Jeff Napier

Jeff Napier Videos

Jeff Napier's videos are shown below as numbered items. Where applicable, my post discussing the video is shown in the next line. Click on either to open the link.

Video 1 - Crazy Pickleball Serve
> Post - Rules Quiz - More Serve 

> Post - Answers to Rules Quiz - More Serve

Video 2 - Powerful Two-Part Pickleball Strategy

> Post - Dink Game Strategies

Video 3 - Pickleball Spin Serves

Video 4 - Pickleball Forehand Topspin

Video 5 - Pickleball Heel Kick-Up
> Post - Offbeat Sunday: How to Pick up Balls (The Heel Kick-up)

Video 6 - Pickleball Edgy Dink

Video 7 - The Easy Way To Pickup A Pickleball
> Post - Offbeat Sunday: How to Pick up Balls

Video 8 - Why Would a Pickleball Player Do This?

Jeff Napier Articles

Jeff Napier's blog posts are shown below as numbered items. Where applicable, my post discussing the article is shown in the next line. Click on either to open the link.

Article 1 - Junk Your Fancy Spins

Article 2 - The Thumb Guide Grip

Article 3 - 2-Part Pickleball Strategy

Article 4 - How to Execute Forehand Topspin

Article 5 - What You Didn’t Know About Poaching

Article 6 - Aim For The Feet
> Post - A Matter of Feet

Article 7 - Backhand Diagonal Poach

Article 8 - Pickleball Eyes

Article 9 - Legal Pickleball Spin Serves

Article 10 - The $78 Million Man

> Post - Off beat Sunday: A Short Work of Pickleball Fiction

Article 11 - Pickleball Strategy – Lobs

Article 12 - Edgy Dink

Article 13 - Rotten Pickleball

Article 14 - Pickleball Strategy – Wind

Article 15 - Strange Pickleball Serve

Article 16 - Correcting An Opponent’s Problem
> Post - The Illegal Server - One Tactic

Article 17 - After Deep, Deep, Dink

Article 18 - The Most Dangerous Place

Article 19 - Pickleball Strategy – Faking

Article 20 - Can’t Dink Into Kitchen – Dropshot

Article 21 - Second-Best Third Shot

Article 22 - Pickleball – The Dropshot
> Post - Revisiting the Dropshot

Article 23 - The Smash

Article 24 - Switching Hands

Article 25 - When to Approach The Kitchen

Article 26 - Two Approaches to the NVZ

Article 27 - What To Do When Your Partner Stays Back

Article 28 - To The Backhand

Article 29 - Pickleball Slice

Article 30 - Serve Deep
> Post - Serve Deep

Article 31 - Gather Data

Article 32 - How to End a Popcorn War

Article 33 - Bend Your Knees

Article 34 - Fragile Knees

Article 35 - Be Surprising in Pickleball

Article 36 - Down the Middle

Article 37 - Uneven Surfaces

Article 38 - Clearing the Net By Inches

Article 39 - When Not To Coach

Article 40 - Who Yells Switch?

Article 41 - Cover Sideways

Article 42 - Diagonal Beats Straight

Article 43 - Fun Dink Exercise

Article 44 - The Dink Game

Article 45 - The Fifth Shot

Article 46 - Downside of Deep, Deep, Dink

Article 47 - Slow Pickleball

Article 48 - Driving Force

Article 49 - Improve Your Dropshot

Article 50 - When Not to Dropshot

Article 51 - End of the Kitchen Rally

Article 52 - The Time To Practice

Article 53 - Two Left Feet

Article 54 - Fill The Holes

Article 55 - Forehand Power Shot

Article 56 - Left Foot Strategy

Article 57 - Rally Scoring

Article 58 - Opposite Hander

Article 59 - High Return of Serve
> Post - The Return - Deep and High

Article 60 - Kitchen Patience
> Post - Patience is a Strategy

Article 61 - Kitchen Violations

Article 62 - Returning a Lob

Article 63 - Today’s Win

Article 64 - Slower Play

Article 65 - No Man’s Land

Article 66 - Play to the Stronger Opponent

Article 67 - Ending a Popcorn War

Article 68 - Recovering From a Serving Problem
> Post - Change Mechanics to Fix the Yips?

Article 69 - Return Serves Deep
> Post - The Return - Deep and High

Article 70 - Returning The Serve

Article 71 - Where to Serve

> Post - Where to Serve

Article 72 - Some New Terminology
> Post - Offbeat Sunday: New Pickleball Terms

Article 73 - A Strategy For Too Many Players

Article 74 - Defending Against Slammers

Article 75 - Watching the Uninvolved Partner in a Dink Rally

Article 76 - The Diagonal Dink

Article 77 - More About Lobs

Article 78 - The First One to Escalate is the Loser

Article 79 - Another Reason Lobs are Mostly Defensive Shots

Article 80 - An Unexpected Pickleball Exercise

Article 81 - Worst Pickleball Surface Ever!

Article 82 - What If You Can’t Drop The Third Shot Into the Kitchen?

Article 83 - Getting Behind the Ball

Article 84 - The Run-Through Poach

Article 85 - Avoiding the Tendency to Smash

Article 86 - Body Language Down the Middle