Your pickleball strokes, measured shot by shot.
Ready position, soft hands, lift and legs — dinks, drops and serves read from one phone clip, with the one fix that matters most and a drill to fix it.
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What the coach measures
One clip, one angle — here's what each angle can read. Film the other angle another day for the rest.
Where your paddle hand lives between shots, measured from your hip line. Up near your chest means every ball starts on time; down at the thighs means every ball starts with a catch-up move.
How soft your knees stay between shots. Straight legs mean you’re standing tall on your heels — soft knees are what make the first step quick.
How quickly your hand gets back up to chest height after each shot. Up is home; down is a visit.
How big your take-back is, measured as the path your hand travels. The soft game wants a short move — a backswing that needs a decision mid-flight is how drops turn into net balls.
Where you meet the ball relative to your body, from the side camera. Out front means your shoulder can do the pushing; beside or behind your hip means the wrist has to rescue it.
How much of the stroke came from the forearm flicking versus the whole arm pushing from the shoulder. Push beats flick: pushes repeat, flicks are streaky.
Where your paddle hand lives between shots, measured from your hip line. Up near your chest means every ball starts on time; down at the thighs means every ball starts with a catch-up move.
Your feet compared to your shoulders between shots. Around shoulder width and a bit beyond keeps you balanced both ways.
How quickly your hand gets back up to chest height after each shot. Up is home; down is a visit.
How big your take-back is, measured as the path your hand travels. The soft game wants a short move — a backswing that needs a decision mid-flight is how drops turn into net balls.
How much your hand travels upward from its lowest point to the finish. The lift is what makes a drop peak on your side of the net and die in the kitchen.
Where your hand finishes, measured from your hip line. A calm finish around chest or shoulder height says the lift stayed soft the whole way.
A category the clip can't show clearly comes back blank rather than guessed — and if too much of the movement is unreadable, we hold the overall score back instead of averaging what is left.
The report, start to finish
Explore it — this is the layout you get. The numbers below are a worked example, not a recording of someone's clip.
Drills the coach prescribes
Dink against a wall with a line at net height (34 inches). Soft push from the shoulder, contact out front, reset to ready between every ball.
With a partner, cross-court dinks only. Every ball lands in the kitchen; every miss into the net means you got wristy. Play to 20.
Partner at the kitchen feeds to you at mid-court; hit drops that peak on YOUR side of the net and die in the kitchen. Step forward after each one.
Third-shot drops from the baseline into a towel laid in the kitchen. Three in a row on the towel, take one step in; work back out.
How to film it
- ✓ Pick ONE shot type per clip and set it above - the coach reads it. One shot type means detailed category scores for that shot, not a 0-100 overall; the overall needs most of your game in one clip, which no single drill contains
- ✓ Film from the SIDE of the court where you can - a behind-the-baseline camera can't see the stroke's depth: contact out front, flick-vs-push, knee bend and the leg drive all move along its line of sight, and are left blank on a behind clip. Behind is still offered, and it is the only angle that reads your ready stance width - just pick it, so we know what we are looking at
- ✓ Phone at chest height on the sideline, fixed, landscape - you should stand about a third of the frame tall, head to feet. Below a sixth the clip is usually rejected
- ✓ Whole body and paddle in frame through the full motion
- ✓ Film in daylight or good court lighting, and don't let anyone hold or pan the phone - swing size, the third-shot lift and both serve-swing reads are dropped on a moving camera
- ✓ A few repetitions of the same shot in one clip is perfect
Fix your pickleball
- All-Arm Drops — Put Your Legs Back in the Lift
- The Arm-Only Serve — Depth Comes From the Body, Not the Shoulder
- Too Much Take-Back on Your Dinks and Drops
- Can AI Really Check Your Pickleball Form? What Gets Measured — and What Doesn't
- The Creeping Serve — Contact Drifting Up Toward Your Chest
- Dink vs Third-Shot Drop — Same Motion, Two Different Jobs
- Dinking Into the Net? It's Your Contact Point, Not Your Touch
- Dinks Popping Up Too High? Slow Your Hands Down
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