I always learn something from you two, and I’m a teaching pro! I hear your voices when I give lessons, and I just smile.

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you Martha

Great video! I’m a new player and your videos have helped me so much. The folks I play with have been so supportive and helpful, but many of them play from near the baseline. I feel like although they are better players, in a sense I have more knowledge about the game than some of them…It feels empowering. Thanks, CJ and Tony!

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it's been helpful and welcome to pickleball.

Definitely some mistakes that will help players play better pickleball. No. 7 is my favorite. Thanks CJ.

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

That's my favorite too Tony. We need to be kind to ourselves! Thanks for shooting this with me! Someday I'm going to string together our blooper reel. We made a few doozies!

With lots of practice and games with so many different players, I am finally getting confidence and making good hits on the pickleball. I recently discovered by asking the folks I play with how they learned the game. The consensus was they learned from each other. None of them seem to know about dinking, getting up to the NVZ, returns, third shot drops, etc. But most seem to love sending that ball speeding down the middle. And then the games end in short order. The guys love to do this shot. I try to slow the game by hitting the ball softer, but it doesn't work for long. Kind of frustrating to me.

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Joyce, I think your situation is fairly common especially since players have tended to play in smaller groups or pods since the pandemic. My guess is that as these players start playing (and losing) against players who have the ability to control the ball they'll change their tactics. In the meantime, keep trying other options so you continue to grow as a player. We have a great podcast about learning from our losses open.spotify.com/episode/4DjtOzuZCnV80D6ViCjGsR?si=qFDsxoPIRTimNLQdAxTang

@anthonygarcia8801

Жыл бұрын

Cool

The "nonviolent" zone!😜 At 5:30 in the closed captioning. You might want to watch the video and see what the cc says that you are saying. There are lots of mistakes - football for pickleball, nonviolence for nonvolly zone, nonbally for nonvolly, nbc for nvz among others.

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick

Great 👍 video keep to the Basics! You guys are great teachers .....thanks thanks 🙏

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Roman!

This was great! I'm definitely hard on myself

@BetterPickleball

Жыл бұрын

So many people are! Remember why you love to play pickleball and try to cut yourself some slack while you work on your game!

Thank you sooo much for the tips on warming up! My body needs warming up and dinking for a few minutes doesn’t do it for me!😅

@BetterPickleball

Жыл бұрын

Dinking warm up is great, but you're not really warming up your whole body!

we hear that at the end of the year, there may be a change in rules to not allow bouncing the ball before the serve. Will that apply to those not in competition?

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Mary, the USA pickleball board voted on Thursday and drop serve is here to stay so don't fret.

@marychaput2735

2 жыл бұрын

YAY!!!

How do I become a member and where do I sign up at

@BetterPickleball

Жыл бұрын

Hi Anthony! If you are interested in signing up for our free Beginner's Guide, you can create your account here wearepickleball.com/beginners/

Know what I think is the number 1 mistake beginning pickleball players make that is very easily fixed? Not reading and learning the rules. If people would learn the rules they’d already know that you don’t have to wait for the ball to bounce before you can step into the kitchen.

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

The rule book is the answer. But as in most sports, new players usually rely on others to help them understand the rules of the game, until they find out if they like the game or not.

@LuvMyCardiKids

2 жыл бұрын

@@BetterPickleball and they’re learning from others who haven’t cracked the rule book either. My sister and I regularly encounter people who think being inside the baseline when serving is fine, or they will be behind the baseline but not between the center and sideline. I have seen people try to straddle the center line or be beside the sideline inside of the baseline, insisting that they’re not on the colored part of the court so it’s legal. And they have been playing for over a year yet never knew that was not legal. Those are just a couple of the serving issues regularly encountered. Some people who have been playing years don’t understand the rules about the kitchen. Or the other day another player told me my serve was illegal because I dropped the ball out of my hand and then hit it. She insisted that the ball had to bounce before I could hit it. Not knowing the rules can be a major issue.

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuvMyCardiKids wow those are major mistakes. If you get frustrated send them to my channel because I’ve done videos on all of those. ;)

wow! I got all the mistakes :-(

@BetterPickleball

Жыл бұрын

Hey Ceclia, make sure to check out our free new player course wearepickleball.com/beginners/. It will help you with some of those mistakes.

The rec group I play in are mostly "bangers" not soft game at all or minimal. Is it inappropriate to ask ( especially in a rec mixed group ( all levels) to ask at the beginning for people to try including a soft game ( dinking?). Not sure how to develop that skill if it is just banging the ball back and forth . I think that dinking is the fun part of the game but seem to be in the minority

@BetterPickleball

2 жыл бұрын

That's a pretty common situation. One of the things you could do is suggest a dink game as a warm up. It's fun and it will help your soft game. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJWfy6x8ebG8Zto.html

Tony talks to fast ! And by doing that he's hard to understood.

@BetterPickleball

Жыл бұрын

Yeah we're trying to get him to slow down and some times it happens. 😆 You should be there when I'm in a hurry and I play our podcast on 1.5😂

Anthonyjgarcia I can't wait to work with you guys thank you for keeping it game good

@BetterPickleball

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and we're looking forward to working with you too!