Are you missing too many shots or maybe you're popping the ball up.
Well Coach Tony, back and he's going to
show us what we need to do to be more consistent.
Stay tuned.
All aboard. Hi, everybody.
My name is CJ. Johnson and together with my partner and
fellow pickleball professional Tony Roig, WeArePickleball and we're devoted to
helping players over 50 live their best lives on and off the pickleball courts.
Tony, one of the things that players tell
us the most is they want to be more consistent.
So that means errors and pop ups.
How do we fix that? What's happening?
Well, there's a common error, Coach, that we see pretty frequently, right.
Which is a lot of times what players do is they'll overuse their forehand.
So what happens is players will take a shot that should properly be hit like this
with a backhand and they'll use their forehand and reach across their body.
And what happens is when you reach across
your body like this, I can tell you this is the right hand.
This is the left hand right.
So I'm reaching across my body to try and hit a forehand.
Hopefully you can see it.
You can see all the tension that's created
in my body here that's going to result in errors in my shots.
Too much tension in my arm is going to
result in pop ups or what's going to happen is my paddle angle is going to get
weird when it gets over here and end up missing the shot.
Coach, if you feed me a couple of balls,
I'll show you the difference between a regular forehand dink, which is out here,
that reach across forehand ink, which is a dangerous one.
And then we'll show you how to hit the
backhand dink on this side instead of reaching across to your forehand.
And, Coach, I like the Home Depot bucket
because we're just getting working today, folks.
You like that? Working on people.
All right, let's start with a forehanded game, Coach.
So this will be a forehand dinks.
That's a fine forehand dink there, right, because that's on my forehand side.
So I should hit that with a forehand.
Now, if coach gives me a ball over here,
what happens is players will reach across their body like this.
So what they'll do is they'll reach like this.
That's a lot of stress right here.
I can feel it. Very difficult shot.
Instead, what you want to do is instead of reaching across, use the backhand side.
So use the backhand side of the paddle
instead of reaching across like this to hit the ball.
And what's important, coach some players,
if you're new to pickleball, welcome to pickleball first, right?
We'd love to have you with us in Better
Pickleball, but sometimes players don't understand the
difference between a forehand and a backhand.
So the forehand is whenever I take my
paddle out like this with my left hand or like this with my right hand it's the part
of the pedal that faces forward that's the forehand.
The back end is the opposite side so it's the part in the back or if I'm left handed
it's the part in the back of the paddle when the ball is across my body.
Right coach, I got to hit on my backhand here or in my backhand here.
So coach Tony, what do we say to players
who are like my forehand is just better and that's the reason that I'm doing that.
I don't want to do the backhand.
What do they need to know?
I'll tell you two pieces of advice.
In the short term you can move your body more if that's what you want to do so I'll
just show you real quick so what you want to do is hit a forehand over here.
You're going to have to shuffle over and
hit a forehand in a better position than just reaching across your body like this.
That's very short term though, coach
because if you make that a long term habit it's going to be really hard to break.
What you want to do is do this in the
short term while you're playing with your I'm sorry slide over in the short term
while you're playing right so you can keep on playing but start working on the
backhand side particularly against the wall.
Super good place to get comfortable with
that backhand because eventually coach you're going to want to hit a backhand.
The tip for you is if you are feeling
tension in your shoulder because the paddle is coming across your body chances
are that should be a backhand, not a forehand.
And a little bit of time against the wall will go a long way to building a backhand.
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