Pickleball - 3 Tips to Avoid the Dreaded Pickleball Pop Up | Pickleball Tips

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Pickleball - 3 Tips to Avoid the Dreaded Pickleball Pop Up | Pickleball Tips
Pop Up is the bane of a pickleball player's existence.
In this video, we go over 3 tips to avoid the Dreaded Pickleball Pop Up at the NVZ.
Pickleball Tip No. 1 - shorten your backswing. A long backswing can result in losing control of your shot. As you accelerate your paddle forward to make contact with the ball, it is difficult to slow the paddle down to the speed you need to properly dink the ball. By shortening the backswing, you can avoid those accelerated paddle Pop Up.

Pickleball Tip No. 2 - lighten your grip pressure. Sometimes when you are popping the ball up it is because you are gripping the paddle too tightly. You can avoid this problem by loosening your grip on the paddle. Using a scale of 1-10 (light to tight), when you are dinking at the NVZ, you want to grip the paddle closer to a 2 or 3 than a 5 or 6.

Pickleball Tip No. 3 - dink cross court. Dinking straight is more challenging than cross court. There is less space to operate to avoid your opponent's attack. The net is also 1 to inches higher than in the middle of the net (35 or 36 inches versus 34 in the middle). As a result, cross-court dinking is less likely to result in Pop Up than straight on dinking.

Give these three tips a try and reduce your pickleball Pop Up.

Good luck out there.
Tony
In2Pickle Player Development
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This is part of our pickleball mistake video series.

Photo courtesy of David King (Pixabay).
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All Comments (17)
  • @laurijorgenson6683
    This was an excellent tutorial. You covered so many good things to be aware of. Thanks Tony.
  • @sharond5566
    Thank you! Hoping to conquer this skill sooner rather than later...UGH :-)
  • @ChadBreece
    That ender, will the auto delete facial recognition 😂😂
  • @blim2020
    Seems a little misleading regarding the height of your dink return. What are your thoughts on how you’re holding the paddle? It’s facing south rather than a 90* wrist angle? Appreciate the content
  • @dalevoigt8612
    I prefer to take that ball just a little bit farther back like where Tyson is taking the dink. The reason is that your dink and your disguised attack shot should look the same till the last second. If your dink position is too far forward your power shots will suffer; unless you give it away with a larger than normal back swing.