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"Tall Person Syndrome": The Bad Pickleball Habits Killing Your Game

The lob goes up, you decide it is yours, and then you are backing up underneath it with the paddle already raised. You jump, you reach, and you shank it.

Jill B's fix is that the first move on an overhead is not a jump. It is a shuffle.

The old tennis drill behind it is point, paddle to the ear, and shuffle, all happening together. Most players manage one or two of those and skip the shuffle entirely.

Turn before you do anything else, and turn further than feels right. Jill tells her students they are doing it correctly when they can no longer see the ball.

Then the steps, which are quick and small rather than one long slow one. Michael's real problem was that he hung on his left foot, so he was already late before he had started.

She had him move at twice his usual speed and the change was immediate. He described being at the ball a mile earlier, with the lob coming to him instead of him chasing it.

Point the off hand up rather than out in front of you. Staying open is what makes tall players fall away from the ball.

What a paragraph cannot carry is how extreme that turn looks. On camera it looks like too much, and the player doing it says it felt uncomfortable right up until the lobs started coming back.

Key points

Your first move on an overhead is a shuffle, not a jump.
Turn further than feels right, far enough that you can no longer see the ball.
Take quick small steps instead of one long slow one, which is what leaves you late before you have started.
Point your off hand up rather than out in front, because staying open makes you fall away from the ball.
Move at twice your usual speed, which is what put Michael at the ball a mile earlier.

Watch the full tutorial here.