PICKLEBALL 360
- Backhand Volley Attack
- Ben Johns

Hi, I'll be going over the technical aspects of the backhand volley attack on the adcourt. So in pickleball, you can't expect just dinking to get all your points. You need to know how to attack the ball effectively in this case. We're going to show you how to hit a backhand attack off of a volley on the ad side of the Court. So the first thing you want to realize is this shot is a lot about the setup and realizing when the shot is attackable. The first way to do this is to make sure your feet are all the way up at the kitchen line. You're gonna see a lot less attackable balls. If you're not all up the kitchen line and you're hanging around back here. So first of all, you want to be all the way up in the kitchen line taking your volley dinks if you can or half always if you need to this allows you to see the first attackable ball that comes anything that's a little high where you can make contact out of the air above the level of the net is gonna be your attackable ball. So you can see right there. Your first step is to make sure your weight is on the balls of your feet you're leaning in and you're extending your arm. You want to make contact as far out as you can comfortably to ensure that you're taking the ball at its peak height and you're making contact outstretched so you can generate power. Some things I often see that are wrong that happen our first people bend at their waist to hit the ball when you're bending it your waist like this, you're gonna tend to hit that ball down because all your weight is going down. You want to make sure you're bending it your knees not at your waist hit these balls that you can attack effectively at the level of the net that's gonna help. You keep the ball low to the net. Now preferably when you make contact to this ball your paddle is gonna be approximately flat. You don't want to be generating backspin on this shot. And the reason for that is backspin is gonna make the ball float. So if you do that oftentimes your ball is going to go long because that backsome makes the ball float too far and you also lose pace. Instead when you make contact with the ball, you want to make sure that your paddle is approximately flat-faced. And that will allow you to generate maximum power and keep the ball low to the level of the net. As far as generating power goes most of it is Gonna Come From the turn of your hips and shoulders when you make contact with the ball. It's gonna be approximately in front of your body and you're going to want to twist your shoulders and hips to the right. That's what's going to generate your power. A way to bear in mind that this attack is used for balls that are above the level of the net that is your first cue that this attackable if you can make contact out of the air. Above the level of the net that's what's going to make it a tackle. When you have a ball that's a little bit High and a tackable. Generally if you can get any kind of downward angle in the ball and all four players are at the kitchen line the best place You're Gonna Want to attack this ball through the middle. That's the most difficult place to cover when you're able to hit down and that's where we want to go. one more thing to go over is sometimes you'll want a little bit of Top Spin on the ball rather than just hitting it completely flat. So you want to ensure that you're starting your paddle from slightly lower below the ball and coming upwards, but you're not opening your wrist. You want to keep that wrist bent forward. So the paddle is flat. You don't want to open it. So it goes open face that's gonna create backspin and it's gonna hit it too far up. So ensure that paddle is flat face and we're having a slightly upwards motion. This is going to create a ball that has some Top Spin and goes straight through the court. And there you have the backhand volley attack from the add Court.