Stacking 101 – Jordan Briones

Instructor and coach, Jordan Briones explains everything you need to know about this essential strategy here:

Stacking is a must-know pickleball strategy if you are looking to improve your on-court play and strategy skills. Whether you are new to stacking or looking for some tips to improve your stacking skills (i.e. you are losing too many points unwinding the stack), then this post on how to stack in pickleball is for you.

Jordan Brave Briones was born and raised in the Northern California. Back in early 2014, Jordan picked up his first pickleball paddle. He was invited by a friend, and after about 5 minutes, he was hooked for life. Previously, his passion was for tennis, but like many others, that changed very quickly. After playing and challenging all the local recreational players in his area, he finally entered his first tournament that year in Southern California with his father, and got crushed. Two and out.

After that began a lifelong journey to learn and master all the skills and strategies in the game of pickleball. With the lack of information on pickleball at that time, Jordan was forced to really study the game from the inside out. He spent the next few years working really hard on his game, and it definitely paid off, as he started competing at the national level. In 2017, he co-founded PrimeTime Pickleball. This then became the largest, and most well-known pickleball instruction resource for pickleball players on the internet. After helping tens of thousands of pickleball players all around the world, he decided to start Briones Pickleball in late 2021.

Jordan was ranked top 20 in the nation at the peak of his playing career. After years of competing with and against some of the all time greats, he decided to focus on growing his family and focus more on teaching others all the skills and strategies that he learned along the way. Today he is a proud husband of his wife, Katrina Briones, and also a proud father of their three kids: Josiah, Mayah, and Jedidiah.

You can find Jordan (with tons of free videos on both Youtube and here at his home site: https://www.brionespickleball.com.

Coach David Live – Best Pball Instruction on the Internet

Meet David Alexander (Coach David) who coaches and plays out of Lake Havasu, AZ. Since 2016, David has documented his pickleball journey on YouTube via his channel Pickleball Diary. These days, David and his wife, Lisa, have become accomplished players and coaches. He is a certified instructor in the best doubles pickleball system on the internet (Dynamite Doubles by Helle Sparre. https://go.doublescourse.com/masterclass).

David’s coaching includes a livestream video of each and every coaching (and playing) session. He uses one and sometimes two microphones to record point by point instruction. This is remarkably helpful to the person being coached but even more remarkable is he makes each video session available to the public. You can watch, take notes, rewind and rewind again to get every nuance of the coaching he offers.

This particular session with 3.0-3.5 players documents gem after gem of instruction: serve, return to the server with a chip and charge, drop in front of your partner, keep the gap closed, etc. Take a look and see what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoeQM3tLXkk