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Shimabukuro Scoop: A Dog Trotting Style
Even though his torso is compressed downward like a trotting dog, his forearms and wrists act as a sudden whip, allowing him to violently flick the paddle at the absolute last microsecond to return the ball to the far right.
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The skateboarding biomechanics makes Tama Shimabukuro an exceptional pickleball player
By rotating his lower arm clockwise from a downward-facing to left and upward right before contact, he generates closed-chain torque. This replicates a skater’s unweighting mechanics, allowing him to bypass the backswing lag, disguise his intentions, and micro-adjust his paddle face to send the ball virtually anywhere.
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Paddle up? No!
When the “paddle up” becomes a common sense, Tama Shimabukuro brings in another option.
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Tama Shimabukuro’s Chicken-Wing Style
Tama Shimabukuro is rewriting pickleball norms with an unorthodox chicken-wing serve and a unique paddle grip.
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Body bag: A term not for pickleball
“You’re body bagged.” If I hear this phrase from an opponent, my pickleball life is dead, so are my biological and spiritual ones.
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Rule #1: Play pickleball with mouth shut
“OUT, OUT, OUT. Did you hear me?” Dan shouted loudly to his partner Janet just at the beginning when the ball was returned very high. Dan is 23 and started to play pickleball last summer. Janet, 67, started pickleball in 2020 amid the pandemic lock-down. Dan and Janet got pickled…
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