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🤾♀️ How to generate overhead power
Plus, celebrity pickleball series to begin streaming in 2024, a great rally, and much more
Brandon Mackie
October 31, 2024
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🔥 Great patience, placement and resets = a great rally!
🤾♀️ How to generate overhead power
🤩The world’s largest indoor pickleball facility incoming
💫 Celebrity pickleball series to begin streaming in 2024
🔥 Great patience, placement and resets = a great rally!
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🤾♀️ How to generate overhead power
I’m stoked to welcome back James Ignatowich, top-5 ranked pickleball player in the world, for this week’s Level Up.
Hey Pickleheads readers,
I get a lot of people asking me, “How do I get more power on my overhead?”
Well, if you’re generating all the power on your overhead from your arm and shoulder, you’re doing it wrong!
Rather than generating the power from your arm, you should be getting it from your ‘wrist snap’.
You learn this in tennis from a pretty young age. But a lot of pickleball players try to arm the overhead.
The most important thing about the overhead is snapping the wrist and pronating it right as you make contact with the ball.
At the same time you want your arm and shoulder to be loose. Don’t tense up.
The motion you’re looking for is exactly the same as if you’re trying to throw a ball as hard as you can.
Finally, when you’re swinging for your overhead, don’t swing hard; swing fast!
Hope this helps!
Click to watch my 30-second video, where I walk you through this week’s tip. 👇
💫 Celebrity pickleball series to begin streaming in 2024
Episodes feature Kennedy and his pickleball partner, PPA pro Wes Burrows, as they compete against film, television and sports stars, including Taylor Lautner, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Shawn Johnson, and more.
🤩 PURE Pickleball & Padel’ to build the world’s largest indoor pickleball facility
Described as “a pickleball country club facility”, PURE Pickleball and Padel plans to build the largest indoor pickleball facility in Scottsdale, Arizona.
There will be retail, bars, restaurants, fitness equipment and recovery, a jacuzzi, red light, sauna, and even a cold plunge.
🛟 USA Pickleball: keeping players safe
Last week, USA Pickleball announced Emerge Insurance Services (Emerge) as their official accidental injury provider offering USAP members affordable accidental injury insurance with 24/7 coverage, on and off the court.
USA Pickleball members can access the Emerge Essentials Health & Safety Hub featuring pickleball safety tips aimed at minimizing risk and maximizing court time.
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Draw closes today, October 31st!
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One of my favorite paddles just got a makeover
Last week I shared the launch of the New Pulse series from Pickleball Apes.
Well they also released a limited edition Bronze color of one of my favorite paddles of all time…
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The limited edition is still just $134.99 (after our PICKLEHEADS discount), so it’s still one of the best deals in all of pickleball.
Now you get a big upgrade on the looks. I’ve never seen a color like this on a paddle 👏
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