okay now I got audio! haha sorry it's my first time doing Facebook live
from my computer so I've been talking for a couple of minutes and you have no
idea what I said but we're gonna be talking about pickle pickle ball rolls I
hope you could tell that by the USAPA IPF rulebook that's sitting here so
maybe I now have all my technology now I have all my technology working I said I
go I go live on Facebook every single Tuesday night I do a health
and wellness show for people who are over the age of 40 who want to look and
feel their best so I'm real familiar with Facebook but I'm a little
technologically challenged with with YouTube this is the first time I've gone
log on YouTube from my homeland computer so my name is CJ Johnson and my passion
is sports I love teaching pickleball I'm glad
you're here with me thank you so much for being a better pickleball community
community glad you're here and one of the reasons that I'm doing this show is
because you've been asking some questions about pickleball rules so I
picked out three rules questions that have come up several times I'm going to
go through those with you I'm trying to see if I can get your comments coming up
here and I'm having a hard time doing that if I can get your comments up I
will answer questions live as well but so in any way in any event let's get
this kicked off so one of the questions that came up came up recently and it was
from this is from guess who on YouTube I don't know who guess who is but thank
you guess who for sending in this question and what guess who was looking
for being a he or she was looking for an explanation of the USAPA rule for B and
I think it's for B six be out of the real book if you don't have a USAPA rule
book I am putting away down in the show notes there they put
out a great PDF you could download it from you could download it from them or
you can also this one is a little bit older you can get a copy like this as
well but so what is the rule that they're looking for clarification on so
this is what the rule states so we want to go down and you take a look at for b6
B when the team's score is even and the example is 0 2 and for the team's
starting first server correct position is at the right or the even serving area
when the team's score is odd the starting position is it the left or the
odd court and you'll notice that if you look up at the very top of this
explanation that's talking about doubles the rules are slightly different in
singles I'm gonna talk about that just a little bit but this is a really great
rule to be aware of because it's gonna help you to know what your position
should be on the court as well as if you're a little bit more advanced maybe
you're doing some stacking and so that's where both players are starting play on
the same side if you're not sure what's stacking is I've got a I've got a video
coming up in a couple of weeks that'll be kind of the definitive guide to
stacking but you really need to be aware of this so again he asked for
clarification on this and I guess this is probably the simplest way that I can
show you let's take a look first of all at the revision to the rules now there
is a new part in here where the court is divided into write or it's called
even and left it's called odd and this is different because previously they
were only called right and left so if if you're like me and you don't always know
your right from left you may have difficulty with this one but now in the
new rule book this this has been clarified a little bit so the court is
divided to right and left odd and even and if we look at a pickleball court
that's exactly what it's going to like so the right side is the even side
the left side is the odd side okay so here's the here's the just kind of the
the further explanation to that particular rule is whenever you are on
the right side of this cork if I'm playing and I'm the first server for
that team so I am calling the score zero zero two
I'm starting the game I am on the right side of the court to start the game or
the even side whenever my team's score is even I should be playing from the
right side of the court okay again if you're starting your game on
the right side of the court whenever your team's score is even I
should be on the right side of the court if that's the position I started in
whenever my team's score is odd I should be on the left side of the
court one of my recommendations is as you start to play get comfortable try
starting in the right hand position being that first server and mentally
start to focus on the score always asking yourself is it even as it odd is
it even as it all as you start to practice that it's gonna become easier
and easier so then as you become a better player and maybe you get into
stacking stacking will be very easy for you when I play with my men's doubles
partners we generally stack I am the first server I'm not on the right side
of the court I want the stronger for hem which is
generally the man that I'm playing with at my level he's on the left side of the
court and so I know that whenever our score is even even if we're stacking I'm
receiving on or I'm on that right side of the court if our score is on I'm on
the left side so my dad cleared that up just a little bit
if it didn't you can leave a comment down below maybe somebody has a better
explanation that I do I'm sure some I'm sure somebody out there will definitely
have one let me see if I can pull up comments I'm not really sure why sorry
about that guys I'm not really sure why I can't see the comments oh well I can't
but you can certainly still leave your comments down below oh wait a minute
maybe no oh all right can't see the comments but leave your comments down
below you can explain that a little bit better than I can that's great let's
move on to the next one this I wanted to talk just a little bit about single so
we talked about doubles in the service and some of us don't always play singles
so I want to get it over here to the singles this was actually rule 4 b5 and
so if you're playing singles and the score is even the serve is going to be
made from the right side of the court if the score is odd the service is going to
be made from the left side of the court so if you're not really used to playing
singles in singles as a singles player you only get one serve so if I'm
starting the game it's zero zero I'm gonna serve from the right or the even
side of the court if I make the first point and we now move and I serve one
zero from the left side of the court if I don't win a point my opponent now gets
the serve their score is zero so they start on the right side of the court
that's where they're going to serve to me is from the right side of the court
so we change sides if that person doesn't score and I get to serve back
and the score is still 1-0 we move over and I serve on the left or the odd side
of the court so in singles I serve from either the odd side or the even side
based on my score okay so that's where the service comes from on the single
side so a little variation between that and the
doubles hopefully that answers some of those serving questions okay let's move
on to the next one I think that's the slide I got this is from Nadine in Maine
and they Dean in Maine said hey when a player dives for the ball and they can't
get back up to their feet do they still get to play Wow
that's a pretty interesting question the answer is almost almost all the time yes
so here's a couple of things if that player happens to be in the kitchen when
they fell they can still play as long as they don't volley they have to let the
ball bounce if you are in the kitchen you cannot volley that ball you've got
to let it bounce it doesn't matter whether you're standing on your feet
I'll land on your butt you've got to let that ball bounce if you are in the
kitchen but there is no rule on pickleball that you have to be standing
in fact uh mafia pickleball I love that I'm gonna put a link to this down below
he captured a game and he does a lot of video of different pickleball players so
there's a lot of great video on there of matches he captured a game where a
player did just that he fell on his butt he was outside of the kitchen I believe
it or not and I know sometimes we get hooked into this pattern the people on
the other side of the net kept hitting him back at him hand it back at him
handing it back at him I think he had three shots from LAN on the pickleball
court he finally managed to get himself up and I think eventually three or four
shots later they won the point so I am going to put a link down below in the
show notes so that you can see that pickleball point cuz even if it's not
about rules it was just a super fun point to watch so make sure that you
click on that so Nadine from Maine you don't have to be on your feet
the only thing you have to watch out is if you're in the kitchen because this
Merl applies to the kitchen whether you're on your feet okay so hopefully
that one is good for you let's move on to the third and the final one this is
actually a rules revision and rules change that just came up in January many
of us play with nuts that aren't permanent we play with the portable nuts
and you can see this picture it looks probably pretty familiar to you we've
got that green horizontal bar that is running across now previously the rule
stated that if the ball came over and it hit that bar essentially the ball was
still in play the bummer to that is usually when the ball comes over the net
it hits the net it takes a lot of speed off of it and it kind of comes dribbling
over the net it's really difficult to play or it gets caught up in the net and
then hits the ball or bar before it actually hits the ground so generally
you couldn't play the shot anyway so now there has actually been a change
to that rule so again the old rule here is on the right and it stated that if
the ball struck that horizontal bar after going over the net okay after
going over the net that the ball was in play well now that's kind of changed if
the ball and you want to look at the underlying part here if the ball goes
over the net and hits the center base or the horizontal bar or gets caught in
between the net and the horizontal bar before it touches the core it's a let
and it's gonna be replayed okay so hopefully again if it touches that
center bar if it touches that center bar if it touches the horizontal bar gets
caught up in the net and then touches the horizontal bar before keyword here
and the rule before it hits the ground it's
considered a let and the point will be replay I know there's been a lot of
confusion in our club with this one because that's kind of a pretty big
change before it was like oh oh well we lost the point you kind of go like this
but you need to be paying attention when it just climbs over and if it hits that
bar before it hits the ground then you get to replay the point so there's a
little benefit for you because now you know the pickleball rules and that's
rule 11 dot 1.5 that has to do with the portable net system so again you can
find these things in the USAPA rulebook let me bring that back up here for you
that's the 2018 USAPA rulebook I'm gonna put a link to that down below I'll put a
link to all of the things that we talked about I'm sorry I can't see your
comments I'll figure out how to do that next time
that I do alive over here on Facebook but in the meantime if you have any
rules questions make sure you put them down below oh also one of the things in
the bottom is going to be all the rules or revisions so there's been a couple
revisions a couple clarifications I know there's a big one on cleaning up the
wording around serving it really hasn't changed what we do inside of a
pickleball serve but its kind of cleaned up the wording I know there's a little
confusion about that so that's gonna be a future upcoming video but if you've
got a couple more questions on the rules or anything else put it down below
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