MASTERING THE PICKLEBALL NET GAME, FACEBOOK GROUP DISCUSSION TOPIC #1

*Pickleball is All Bloggers Facebook Group Discussion Topic #1 “Mastering The Pickleball Net Game and member comments  have been  herein achieved .


MASTERING THE PICKLEBALL NET GAME, FACEBOOK GROUP DISCUSSION TOPIC #1
*When coaching players with multiple unforced error problems, I  recommend this Five Step Game Strategy to minimize their unforced errors and increase their chances of winning.

1. Your best strategy to minimize unforced errors is to get to the net as soon as possible, and stay their until the rally ends. 2. Don’t retreat, and don’t let opponents push you back.
3.Keep a light touch on the ball, aim for the center of the opponents‘ “No Volley Zone.”
4. Make the purpose of each shot is to force your opponents to hit up on the ball, so they can’t smash it back at you.
5. Have patience, let your opponents make the mistakes, and wait for the right shot to capture the point or win the serve. 

This strategy offers a large margin for shot error, slows pace, confuses opponents, minimizes smashing opportunities, and keeps the point alive. Patience will do the rest. 

If this sounds familiar it is, "aka" ” DINKING 101,” something all players should have learned, when they first started playing pickle ball.

*COMMENT Sara M: I actually like to back up from the NVZ when the ball has been popped up because it allows me more time to see and track the ball and this helps me reset the point by trying to get a drop shot in the NVZ and then I approach the NVZ and hopefully can slow it down and get into a dink battle!

*COMMENT Stephanie L: It seems like bangers just want to bang. I rarely see a dink battle in recreational play.

*COMMENT Josh S: As for resetting a point that is all about grip pressure. A light grip can help soften and deaden the ball to reset a point. 

*Kevin Joubert against a "banger", as in a player who has not bothered to develop a drop shot? Then no, stay at the line and get the paddle up, you know it's coming.

*COMMENT Kevin J: Against a likely drive shot, as in me or my partner have hit a return short and the other team is coming up and will likely drive it? Then maybe. In that situation if I can take a quick step back and still get my paddle up and ready I'd do it. But I wouldn't backpedal at the expense of being set and waiting with my paddle up.Problem is many times in the midst of a hard back and forth volley the tendency is to grip harder as the intensity of the moment increases and as adrenaline flows more. So it takes mental practice to be in the moment and to focus to allow your hand to relax on the grip.

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