The #1 Reason 4.0 Pickleball Players Struggle (And How To Fix It!)

I'm with my friends who are all 4.0 level players they play games and do drills a couple times a week but aren't seeing any direct Improvement in their play I'm going to watch them play a match and do a live breakdown critiquing them every time something goes wrong make sure to stay till the end of the video because we have a fun format where you guys are all going to play each other and the winners will take home a brand new carbon true foam paddle any questions no let's go let's go nice speed up that

was a good point nice good nice good point good good point now that's a perfect example Mike hit a short return clearly it was like bouncing here on the court we knew Franchesca was going to drive it every time your partner should drive it when it's a short return like that but Mark you stayed like this walking so they feel no pressure where as soon as I see a short return and I know my partner's going to drive it I'm going to go up like this so if she hits it they're like oh if I

don't hit a perfect ball it's going to get smashed so any ball I'm here to put it away make sense good that's fine don't play that just we won't put that in good same exact thing for you Mike Mike has a short return in the middle of the Court you're standing next to him when he's hitting the drop as soon as I see that the ball is short in the middle of the court I'm going to trust that my partner isn't going to throw up an overhead them and it's going to be like somewhat low

I want to be up applying pressure so they feel something when you guys stay even there's no threat to them at all that is like a small thing that goes a massive way nice great point no comment that was a good point good exactly you see that that's exactly it short return she crashed like you feel if this isn't good it's going perfect that is the difference right there good great Point yeah way to move the dinks around yeah good only change I would do on that Drive yeah you hit a great serve you get

a return here she's in the midcourt but you hit it to the guy that's at the net does that make sense go to the person at the net get it to her feet that's so hard for her to get that you know what I mean but when you H it there your advantage goes from here back to neutral good got to attack that first ball anything near net height this has to get attacked every time good great great that's another great Point stay at the net everybody that's a great point there so Mike hit a

good dink from here to that corner right you guys need to shrink the court like this you step over as well yeah yeah shrink the cord like this now reach in with your paddle look at this pressure that she feels if it's not perfect you're standing here now the cord is so open as soon as a ball is sharp in a corner shrink over the line and just make her feel pressure where now you can speed it up good good point good drive though you lost that one but you won like three before that good

good point good point both you guys good that's righty stay to n real quick same thing as before they're hitting balls you're hitting them from here like this when they're hitting shots like that and you're trying to keep them back be out and give like just a like when you're here and you have a massive just jolt of energy it's way more pressure you're like here and then like just reaching for it when they're back take advantage stay out in front and make them like feel the the power the feel the pain feel the wrath

ni nice yep that's right Mike uh dong do you know what you did wrong there defending your body we never want to defend our body like this but just know anything body it has to be backand good Mike way to change it up there woo oh wow good job both you guys so a little Coach's Corner if I was watching from the outside and I wanted to give them advice say I'm coaching them this is what I would say you're dinking well and getting good like dead dinks out wide I realized neither of them have

a two-handed backhand out wide so I would try and speed the ball Up Down the Line because I guarantee you you're going to get a lot of slices like this and you guys are going to score a lot of points look for Speed UPS down the line when you get a backhand out wide oh Coach's Corner did not work Corner got a little nervous [Applause] great Point wow guys nice good so real quick Mike CH need come up here no no so you had a great flick the next step in your game is if I'm

a player I'm going to recognize this every time you're flicking the ball you're natural like it's natural to go like this every time it's going through the middle going through the middle your next step you might already have it or not but here down the line at the body it's always better to flick it at the person in front of you then cross yeah right idea Franchesca the reason you're missing it is you're starting your swing here instead of already here you start too far back start already out yeah like a jolt of energy good

Mark just up good I feel like when we're at the net dinking especially with you guys over there it's a lot of like I feel like lunging a little bit instead of taking like that extra step where you guys have balls where you'll miss into the net cuz you let the ball get too close or you're reaching whereas the proper way way is like when you're playing like no matter where it is always get the feet behind the ball just all right that was great playing by you guys The Twist to win these paddles like

I said earlier in the video is going to be something very fun so we've had our camera woman the whole time behind the camera my mom the way that we're going to do it is my mom and I are going to play the team of you guys two and two whoever scores the most amount of points on us that team will win the paddles got it it yeah okay not much emotion there here we go all right so how are you feeling we're going to play take on them what's going through your mind were you

expecting this I was not expecting the twist I don't have pickle ball shoes on and they're 4.0 all right you're not going to hit many balls let's go whoever's talking Mike yeah here we go mom good good job good job yeah here we go me the winners of the paddle are Mike chelini here you go and Mark [Music] Valera and our losers Franchesca and Mike dong also a special thanks to our friend Andy who owns Pro Shop pickleball in New Jersey for letting us use his court guys thanks for watching if you want to see

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