Make it Difficult for Pickleball Opponent: 4th Shot Slice
Learn how to confuse your opponents in pickleball using 4th shot slice with coach Joe Gmuer. Watch today pickleball TIP in our Instructional series. Stay tuned for more pickleball lessons!
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It is Tuesday and we're still on the fourth shot in pickleball because it is so important! First we did the push, then we did the roll, now we're on the slice. The slice is so effective it keeps the ball low, tough for opponents to drive or drop. Here is an example of where John Sperling who is one of the best instructors i know should have hit a fourth shot slice. He had such a good slice in, and the reason I say should have hit a slice instead of a backhand roll is because he's trying to get into the dinking battle. He does not want to get into a slugfest with Simone. Simone is quicker than him. John sliced it on his first shot and I would have sliced it cross court right at Ben John's feet on the second point just to get into the dinking war. Now we have a pro Hendry Winarto in the top left-hand corner. He just sliced the return and he sliced the four shot. He's cutting under that fourth shot with the backhand. Starts from high goes to low. And really cuts that ball like a knife almost like you're cutting through butter. I know you're gonna say "Joey that's not the best view", here's a better view he slices the fourth shot and then hits a winner. I know it hit the net, but he was in control of that point by slicing that fourth shot. Not many people do it. It took me a long time to find examples. So I ask you a question: is this the right use of a fourth shot slice by David aka The Badger. Give me your answers in the comment section. Now what I would say is yes, David saw that he wasn't going to hit a super offensive shot. He didn't want to hit a drop shot. A backhand roll would have been low percentage, and most likely would have gotten gotten him into trouble, because that ball was dropping pretty quick. So he conceded he got into the dinking war with the fourth shot slice. Let me summarize: a good fourth shot slice should go at the person that's deep at their feet, should push them back. A slice is going to have a lot of funny spin. So that's the advantage to it. It might get a really funny bounce (skid). You can let the ball bounce if you need to, and just slice it back to get into the dinking war. You don't have to hit a winner, and if you want to slow the ball down I'd recommend slicing it over hitting that backhand roll directly in front of you as we saw in the first clip with John Sperling and Simone. Do you agree with me that David should have let that ball bounce and then sliced it? Let me know in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching, and please subscribe!