How to SPIN your Serve in Pickleball (LEGALLY)
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- Adding spin to your serve in pickleball is a surefire way to challenge your opponents. In this video, we're diving into three effective spins you can master for your serves. At the recreational level, these spins can be deadly, so give them all a try next time you're on the court!
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🚀 Here's What We'll Cover:
Banana Serve:
An uncommon serve that's both tricky and rewarding if you get it right.
Discover how to generate the perfect spin, starting from hand positioning to the follow-through.
Where to aim this serve for maximum impact, and how to do a half-topspin version.
Screwball Serve:
The opposite spin of the banana, it's easier to pick up but still powerful.
Learn where to toss the ball and the right balance of cut and power to get this spin down.
How often to use it, and why it works best as a changeup to keep your opponents on their toes.
Topspin Serve:
The topspin serve should be your go-to default.
Get the technique right on the windshield and court, and learn how to find the right balance of spin without sacrificing depth.
Adjusting the height of your serve for acceleration after the bounce.
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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Lesson Overview
1:45 - Banana Serve
4:49 - Screwball Serve
7:53 - 3 Tips For Better Topspin Serves - Sport
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Great video. The explanations were very clear and the different camera angles were very helpful. I am a beginner and have watched many of your videos. You have a real knack for explaining pickleball technique simply and clearly, and for making very good instructional videos. Thank you.
Awesome, thank you!
Good information. I like to occasionally throw in a backspin serve just to mix things up a bit.
You are always good at explaining how and why. Thanks. Great to hear you have started your own paddle line, too.
Thanks for watching!
Really great serve information. I especially liked the bit about how to put more topspin on the serve. I also think the legs come into platy. You have to explode out of the legs which turns the hips. The hips twist the shoulders, the shoulders whip the arm, the arm moves the wrist on the windshield wiper.
Thanks for this, your videos are always so helpful. Spins on serves is what im currently working on, going to have your video handy while i practice.
Awesome, thank you!
I feel like these are more gimmicky than useful because better players can return them no problem. Like you said, in rec play they can dominate but if someone wants to get better but wins 11-1 mostly from their serves, they didn't get any better because rallies never happened. This could easily win you in a 3.0 tournament though, when you do whatever it takes to win
He says this at the 7:40 mark.
I think he said “recreational” in the introduction
Sometimes the spin you hit gets returned with an odd-looking/acting return that can fool your partner.
Disagree. The goal isn't to ace your opponent. It's too receive a weak, shallow return. Also mix up your serve.
Excellent!
The defense for this is to watch your opponent’s paddle, then follow the ball all the way to your paddle. Once I learned that, I found out you can add spin and send it back! So fun.
Gotta love pickleball.
Yes, looking forward to receiving your new paddle to work in conjunction with your instruction and tips
You and me both!
The hardest spins i have faced is just a realy strong top spin that jumps at you when it hits the ground.
A variety of spins is the hardest. It doesn't take long to adjust to any one spin, for me at least, but when the spin I am getting is changing constantly is when it really gets challenging.
Note that your wrist has an angle that allows the paddle tip to 'drag' back. Combine this with a little looseness at the wrist, early in the swing, can result in more topspin. Great video !
Banana serve is my natural serve when serving from a drop serve. I find unless its windy its easier to hit this hard with a combo of top and side spin for a deep serve that runs when it bounces.
I also use the banana serve swing on a lot of ATP's that people don't expect me to be able to bend around the post, when I get it just right i can get a ball deep in the kitchen around from inside the post to bend around it and back in to just land in the back corner.
Never thought about banana serve. I actually use a banana forehand ATP. I'll have to try this thanks.
I was told a few weeks ago that my serve is illegal because I "tossed" the ball. I did not. But it got me to look up the rules - new rules. From how the rule is written, more than half the people I see serving are breaking the rule. So... What's the deal? Can you show, based on the latest rules, what is considered a good serve vs. an illegal serve? Thanks ... I was not 'tossing' the ball I was moving my hand out of the way. Then I watched how B Johns served. He obviously has practiced a lot. But it's a perfect release. What is the best technique to 'toss' the ball without actually tossing it?
Hi Connor! I’m not consistent with my serves and I cannot follow through. Any idea how to improve?
Cool video, question. Can you bounce the ball of the ground for your serve?
Congrats on the launch of your own paddle!
Appreciate it!!
What is a good mic to use?
True, higher rank players can handle any spin but it's still something to 'annoy them'. If it takes players 'out of position's to disrupt their 'stacking strategy ', why not?? And maybe only ONE of the two opposite can handle spin, so it's still a good option as an arsenal of attack.
I do a backhand screwball (so serving from the right hand court, it will spin out wide). I'm still perfecting it, but when I get it right it's very effective. I also tend to do a bounce serve which keeps the serve very low, and more difficult to return. I did one of your screwballs the other day and it really kicked out wide, very satisfying!
Backhand screwball weird+ is probably illegal because everyone that I see use it it's above the bellybutton and none of them drop it
It's not illegal, it's a backhand version of the forehand one. Most people people probably can't do it, but I have a table tennis background. Besides, if I drop the ball it can't be illegal.
I use this right to left sidewinder from right court (rhanded) to opposite left front NVZ side. It's my 'tomahawk' and effective throws opponents 'off balance rushing to reach the outer drop,..setting to attack middle or out wide right side ( if partner rushes to cover middle hole).
Trying to boost topspin by adding the "windshield wiper" effect, how do you ensure that the paddle is not getting above the wrist at contact, which I believe would make the serve illegal?
Is a forehand slap serve legal? I’ve seen it a bit and I thought the serve had to be underhand, but this is a flat motion (think a slap forehand in tennis). Cranking the wrist back (instead of the whole arm) 90 degrees with a vertical motion to contact the ball
Even against seasoned ranks, rushing forward to try for any forhand attack ( from a lower ball) is a hard to achieve without stable footwork.
My opponents at the club level are constantly complaining that I'm hitting the ball above my waist and thus an illegal serve when I try to mimic your top spin server. I don't think that I am as I've videoed myself through over 100 serves. I just end up reverting to the drop serve to shut them up.
Just change your release to a drop serve.
Is it possible to display replay in slow motion ?
You can change the playback speed in CZcams
The one serve in the intro was out 😂
So can someone explain the slicing serve rule a bit. Im genuinely confused. I was told cutting/slicing the ball serving is Illegal. But this video debunks that almost entirely. I have 2 month PB experience and played tennis prior, i played a random singles and was yelled at for slice serving saying its illegal. Idk what to believe 😢
There are no rules about slicing your serve. You cannot spin the ball with your hand, you must make contact with the ball below the level of your belly button and must be underhanded (the ball must be below your wrist at the point of contact). That's it. Any spin you can impart on the ball following those guidelines is perfectly legal.
@@vanadyan1674The paddle must also be moving up at the point of contact, which can be an issue on a slice serve.
You are correct that an slice type serve is illegal. "The server’s arm must be moving in an upward arc at the time the ball is struck with the paddle." That is one of the 3 limitations placed on a volley serve. The graphic in the video showing the path of the paddle in a “corkscrew” type serve clearly shows a downward arc. Therefore, that serve is illegal.
@@jstutz36In general I agree that a backspin or slice serve would not be legal. Because the motion to hit it would be high to low. However, look closely at his example serve at 6:04. He finishes up near his left shoulder which means he is hitting low to high. He has a bit of a back swing which travels downward but at the point of contact he is hitting up on it. The proof of it is in how the ball bounces when it lands: it kicks up and to the right. It is clearly side top spin. Side back spin would bounce lower and die quicker.
Use the drop release instead of volley
do more advanced content
I thought spin serves were not legal. What's the rule on this?
You cannot ADD any spin to the ball. You MAY use the paddle to make the ball spin.🎉🎉
Can’t spin the ball with your hand
Only putting spin on the ball before you hit it is banned. You can put spin on it with your paddle as he's showing in the video.
The server’s arm must be moving in an upward arc at the time the ball is struck with the paddle. That is one of the 3 limitations placed on a volley serve. The graphic in the video showing the path of the paddle in a “corkscrew” type serve clearly shows a downward arc. Therefore, that serve is illegal.
@@jstutz36 Look closer at his example serve at 6:04. He finishes up near his left shoulder which means he is hitting low to high. He has a bit of a back swing which travels downward but at the point of contact he is hitting up on it. The proof of it is in how the ball bounces when it lands: it kicks up and to the right. It is clearly side top spin. Side back spin would bounce lower and die quicker.
I thought the spin on the serve was made against the rules now?
Only if you use your hand to apply the spin
Spin is not illegal. Only pre-spinning the ball with your hand is illegal.
@@MichelleH45 I’m surprised people don’t know this
"The server’s arm must be moving in an upward arc at the time the ball is struck with the paddle." That is one of the 3 limitations placed on a volley serve. The type of spin that can be used, while not explicitly mentioned, is clearly implied and is a form of topspin since your paddle must be moving upwards when it strikes the pickleball. However the path of the paddle in a “corkscrew” type serve is clearly shown as a downward arc multiple times in the video. Therefore, that type of serve is illegal.
@@sunsioux444 - yeah, me too! It's amazing to me how many people don't actually read the rules. They just go by "but someone told me. . ."
Now go get that gopher on the golf course.
“A player named Rafael Nadal.” Like anyone that plays any sport at all has never heard of Nadal.🙄
not everyone follows tennis, and he was probably being tongue in cheek when he said that
I haven’t..
@@sunsioux444 it has more to do with being sentient and generally aware of the world around you than anything to do with following tennis or sports at all.
I have! ✔️
I've heard of Nagal not Nadal 😂