in no time!
That is not 3.0 level play. Look at those serves, look at the drops, dinking, swing paths on the strokes. I’d say that is definitely 3.5 play. You guys will kill it in the 2.5 tourney. Great communication about within points. The one tip I would make is for the lady to move up. If you go back and look, whenever you guys would serve, she would kind of lazily wander up to the transition zone (and slightly toward the center line) with her paddle down at her side. The other team scored a couple points off of that - especially toward the end. Each time, she would say, “I didn’t see it coming.” Those were balls she easily could have gotten had she been “ready.” She’s fast/good enough. You can’t afford to give points away like that. That was the difference between y’all winning and losing that game.
Nice video, guys. You're getting a lot better each time. I'm on my journey to improving as well. Wishing you the best and I'll keep watching these are you post them.
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Awesome channel, thanks for sharing - keep them coming!!
We are new pickleball players ourselves, and just played a tournament a couple of weeks ago. We were in the 2.5 bracket, but had to play 3.0+ teams. We didn't win any games, but luckily weren't pickled either. Not sure if you want any feedback on this game or not, and I'm certainly not the expert. If not, just ignore the following. Getting to the NVZ after return of serve is essential. There's really no reason for your feet not to be planted at that line before the serving team hits the 3rd. A coach gave me some very important advice recently. As the serving team, you have to earn your way to the NVZ with well placed drops. If not, stay put. You guys hit some great shots. I enjoyed watching this game!
Thank you for the advice! We’ll definitely work on that this week
Thanks for sharing. I see a lot of good on both sides of the court for newer/lower-level players. Keep communicating with each other as that will be needed as you progress. When serving it's better to hit it deeper over trying to hit it hard. This will make it harder for them to return as well as should allow for less service errors. Make sure your own service returns are also deep and with some loft so you have time to get to the kitchen. It is important to make a real effort each time to move to the nvz/kitchen quickly and fully. When you move to far back from the line, then you are no longer able to block or dink like you will practice. A drill to help while at the nvz is called a fast hands drill. It's basically just 2 (or more) standing across from each other hitting shots to each other without letting them hit the ground. Start slow and increase the speed back and forth each time you do it. You'll gain a lot of hand speed and trust in playing tight at the kitchen.
Thanks for the tip! I’ve noticed this about my serves too. We’ll have a new video out sometime today or tomorrow!
@@562pickleball We do a great drill for this. Put tape four feet in front of the back line on opposite sides. Try to get your serve in past the tape, and have your partner put her return past the tape and in back on your side. Finish with a third shot drop for good measure. Give yourselves a "point" each time you do this when practicing. Once you get three points, move on to another drill. You will have a good deep serve and return in no time!
That is not 3.0 level play. Look at those serves, look at the drops, dinking, swing paths on the strokes. I’d say that is definitely 3.5 play.
You guys will kill it in the 2.5 tourney. Great communication about within points.
The one tip I would make is for the lady to move up. If you go back and look, whenever you guys would serve, she would kind of lazily wander up to the transition zone (and slightly toward the center line) with her paddle down at her side. The other team scored a couple points off of that - especially toward the end. Each time, she would say, “I didn’t see it coming.” Those were balls she easily could have gotten had she been “ready.” She’s fast/good enough. You can’t afford to give points away like that. That was the difference between y’all winning and losing that game.
Thanks for the tip! We’ll have videos of the tournament out soon!
Nice video, guys. You're getting a lot better each time. I'm on my journey to improving as well. Wishing you the best and I'll keep watching these are you post them.
Thanks so much, it means a lot! 🫶🏽
Love the communication.
yall seem better than 2.5....
Thank you! We’ve only been playing for 3 months and this will be our first tournament!