Fundamentals of Dinking
Fundamentals of Dinking
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The ready position.mp4The Ready Position
Paddle Placement When Dinking.mp4Paddle Placement When Dinking
Advice on Better Dinking👍
Take your time to fully prepare, there's no need to rush
Take the ball out of the air when possible
Mix up your spots, don't take the same spot twice
Here how to extend your reach into the kitchen without going over the line- stay relaxed and take your time, extend your non-hitting I'm back behind you for balance and hinge at the waist
First Down Rule Credit kevindongpickleball pickleball thekitchen pickleballhighlights pickleballislife pickleballstrategy pickleballaddiction.mp4First Down Rule
Down Paddle Dinking.mp4Down Paddle Dinking
Paddle-Down Dinking.mp4Paddle-Down Dinking
Dink Targets
LEVEL UP Your Dinking in 8 Minutes With These Strategies.mp4LEVEL UP Your Dinking in 8 Minutes with These Strategies
Pickleball Tips: Volleys.mp4Pickleball Tips: Volleys
5 Tips for Volleys.mp45 Tips for Volleys
How to Get Fast Hands.mp4How to Get Fast Hands
3 Golden Rules of Dinking.mp43 Golden Rules of Dinking
3 Mistakes Causing You to Have Slow Hands at the Kitchen Line.mp43 Mistakes Causing You to Have Slow Hands at the Kitchen Line
3 Top Spin Dink Levels.mp43 Top Spin Dink Levels
How to Hit a Forehand Roll Dink.mp4How to Hit a Forehand Roll Dink
How to Handle Aggressive Dinks.mp4How to Handle Aggressive Dinks
Common Mistakes & Fixes
Common Mistakes & Fixes
How to Stop Popping Up Your Dinks.mp4How to Stop Popping Up Your Dinks
Stop Hitting High Balls into the Net.mp4Stop Hitting High Balls into the Net
3 Cheat Codes to Stop Popping Up Your Dinks.mp43 Cheat Codes to Stop Popping Up Your Dinks
How to Fix Your Dink from Popping Up.mp4How to Fix Your Dink from Popping Up
Biggest Mistake Players Make on Their Topspin DinkBiggest Mistake Players Make on Their Topspin Dink
Make Less Mistakes👍
Improve your consistency and control by pausing slightly before making contact with the ball.
Holding your body still for a split second prior to contact will dramatically reduce errors!
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Stop Missing your Backhand Dink👍
Scoop the ball up!
Paddle face can point up! As long as you swing slowly it will go in!
Follow through! Don't stop your paddle at contact!
Keep a wide stance and slide left and right! Do not cross your feet for a cross court dink!
When dinking with your opponent, after a couple volleys, you'll want to speed up the ball. So, aim for their paddle-side shoulder because it's difficult for your opponent to use a forehand or backhand against your hit.
How to Stay Accurate on Difficult Dinks.mp4How to Stay Accurate on Difficult Dinks
Counterbalancing Your Shot👍
If you're tired of constantly popping up the ball every single time when it gets sped up to you try this.
One of the main reasons that players pop up the ball is because they're not utilizing their non-dominant side as they counter through the shot. More specifically what you want to do is use your off hand to counterbalance yourself as you punch through the volley.
The difference between a player that uses they're non-dominant side and a player that doesn't is speed. You're going to be a whole lot faster at countering that by simply spreading your arms apart as you hit through it in comparison to just using one.
That counterbalance really allows you to be able to plow through the ball a whole lot faster.
Choosing The Right Targets Is Key.mp4Defending a Pop-up at the Kitchen Line
Stop Popping Up Your Speedups.mp4Stop Popping Up Your Speedups
5 Mistakes You Are Making at the Kitchen.mp45 Mistakes You Are Making at the Kitchen
How to Setup an Ernie at the Kitchen Line.mp4How to Setup an Ernie at the Kitchen Line
5 Mistakes You're Making at the Kitchen.mp45 Mistakes You're Making at the Kitchen
5 Ways to Stop Losing Points at the Speed-up.mp45 Ways to Stop Losing Points at the Speed-up
Stop Doing this During a Block Volly.mp4Stop Doing this During a Block Volly
Adding a Deceptive Windup to Your Dinks.mp4Adding a Deceptive Windup to Your Dinks
How to Volley WITHOUT Taking a Step Backwards.mp4How to Volley WITHOUT Taking a Step Backwards
Cutting the Ball on Your Backhand Dink [Mistake].mp4Cutting the Ball on Your Backhand Dink [Mistake #1]
Bending the Elbow and Chopping the Ball Mistake #2.mp4Bending the Elbow and Chopping the Ball Mistake #2
Advanced Dinking Techniques
Advanced Dinking Techniques
The two handed top spin dink.mp4The 2-Handed Top Spin Dink
How to Hit a 2-Handed Top Spin Dink.mp4How to Hit a 2-Handed Top Spin Dink
Master the top spin dink.mp4Mastering the Top Spin Dink
The Two-Handed Top Spin Dink.mp4The Two-Handed Top Spin Dink
Dead Dink Deceptive Shot.mp4Dead Dink Deceptive Shot
Master Decption with No Backswing at the Kitchen Line.mp4Master Deception with No Backswing at the Kitchen Line
Backhand roll vs flick.mp4Backhand roll vs. backhand flick
Backhand Flick👍
Get low/paddle head drops in front of you
No wrist
No strong back swing
Just come up and get under the ball
Brush up the back of the ball to create that spin
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The back hand slice dink.mp4The Back Hand Slice Dink
Here's Why Pro Players Have Their Ready Position Low at the Kitchen Line.mp4Here's Why Pro Players Have Their Ready Position Low at the Kitchen Line
The Triangle Effect.mp4The Triangle Effect
Paddle Face Angles at the Kitchen.mp4Paddle Face Angles at the Kitchen
Cross Court Paddle Position Backhand Dink.mp4Cross Court Paddle Position Backhand Dink
Changing hands at the Kitchen Line.mp4Changing hands at the Kitchen Line
How to Hit the Forehand Roll.mp4How to Hit the Forehand Roll
The Difference Between Aggressive and Dead Dinks.mp4The Difference Between Aggressive and Dead Dinks
Kitchen Line Strategy
Kitchen Line Strategy
3 Things to Stop Doing at the Kitchen Line.mp43 Things to Stop Doing at the Kitchen Line
4 Tips for Better Blocking Behind the Kitchen Line.mp44 Tips for Better Blocking Behind the Kitchen Line
Avoid Falling into the Kitchen👍
Stand at the line, putting weight on the balls of your feet so you are stationary and less likely to move forward into the kitchen.
Stay planted.
Your feet may be the ONE thing standing between you and being 50 pickleballcoach pickleball.mp4Footwork at the Kitchen
3 Ways to Stop Losing Points at the Kitchen Line.mp43 Ways to Stop Losing Points at the Kitchen Line
Backswing Tips at the Kitchen LineBackswing Tips at the Kitchen Line
Preventing Pop Ups at the Kitchen Line.mp4Preventing Pop Ups at the Kitchen Line
Trick to Approach the Kitchen Line.mp4Trick to Approach the Kitchen Line
Speed & Hand Battles
Speed & Hand Battles
How to get super fast hands in Pickleball.mp4How to Get Super Fast Hands in Pickleball
Fast Hand!.mp4Fast Hands!
2 Reasons You Don't Have Fast Hands (with drills).mp42 Reasons You Don't Have Fast Hands (with drills)
4 Tips for Faster Hands 4.0 Level.mp44 Tips for Faster Hands 4.0 Level
Hand Battle Tip.mp4Hand Battle Tip
How to Get Faster Hands at the Kitchen Line.mp4How to Get Faster Hands at the Kitchen Line
MASTER Your Pickleball Speedups Everything You Need to Know.mp4Master your Pickleball Speedups
Blocking/Resetting Your Volleys.mp4Blocking/Resetting Your Volleys
How to Block Volley.mp4How to Block Volley
Block Valley on the Backhand Side.mp4Block Valley on the Backhand Side
How to Speed Balls Up from the Bounce.mp4How to Speed Balls Up from the Bounce
Aim for weaknesses when speeding up at the kitchen.mp4Speedup Placement
How to Get Faster Hands at the Kitchen Line.mp4How to Get Faster Hands at the Kitchen Line
getting faster hands two tips.mp4Getting Faster Hands
- Keep your elbow in
- Don't take your paddle back
- Drills- keep a ball under your arm, stand against a wall
Level Up Your Pickleball Volleys With LightingFast Hands.mp4The Key to Lightning Fast Hands at the Net
Which Ball Do You Attack When Dinking.mp4Which Ball Do You Attack When Dinking
Speed-up Solo Warm-Up.mp4Speed-up Solo Warm-Up
3 Tips to Help Get Fast Hands at the Net.mp43 Tips to Help Get Fast Hands at the Net
3 Tips to Help Get Fast Hands at the Net.mp43 Tips for Faster Hands
What to do When Your Partner is in a Hand Battle.mp4What to do When Your Partner is in a Hand Battle
How to Have Full Control Over Opponents at the Kitchen Line.mp4How to Have Full Control Over Opponents at the Kitchen Line
Defending Against a Speedup.mp4Defending Against a Speedup
The Best Method to Transition to the Kitchen Line.mp4The Best Method to Transition to the Kitchen Line
Tactical Decision Making
Tactical Decision Making
When to take the ball out of the air or let it bounce.mp4When to Take the Ball Out of the Air or Let it Bounce
Which Ball Should you Attack?👍
Dinking- Which Ball Should you Attack?.mp4Dinking- Which Ball Should you Attack?
Move your opponent around.mp4Move your Opponent Around
Leveraging an offensive position to push your opponent backPushing your Opposition Back
Return the Serve Sideways👍
Return the serve sideways not between my legs with the paddle. This was pointed out to me at Talley. (There is a video about returning a serve here.)
Taking Dinks Out of the Air!👍
What is it!
In pickleball, "taking dinks out of the air" means volleying (hitting the ball before it bounces) an opponent's dink shot. A dink is a soft, arcing shot that's typically aimed to land in the kitchen (non-volley zone) near the net. When a player takes a dink out of the air, they're intercepting this shot before it can bounce, often while standing at or near the non-volley line.
This is generally considered an aggressive play that can help maintain control of the point, as it:
Gives your opponent less time to react
Prevents the ball from potentially taking an unpredictable bounce
Keeps you in an offensive position at the non-volley line
However, this play requires good hand-eye coordination and soft touch, as you want to maintain control of the ball rather than hitting it too hard and making an error. It's particularly effective when you can identify that your opponent's dink is going to be high enough to volley comfortably.
Tips!
A lot of players have been taught that they should take dinks out of the air but they don't know why. They end up taking dinks out of the air that they shouldn't and this leads to them being more and more inconsistent.
The reason you want to take dink's out of the air is because it makes your opponent uncomfortable by taking time away from them and causing them to pop up the ball.
The rule of thumb is that if you're uncomfortable don't try to make your opponent uncomfortable.
Open your paddle face towards the side of the court that the ball is at. So if you dink the ball across the court you should open your paddle towards the middle of the court. If you dink the ball up the line you should open your paddle face up towards the backhand side of your paddle the majority of the time because this will help you to defend the speedup that can only come from that direction.
A simple thing to focus on is just pointing the tip of your paddle towards wherever the ball lands.
Taking a Dink out the Air.mp4Taking Dinks Out of the Air!
The First Down Rule.mp4The First Down Rule
Drills & Practice
Drills & Practice
dinking water bottle challenge drill.mp4Water Bottle Challenge Drill
dinking drill.mp4Great Dinking Drill
Partner Coverage at the Net.mp4Partner Coverage at the Net
The Double Dink Drill.mp4The Double Dink Drill
Defense & Counter Attacks
Defense & Counter Attacks
How to Handle a Speed Up.mp4How to Handle a Speed Up
How to Handle Agressive Dinks.mp4How to Handle Aggressive Dinks
Defend Against Pop ups👍
You've popped up the ball and you're about to get slammed. How do you defend yourself?
Take a step back
Lower your body like you're going to sit in a chair. Don't bend at the waist.
Keep your paddle down.
You simply block the ball and do not swing at it.
5 Ways to Stop Losing Points at the Speed-up.mp45 Ways to Stop Losing Points at Speed-up
How to Stop Getting Chickenwinged.mp4How to Stop Getting Chickenwinged
If you keep getting slammed at the kitchen line follow this ONE simple tip pickleballcoach.mp4If you Keep Getting Slammed at the Kitchen Line...
THIS BACKHAND VOLLEY Take a look at this beautiful backhand volley These shots look so difficult to defend giuliolovascio ____________________________________ padel.mp4THIS BACKHAND VOLLEY Take a Look
2 Tips to Eliminate Your Backswing when Dinking with Drills
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