The Most Surprising Shot in Pickleball: FLICK!
Learn how to trick your opponents in pickleball using a flick shot with coach Joey Gmuer. Watch today pickleball TIP in our Instructional series. Stay tuned for more pickleball lessons!
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Welcome to The Pickleball Pirates! We have a request to do the backhand, and forehand flick. How do you do it? You want to disguise it as a dink. So basically, when you're dinking, this is pretty much a dink motion. This is a big motion. The next question you're going to ask is “why do I have a hand gripper in my hand?”. Because it requires a “badminton” wrist. If you look at Hendry Winarto or Mark Napartovich, they are so good at this, because they have those fast twitch muscles in that wrist. How do you build this? You build this by a hand grip. You can get like two for eleven dollars on Amazon. We don't endorse products, so yeah, go to Amazon. Basically, this is what I do when I'm in my car. I don't have much life, but so basically: dink – flick, dink – flick. And look, it's not arm, when you flick. It's wrist backhand. Look. this is like boom, boom. If you want to flick, boom, just like that. It's hand grip. You build this by fast twitch muscles. You can do this with hand grips. Let's look at some video tape of Hendry Winarto, and Mark Napartovich. Guys and ladies, have an awesome Sunday! Please subscribe! So here is Hendry Winarto. Look, he flicks that. That's not a roll, it's a flick because there's not a lot of topspin on it. He flicks it right down the middle, well disguised, and he's using those fast twitch wrist muscles. Thank you Hendry for the example. Here's another example coming up and it is a forehand flick from Hendry Winarto. Forehand flick doesn't have to be a winner, it can start the speed up, and that's exactly what it did in this point. If you hit the flick too fast it's going to come back a lot faster. If you notice he hits that medium speed, beautiful shot. And there's another forehand flick. just beautiful. Now that's a body bag. Look at the Badger. Oh, that must hurt! Here's Mark Napartovich, and he has a forehand flick almost hybrid dink shot. That's a lot you can do with this. That's beautiful, well disguised as a dink. Mark and Hendry were both badminton players. What not to do on the flick: you don't want to go too fast down the middle. They're going to be guessing, so hit that slower. Now Mark hits it slower, and then it's tougher for the Badger to hit a winner. So that's just beautiful. You don't want to flick it too hard. It's medium paced. Let's summarize: use that flick, it's mostly wrist hit, it is medium paced, it can start to speed up. There's a lot you can do with it. You don't want to hit it too hard down the middle, because it's going to come back a lot harder down the middle. Guys and ladies, tell me what you think in comments. Thank you so much for watching! Please Subscribe, and have a good day!