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I've been playing pickleball for 4+ years. I recently had the a bad case of the yips, with only 40% success rate of my serves. I tried your technique/advice of bouncing the ball to get my stroke back. It worked! I also have started a regular routine (bouncing the ball twice, taking a deep breadth) before actually serving and making sure I keep my head down and watch my paddle strike the ball. Also I am making sure I follow through with my swing. Thanks a million!
I definitely have the yips right now. I have an eastern grip as a righty and often, the paddle has a slight angle to the right when I serve and it's not smooth. The ball misses wide right on both sides. Usually, it works out after a few serves, but at the beginning of a playing session, it's definitely a mental block. The drop serve seems to help to gain the confidence and just hit through the ball though.
Those yips can get you and the more you think about it the worse they seem to get. The timing of the drop serve is an awesome way to work past those yips.
The only thing that works for me is to switch to a back hand serve, which for some reason I don't get the yips with, and 20 or 30 minutes into game play my forehand serving yips seem to resolve themselves. Great tip though, I'll definitely give it a try.
Only issue is the way you're drop isn't legal, you're throwing it up slightly and it has to be completely dropped from your hand. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You are correct. This video predates the drop serve rule and was created as an aid to help with the service yips. We have a drop serve video. I’ll link to it below. Pickleball - Know this Serve? || Pickleball Serve Rules Changes in 2021 ua-cam.com/video/3UpRWdae29g/v-deo.html
Pulling away from the serve would be pulling your body back or up during the serve. It is important to keep your front shoulder engaged in the stroke throughout. Otherwise your paddle will get pulled out of the swing arc. This drill helps with that as it slows everything down. Hope this helps.
@@BestPickleballCoach Tony, thanks for getting back to me. I knew that wasn't allowed but I didn't notice you mentioning that in the video and know that many recreational players aren't familiar with the rules.
I usually just revert to one of my other serves, or change my targeted aiming point to something more conservative. The question is how many serves have you developed the mix up returners attack.
@@BestPickleballCoach My point is if you have several types of serves down, you can revert to another serve till you get the kinks out of your primary serve. Some coaches say, that a preserve routine like bouncing the ball can help prevent the yips by keeping your serve on a steady pace; so you don't rush it.
A thousand pardons, coach; but that wrist snap you employ on your "demo" serves isn't something a "yip-laden" person should try to emulate. It's not perceptible to normal folks when seen at speed; but the slo-mo shots show a considerable "loading" of the wrist and significant follow-through OFF the line(of real ball plus 3 imaginary balls)...NOT something I would recommend for those having trouble with a basic serve. I would suggest that the yippie person should minimize the wrist snap and keep things super-smooth until they get their timing and confidence back.
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I've been playing pickleball for 4+ years. I recently had the a bad case of the yips, with only 40% success rate of my serves. I tried your technique/advice of bouncing the ball to get my stroke back. It worked! I also have started a regular routine (bouncing the ball twice, taking a deep breadth) before actually serving and making sure I keep my head down and watch my paddle strike the ball. Also I am making sure I follow through with my swing. Thanks a million!
I needed this. I haven't' lost my serve in forever and I got it back in a day. Best advice in the video was hitting the Ball 2 and 3.... Thanks
Awesome. Thanks for sharing and glad it helped.
I definitely have the yips right now. I have an eastern grip as a righty and often, the paddle has a slight angle to the right when I serve and it's not smooth. The ball misses wide right on both sides. Usually, it works out after a few serves, but at the beginning of a playing session, it's definitely a mental block. The drop serve seems to help to gain the confidence and just hit through the ball though.
Those yips can get you and the more you think about it the worse they seem to get. The timing of the drop serve is an awesome way to work past those yips.
The only thing that works for me is to switch to a back hand serve, which for some reason I don't get the yips with, and 20 or 30 minutes into game play my forehand serving yips seem to resolve themselves. Great tip though, I'll definitely give it a try.
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Only issue is the way you're drop isn't legal, you're throwing it up slightly and it has to be completely dropped from your hand. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You are correct. This video predates the drop serve rule and was created as an aid to help with the service yips. We have a drop serve video. I’ll link to it below.
Pickleball - Know this Serve? || Pickleball Serve Rules Changes in 2021
ua-cam.com/video/3UpRWdae29g/v-deo.html
What do you mean by "pulling away"? Never defined it.
Pulling away from the serve would be pulling your body back or up during the serve. It is important to keep your front shoulder engaged in the stroke throughout. Otherwise your paddle will get pulled out of the swing arc. This drill helps with that as it slows everything down. Hope this helps.
@@BestPickleballCoach Thanks!
Tony, according to USAPA Rule 7.M, serving by bouncing the ball is a fault. Is this a good drill?
@@BestPickleballCoach Tony, thanks for getting back to me. I knew that wasn't allowed but I didn't notice you mentioning that in the video and know that many recreational players aren't familiar with the rules.
Pleasure. Thanks for the clarification
I usually just revert to one of my other serves, or change my targeted aiming point to something more conservative. The question is how many serves have you developed the mix up returners attack.
@@BestPickleballCoach My point is if you have several types of serves down, you can revert to another serve till you get the kinks out of your primary serve. Some coaches say, that a preserve routine like bouncing the ball can help prevent the yips by keeping your serve on a steady pace; so you don't rush it.
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A thousand pardons, coach; but that wrist snap you employ on your "demo" serves isn't something a "yip-laden" person should try to emulate. It's not perceptible to normal folks when seen at speed; but the slo-mo shots show a considerable "loading" of the wrist and significant follow-through OFF the line(of real ball plus 3 imaginary balls)...NOT something I would recommend for those having trouble with a basic serve. I would suggest that the yippie person should minimize the wrist snap and keep things super-smooth until they get their timing and confidence back.
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