20 Dinking Protips From the Masters

If you want to win at higher levels of play you have to make your dinks. In this video, I curate 20 of the best dinking protips from the experts. Whether you're a complete beginner or pushing pro, you'll find something in here that will improve your game.
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[@BrionesPickleball]

Thanks for adding me bro 😎

[@drewpix]

Pls do a collab!

[@reallycalm]

And go on his podcast!

[@pickleburner]

I love you briones you were the first pickleball KZbinr that I watched getting started and your videos helped me so much 🥰🥰🥰

[@razrgu3838]

You are super coach. Will try to go to Arizona to have week of intensive program!

[@IceTTToy]

Thank you for combining all those incredible pros’ tips into one place, giving it all context and helping see how to build from tips 1-10 into the more advanced 11-20. I am going to watch this video every single day until I have these all down!

[@kcarwen5262]

This is the BEST dinking video Ive seen, and I watch most of the Pros you used...Its just sums up all the tips in one place! So good! I feel my dinks getting better already!😀

[@AnthonyHolloway612]

I see Minnesota being represented a few times in this video. From Lucky Shots to Sammy Lee and Aanik Lohani. Yay!

[@douglasmurdoch7247]

I saw you at my local courts today! And I was just recommending this video to my group this morning before you got there. Nice to meet you 🙌

[@ggsd4903]

This is such a legit compilation. I love the soft game and just want to progress in my pb journey. I play with people that mainly just want to grip it & rip it and it's becoming so tired. I love the strategy of the dink game.

[@PickleballJoy]

Compile the greatest tips in one video? What a great idea! Great job. Press on! 👍

[@timahlersmeyer6966]

One of the better videos I've seen on this platform, thank you for sharing. Love the format of how you incorporated the best coaches + your own analysis. You should do a similar one for resets and drops :)

[@ejt06002]

You could honestly do it for every type of shot/strategy and that would be amazing.

[@tleparskas]

Thanks for collecting these tips. Honestly I must be a tip geek - I think I've seen all of these original videos. :)

[@okayest_amateur]

I love your no nonsense high quality well researched instruction. keep them coming please. your instruction has improved my game.

[@nchambers007]

you're curating the best of the best in these protips videos. fantastic!

[@karlschwartz7933]

Clinic coach here. Perfectly explained with excellent examples! I would add merely that new players need also to learn to volley in order to respond to speed ups that they are sure to encounter when they hit attackable dinks. The reason I alternate dink and volley drills in the same session once the rudimentary basics of each is achieved.

[@TatsTalks]

Great work on this, Tony!

[@jisforjoy3314]

Great job compiling!

[@chrisvergara567]

The goat is back at it again with another banger

[@cRankerPickle]

Man I love this channel. I learn something new every single video.

[@Heyyitspaulo]

Love the meta analysis videos. Keep it up!

[@benhoff901]

I love the work you do to compile all these great clips and adding your commentary. Excellent video and I am looking forward to working on a lot of things I learned here.

[@dallinreynoso1243]

I love these video series!

[@adamdonovan5633]

Ditto what IceTTToy said....big thanks for collecting these tips. I will watch these often....super valuable.

[@rogerferguson3673]

Been playing pickleball for a year, 35 to 40 player. One of the best videos I have seen on dinks. Has all the good tips in one place.

[@annettee1605]

Really good compilation video!

[@linsu2854]

Thank you so much for compiling all these tips. This video is worth watching repeatedly over time as great reminders of the fundamentals.

[@pamcoblyn5310]

I can’t love this video enough…great explanations with demos. Your analysis of body mechanics, positioning and strategy are spot on. I can’t wait to dink drill!

[@dr.eyelidlift]

good to see you doing these videos man. i was honestly shocked when i saw your face but the transition from tennis to pickleball makes sense!

[@supermochithedog6896]

Dude I implemented the strategies in your vid last night. I leveled up! Keep cranking out great content!!

[@joshuamaya6231]

Incredible video! Collating all the top tips by the best pros, this is a treasure. Thank you Pickleburner!

[@ejt06002]

Unbelievable compilation. Thank you

[@frolfdoctor]

Love it!

[@pickleball_tomorrow]

Great video!

[@drewpix]

These are great 👍

[@alohaleslie9407]

Awesome tips. Thanks so much for putting this together. Now...just gotta go try 'em. :)

[@Pickleball_Longevity]

Good compilation 😊

[@user-zp6nv2jv8q]

Excellent; keep up the instructional videos. Very well received.. Thank you

[@Mr.Miyagi_PPR]

Thank you for this video, I love the editing and overall cinematic look. Appreciate you putting out videos like this, it was very helpful!

[@pickleburner]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@doc-bj4bj]

Great summary of all the best KZbin dinking content. I actually had seen all of them before. What does that say about all the pickleball channels I subscribe to 😅?

[@user-fk3zh7yd3b]

Watching this before I go out to the courts really helps focus the mindset on proper form

[@MotivationLife1123]

Wow nice video🎉

[@auntybaba10]

Request - can you work on volume modulation. Some of your example/lesson clips are VERY muted so we have to turn the volume way up, and when the video swItches back to you narrating it's suddenly LOUD, and we have to run over and turn the volume back down. Thank You

[@luke9822]

Great compilation. It would be super helpful if you linked to every channel, or specific video on the channel, that you referenced. Maybe in the video details area.

[@michaelwang8195]

Great compilation! Ive always thought that a looser grip for soft shots was the equivalent of a tennis racket/string combo giving more dwell time(same reason soft paddles are better for control in general). By relaxing you grip, you get an extra millisecond of laxity in your hand to fine tune how youre hitting the ball so get more control. Similarly a firmer grip is like stiffer paddle/racket which gives more power return? Not sure though Maybe some innovative paddle manufacuturer can come up with a piezoelectro paddle that can change stiffness of the paddle based on grip pressure to further enhance the effect.

[@afterthesmash]

This compiles pretty much all the best dink tips I've seen myself in my KZbin travels, except for missing one video by Nicole Havlicek where she shows a technique for hitting the same spot repeatedly, either slightly in front of the NVL or slightly behind the NVL to get the opponent rocking backwards and forwards.

[@joshc.6706]

Wow just from Tip 1. Just illustrates perfectly. I have a very non-traditional thinking mindset. Analogies can be great! Also I could be wrong in saying this but a huge backswing almost will certainly ensure you’re not contacting the ball in front. By the time the backswing goes back and forward it’ll take too much time and the ball will be past the ideal contact point. The softening of the grip allows the muscles to hit something soft. In tennis, boxing, other sports, the way to amplify power is to go from loose to tense up right prior to contact. On a dink this is obviously really bad. A death grip naturally causes tension in the forearm making it easier to pop a ball up

[@chidude]

A suggested video on training Tesla Optimus humanoid robots appeared on the right sidebar; how cool it would be to train Optimus with these pickleball dinking tips and then practice against it!

[@joem6010]

#5 Softer Grip = less energy return into the ball when you contact it. Plus more control and feel than a tight death grip. Plus the tight grip = more energy transfer into the ball.

[@dikdoc0079]

Topspin dink hard to have much effect, the dipping action is related to RPM and surface friction of the ball. A soft, short shot with a new ball isnt really going to dip much

[@renefuentez7229]

I find softing my grip allows the paddle to shift in my hand. Making the ball die of go off in the direction the paddle moved. Thoughts or recommendations on this. I imagine theres a sweet spot.

[@bentwookie348]

All good tips. I don't know why but the way Callie holds her non paddle arm during dinks drives me nuts.

[@3.99atBest]

Gimme some drive tips!

[@Jasminekaur2121]

Done

[@KaybosheerBordoloi-yf8xo]

😊💯

[@tkielion]

I keep thinking that thing (nail?) behind you was a smudge on my screen 😅

[@yukuhana]

Tip #7 would drop the ball from your arm pit, no?

[@Dinkdifferent]

Pickleball PHD right here

[@douglasmurdoch7247]

I’m one of the few people who needs to strengthen their grip.

[@user-bh1ij8vk9v]

Great video!