How to Defend the Pickleball Lob (As a Senior)
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- Welcome to Episode 3 of the Senior Pickleball Success podcast with Steve Paranto! As a senior pickleball player, you will want to learn to defend the lob without causing injury. Steve will go over lessons & drills on how to avoid injury, body positioning, and how to return that lob. PLUS - why moving your feet will help you be ready for any lob in pickleball.
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Thanks from a 79-year-old. Taking that step back also gives me better judgment of OUT balls.
Great advise. Thanks from a 74 year old.
Thanks for the great tips and demos!
Great advice, can't wait to try all of it.
I think the most valuable tip was to look to the place that the ball will land. That adds safety and speed to the return. I usually play with younger plays and sick my partner on those balls. 😉
Good job!
Here are a few suggestions for you, to add onto each part of your lesson: 1. We teach to widen your stance, bring your shoulder back, track it by pointing at the ball ( tennis technique ) and adjust your position/ feet to the ball staying wide and
balanced to smash a ball that is short lobbed/ reachable.
If you are both at the NVZ and are lobbed deep, BOTH of you pivot and run towards the baseline - the player who calls it ( yell "Me" or "ball!" or "mine", something quick) takes the ball as the other player creates space and is back on defense with their partner who is returning the lob. The worst thing you can do is stand at the NVZ with your back to your partner - 😂you need to know where your partner is going to place the next ball...and not get hit by their return shot!
When a lob if hit over my head, I've experimented with having my partner take it since he/she has a better angle to track the ball. We then just switch sides of the court. This seems to work really well. Thoughts?
That is exactly what you should do… IF you can’t get hit the ball with an overhead.
The technique for hitting the overhead needs some improvement, in my opinion. The elbow should not be bent when hitting the ball. Watch a tennis serve or a volleyball spike for a better method.
Respectfully I don't think your advice of pointing with your elbow to the ball is a good strategy. You have never seen any pickleball player come any professional pickleball player, or any tennis player for that matter ever pointing with their elbow. It is actually counterintuitive. I understand this is your very personal preference. But your video is geared more towards a beginner. And it is much more natural to point like they see everybody else do. It's just my humble opinion
I think there's merit to it. Fully extending to point at the ball raises the chest upward and backward more than pointing with just the elbow, increasing the chance of losing your balance or getting your feet tangled.
Is this an issue for high-level tennis players? No, because they have better upper-body flexibility and have spent far more time practicing footwork. But pro tennis players and senior pickleball players should not model their games on each other.
Again this is with respect and not intending to be ugly or to argue, but of all the incredible pickleball and Tennis coaches out there there has never been one that says to point with the elbow
I think it's an idea worth trying. Mobility in the shoulders is a problem for seniors of which I am one.
I thought the caption was 'How to defend against pickalball'... very frustrated 😠
Stepping back conflicts with everything I've ever heard.
You can’t defend a lob without going backwards.
@@DavidMott-c1y **IF** you are lobbed, for sure you have to move back. But moving back on every shot, **IN CASE** you get lobbed, conflicts with everything I've ever been told about holding the kitchen line.
"Got it"? Are you serious? The other players on the court are smarter by yelling "mine" when they want the ball. Quick, one syllable. Also, it's a terrrible habit to yell "yours" when you're not going to hit the ball. Every time you yell *anything*, your partner will momentarily freeze until they decode what you're trying to tell them. You yell "yours," then expect them to hit the ball, but now you have frozen them long enough for them to potentially miss the shot on a quick return.
Totally agree, very distracting and annoying
Somebody has to make a decision. Yelling "yours" frees up the other player to go 💯 after the ball instead of going 50%.
Don’t tell your teammate “Yours” at the last minute!!
@@davidgoldberg8238 This is only a good idea on a point where the receiving players are responding to something like a high lob when there is lots of time to communicate and respond. It's a terrible idea when they're responding to something like a drive up the middle, which is very common on a return of serve.
@@craigmcgowan7443 I agree but I've seen plenty of cases where both players are aggressive, one is a lefty so it's two forehands, and they both go for it and clash paddles. Seems like when I watch pro matches some teams call almost every ball, and that feels like a good habit to get into.