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Stop Missing EASY Putaways (Instant Fix)

If you keep missing putaways, you don't have a power problem. You have a mechanics and decision problem, and the fix starts with picking the right putaway for the height of the ball.

When the ball is clearly above your head, hit a true overhead. Turn into a closed stance right away, get both hands up, and track the ball with your free hand while the paddle hand rises for balance.

Use a continental grip and swing like a throw. Start high, come through contact out in front, and finish low past your opposite hip with a loose wrist.

Position the ball in front of you and slightly toward your right shoulder (lefties flip it). A ball directly overhead or to your left produces a weak smash, and reaching too early or contacting with the paddle face down sends it into the net.

At shoulder or head height, you can't hit an overhead. Skip the full turn: turn your shoulders slightly, set the paddle back at ball height, and come through with a very loose wrist using your chest and shoulder rotation.

Your power position for this punch is just outside your right shoulder. If the ball comes straight at your body, shuffle to create that space, and keep the backswing medium because a huge swing costs you clean contact.

For balls from shoulder height down toward the waist that are still above the net, use the swinging volley. Grip slightly eastern so the face closes a touch, get the ball to your right, start at or just below ball height, and swing low to high with hip and core rotation, finishing high like a drive.

Don't slice or chop down on this one. A downward path puts it in the net, and jamming yourself with no space to your right kills the power.

In all three cases the pace comes from loose, relaxed mechanics at half effort. Good mechanics at 50 percent swing speed beat a hard swing every time.

Key points

Match the putaway to ball height: overhead above your head, punch volley at shoulder height, swinging volley below the shoulders.
Contact every putaway out in front and slightly toward your right shoulder, shuffling to create that space.
Swing the overhead like a throw: continental grip, loose wrist, finish low past your opposite hip.
On the swinging volley, start at or below ball height and swing low to high, never chopping down.
Power comes from loose mechanics at half effort, not from a bigger, faster swing.

Watch the full tutorial here.