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Great vid and great content.

Lots of great tips - I'll always be an amateur, since I don't have the patience for extended patty cake. 😅

Fantastic video 🙌🙌

Really good tips! Will be implementing more in my game by being more conscious about it!

Ok few things here, dinking playing up is not the way to play it’s wrong, I see so many people play up by net the no volley zone, u have so little time to react and very little time if it’s a speed up shot game, the fast hands battle and there is a good chance to get hit by the ball then you lose, so the real way to play is back, way back base line, singles doubles I don’t care, me or me and my teammate ever sense we understood the game, we have never lost, but then yet again we never played any pro matches, that is r only con but we have played at so many indoor outdoor places, but so you want to play back, because you can hit power shots, spin shots wicked spin and me and him have mastered every single spin shot, it’s better safer more fun, and we’re goin to blast that ball at you, not to be mean but to teach you, not to play up and your in the strike zone, so if we hit u it’s your own fault and we will blast it at u any which way of wicked spin, at you or down the middle or down the line like on the edges line where it’s close to out but it’s not, just a very accurate shot. Or we will just lob over your head. Ok now let’s talk about more why playing up is bad ok, let’s say your playing up right, few things to happen, I or me or my teammate hit a wicked spin shot at u, doesn’t matter what spin shot we give you, your gonna hit it out of the air because your playing up, so hitting balls out of the air is so random chaotic don’t have much control, then what u would have if the ball bounces, anyways um so u hit it out of the air, the ball will either go into the net after u hit it or u hit a lucky drop shot I or my buddy run up to get it, we lob over your head, then u run back get it, then we drop shot then power shot wicked spin any which way then power shot then drop shot then lob over your head then lob drop shot power shot, see your done, or u might miss the ball it curved on u, maybe u get that lucky shot where the ball goes in but bounce way out wide and I’m or my buddy will be like great perfect thank you and me or my buddy r gonna hit a atp around the net shot and either we get it the point or u get it back, then we’re back to power shot wicked spin drop shot lob over your head, or playing up u can hit a spike shot at us perfect, power for power, ours will be better stronger more accurate more spin, playing back better position for u and your buddy, better ball angles, more time to react, but if your just playing casual it does not matter but if your playing serious playing back better in every way.

Love the tips on the overhead shot

You know someone is an amateur when they spell amateur wrong (point #2) 😂. Oops. Good tips though

40 lbs?

Thinking of your paddle height as inverse to your distance from the kitchen is super helpful! My ready position has gotten a lot better lately, but this tip really clarifies some difficulties I've had. Great video!

Shea i send you a message on IG got no response-Thanks i get it your cool

Thanks for all the good tips and tricks. Slowly working my way to an intermediate level.

Type shit

I like these guys

That’s looks like a golf course in background, where is that?

You can hit into opponents side of net, but cant hit over the net line in another rule.. Noob here, just wondering..

These guys look like they haven’t done anything else in life.

Question. I started playing recently. I've played 6 days, probably 30 games. It was drilled into me how the kitchen is off limits, and the rules thoroughly explained. So why is it that when watching the men's doubles championship games in Naples recently, online, they kept stepping into the kitchen, and it was never called? And I mean very clearly, 1 foot entirely in the kitchen while scooping a shot. I saw it happen a dozen times, all very obvious, and none were called. Am I missing something?

If your opponent returns a ball to the outside line of the NVZ that subsequently backspins back over the net, can you then cross the net plane with your body to your opponents side of the court, and then hit the ball in to your opponent's side of court? I saw this happen the other day and opinions differed. Thanks in advance for your reply.

I have a question. If you take a volley outside of the kitchen and your paddle falls out of your hand INTO the kitchen (or any part of it falls on the kitchen line), its a fault. But WHAT IF it's sailing out of your hand and you can grab it, or grab at it, knocking it back out of the kitchen before it lands in there?

... that it's a sport...

Don't get why you'd lose point if your opponent called the score correctly and you stopped the rally, but they wouldn't lose the point if they called the score incorrectly.

I now have to unlearn putting spin on the ball when tossing it for a serve 😬

Excellent. Concise and to the point.

excellent! I love hearing rule intricacies

good vid, but half the pros hit open stance serve. You just need to coil and uncoil.

This was an excellent video. Unfortunately I’m still new to Pickleball, so I don’t serve like either of you. But I was able to focus on the other strategies that you shared that I could use.☺️

Great video, Shea & Caleb! I incorporate a flat (i.e., no spin) upward toss into my service motion. Some players in my local meta have gotten belligerent about this being illegal. Keep in mind that these are folks who have no idea what the PPA is, so they're not even aware of the rules changes introduced this year for that pro circuit. I've had players argue that an upward toss falls under the "manipulation" definition of the restriction against imparting spin and manipulation on ball prior to the volley serve. What's the most definitive, authoritative source I can point these players to help them come around to understanding that they're interpreting the rule incorrectly?

If you hit the net in your play that is a fault.

In doubles, during a serve, do both the players of the serving team need to be outside the serving line or only the one serving?

Awesome vid😊

Great tips but your arm doesn’t weigh 40#. LOL It’s closer to 15#.

When young people already want to be retirees.😅

How about when you're trying and Ernee and your oponen knows and hit you with the ball and you are on the air.? Ken you answer me.thanks

Great great Vid!! Thanks

Fantastic! Best serving video out there. Great job, and thank you. You clearly put a lot of thought and time into planning/filming/editing this. Well done!

Another great video guys!!! A video like this for every shot in sequence (ex. Return, then 3rd shot, 4th etc. etc. going in depth and all there is to know just like you did for the serve) would be extremely helpful! Feels like a checklist like video where we can apply to our game step by step (if that makes sense? lol)

I probably miss heard this, but did you say the serve can hit the net and if it lands in the correct quadrant it is a legal serve and play continues? If so, why do they re-serve those “net” serves in MLP?

Very helpful video! So many people don't see how important the serve is, and just use it to get the ball in play. In my opinion taking the time to perfect a good serve can singlehandedly raise your rating by .5 or more!

Great tips as usual guys! Keep up the great work!

40lb arm??? Buddy, you aren’t that ripped. 😅

Is it Legal to slam the ball into the kitchen on the opposite side??

have ya'll covered the double or triple bounce drop serve?

Gower Estates Park?

Great video - you addressed some uncommon scenarios that I never thought of before and cleared up some confusion from just reading the rulebook. I just wish you took some time to re-record and edit confusing sentences and clarify what (to me) sound like mispronounced words like illegal and legal. Section #1 BALL BOUNCING OVER THE NET 1:15 to 1:17 “... but if I hit the net, it doesn’t just end the rally…” I’m pretty sure you mean “if the ball hits the net”. Later on (#6), you specifically state that you can’t touch the net. Section #3 BEING ESTABLISHED OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN 2:09 to 2:15 “… if you ever step into the kitchen, you need to establish both feet outside to be (unintelligible) able to hit a volley after that point.” I re-played it a dozen times and most times it sounds like you say “illegally”, but by context you must mean “legally”. Suggestion: replace all words after “outside” with “before you return the volley to avoid a NVZ fault.” #4 ERNE CANT’ (sic) CROSS THE PLANE OF THE NET… 3:39 to 3:44 “The problem is, most players try to make contact on the opponents’ side of the court, and that’s legal.” Why not just say a fault? Once again, in context, it wouldn’t make sense to call this legal. #9 OBJECTS ON THE COURT and #11 CAN YOU THROW YOUR PADDLE TO HIT A BALL Multiple of questions here. 8:28 to 8:35 “if you take a volley out of the air and then your paddle drops into the kitchen, that would be a fault” - I think it’s a fault any time your paddle drops into the kitchen! 8:35 to 8:39 “but, if you take a volley out of the air and your paddle falls outside the kitchen, totally fine!” Section #9 states that objects dropped onto the court during play become part of the court until the play has ended. Does that apply to paddles? Is the player allowed to pick their paddle up and continue play if the ball is still in play? You preface many statements with "if you are swinging at a ball", do the rules change if you are throwing your paddle from one hand to another before swinging at the ball? Overall, the video was great and informative!

Was watching a pro title match from a couple months ago and the referee called a let on a serve. Is that just a pro thing?

That's a lot of excellent content. Great job! Subscribed.

If the ball hits the net, trickles onto the opponents’ kitchen (meaning the ball doesn’t hit the horizontal bar on the way down) and THEN bounces backward and hits the horizontal bar, is there a re-serve?

Awesome video. Best thing,.... I knew all of these! So, when dinking, if you are outside the NVZ (kitchen), and you lean in, the ball actually bounces, you are leaning and hit it after the bounce in the kitchen, then you get your balance by resting your paddle on the ground in the kitchen... this should be ok, right! I think it is ok, but you can address this! It bounced first! Thanks...

When does a volly momentum-continuation-into-the-nvz-fault possibility end? eg I volly, ball crosses the net and bounces twice and I fall into the nvz. ??

4.0 definitely move people around on dinks and target weaknesses