Would faster reaction times improve your
pickleball game?
If so you won't want to miss this. If you
stepped onto a pickleball court you know
that by being a little bit faster you'll
have an advantage over the other team.
What can we do to get faster? Hey
everybody my name is CJ Johnson. There
are five things that you can do to
improve your hand-eye coordination and
the same time decrease that reaction
time so that you're faster on the
pickleball court. Number one this is an
easy one. Go and get your eyes checked. If
your vision isn't good to begin with
it's going to be harder to improve your
reaction time and to get your hands and
your paddle in the right position for
the next shot.
In pickleball as the ball travels from
our opponents to our paddle our focus
needs to change. This little drill will
help you to get your eyes conditioned to
doing that. Start with an object that has
a lot of detail like a magazine cover.
Place it about two feet away from you.
Take another magazine cover place that
around ten feet away from you. The next
thing you need is the ten-second timer.
If you don't have one on your phone make
sure you click in the description of
this video. There's a link to one that
you can use from YouTube. Start by
focusing on the object that's closest to
you for 10 seconds. Try and recall as
much detail as you possibly can. When the
timer sounds shift your focus to the
object that's further away.
Once again recall as much detail as you
possibly can. Every 10 seconds when the
timer sounds switch your focus between
the objects. Keep that up for two minutes
that should help you to improve your
focus as something moves from further to
closer to your paddle.
Here's a couple drills to help us with
our hand-eye coordination.
Take two tennis balls and put different
colored dots on them. Have someone stand
about five feet from you and toss you
the balls. There's two objectives here
one is to move your body in a position
to catch the ball just like you would be
doing with your pickleball paddle but
the other, the more important one, is to
see if you can tell which color dot is
coming towards you. In fact you can call
the dot out loud as the ball is coming
towards you this improves your tracking.
OInce you've done that stand with your
back towards the person who's throwing
the ball. Again trying to get your body
so you can catch the ball for reaction time
but also to see the color dot coming
towards you. The very last one is to take
and turn yourself around and then spin
back again catching the ball and seeing
if you can tell which color dot is
coming towards you.
Juggling? Yes juggling not only will it
improve your hand-eye coordination but
it's also going to improve your tracking.
When you juggle, the ball moves from your
peripheral vision to your focused vision
which is going to help you to track the
ball on the pickleball court. As you'll
notice I stink at juggling but I've put
a link to a juggling video in the show
notes for you to help you to learn how
to do it as well.
If you add just one of these things to
your workout routine chances are you're
going to get just a little bit faster. If
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