Why You Should NOT Stack (or Play the Left Side)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Ben Johns has an iconic playstyle where he takes up most of the court and hits most of the balls, leaving just a sliver of the court for his partners Anna Leigh Waters and Collin Johns to cover. Rec players often try to emulate this with their partners, designating a left and right player and stacking in matches. But is this a smart strategy? What do you need to do it effectively?
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10:00 around this point I would love if you didn't shrink the viewing area when you pause, it'd be much better to just have an arrow or circle over the spot you're trying to emphasize
can you do a video about the right side player role?
This is a really great video! Thank you. Next up one for the supportive right side? Haha
Awesome video! Really appreciate the way you break everything down and give an easy to follow strategy to focus on. My partner and I are actually trying to learn this style. Any chance you could create a video for the “right side” player as well?
Your callout starting at 10:42 is such a great pickleball moment to highlight. Many players in that position would hit down the line and even if their dink is barely over the net, they'd get punished by Anna Bright's erne. I don't think you mentioned it, but at 11:59 when you pause, look at Ben. He's looking straight down as he's about to hit that backhand dink from the left sideline. This is the classic sign of an erne opportunity. Excellent play by Ben to hit it perfectly cross court.
Great explanation ， learned a lot! At least learned to appreciate Ben’s technique
Great video. Any tips for a lefty/righty team? Do both players play big in the middle?
Nope, you have to talk and pick who is going to play dominant. Or else just play 50/50.
I've had a night to think about this already, and the main problem here is the claim that if you can't play the whole bag, then you might as well play 50-50. But in reality, at around a 3.5 level in open rec, I play elements of this style all the time. I'm 6'4" tall and I often play with women who barely clear 5'0" more in the 3.25 range. Half and half is not effective. I'm usually chasing all the lobs on both sides (not that there are many on my side) and there are other reasons why I'm far better straddling-or almost straddling-the center white line as much as possible.
I don't yet have all of Ben's skills to a good level. I can be exploited by my better opponents if I play too "big" in the middle. Simple. I keep track of which opponent can do what. If I know the opponent can punish me with one shot or another, I'm less aggressive about shading central. If I know for a certain ball that my opponent hasn't got a particularly dangerous response, I take my chances from a central perch.
It's even more subtle that this, because I've learned to arrive at the NVL slightly more to the center of my own box, and only slide hard to the middle at the last moment, when the worst of the danger signs have abated. You can pick up foot position, hip rotation, shoulder rotation, and backswing to determine how quickly or dangerously an opponent can attack your open wing. I have a _huge_ second step back into my open wing when needed, but not a particularly fast or large first step. It's the quick and accurate dart to my outside line that gives me the most trouble. Any kind of slower cross-court is almost never a huge problem.
My long arm makes it harder for the opponent to try to push the ball behind me on my open wing, even more so if I've taken up a wide stance with my feet, which enlarges my quick stab, but slows down having to take a step or two. As a former squash player, it's natural for me to resort to a desperate wrist shot from behind my hip if that's the only way I can develop power when I'm late to a passing ball.
I'm not the least bit convinced here that it's either the whole bag of five skills, or fall back to 50-50. In a tournament setting, where you might be playing on a win-now basis against an unfamiliar opponent, I can see how the binary develops. By the time you've made mental book on the exact margins for your opponents taking advantage of your limitations across the five skill categories, the match will be over, and not in your favour.
This video was fabulous is making it clear just how much of a horse you have to be galloping out wide to put a glass touch on those long cross-court backhands, and how much of an angry hornet you need to be defending yourself above the net at midcourt.
That's how I'm going to remember this bag of skills: as the horse and hornet show.
About how far Ben is reaching across, exactly.
There's a frame at 5:54, when played back in 4k, where you can see the shadow of the ball beside the tip of the shadow of Ben's cap, which lines the ball up with the middle of the final letter in Humana embossed on the court.
His left foot lines up the the beginning of the H on the other side of the court. The ball is almost exactly as far past the middle on his right as his left foot is away from the middle on his left side.
9:36 at this point until 10:05 or so we lose an important section of the screen to a large beige boarder of some sort. It would be great to see this rally in full without pauses as well. Awesome video buddy! Thank you so much!! 😊🙏🏻
Good video but some of the clips you you actually cut out the ball.
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