I coached him to become a 4.5 in LESS than 30 minutes | A private lesson with Jordan Briones

all right dude sweet sweet slide marks that's like you're the palm of your hand right there on the court oh yeah dude look at you can see the you can see the shoelace there I smelled the rubber dude I used to do that when I was a young guy like you yeah [Music] all right I'm here with Ian Westerman from a central tennis I'm gonna give them actually a little intro a quick intro pickleball lesson where we have some four or five guys coming and he's gonna play doubles and we're gonna dominate yeah and we're

gonna play doubles maybe for like the second time second time ever yeah okay so it's gonna be a really quick lesson first real Devils for sure yeah and we'll see we'll see how much we can get through and and we'll I'm just gonna teach him as quick as I can let's go we'll see how it works all right why don't you stick to that other paddle now why because you're used to it already no this is what I had no it's not yeah it is no you're playing with the black one dude is this the

fatter one oh yeah you're right yeah come on bro so Ian I know you're coming from tennis you have already a a good enough serve to get it in I'm not going to worry about that right now your returns are good uh we'll just work on remember we talked about giving yourself some more room yeah um I just want to go over a few volley things and a few thinking things okay and transition okay so let's just get a good sense of how your dinking is because we're probably going to be up here a lot

so we'll see we'll see how it goes yeah oh all right so this is what we'll do we'll play we'll play a point out to Five Points okay okay just uh this half just this half okay and then uh yeah here we go okay okay so I can volley her now oh well what do you think well that should have been a valley okay so um a couple things I already see it already in in tennis yeah we move our feet a lot um especially at the non-voice online uh you know when we're you know

because we're crossing over doing that kind of stuff in this game you're just gonna have to get used to this open stance I know it's really weird okay but uh kind of like Shuffle shuffling you just don't want me to to close well that's okay at times but right now if you're talking about you got to do this and reset every time if you look at the good players they're just boom okay and then they're right back okay so try to you should be able to get everything in one lunge sure or one Shuffle so

let's just try to keep you squared up like even that one there that's but yeah there you go and don't be afraid to hit it closer to the line I know you're trying to drop it in here yeah because like I just wanted to just strategically if I'm let's say I'm hitting you all the balls super short like this yeah but that's fairly easy right like if I push balls at your feet way tougher so I actually want you actually trying to push it a little bit deeper closer to the line okay okay okay good

nice okay there we go there we go good oh okay but already that's better I don't know how does it feel just staying squared up I see the benefit of it it feels weird yeah it doesn't feel right yeah yeah but I see why it'll be better for this okay all right so a couple more here nice good good nice good okay okay so try to take that out of the air yeah so the second thing now I'm gonna say is try um your initial thought process like right away should be trying to follow you

okay right because like if I'm up here that's my first thing and if I can if it's too low or I can't reach it I'll step back and create space okay but like automatically that should be your first thing so right like this first ball take it out of the air good out of the air good see I mean that puts you in way better position right gotcha okay here we go again take all these out of the air perfect nice good and that's perfect and you're now you can cut it off take time away

and move me now gotcha really good again nice good good ball nice good in good okay good good beautiful that's like 10 times better dude really good okay now um so we'll get back to thinking but I want to do some volleys with you like really fast hands sure because that's gonna um get really fast too so also what you'll notice the difference between tennis I know we're doing a lot of this you're gonna just have to get comfortable yeah open stance because we don't have time to step sure okay so we'll just go straight

torso um yeah it's the real uh touching the line or over the line uh touching touching okay but again if you're um you know if you're scared about that I mean just stay a couple inches off totally fine here we go good ball nice yep there we go yep beautiful so really good and what you'll know um super short your Strokes are already a lot shorter than tennis that's all you need and then it's all about keeping the ball down or away sure right you don't have to hit it hard as long as you can

Force low contacts it's really good let's see I mean hit it hit at your feet now or no yeah I mean just play out the point good nice good sorry good good really good okay so now let's do a tank rally um and then if you lift it up at all I'm going to attack you guys so just always be ready okay beautiful it's okay come on baby here we go we'll go to five zero one zero one zero yeah it's just I mean because that's gonna happen a lot that's why it's too short right

I hit my shot too short which one that my lashes no no it's fine I stepped back but I was saying as soon as you see them either step back or drop their paddle it's just a little indicator that they might speed up okay good two zero two one good nice good good in good chicken Wingo oh good no you couldn't do much about that that's a little Network really good though a lot better open stance now you're leaning in perfect okay two three one three off beautiful out of the air yes that's it Ian

it's okay it's all right will you try to attack that one ah yeah I'm back like like medium no no that's fine so again if you're gonna do that I mean you can just same same as like topspin like yeah just just you know brush up on it got it here same one brush up on this ball right okay that's okay yeah I gotta find the right angle yeah let's just start your paddle lower paddlehead yeah right that's the difference and you don't really do this in tennis much unless you come through but yeah you

can actually start like this and then actually just like like a regular ground stroke again it's okay I'll I'll work it out just give me a couple of yeah again that's better good okay same thing just try to attack me and then the only difference you can see your stroke right now like instead of just using your wrist follow through like up okay actually like up there okay good like that much better and then get ready for the next fall good good perfect again nice to go okay now one more time sorry okay we're gonna

play it out here here we go I'll hit that out of the air here we go nice good Ian good that's all right here we go beautiful good way to be ready for this feta it's really good how many of those are you gonna hit today I'll tell you what um well I'll tell you what it happens probably 10 times more right in this game because you're so close than that yeah and our margins are so slim it happens a lot so here we go here we go you're ready good ball nice yeah good I

don't why don't mine go over here let's go let's go so now let's practice this Cross Court so really quick same thing you don't need to open up I would really yeah I mean you could but if I pull you you're gonna have to slide like if I pull you away over there I can't do this yeah so well I can after it bounces right yeah you can okay here sorry we don't have a basket but not until it it bounces right yeah but we'll we'll just practice some cross-core dinks all right here we go

beautiful here nice yup just keep it down good ball yes so right to the feet or somewhere over here just or somewhere over there okay beautiful all you're trying to do is keep it down try to keep it force of low contact good ball nice that's really good good and that's it good good that's really good really nice again okay again here we go that decision making takes time yeah but like if you look for the air First Look for the volley first nice good that's okay nice good good good let's go that way okay

forehand dings here sorry good nice good evening come on I'm just not reading the flow of like no no dude you're doing really good no I'm gonna start reading it though so really quick though so two things right just always be ready to speed up all times yeah number one number two um since you're allowed to be like hold your paddle in a just a slightly backhanded position because yeah all these balls like at your body you're not going to come here sure right so like really speed UPS there you're right there yeah so like

my neutral ready position is somewhere around here here's gonna be just the opposite okay that's okay again beautiful nice good okay there good good nice nice touch oh that's okay again my goal is to get one net card today that's a good goal here we go that's okay come on here we go same ball um we'll get back to that because this is gonna this is basically a fast forward track here to uh four five pickleball in less than 20 minutes let's go um let's go title go to the Baseline I can start to see

it now yeah like sit sitting down like for that for that long you're gonna feel at the end of the today you're gonna feel your hammies yeah or is it hammies yeah okay um so Ian uh this is what I want to want you to think of okay you return you serve the ball I return the ball so after my return I'm coming up yeah okay because my partner's right there so we gotta figure out how to get to the net somehow yeah but right now let's just play it out and see what you do

okay so just straight ahead yeah so let's just pretend that this is the return coming back okay and then um let's just play it all okay oh you're trying to drop it on me I got it here we go go good beautifully nice good okay let's do it again really good job actually okay here we go see it again nice I got one okay so here we go a couple more and a little tougher return on the back end here so no that's good recognition man so when we're back there just just has a tip

right because we're both going to be back that turns gonna be coming back to you just hit your shot and obviously you already have good awareness if it's a little high if you think they're gonna attack it yeah we're gonna we're gonna defend if it's good we're gonna go one thing that you can try because you already have a good drive especially on your forehand why don't you try this drive the first ball low and then they'll volley it but if you get a short ball like the whole purpose of a good third shot Drive

is to pick up something easy on the second ball and then try to drop that one okay okay so here we go that's okay it doesn't it doesn't bounce high so you got to move in on the short ones okay so here we go here's the return okay you see what I'm saying though yeah you can use that as a tactic especially like sometimes the returns are real have a lot of spin or whatever just just drive it over and put yourself in a better spot got it again go beautiful nice Ian be ready always

be ready for the speed up okay that's a great that's a good transition though go oh come on come on come on come on here we go go play it that's okay good good good I know way to be ready just expect every ball to come back here we go again that's all right pick it up okay again go that's it good yes play it out good it's okay so what you'll notice really good I know that was a lot of uh shots at the end there but after your first drive you don't have to

rush right as long as you you hit that ball soft come in and split step every time just make sure you're not moving the fun thing and the good thing about this game as long as you can keep the ball down significantly relatively yeah and low you can advance on that ball and always get back in the point all right so now let's try this you serve it to me we're just this is called Skinny singles but we're gonna go so you're gonna go back there oh you're gonna serve it to me and then I'm

going to return it um and then and then we're gonna play it out cross-court I mean sorry play it out down the line okay okay here we go um so I have to let the first one bounce yep yep that's all right dude here we go I had a little Top Spin on it was that you or the violence um maybe a bit of both these aren't the best course I didn't come up at all here we go again beautiful in it's beautiful come on so close the easy ones it's a little touchy touches go

beautiful yeah that's it that's it good good here we go good beautiful give yourself some margin even when we're dinking here and we're gonna that you're gonna see that a lot but I know you're still work still working through the ball control on the paddle but give yourself some margin on the sidelines there okay here we go again it's okay get there there you go oh good good nice out of the air good good good good you're on the offense there you're really good that's okay so that's where well that's the hard part right if

you're gonna drive it you got to make sure you're kind of stop and split on the next ball and I know it was a little bit short but that's a tough one so you could just drive it and split and wait instead of like just driving crashing yeah sure that's idiot oh come on those are two good drives though that's all it needs to be is low just like that so let's actually go cross-court okay beautiful Ian come on good that's a good rally those are good things again watch it oh give it to me

sorry do it again this ball is lopsided okay is that normal uh it happens I'm gonna stop missing was that a drop or dry drive all right I want to go through one more thing before we stop here yeah here so it's called a reset volley now I wouldn't teach anyone this on the first lesson but you already have a good touch but why don't you go and transition like um no man's Landing tennis I'll come up a little bit anytime we're in kind of this zone right you're either coming up right after your drop

or whatever or or you got pushed back right but there I'm going to be hitting at your feet either way if you could learn how to just soften it which you really have a good touch and then come in right so you're trying to put it here yeah so but here let's just take a couple just work on your touch here so I'm staying here yeah good fun good Ian beautiful yeah okay this is I feel like this is what I need the most yeah I don't have the right feel yet that's all right here

we go beautiful come on that's it no in between no no it's fine that's mine here we go again got it good good Ian that's it good good now let's try this if you're gonna hit that reset let's say you were there yeah once it once you see it down I want you to aggressively come in and then get ready one more time seems to me like you're a little close to your body yeah so just you know good contact like a little bit a foot or two on the front one more time we're shaking

it one more time here to hit the middle beautiful come on in we're gonna play it out good that's that's a good volume ready to lean in again okay reset no it's not even close that's okay so you you gotta like lift up slightly at least right you can't it's not like that right you gotta it's a little lift 30 years of it a little less here we go like that see that yeah yeah there's a tiny bit though you got to reprogram you don't need much you don't need much that's it come on okay

that's it perfect let's do it again a little bit go good Ian perfect wall oh yeah a little Ernie action there that's not fair they might pull that off so so again but um just uh strategically at higher level too um and you don't need to know this but staying away from the sidelines often is always a good thing okay because they can do that kind of thing so you keep more balls to the middle across Court just in general okay it's a smarter play most of the time okay here we go beautiful good great

reset again that's it there it is that's it oh it's okay that's really good man all right here we go last two so just stay back in there I think right it's head towards your body you're already in that position again stay back in backhand there we go okay good wait wait to be ready but you see what I'm saying if you just get low and you're just in that backhand you can get a lot more here we go that's it good oh that's a tough one I'm gonna start sitting on that here we go

well as soon as you see it lift up at all or you think they're gonna attack it just get ready here we go that's okay up Get Low so good wide low base and then lift that's it beautiful beautiful nice in yep that's okay so yeah no that's a good attack you just gotta be ready not a bad attack again let's try this all right now try a drop from the Baseline and then and then come in and split just like that right yeah so it doesn't have to be a perfect drop so because when

we get in the game you don't need to hit perfect shots if it's high to stay back okay so here we go good again good good but that's the one you see you were caught moving on on that last the last one yeah you weren't even splitting you were set but I'm saying if you just come and split and just like that we were drill we were doing you're in good position again go split that's much better you see that yeah and you can easily transition just like that okay again okay go go good man

nice yeah that's it that's it no no you're right you're right that's all good so try but I know that's the the tough thing is to not back up when someone's attacking but you want to just stay there balance here instead of falling back here we go again good beautiful Ian oh come on beautiful in oh come on I told you stay away from the sidelines that's not so off the radar for me I know I know I know I don't even have any idea it's like okay serve it down the line we're gonna play

it off good come on in yes split make sure you're stopping that good ball beautiful in the Western I think you look good now man here we go I just got to work on this wiener beautiful good beautiful yeah that's good that's good backhand yeah it's just right one more time here we go that's it that's the right shot go again ah yes yes Ian that's good man alrighty and that was a 15 to 20 minute crash course from zero to four five let's go what do you or what do you think what are some

some key tips that you picked up that I helped you with today uh the sideways footwork around the kitchen was big yeah honestly I never even would have thought of that even though I think I've watched a bunch of pickleball yeah but it's like just so ingrained for me you know to step across uh that was super big whatever the hell you called that around the post oh the Ernie totally yeah that like just blew my mind it was like some like Matrix move uh I'm gonna have to keep it out so uh the the

lesson of like keeping more to the middle yeah I think it's gonna be really important yeah and when we get in the games I told you we got two some good players coming we're throwing in the fire and again just staying up at that kitchen line take more balls out of the air yeah you're ready you have good touch here's the thing like your game in tennis translates quick because your touch is really good you just got to learn how to make sure you're split step in transition yeah and as we so as we're discovering

team what we'll just work through and again we don't have to hit perfect shots you could use a drive drop combo to come in or we can drop it if it's a little high we hang back we just you can just be patient we could take our time all right let's do it all right dude foreign