Great advice 👌 I picked up pickleball recently to keep up my fitness and reflexes while I was rehabbing my shoulder and elbow from tennis. I did my first drill today w a pro and he spent his one-on-one time w me teaching me proper pickleball technique and undoing my tennis muscle memory 😅 I’ve started watching your vids to further my pickle-specific knowledge and they’ve been tremendous
It will be worth it. Former tennis player here as well. Been working on topspin roll volleys because they're actually offensive shots in pickleball. Had to unlearn slice volleys (which I LOVED so much) because they weren't offensive much in pickleball. Good luck!
I came from a lot of doubles tennis so the tennis volley is hard to get rid of...where I find that a tennis sytle volley helps me is when a ball is driven from the midcourt or deep court and I can volley it back at their feet over and over until they pop it up high enough to get the winner. In a volley battle it would never work though like you showed. Great info.
Great video Zane, I just moved from tennis to pickleball about a month ago, this video helps. The pickleball players aren't use the amount spin I hit with my tennis strokes, just wish the pickleball would just bounce higher!
Great video. I suffer from the same tennis volley syndrome. I also noticed that when you volley, you end up with the paddle facing sideways as if you are swatting flies. Your partner does what I do and and the end of the volley the paddle is forwards and facing up. This leads to pop ups and during fast exchanges the balls keeps getting higher until the opponent smashes it. 3:32 shows their paddle facing up. Are you using a continental grip? From the video it almost looks like it's moved over a touch towards eastern forehand. I've seen more and more players (some very good), using more of an eastern forehand grip due the ability to create more flat or topspin shots. And they just deal with the strange backhand volley position.
Zane - this is awesome instruction. I love how you condense and explain things so they make sense. Thank you. Murray is awesome too, by the way.
Great advice 👌 I picked up pickleball recently to keep up my fitness and reflexes while I was rehabbing my shoulder and elbow from tennis. I did my first drill today w a pro and he spent his one-on-one time w me teaching me proper pickleball technique and undoing my tennis muscle memory 😅 I’ve started watching your vids to further my pickle-specific knowledge and they’ve been tremendous
Realized I've been doing all my volleys tennis style. Ugh, now I have to change my muscle memory.
It will be worth it. Former tennis player here as well. Been working on topspin roll volleys because they're actually offensive shots in pickleball. Had to unlearn slice volleys (which I LOVED so much) because they weren't offensive much in pickleball. Good luck!
I came from a lot of doubles tennis so the tennis volley is hard to get rid of...where I find that a tennis sytle volley helps me is when a ball is driven from the midcourt or deep court and I can volley it back at their feet over and over until they pop it up high enough to get the winner. In a volley battle it would never work though like you showed. Great info.
Great videos. Love. Do you have a video on your grip?
Great video Zane, I just moved from tennis to pickleball about a month ago, this video helps. The pickleball players aren't use the amount spin I hit with my tennis strokes, just wish the pickleball would just bounce higher!
Tennis has it's advantages, that's for sure!
The lack of bounce and the soft game around the kitchen have been the two biggest challenges for me to adapt from tennis
Pretty entertaining and good info. as well. THX.
Great video. I suffer from the same tennis volley syndrome. I also noticed that when you volley, you end up with the paddle facing sideways as if you are swatting flies. Your partner does what I do and and the end of the volley the paddle is forwards and facing up. This leads to pop ups and during fast exchanges the balls keeps getting higher until the opponent smashes it. 3:32 shows their paddle facing up.
Are you using a continental grip? From the video it almost looks like it's moved over a touch towards eastern forehand. I've seen more and more players (some very good), using more of an eastern forehand grip due the ability to create more flat or topspin shots. And they just deal with the strange backhand volley position.
would love to know the answer to the grip question too!
Silly Murray! Dilly likes to escape the warehouse and go looking for bunnies. Hope to see you soon Zane! Great video I shared with all my coaches
Do you lead your paddle at all? Don’t think I’ve seen you with any on it yet.
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Does everyone practice at the same court? You, the John’s brothers etc….
That’s one of the MLP team owner’s courts in Austin so very welcoming for videos and pro training.