Everyone Wants To Spin The Pickleball | Are Spins Right for Pickleball Game? - In2Pickle

Adding extra spin to the pickleball is not right for every pickleball player. Even if it is, there is a cost to adding spins to your pickleball game: (1) there are likely other shots and strategies that will be more beneficial to your game and results that you will not be working on, and (2) your consistency will suffer (you will make more errors on the pickleball court).

Most pickleball players at some point want to add spins into their games. The belief is that adding spins is what is missing to help a player “break out.”

This belief is often misplaced and, in fact, adding spins often retards a player’s improvement. Or worse yet, results in deterioration of the player’s game.

In this pickleball video series, we look at spins. The very first topic (covered in Video 1) is to examine whether pickleball spins are really “all that.” What is the actual impact of spin on your pickleball shots? And does this impact merit the time and attention that spins will require to learn in addition to the increase in errors from the added variability of spins in your shots. Once you watch the video you will be better informed as to whether spins are worth adding to your pickleball game.

The second video covers some common mistakes in how spins are hit by pickleball players. In a nutshell, you cannot use the same techniques used to spin a tennis ball to spin a pickleball. A pickleball paddle is vastly different from a tennis racket, particularly the lack of any strings. And a pickleball is different than a tennis ball, importantly the lack of any felt. In this video, we demonstrate some of the common errors made by pickleball players trying to impart spin onto their shots.

The third video shows the proper technique for applying spin to a pickleball. Rather than brushing the ball tennis style, we show you a technique that respects the nature of a pickleball paddle as well as a pickleball. The technique also provides greater consistency by focusing on getting the ball where you want it to go (including over the net).

It is a fine thing to be able to spin the ball. It is important, however, to know the tradeoffs you are making whenever you try to impart extra spin onto the ball. Even the pros (who can spin the ball as well as anyone) know when to avoid adding spin to the ball – when to hit a more reliable shot: one without spin.

Become an informed pickleball player and you will be able to make better decisions about your pickleball game. We encourage you to watch this entire video to know how to spin the pickleball the right way to enrich your pickleball game strength. This pickleball training video also helps to increase your technique of pickleball spin serve, pickleball spin slow motion, and more. You can also utilize how to backspin, or slice, quite a bit. How to grip the pickleball paddles, pickleball spin return. If you're a beginner pickleball game player then you should consider watching our more videos to know all about the pickleball games, how to play pickleball, and all the beginners to advance level pickleball techniques.

0:00 Introduction to Pickleball Spins Series
0:47 The Three Types of Pickleball Shots: Topspin, Neutral, Underspin
1:37 Demonstration of the three shots showing the pickleball spin of each
2:57 The costs of adding spins to your pickleball game
4:10 Our recommendation about adding spins to your game

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Tony
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