5 Tips for PERFECT Pickleball Serve Technique

hi welcome to prime time pickleball my name is  jordan Briones and in today's video i'm going   to give you five tips that is going to improve  your serve let's jump right in missing one of   our videos is like missing an easy put away  don't let that be you subscribe now alright   so the first tip I see a lot of beginner players  in here and even intermediate players when they   serve is that they are just using their arm or  their wrist okay so it kind of looks something   like this alright so they're either just  using their wrist and you can see none of   my other big muscles in my body are being used  at all it's just my arm or my wrist okay and   you could probably get a consistent serve like  that but you're not going to maximize your full   potential on that serve especially when you start  learning different serves like topspin serve okay   so instead what I want to do is I want to make  sure that I'm using my legs and I'm using this   kinetic chain using all my muscles my legs to  my core and then I'm rotating my body to my   arm using all my muscles together so that I  can hit a good consistent strong serve okay all right so the second thing that I see  a lot of players doing and this is not the   wrong way to serve but it's probably not  the preferred way especially when you get   more advanced in levels okay so this I call  this the open stance I see a lot of players   serving like this with the open stance right  up at the line and instead of that I want you   in a closed which here in open stance my  chest is parallel to the net more closed   stance so my shoulder is now facing the the  net or so this is fully closed here or even   semi semi open okay her semi closed okay  so so that I could really swing through   that ball and now I'm rotating it's easy for  me to rotate my body through the serve okay all right so the third the third tip that I  have for you is to have a very smooth load a   high motion swing path now a lot of people let's  say they don't have any racket experience or   they haven't played pass racket sports a lot of  times they'll be really tense in their grip and   they'll be really tight and you can see their  motion is really jerky so you could probably   see something like this all right and that is  really a tenth serve and that could tend to be   inconsistent and it's just not the right way to  do it so what you want to do is loosen up your   grip a little bit and start here and then just  have a smooth swinging motion and what I want   to do where what you want to do is actually hit  through the ball so I kind of act like what we   like to say is kind of act like you're hitting  through three balls so you're not just hitting   through one I want to make sure it's smooth and  I'm hitting through I'm making sure I'm hitting   through like let's say if there was three balls  here hitting through and then I'm coming around   my body up to my shoulder okay starting low  hitting through the ball and then up here we go all right so as you can see hopefully I shown  there I'm it's not really tight it's not a tight   whip action or anything like that it's super  smooth low to high finishing up here around my   left shoulder all right so the fourth tip that  I have for you today is to not have a very big   looping back swing or don't take your paddle way  back here when you're serving all you really need   to do is if you line up here and in closed stance  or semi closed stance just put your battle here   I put your paddle here by your right hip and then  this is really where you're going to get all your   power that you're going to need you don't need to  come way up here or way out here you could kind of   just set it right here and then you're just going  to serve hitting through the ball low to high   hitting through and up over your left shoulder  see I'm not taking it way back all right just here all right so the fifth tip that I have for  you today is the toss it's not really a toss   it's actually just a drop a lot I see a lot of  people a lot of beginners when they're playing   they actually try to hit it right out of their  hands and that's really hard and awkward I think   the time trying to hit it like that and I  see others actually tossing the ball it's   actually unnecessary and it makes it harder  at a time I see them doing this okay so you   can do that but the most consistent way to  do it is just to hold it right in front of   you I think I would say around hip level  and then I'm just going to I'm gonna take   my backswing here like this and then I'm  going as I as I start to initiate my swing   I'm just going to drop at the same time it's  kind of like a smooth motion like this okay   so this is something that you can practice  here I'm dropping and initiating this way   okay so I'm not throwing it I'm not tossing  it it's just a drop from about waist level all right so those were the five tips to  give you stronger consistent and better   serve 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