The Newest Way to Weaponize Your Pickleball Serve

foreign guys it's 2023 and they've taken away all the fun ways to serve my goose is cooked what now actually the same principles that that I've held for for a while on serving still ring true the number one thing that we want on our serve is depth to try and keep our opponent away from the kitchen but here's a way that servers are getting an advantage in 2023. depth is our first priority and obviously it's always great to have a little bit of pace but now what we really want is some height when we hit a line drive serve our opponent only has to hit on one plane the ball is traveling to our opponent on that same line drive however if I add shape and height to the ball the ball is coming up as they're hitting thank you to pickle and social for sponsoring this video pickle and social is a premier pickleball entertainment facility and they're coming across the nation to you so when I'm returning a line drive I can swing and the ball is coming straight into my Hitting Zone but when I'm returning a serve that has kick to it that has height now I have to time it both on the x-axis and on the y-axis which is going to make my return a lot more difficult and that's how you can generate short returns which is the ultimate objective of serving so here are a couple of line drive serves a it's difficult to get the proper depth when we are hitting on a line drive because little differences in our paddle angle will have a large impact on where this ball goes it's really difficult to make a line drive serve into the back of the Court consistently nice so you can see even when I'm hitting a serve relatively hard it's not difficult to time because the ball is coming in a basically in a straight direction towards the returner it's not coming at them as well as bouncing upwards so now what I'm going to try and do is I'm going to try and add a little bit of height to this serve and make my opponent hit on two axises axes ecstasies axes leave a comment below is it accesses axis I don't know x i oh axi it could be x i I'm dying to know all right here we go so I'm gonna try and add a little bit of height to these serves now and still get them deep dang dude your turns are sick try to act stupid on a couple of these those are good returns there we go there it is how do I execute this higher and heavier serve so if we're hitting on a line drive our swing is going to be on a line drive we're going to be kind of on our front foot hitting this ball but what you noticed is on some of these last shots I was actually on my back foot a little bit I'm still transferring my weight forward but I'm really focusing on loading on this back foot and you can even see when I'm hitting flat my shoulders stay kind of flat my shoulders are in a straight line when I'm trying to really get underneath this ball you'll notice my shoulders are helping me get underneath the ball my shoulders are on a upwards trajectory so when we're trying to do this we're going to really focus on loading on that back foot and getting underneath the level of the ball as opposed to being behind the ball a drill that we can do for this is just focusing on trying to get that ball four or five or even six feet above the level of the net if we can do that that's going to make our opponent hit on two different planes all right so here are a couple line drives all right now here's uh here's some arcing ones Hobie go one more oh oh that was a good one you liked today's video please feel free to share it with a friend and make sure to subscribe it helps me out and helps me grow my channel

Channel: Zane Navratil Pickleball

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Length: 5min 53sec (353 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2023