Practice Plan
Lobbing
- A lob is an offensive weapon to retreat your opponents back to the baseline, as well as to force them to hit a shot on the move.
- Hitting an effective lob consistently is a difficult skill as one must hit it high enough to not be struck with an overhead while also soft enough to land within the baseline.
- As an advanced shot, learning an effective lob takes time and will not be mastered on the first day.
Session Duration
60 minutes
Table of Contents
Suggested practice times.
- A Simple Warm Up Pickleball Drill for Footwork – 15 minutes
- Practice Pickleball Dinks With This Avoidance Drill – 15 minutes
- When to Use the Lob Shot in Pickleball – 15 minutes
- Learn an Aggressive Pickleball Lob Drill – 15 minutes
A Simple Warm Up Pickleball Drill for Footwork
15 minutes – suggested practice time
Begin the session with this warm-up dinking drill.
Practice Pickleball Dinks With This Avoidance Drill
15 minutes – suggested practice time
Move your dinks around the kitchen to set yourself up with a ball to attack.
When to Use the Lob Shot in Pickleball
15 minutes – suggested practice time
Utilize this drill to recognize which airborne balls are attackable with a lob versus which are attackable with a speed up straight ahead.
Learn an Aggressive Pickleball Lob Drill
15 minutes – suggested practice time
This drill works on both executing an offensive lob, as well as how to defensively recover when you have been lobbed.
