Lee Whitwell Pickleball - Tracking the Ball
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- If you want to see a crappy shot - look up! :-)
In this lesson I will show you some quick and hopefully easy tips on how to track the ball effectively and hopefully minimize your crappy shots!
We tried this drill and loved it! It really helps with the timing - how long to see and then when to look. Simple yet impactful! Gotta try it!
Thanks - feel free to send me your video of you and Jiji trying it out 😃
Looking for this "answer" today - your the only one that had the right answer - thanks - really good stuff.
We always say, watch the ball but you have shown me how to actually see my contact point and my opponent’s. Thank you.
You are most welcome! Am glad my video clicked for you! :)
I'm much better at "look" than "see" and this has been helping for sure. Improves timing immensely (and stops me from too much takeback)
I watch the ball from the serve to the end of that play. It helps me determine where the ball is going by the way the person hits or returns. Others tell me im too wild. However, I see many of them just stand there waiting for the ball. They dont track the ball so they are behind the action. I am very attentive when playing because I watch the ball. I watch every ball. Watch ALL serves including your partner. Watch it as they hit it and follow it with your eyes by turning your head across the court and the return. Do not take your eyes off it. This is how I am learning to get those ernies, ATP and become quicker at the kitchen line during a storm of hits.
love the tips, Lee! Yea, I've been "guilty" as charged and really focusing on a better way to improve this component. You just gave me the tip I needed! Thank you!
Big Thanks. I need this coaching; great content. Clear and useful. I will use this today, this morning, in an hour!! Will check out your channel for other great tips.
This is the best KISS method that I've heard. So simple yet so true. This will definitely improve my hand-eye coordination which will improve my timing, and hopefully become a better player. I can't wait to try this tomorrow! Much obliged!
Thank you - let me know how it goes! :)
Should I be watching the contract when my partner is hitting the ball in doubles?
You can see what your partner is doing peripherally but try not to turn your head to see their contact point - pickling up the path of the pickleball before it crosses the net is more important bc then you will be able to tell if they poppped it up and where you should be on the court based on their ball
Great advice as ever from Lee. And great meeting her at the English Open, Southampton. Sorry Lee I couldn't get your dad a beer! 😉
Great job today in Drippings Springs
Thank you :)
Interesting video. What about eyewear. I know specific lenses help track the ball in sunny conditions as well such as the ones you are wearing in the video. Since I play mostly outdoors and wear prescription glasses, what is your recommendation to help enhance crisp depth perception? thanks
I think this would work well on wall drills. See the ball at your paddle...look at the spot on the wall where it hits.
Great coaching tips as always.
Lee…please teach the EARNIE shot.
I would love to hear your thoughts!!!
Awesome video Lee!
And I read KISS method. It has always been the KISS. KYEOTB keep your eye on the ball. Everything else will fall into place.
Thank you for posting this helpful video
Great tip
thanks for this tip. for the see, that is a good reminder. sometimes I get complacent about watching the ball hit my paddle. for the look, I have definitely been distracted looking at the opponent and losing focus on the ball. especially when they have an easily attackable ball, I am losing focus on the ball so I will try this out. hopefully it will lead to figuring out how to get some resets back. P.S. I enjoy listening to your tournament commentary along with Lauren
Same here - it helps to have a conscious reminder, even though I want to tell myself to shut up
sometimes :)
Ditto your P.S. In awe of Lee’s MVP performance and her commentary.
@@kellecasey-ross1541 thank you :) I truly am having a blast out there :)
Thanks
Brilliant !!! 👍
Lee, I am always working on my look see:-)
I’ll try this today, thanks
Thank you, liked and subbed.
I love what you are saying here. The rallies that I feel the greatest about are always the ones where I feel the most dialed into the ball. I don't always get that focused, but once in a while I really do feel locked onto the ball and it's great, it's an incredible rush.
It's also sometimes THE problem, lol, I can sometimes get SO laser focused that I forget everything else around me including where I am and where the ball is in relation to the court.
How do I fix where I get so on a roll that I forget to leave the stinker shots the other team make and I go for them too? LOL!
I know this will come all in good time, it will come with practice and knowing the trajectories, inherently.
I find this to be quite similar to guitar playing.
Movements on the fretboard need to be laser focused and precise, if I play my fingers outside the lines(frets) the notes go sharp or flat. (Play outside the lines you lose your point)
Only thousands of hours of practice will teach you where those lines are. Thousands.
Thanks Lee!
If I had a dollar for every time I said I was looking at where I wanted to put the ball and not at the ball!
Did i understand her right?
She mentioned tracking the ball after those contact points. Does "tracking" mean keeping your eyes on the ball ALL the time???
Also you have to see and look at your partners shot!
so simply! i am going to practice this!
Let me know if this works for you! :)
@@LeeWhitwell So I did this while practicing last night. It's going to take some discipline! I know this will make me a better player. When the ball gets going faster it's hard to see my ball hit the paddle. I look at where I want to go. Maybe you can solve that problem for me. It's easier to look at the opponents paddle hit the ball. My husband and I are around a 3.5 level. I love your videos.
Jayme
Very helpful.
Let me know if it slowly becomes automatic :)
Will do. I just wish the seat spot on my paddle would stop moving around. 🤣
@@joefmartin1474 I know right! I hate it when it does that :)
I lost my right eye recently and it's been difficult to track the ball. Thanks for the advice.
"...see...look...see...look...(net) I win" I love that!!!
Boom!
“I WIN” LMAO
agree
Learn to stop eating so much. lol 😅