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Fast hands: the guide
Draft week for MLP. Tales from the court.
Top of the mornin’ to you. We knew when we posted this naked pickleball popularity post on Insta, our followers would leave some memorable comments.
But we had to highlight some of our favorites:
It’s not real nude if you’ve got a knee brace on - @travieiam
Makes hitting a tweener even more risky - @thefactorypickleball
That’s disgusting! I’m in - @isaac_479
In This Issue:
🧠 The road to fast hands
💰 Draft week for MLP
🎾 Tales from the court
Let’s get to it.
Fast and Furious
Fast hands. Everybody wants 'em. The Newmans' got 'em. Now you can, too.
You ask any vet of the game and they'll tell you, “stand one foot inside of the kitchen line and trade volleys with your partner.“
That's drill numero uno to improve hand speed and slow the game down when you revert back to gameplay.
The next three drills from the Newmans are as follows:
Dink rally until one high ball is hit. Proceed into a reflex volley rally. Dink aggressively to force a mistake then attack with hand speed.
Reflex volley rally from the kitchen line.
Shuffle sideline to sideline, in sync with your partner, while trading reflex volleys.
The moral of the story: fast hands come from practice. Thousands upon thousands of balls drilled at your sibling pay off in the long run.
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Ms. 305
South Florida loves pickleball. Baseball, not so much. But when you combine the two, you can fill a stadium.
It was pickleball day at LoanDepot Park as the Miami Marlins took on the Phillies. Top female pro and South Florida native Anna Leigh Waters burned the first pitch right by the 8ft tall 'Billy the Marlin.'
Outside of the stadium, a pickleball court hosted pros, amateurs, and anyone looking to escape in between at-bats.
The Marlins are not the first to honor pickleball and will not be the last. The pickleball-baseball love story continues throughout the summer. Pickle4's ballpark tour continues with stops in Boston, San Francisco, and Denver.
The Mariners also plan to host another pickleball night this season starring Tyson McGuffin. If you ask a Chicagoan, pickles belong on a hot dog and maybe, just maybe pickleball and baseball belong together as well.
It’s Draft Week in NYC
The main story of the week is the MLP Season Two draft. Teams will convene at the City Pickle courts in Central Park on Wednesday to make their selections for season two.
Most projections have Ben Johns top overall. After that, the Utah Black Diamonds will have to choose between Anna Leigh Waters and Riley Newman at number two.
A common strategy in the draft process is to take two women in the first two rounds. The Super Final champ LA Mad Drops prevailed in season one selecting Catherine Parenteau in the first and Irina Tereschenko in the second.
Other headlines include:
Which players will make the jump from Challenger to Premier?
Who will draft Travis Rettenmaier? A Premier Level talent that owns a team in Challenger Level.
Will the Johns brothers reunite after passing on the opportunity in season one?
Will anyone take a chance on Christopher Deaton, who boldly entered the draft pool despite a 2.402 DUPR?
Zane Navratil and Thomas Shields will host a special on-site episode of the PicklePod live from Central Park on Wednesday. A rotating cast of top-level players, savvy GMs and A-list ‘surprise guests’ will stop by the pod. Tune in on The Dink or MLP YouTube channels beginning at 9am ET.
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Tales from the Court, Part 3
This unusual pickleball experience comes to us from Lorraine C. Send in your own interesting pickleball stories here.
I was walking back from the kitchen to take my turn to serve when the ball was hit to me. Needless to say, I didn’t see the ball because my back was turned, but I sure did FEEL it!
It bounced up the inside back of my skirt and sat on the top of my butt while I was still walking. I had to literally retrieve the ball to get it out.
It took us and the two courts on either side of us about 15 minutes to stop laughing.
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