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FIT PICKLER
March 14, 2024
Health, Fitness, News & Fun for Picklers of All Ages
What's Cooking in the Kitchen This Week:
Fitness Expert Glen: 3 Exercises to “Untrap” Your Traps
Advanced Pickleball Serving Strategies
Veterans Find Healing in Pickleball
What Do Golf Courses, Marijuana and Pickleball Have In Common?
The Ultimate Guide to Pickleball Etiquette
Pickleball and The Stock Market
The Fit Pickler Survey Contest: Enter Today to
Win $150 Amazon Gift CardRally Rundown: Local Highlights
Coach Mary: To DROP or to TOSS: Choose Your Service Weapon
🏋️ STAYING FIT with GLEN
3 Lower Trap Exercises to Balance Your Shoulders
🥷SKILLS
Advanced Pickleball Serve Strategies
In the realm of pickleball, a player's serve can significantly influence the trajectory of the game. As such, understanding and mastering advanced serving strategies can be pivotal in gaining an upper hand over your opponent.
Whether it's the speed and precision of the “Fast & Low Serve,” the tactical depth of the “High & Soft Serve”, the cunning surprise of the “Short Angled Serve,” the unpredictable nature of the “Sidespin Serve,” or the professional finesse of the “Advanced Topspin Serve,” each technique offers a unique blend of challenge and utility.
While these techniques may seem daunting at first glance, with practice and proper understanding, they can be seamlessly integrated into your game, thereby enhancing your overall performance. Let's explore their intricacies and impact on the game…
🎖️VETERANS
Veterans Find Healing In Pickleball
Take a moment to read this inspirational story of how Semper Fi & America's Fund have been helping injured veterans heal through the sport of Pickleball.
One veteran highlighted is Paul McQuigg, who joined the Marines in 1997 and has been deployed in 20 countries. Severely wounded by an IED he turned to sports to help him recover both physically and mentally.
🗞️COMMUNITY NEWS
Syracuse Golf Course Owner Plans
Massive Pickleball Complex
Serving Food, Beer &…
FlynnStoned Cannabis Company owner Mike Flynn is opening a massive Pickleball complex with a restaurant, a bar, and a Pot Dispensary on the corner.
Flynn purchased the Pope’s Grove Golf Course for $1M in 2022 hoping to open a restaurant and a brewery, but when he saw the explosive growth of pickleball in his community, he changed his mind.
He plans to build a pickleball paddle-shaped bar that will offer court-side service to the 20 indoor courts. Read more about this ambitious and unique offering here…
🤓PICKLEBALL: IN THE KNOW
Mind Your Manners
Pickleball Etiquette
I could have pickled all night, I could have pickled all night, and still have begged for more
As Pickleball continues to grow year after year, many new players may wonder about the Etiquette of RecPlay Pickleball. Wonder no more, the guide is here.
Check out this timely advice for both new and experienced players on how to enjoy this wonderful sport while minding our manners, building community, competing and having big fun along the way.
💼 BUSINESS NEWS
Wall Street Thinks This Pickleball
Stock Could Rally Up 48%
Barchart.com
Amer sports is a sportswear company based in Finland that is attracting the attention of Wall Street ever since it began trading on the NYSE on February 1st.
They won’t be the only company who has merchandise related offerings to turn heads in 2024 as Pickleball is expected to reach 20 Million players by year’s end. For more information on this trend click below to read more…
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🧭 COMMUNITY NEWS
RALLY RUNDOWN:
LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS
PLACER COUNTY, CA: Pickleball tournament set to bring millions to Placer County
WESTERVILLE, OH: Huge venue with restaurant, pickleball, duckpin bowling, and bocce ball coming to central Ohio
SUMMERVILLE, SC: Meals on Wheels hosting ‘Dink and Deliver Classic’ pickleball tournament
MONETA, VA: Ex Roadie and fitness expert become "odd couple" resetting their fitness goals thru PB
BRAINTREE, MA: Local town installing $22k worth of acoustic panels to offset PB noise
NEWPORT, RI: New England couple sues the city over PB noise
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HOLDING COURT with
COACH MARY
💪 To DROP or to TOSS:
Choose Your Service Weapon
Which serve is right serve for you? The Toss or the Drop?
The Pros do not use the toss since it is not allowed in the PPA, only in the APP. Why do they not use it?
Pros are pushing the envelope with the out of the air serve. It is a difficult rule to enforce, and in the video Zane mentions how several pros get away with illegal serves. There is an advantage with the out of the air serve if you want to weaponize your serve, making it more powerful. You can generate more hip rotation and shoulder rotation from a higher point with the out of the air serve.
Three components of the out of the air serve:
• Must make contact below the waist.
• Paddle must be in an upward motion as you strike the ball.
• The top part of your paddle must be at or below the level of your wrist.
All elements of the out of the air serve rules are subjective. Watch Zane’s demo of several serves and see if you can tell if they are illegal. Until we make the rules easier to enforce without subjective opinion, pros will push the envelope. Zane advises go to the drop serve only, to eliminate players who are on the border of illegal serves with the out of the air technique.
Benefits of the Drop Serve:
• The three components listed above do not apply to the drop serve. No worries about keeping your paddle below your waist, etc.
• Consistency: If you have issues with getting your serve in regularly, the drop serves hover in your contact area, which makes it easier to get it in regularly.
• It is easier for beginners to master the drop serve, since they have more time to coordinate their rotation and follow-through.
• Did you know you can let it bounce more than once with the drop serve? Fake out your opponents!
Issues with the drop serve:
• You cannot propel, spin, or toss the drop serve – you must drop it. Knuckles to the sky, let go of the ball.
• Often, I see my students drop the ball even with or behind their body, which puts them on their back foot. It must be dropped out in front! It can be dropped inside the court line, but you cannot step on the line when you contact the serve.
• With wind, sun, type of ball, the drop serve brings in extra elements to your consistent ability to execute your serve.
I believe you should have many tools in your toolkit. Try different types of serves to keep your opponent off balance. I use a topspin drive serve, a topspin lob serve, an inside out cut serve, and a drop serve with a cut. I am working on a backhand serve, and a backhand off a drop two handed serve.
Remember, for all your serves, be sure to contact in front of your body, use hip and shoulder rotation, and follow-through with your paddle to your target.
