What aspect of dinking do you want to improve most in?

@makeemsayJB

2 ай бұрын

Offensive dinking

@blockchainbaboon7617

2 ай бұрын

I need help understanding the strategy and nuance behind cross court dinking. I lose consistently after engaging in a cross court dink rally

@johncincolapickleball

2 ай бұрын

@@blockchainbaboon7617 thats a good one! one helpful tip is to move the location of your dinks around the kitchen to force your opponent to hit a variety of shots. if you are in a cross court dinking battle, try hitting some dinks to the middle of the kitchen or to the opponent infront of you. you can target either of your opponents feet or go to the middle to hopefully cause confusion. if you feel yourself losing after a couple of cross court dinking rallies, grab a friend and drill that type of senario can check this vid for more tips: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZmSV0puTc5qrlKw.html

@doc-bj4bj

2 ай бұрын

Backhand dink. I recently changed my grip towards an eastern backhand grip. It has given me way more control and stability. It seems no one talks about this grip. Only continental, eastern forehand, and semi western.

@doc-bj4bj

2 ай бұрын

Are u cocking your grip up like Ben Johns or just firm and to the side on the wide slice dink?

Thank you so much for the video!!

@johncincolapickleball

2 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Love your tips on dinking, thanks!!

@johncincolapickleball

10 күн бұрын

Glad you like them! thanks for your sub!

Always love your summaries at the end

@johncincolapickleball

Ай бұрын

I love it too. I know it's helpful. Thank you.

8:30 - Sure you can do something different. Miss underneath the ball, and then reorient your paddle to be forehand - then speedup. It's a variant of the classic Kyle Yates backhand to forehand fakeout. The miss is more exaggerated as the paddle literally passes underneath the ball - instead of just quickly pivoting before the ball would have been contacted.

Thanks for the detailed instructions about the tip down and tip sideway dinks. Before I was confused when to use what dinks.

@johncincolapickleball

27 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Your content is the best on youtube

@johncincolapickleball

8 күн бұрын

thank you!!

Could you show how the ball reacts if hit with spins to the receivers paddle.

Dinking ASMR. Just a full blown practice session, only dinking. Make it happen 😆

How the heck was I not subscribed to this channel? I am sure I was subscribed. Great video - as always John. Love your teaching style.

@johncincolapickleball

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Good lesson as always.

@johncincolapickleball

Ай бұрын

Thanks! 😃

There seems to be a third option which I often use and that's where, on a wide backhand dink, the wrist is cupped (in extension) and the paddle tip is above my wrist/hand which allows me to generate a lot of top spin and be offensive - similar to Ben John's offensive backhand dink. So maybe that would be called "tip up"? 😊Thanks for all your great videos John!

@johncincolapickleball

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I've seen this one a bit and hit it from time to time myself. It's a pretty delicate shot though. Easy to mess it up

The forehand topsin dink. For some reason the backhand (slice) dink comes easy to me, but on the forehand it's like I stand square to the line and the ball has to pass across my body, and I feel safest chopping a forehand slice back over crosscourt. I actually get it over and in most of the time, but it feels awkward and inconsistent. When I watch the pros it seems much more natural how they hit it out of the air and off the bounce.

Thanks John. I may have a naïve question. Do your concepts of situations that drive use of the tip down paddle versus tip up paddle position apply for using a two-handed backhand dink? I presume it would but really would like your thoughts. Thank you.

@johncincolapickleball

Ай бұрын

Yes, the two handed backhand dink would usually fall in the tip down situational use cases. Thanks for the question. I meant to cover this briefly and forgot

It would be nice if one rule of thumb worked for all situations 😊

@johncincolapickleball

2 ай бұрын

if only it was that easy...

@McCaffreyPickleball

2 ай бұрын

Just win the last point of the match and you're golden

@DarrenCorreaDC

Ай бұрын

I have been a let's find THE ONE WAY to do everything in life kind of guy for most of my life, but I've learned and accepted that it just does not exist & you need to be a guy with a set of tools rather than a man with just a hammer

@johncincolapickleball

Ай бұрын

200 IQ

@johncincolapickleball

Ай бұрын

great philosophy and life outlook