The Playbook: 5 Huge Pickleball Mistakes Holding You Back

You might be doing all 5 and not even realize it

Words I like: You can’t correct what you don’t recognize

The Playbook: 5 Huge Pickleball Mistakes

Most players are 1 correction away from a break through. Which one of these is holding you back?

1. Lack of drilling/no structure to your drilling sessions

   1. The absolute fastest way to improve your pickleball game and get to the next level is drilling

   2. Drilling is the superman of consistency

   3. Drill for 1 to 2 hours, 2 to 3 days a week and you’ll find it nearly impossible to not win your next tournament

   4. The Pickleball Drills App is the perfect tool for helping you have structured drilling sessions, with 100’s of different drills to choose from

2. Lack of understanding why you are doing what you are doing

   1. Many players just do things to do them

   2. They hit a 3rd shot drop cause that’s what their coach said to do

   3. Understanding the why behind everything you do will instantly improve your pickleball game

3. Ignoring your feet

   1. A 10% improvement in your footwork will give you a 100% improvement in your game

   2. Do footwork drills

   3. This video has all the best ones that I use: Youtube

4. Hitting the ball at 100% power when you get a pop up

   1. Many players are so inconsistent just simply because they are hitting the ball way harder than they need to

   2. The truth is, you can just as easily win the vast majority of points by hitting with 70% to 80% power

   3. This is because you are more relaxed when you take power off, and it’s much easier to hit the ball in

   4. The next time you get a pop up, don’t throw your shoulder out just to hit it long or in the net

5. Not split stepping

   1. This is probably the most common mistake in all of pickleball

   2. If you aren’t split stepping, you aren’t giving your eyes the best chance of seeing the ball

   3. If you want to make perfect contact with the ball each time, you have to split step every single time your opponent hits the ball

   4. A split step is where you split your feet apart and do a small jump when your opponent contacts the ball

   5. It actually sends signals of accuracy and consistency to your brain by just implementing that small hop (pretty cool)

Stop making these 5 mistakes and you’ll instantly become better.

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As promised, improvement in under a minute,

Austin Hardy

PS - Your face before and after you learn these 5 mistakes