Pickleball Shots: Get OUT OF TROUBLE with this move - the elastic tether
Pickleball Shots: Get OUT OF TROUBLE with this move - the elastic tether
Pickleball doubles is a team sport. Moving with your partner is key to playing good Pickleball.
Pickleball Movement - A Key Component of your Pickleball Game.
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00:00 Starting of Tony Roig's Explanation
03:56 Starting of CJ Johnson's Explanation
05:32 Tony Roig
07:22 CJ Johnson (Better Pickleball)
08:30 Tony Roig
09:18 CJ Johnson (Better Pickleball)
09:30 Tony Roig
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All right, so I'm going to walk you guys through this; I'll walk you through it as we go. These are two excellent teams. This is a Nationals match. I believe it's 4.5. Smart players on both sides.
Let’s look at the tension or dance between the serve and the return.
The white and red team on this site are trying to solve the puzzle, the initial part of the game, which is getting up to the NVZ. Now it's when they finally get the shot, the lady in white gets the shot that she wants, and now they start coming up. But calmly, moving together.
They make it up, and we are at a neutral rally. This is what we're talking about. If you get to this stage of the rally, you're getting into the meat of the matter. So here you're going to see a dink that goes a little bit high, and then white decides, “OK, let me go.” And she does with a nice body shot here.
Attacking her opponent. And then this rally, we're focusing on movement, but that's a good shot to have.
The ball comes back to sort of oddly, and red has to go get it. White does not just stand there. White moves to cover along the elastic tether. White moves with red, not exactly the same, but moves to the middle.
Because red is off the court, white is the only player left. White basically gets to play singles right now.
Now, red hits a jam shot. Now, this is what we talked about earlier, too. She's in trouble. Reds clearly in trouble here, right the way she's moving. So when she gets to this ball, what she decides to do (and I've done this successfully many times in tournament play and rec play), but basically, she just throws this ball at her opponent into the body.
And jams her opponent. And then that allows white to get set up. Red is going to come back on the court. This is the shot of the rally right here. This shot right here. It's such a beautiful shot by the white player, recognizing that her opponent has not recovered from the last shot. So all of this court is open over here. This player recognizes the open space and then hits this beautiful little dink over here, stressing the other team.
Now, if you remember, what did white do when red got stressed? White came to the middle of the court. Her opponent’s partner, however, does not go to the middle. Her opponent basically stays and keeps her position. That is what opens up that gap that we talked about earlier. So a gap opens between the two players. She moves a little bit there, but not enough. And it's too late now. The player in white, again, a savvy player, is going to put the point away. But she's not going to hit it hard.
She's going to drop it in there. And that's what ends the rally. What you're seeing is you're seeing movement, how moving a player around and by the white player. And a lot of times during play, they want to know one thing: the putaway. We look at this shot, and we say nice shot, and there's nothing wrong with that shot. That's a fine shot. But the nice shot. Is the early masterful placement dink.
This is just finishing. What I tell partners of mine when I have it, my partner hits a shot like the one before that. I said it was a masterful shot, and I put it away. I always say I had the “don't mess it upshot.” Basically, it's a shot that I better not mess up. My partner did all the work right, all the heavy lifting by hitting the really nice shot that set my put away.
But it wasn't my put away that was the key to the rally. The key to the rally was the shot that sets up the put-away.
Good luck out there.
Tony
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