Footwork 101: shuffle step (never cross step). As soon as you cross the center of your body you have compromised your athletic ability. If the opponent chooses to go the other direction it now takes an extra step to switch back. This is universal in almost all sports.
Total understand your point and appreciate the insight you are adding to this video. I would agree to this completely if I was coaching basketball or teaching an athlete on covering an opponent, but I am addressing a net based sport, where I am showcasing how to blend covering as much space on the court, while being efficient with your movements. Where working to stay square to the net is the goal. Shuffling, though effective on staying balanced and controlled, is important to teach and perform for 1-3 side steps, wouldn't be advised or an efficient way to move if you wanted to travel further across the court, like I am showcasing in this video. Would you not agree? Many clients are taught to either shuffle for about 1-3 steps then turn and sprint forward if going further, which to your point would cause the athlete to twist their hips, then have to stop, turn around, and waste time doing this. What the crossover step teaches is how a client can accelerate to the side within a 5 yard span so that they can load at the point of change and accelerate out of that position without changing the initial athletic position. A perfect example of this is during the 5/10/5 pro-agility test conducted during the NFL combine. You see the crossover step and loading pattern happen almost exclusively now because of how effective and quick it is. Which is the same point that is being explained here in this video; ie. how to be quick and effective to cover more court in less time.
@ I agree that I learned this from soccer. But watching pro pickleball I have never seen a player cross step. Not even in singles. So I still think you would be far better off staying on balance and learning to be explosive without compromising that balance. Your point on the 5/10/5 sounds more like an explanation on why it’s not an effective test. You know the direction you need to move can’t change. Pickleball isn’t that way and you need to be able to adjust in less time than probably any other sport because of the size of the court and speed of the ball. If I saw my opponent doing that I would start disguising my shots so that they were spending time unwinding their legs constantly.
@@devinholmes4018 I understand your point… and I can’t dismiss that the “cross over step” drill, highlighted here, is not done exclusively this way during a game, but it used as a way to teach the fluidity of lateral movement and loading body mechanics. This helps teach a client how to explode out laterally and cover more court without committing 100% in one direction… which to your earlier point would add and extra movement and step. This is also a movement drill that should be considered to help educate a client how to load laterally while driving out into an accelerated forward movement without stopping, twisting, then driving into a forward sprint. This drill creates the starting foundation on blending multidirectional movements to forward acceleration sprint training. The highlighted point to all of this would be that this is a “drill” to help educate and teach clients about body mechanics and fluidity of human movement in order to help prevent injuries and provide confidence in their functional fitness foundation and not the skill of pickleball, which instructors and coaches love to do. This is also why, I believe, pickleball has so many injuries.
It’s part of the movement process to teach people how to move better on the court. The majority of players are not professional athletes and need to be taught these drills to be mindful and aware of how to move their body.
@@StackTraxFitness I like your video. I was laughing at Don's comment. The exercises you are showing are for agility, explosiveness, etc, and anyone who is serious about improving their performance in any sport should do stuff like that, and athletes in all sports do them. Good video, and good stuff!
Footwork 101: shuffle step (never cross step). As soon as you cross the center of your body you have compromised your athletic ability. If the opponent chooses to go the other direction it now takes an extra step to switch back. This is universal in almost all sports.
Total understand your point and appreciate the insight you are adding to this video. I would agree to this completely if I was coaching basketball or teaching an athlete on covering an opponent, but I am addressing a net based sport, where I am showcasing how to blend covering as much space on the court, while being efficient with your movements. Where working to stay square to the net is the goal. Shuffling, though effective on staying balanced and controlled, is important to teach and perform for 1-3 side steps, wouldn't be advised or an efficient way to move if you wanted to travel further across the court, like I am showcasing in this video. Would you not agree?
Many clients are taught to either shuffle for about 1-3 steps then turn and sprint forward if going further, which to your point would cause the athlete to twist their hips, then have to stop, turn around, and waste time doing this.
What the crossover step teaches is how a client can accelerate to the side within a 5 yard span so that they can load at the point of change and accelerate out of that position without changing the initial athletic position.
A perfect example of this is during the 5/10/5 pro-agility test conducted during the NFL combine. You see the crossover step and loading pattern happen almost exclusively now because of how effective and quick it is. Which is the same point that is being explained here in this video; ie. how to be quick and effective to cover more court in less time.
@ I agree that I learned this from soccer. But watching pro pickleball I have never seen a player cross step. Not even in singles. So I still think you would be far better off staying on balance and learning to be explosive without compromising that balance.
Your point on the 5/10/5 sounds more like an explanation on why it’s not an effective test. You know the direction you need to move can’t change. Pickleball isn’t that way and you need to be able to adjust in less time than probably any other sport because of the size of the court and speed of the ball.
If I saw my opponent doing that I would start disguising my shots so that they were spending time unwinding their legs constantly.
@@devinholmes4018 I understand your point… and I can’t dismiss that the “cross over step” drill, highlighted here, is not done exclusively this way during a game, but it used as a way to teach the fluidity of lateral movement and loading body mechanics. This helps teach a client how to explode out laterally and cover more court without committing 100% in one direction… which to your earlier point would add and extra movement and step. This is also a movement drill that should be considered to help educate a client how to load laterally while driving out into an accelerated forward movement without stopping, twisting, then driving into a forward sprint.
This drill creates the starting foundation on blending multidirectional movements to forward acceleration sprint training.
The highlighted point to all of this would be that this is a “drill” to help educate and teach clients about body mechanics and fluidity of human movement in order to help prevent injuries and provide confidence in their functional fitness foundation and not the skill of pickleball, which instructors and coaches love to do. This is also why, I believe, pickleball has so many injuries.
I have never seen a pro pickleball singles player move like that. Lol
It’s part of the movement process to teach people how to move better on the court. The majority of players are not professional athletes and need to be taught these drills to be mindful and aware of how to move their body.
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@@StackTraxFitness I like your video. I was laughing at Don's comment.
The exercises you are showing are for agility, explosiveness, etc, and anyone who is serious about improving their performance in any sport should do stuff like that, and athletes in all sports do them.
Good video, and good stuff!
@ love it! 1000% 💪🏻👍