HOW TO Keep/Push Your Pickleball Opponents Back
Learn how to win more side outs in pickleball match by keeping your opponents back using 4th shot push with coach Joe Gmuer. Watch today pickleball TIP in our Instructional series. Stay tuned for more pickleball lessons!
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It's Monday. You know what that means? Another day of pickleball here at The Pickleball Pirates. We're on the fourth shot push. The fourth shot push can be effectively used to keep your opponents back among a number of other things. What not to do when pushing the ball. Do not hit the ball behind you! And that's exactly what Paul did. He's playing Jack Foster. Jack Foster is the number seven singles player in the world. But look, he backed up, and he hit the ball behind him. Two strikes. Paul is a very good 5.0 player. But when you're playing against Foster he'll do this to you. What you want to do: when you push the ball hit the ball out in front of you on the fourth shot, and hit it at the person that's back at that feet. That's what Christina did. In this point they gain advantage, and she ends up putting an overhead away. This is so well done. She stays at the kitchen line, hits it deep. Paul is right at the kitchen line too. and that's how you win pickleball matches. That's smart pickleball! This is a match (that's Kyle Yates) he just drove the ball. And Tony is in the near right-hand corner. He's a pro, one of the best coaches I know, and he pushes the ball so great. he pushes it right at Kyle's feet. Kyle is the one that is back, and they end up getting an easy point against two pros: Kyle Yates and Dekel Bar. Here's another one: Hendry Winarto drives it, and Dekel Bar pushes the ball right at Tony's feet. Now Tony was not back, so technically I would have liked to see him push the ball at Hendry's feet. However Dekel Bar got a very easy push. He could be a little more aggressive, you know. Here's Simone [Jardim]. Simone drives up on our very own Mark Napartovich. He has a great block right at Simone's feet. This is so good: you can win points against professionals being an amateur by just playing smart pickleball.
They lost this game though. What not to do when pushing the ball: do not push the ball out wide. Kyle Yates pushes the ball, and he gives Tony an easy easy ATP. Here's another example Paul pushes the ball and gives Jack Foster an easy ATP. I would prefer you push the ball at the far opponent's feet. Why don't you push the ball at the near opponent? That's why! The near opponent has an easier block. When you're pushing the ball against Ben John's, guess what's gonna happen? You know, I don't have to put the full point out to tell you. Ben John's is gonna body bag Mark. Now to summarize: why do you push a four shot? It's best to push a drive the drive's going to be going fast, you don't have to swing a lot. So hit it out in front of you, don't swing too much, and don't hit it behind you, Paul. Also push the ball back deep at the far opponent's feet. Don't hit it at the near opponent. We saw what happened to Mark. Do not push the ball out wide, because it's not going to have a lot of pace. It's pretty easy to ATP. I would prefer you hit it at the far opponent's feet. hank you so much for watching! I really enjoyed doing this. Please subscribe and have a good pickleball day!