Coming from Badminton to Pickleball with Hendry Winarto

What are the advantages and disadvantages of transitioning your skills from badminton to pickleball? Find it out with coach Joe Gmuer. Watch today pickleball TIP in our Instructional series. Stay tuned for more pickleball lessons!

00:00 Coming from badminton?
00:15 Your "badminton" advantages in Pickleball
01:30 Badminton Weaknesses in Pickleball

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You're coming from badminton, and you know, you want to be really good at pickleball. What are you going to be good at already, and what are you going to need to work on? If you're coming from badminton, you're going to have extremely strong wrist, quick hands, a lot of backhand power. This is Hendry Winarto. He coached for Spain's national team for seven years for badminton. He transitioned to pickleball, plays pro pickleball. One of the best coaches for both sports. He has fast footwork because he grew up playing badminton. Look how well he moves. It's a drop shot. Drop shots come naturally with badminton players both variants very effective. He has great placement. Look at him places overhead. It's just incredible, absolutely incredible! You gonna have awesome putaways on overheads if you play badminton. That's just a fact. It's a complete fact. Look at this! You can even say, this is almost like a dink. You can compare that to a dink. Pickleball misdirection shots come naturally to badminton players. They read the opponents very well. Maybe not as well as ping pong players, but it's pretty darn good. If you can read your opponent well and you have strong skill coming from badminton, you're going to have very good speed-ups on that backhand and forehand flick and roll. You're gonna be really good, very quick, but you're not gonna be the best dinker. You're not gonna be able to read spin very well. That's maria, that's Hendry's wife, she is such a good pickleball player. She came from badminton, and I kind of feel bad because I'm using her as bad example. You're not gonna have as much power on your drives coming from badminton because of the footwork. Really that's why. This is hendry playing pickleball. Look at that misdirection! He's using a lot of wrist. He sees the middles open. That's very badminton-esque. I believe that's a word. You're gonna have a really nice backhand flick or backhand roll, whatever you want to call it. You're going to be able to read your opponents extremely well. Mark played some badminton as well and look how fast he is! He's in the red shirt so that speed-up was so good by Hendry. There's so many assets you get from transitioning from badminton to pickleball. He bodybags David. Now the one and only Badger (sorry Dave Weinbach). Here's Mark he does a misdirection shot. It's almost a misdirection dink. Look at that overhead from Hendry. Does that look like the badminton overhead? Absolutely! You're gonna have very good putaways, as i said before. Guys and ladies, thank you so much for watching! Please, leave your comments: do you agree with me? Could you please subscribe? I would appreciate it! These videos do take me time. I really appreciate all your support. Have a good day!