The key to good defense? Distract your opponent 🔑 #shorts

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Uploaded: 2025-07-06T07:20:16+00:00
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when it comes to pickleball defense is a
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huge aspect of the game that I believe
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is overlooked the first defensive
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maneuver I want to talk about is called
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the ready stance or receiving stance
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because you're waiting to receive the
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ball from the opponent most people are
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just casually right here with it you
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know light on the toes let me show you a
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little trick I like to utilize I hold
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the paddle up here like this they never
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I mean it's psyching them out already I
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can feel it
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another little defensive strategy I like
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to utilize is to hold the paddle in your
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non-dominant hand they're looking and
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thinking well that's his forehand and
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that's his backhand but as the ball is
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coming you switch to your dominant hand
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what would have been a backhand now's to
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my forehand the last defensive strategy
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I want to highlight today is called the
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whiff when your opponent is serving what
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you do is the ball comes in you whiff
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real hard then you hit it that was a bad
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example but I mean I'm telling you seven
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