STOP Hitting Out Balls (3 On-Court Drills)
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- In this video, we've got you covered with three essential on-court drills designed to help you improve your accuracy and consistency, ultimately leading to fewer balls hit out of bounds.
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In baseball there is a common saying that basically goes, “Sit on the fastball and adjust to the off-speed.” The reason is if you are looking for a slower pitch it is almost impossible to catch up to a fastball if you guessed wrong. I feel this is similar to being at the kitchen in pickleball. Always expect the speed up and you can easily adjust to a dink. Not so much the other way around. This doesn’t necessarily pertain to letting out balls go, but I just liked the Albert Pujols reference. He’s one of my all-time favorite players.
amazing vid, ty Kyle!! i would love to see in-the-air speedups for another vid in comparison to off-the-bounce
In the future!!
Wow this is a really solid video. Great drill and information.
Your videos are extremely informative AND entertaining. Keep it up!
Glad they're helpful!
Great job, both with the teaching points and the use of video tools! Keeping it fun while making your points is what you are good at. Thank you, continued success.
Glad you enjoyed it!
i love this breakdown! Thanks Kyle
Thanks for watching
Great video bro
We love your videos. Keep up the amazing content
Thank you so much!
Thumbnails are getting too good
Thanks!
One of the best instructional pickleball videos I have ever seen. Love the statistical approach with percentages, the baseball story, and most importantly those bars 🔥
Thanks! Glad it was helpful
Great analogies and a well thought out drill plan for this difficult skill. I even see the best pros having difficulty with it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tip.
Good lesson Kyle, like in many sports, or poker, you look for the tells as the player who anticipates better will usually win. Though I hope your heart isn't set on rapper as a back up career.
😂 I'm going all in on rapping later in my life.
This is so good...going to practice this this weekend.
Awesome!
Definitely lots to think about! I think I'll focus on the bounce height and if my opponent is turning sideways to drive the ball. I wouldn't mind seeing a future video building on this, like tips for how to disguise your shot. Thanks!
A lot to think about for sure. I'm still struggling with this, honestly. Its just so hard, ESPECIALLY when players are good at disguising. Which they become much better at at higher levels.
As far as disguising, try not to shift your feet as dramatically or have as big of a backswing.
Yes. Coming from tennis, that's my number one issue: trying to use backswing much less. Cheers!@@thatpickleballguy
I so needed to see this.
Glad it was helpful!
I hate that feeling of letting a ball go and then turning around and seeing it stay in. And I realize that a lot of the time it was my opponent's topspin that kept it in. To me, topspin is a big factor in the out ball decision.
The topic is a great one. Thank you! The thing I've learned that sticks the most with me is the lower and closer to the net, the more likely it will be hit up. If youre playing someone that bangs it, expect the up to be out.
Great point!
This is good stuff, thank you Kyle! I am so sick of hitting out-balls! Do you have any suggestions for practicing letting out balls go using my Slingerbag?
Yeah I've thought a little about this. Sure you could set it up and have balls fly past your head, but not sure the actual transfer to a game because you're not getting real time cues. You'd know each time what shot you're receiving. I think its much better to do this with someone.
Great video! I sent this to my wife from your email before I even watched it, telling her 'Kyle is a great coach plus he makes if fun'. Did not disappoint now that I have watched it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing!
Kyle, it is a very timely and useful video, thank you for sharing it! It is quite difficult to come up with a progression to teach how to let out balls go, I must say, you came up with a really good sequence of drills, and video editing is top notch! I tried the ball avoidance part with a ball machine today, and will practice the complete sequence with a partner very soon. I must say, getting out of the way of a fast ball is not easy. Out of 500 balls in my practice, I was hit in the chest maybe 20-30-40 times. It kind of hurts! Even if I know that I need to move out of the way, the time to do it is oftentimes too short. Do you have advice, can you share your best known method how to move your body quickly to get out of the way? Maybe some drills without a ball to get away from the path of the ball quickly? That could be a very valuable addition to you series of two videos on this topic. I tried rotation around one leg (basically, making a step backwards with the other leg and turning my whole body sideways to the court) and shuffling to the side. I strongly suspect there may be a better way.
Thanks for watching. Glad it's helpful! Yeah the ball machine can be a good start but it doesn't let you practice reading the cues. So I definitely recommend a person on the other side.
As far as getting out of the way, I'm still exploring best way. I do think often, we should lean toward the outside, (chest facing middle of the court) because more balls are sped up through the middle than they are down the lines.
As far as technique, I typically do a "matrix lean" like NEO. But honestly don't know the best way yet. Still experimenting myself :)
@@thatpickleballguyThank you so much, Kyle, for your reply and thoughts! I worked on it with a partner, and it was extremely helpful! I am so much grateful for this tutorial! Changing the mentality and development of the reflex to not hit the ball is such a big part of this process! It takes definitely more than one drilling session to get rid of the old habit of trying to hit every ball, but even after an hour of drilling there is a significant improvement. I discovered that with a ball machine, if I place myself right in the path of a fast ball, it requires a lot of agility to get out of the way and ball often hits me or grazes my clothes despite my best effort to avoid it. In practice with a partner, instances when ball flies straight in my chest (or in my face) seem to be less common. I would love to be more Neo-like, but for now, I figured out that if a ball is very fast and flies straight into my body, I have relatively low rate of success of getting out of the path of the ball, but a fairly high success rate blocking the ball. After all, chest is a perfect location for backhand block. If it is headed towards my shoulder, or past my body (where I can reach it if I follow my "old" instincts, it is not nearly as difficult to get out of the way. If you come up with good ideas or good drills straight from the Matrix, please share!
Another great video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gifted teacher!
Thank you for the kind words!
I would like to add to also watch your opponent's body tense up from a relaxed state. If goes from relaxed to tense, im expecting a speed up. Great video. Definitely important to predict vs just react.
Thanks for watching!
Great vid. Any thoughts on when the driver is taking it on the backhand?
this is dependent on the player more than anything. do they have a good backhand or not? Can they generate topspin or not?
yeah this is a timely video. I keep thinking about this one ball that my friend sped up (from a few feet shy of the baseline). he looked like he had kind of a big windup. I was able to get a hand on the ball but have been thinking ever since, hmm, what if I just let that ball go. I feel like 60% it may have gone out and 40% maybe he was skilled enough to get the ball down. well, it was kind of a high bounce though (like probably at least the height of the net so maybe it would have come down enough to stay in... thanks for the content
FOr sure. Let it go. Get more data. See what happens with those shots!
Awesome content and production on this video! A personal request - I would love to hear your thoughts on playing in a DUPR recorded open play situation or a ladder league where you are playing with different partners but the outcome matters. I find I do really well when I'm partnered with a person who is at my level of putting away popups, combining the hard and soft game, and letting the obvious outballs go. But I get really frustrated when I get with a partner who makes a lot of unforced errors and the other team starts picking on them. Then I feel the pressure of trying to hit a winner on a marginal opportunity, but I often blow it because I'm not in the flow of the game.
Very real situation you're talking about.
Idk the best answer as far as playing in those DUPR recorded matches. My gut is, play them. It's good to get experience with different partners. Ideally, you're playing with similar skill level so theres not as often a weaker player that can get picked on. At the end of the day, I do think players start to get rated around the correct area with enough data. Don't live and die by every match. Think Long Term.
As far as hitting winners on marginal opportunities. To me, that's actually a sound strategy IF you know your partner
(1) is weaker
(2) is getting picked on
And you may only have one or two balls to hit before they go back to picking on them.
the best chance to win the point may be for you to take a higher risk shot.
Right on - awesome production and highly useful content as always.
Real talk though: what kind of glasses are those? "My friend" needs some clear eye protection that doesn't make him look like Macho Man Randy Savage.
These ones are specific for playing. They are actually a camera too. ha! That's why I was wearing them. I know Riya eyewear has some good ones.
Great vid Kyle. You should do a clinic here in Casa Grande. Hint hint 😊
Thanks! and maybe some time in the future :)
@@thatpickleballguy I’ll sign up!
Extremely good looking drill
crack me up and teach me stuff at the same time. Best PB instruction on TH-cam...by far!
THank you!!
Over here in the PNW we call Erik Lang “Agent Smith”
Eat your beans for every meal! This is great.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It’s easier said than done. In the drills we know that the ball is gonna be coming as speed up so easy to duck. Whereas in the games the toughest part is guessing whether the speed up comes or not. The reaction time is so less that the natural reflex of brain is to counter when the ball is hitting your body.
Completely agree. I said the drills up like that on purpose.
Progression. 1 - you know its coming, must let it go.
PRogression 2 - you know its coming, can counter or dodge.
Progression 3 - Speed up comes within 5 balls.
So for progression 3, you don't know exactly when its coming, BUT, to your point, you still know its coming.
I opted not to add another progression in here, bUT....
... the next level of this would be putting it into skinny singles, where both players can attack and no one knows when the other is speeding up. Then, I'd put it into a 4 person kitchen game where your main focus is on letting balls go, but theres not a prescribed rule on who's speeding up and when.
You really do need to break down complex situations into smaller components for analysis.
Can you give me an example?
@@thatpickleballguy I was complimenting the fact that you so thoroughly break down complex concepts into their most basic components. I really love your approach!
What if I am the type of player that predict and move into the ball and get body bagged because I always predict wrong?
That'll happen for sure. But over time you'll get better at predicting!
When did become left handed?
I was gunna say the thumbnail was on point but someone beat me to it
Thanks!! Matrix inspired!!
Let's see a baseball player generally hits three out of 10 times. In softball that ball is rising which is something that Major leaguers aren't used to hitting.
If i am in the kitchen & my partner, who is outside the kitchen, hits the ball in the air. Am I at fault?
? You didn't touch the ball, so no. But let out of the kitchen quick because opponents will hit it at you to trap you in the kitchen!
@@kathleenmontavon8630
Thank you. great tip too. I didn't even think of being a target in the kitchen.
Correct!
Nice!!
An "outball" video that's got teeth..
P.s. "I'M LOOKING INTO YOUR SOUL"...
Glad you liked it!
I only made it through the 1st 4 minutes of this video. I was watching it to see if a friend could use it. I luckily have no trouble letting out balls go - 40 years of tennis doubles experience. I appreciate your attempt help teach this skill but I wouldn’t suggest this video to anyone I know. IMO way too complicated. I guess I do it from experience. Maybe I’ll watch it again another time. 😂
Thanks for the feedback!
I did my best to simplify as much as i could.
Tough thing about this topic is, its not easy to get good at, as ive heard many people say.
Sure 40 years of tennis can definitely help, but many have no sports background or limited racquet sport experience.
So most hit everything, and i believe whats in this video, is the reason why.
And a good start for how to begin correcting it.
Why you playing lefty? Because you're feeding righty?
Hurt wrist!
Those silly graphics don’t help the lesson at all. They are distracting and too quick to have any meaning. The sound effects are ridiculous. Also if you slow the Phuck down perhaps more people could understand.
Hey Daniel!
Always open to feedback! Especially constructive notes.
You mentioned "silly" graphics. Can you point to which section you think is silly?
And you mentioned distracting and too quick. Can you give a time stamp on those sections as well? Also, could you suggest an alternative? Would it be better with no graphics at those places?
Also, with the sound effects, all of the sound effects, or just some of them are "ridiculous?
And on speed, noted. I gotta work on that :)
Thanks for the notes.
Personally, I feel the opposite of each statement you made :) The graphics are absolutely amazing, some of the best I've seen on TH-cam for educational content. I like the sound effects as well for staying engaged. The pace is great for me. I'm not knocking your opinion at all. Cheers. Kyle (and editor/s) keep up the great work.