How To Hit the Two-Handed Backhand Counter in Pickleball | Ben Johns

People have probably noticed, at least some people have, I have been working on a two-hander off the bounce a little bit in the doubles game. So we're gonna just have Colin be dinking a little more to this backhand corner. I'm gonna speed up with the two-hander. We usually start with like one or two spots, not all spots at once as far as where I'm attacking the ball. So I'm gonna try to be attacking the ball line or into his right hip area off the bounce and then we'll try to go from there. So it gives Colin a good opportunity to counter well when he kind of knows where the ball is heading generally and that gives me a good opportunity to try to defend a good counter which is really important for any follow-up. I like to mix this one in with some dinking as well because in the past I've been attacking a lot on the two-hander but I haven't been dinking as much with the two-hander. So you don't really want your opponent to know that an attack is coming just because you put that second hand on. So I think it's important in this drill to definitely mix in some of these where we're actually dinking it with a similar motion and then adding in the attack. A couple important things I'm trying to keep in mind in this shot although I'm still learning a lot about it is first outside of the ball is really important just so you can control left and right decently and then I think it's important on the follow-up you're kind of expecting a backhand if they're going to be late on it when you're attacking line at least. So you're looking for that backhand initially with the two because it often comes down at you on the next one but if it does get a little higher I like to try to transition to the one in order to get it down a little more. Well I think that's a good demonstration one of the things I'm working on right now the two-hander speed up with a follow-up. So yeah still working on it but I feel like it's definitely a very pattern-based thing working on kind of the different spots you can put it in and then where the common follow-ups are is the biggest thing for me right now.