Ok, I whiffed on an overhead…again.
I finally made it to the court this week for the first time in...*checks calendar*...way too long. Let me tell ya, pickleball rust is a real thing. Reaction time decays and the feel for drops and resets suffers.
But what really felt foreign - overheads. On my first one of the day, I looked like a total noob and whiffed it. Yikes, can we get this guy a little unsolicited advice?
Here it is: When you're moving back to field an overhead, take one extra step.
That's it. That's the whole piece of advice. It's that simple.
Don't just retreat to the point where you can barely reach the ball. Take one more step to position your body behind the ball. This way, when you swing, you're able to step through the overhead.
This helps in three ways:
My mistake is that I was lazy and refused to take the extra step. I tried to jump backwards to reach the descending lob.
It might have been the wind, the sun, or a dwindling sense of athleticism that ultimately was my downfall (man I was a great high school athlete). But the whole embarrassment could've been avoided by taking an extra step, getting behind the ball and launching forward through the overhead.
Learn from my mistake, use good form, and go crush some overheads.
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