Like it or not, 🎾 bangers teach us valuable lessons in the importance of touch and the ability to reset a ball – critical elements of pickleball, played at any level.

If you’re a lower-level player, at some point you’re going to Google, “how to defeat a banger,” only to realize you’ve been:

🔄 Flicking your wrist while dinking
🎾 Holding your paddle vertically instead of horizontally while trying to slow the ball down
🏓 Swinging at instead of punching those volleys in front of you at the kitchen line.