20 Dinking Protips From the Masters

[@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!😀

[@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!

[@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!

[@AnthonyHolloway612]

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

[@cliffroberson8321]

1:18 #1 Think about catching and throwing instead of hitting (limit backswing) 2:11 #2 Contact ball in front of you instead of beside or behind 2:44 #3 Imagine a ceiling extending above the net and don't let followthrough go above that ceiling 4:02 #4 Try practicing with pickleball under armpit to limit backswing and followthrough 4:39 #5 Try softening your grip 5:11 #6 Try practicing with off hand finger on paddle to help limit paddle motion 6:25 #7 Keep your chest level during dink (don't lift your chest up when dinking) 7:05 #8 Try to draw a line with your paddle where you want the ball to go 7:44 #9 Try to crab walk/shuffle step when dinking to help stay balanced 8:42 #10 For small steps, plant one foot and side step to dink 9:18 #11 Try to create a pause before every time you hit the ball when dinking 10:17 #12 Try slice/underspin on dinks 11:19 #13 Try to dink the ball out of the air whenever possible 11:59 #14 Try topspin dinks (while maintaining good form) 13:19 #15 When returning aggressive cross court dinks, try resetting the dinks to middle of the court to get back on balance 14:04 #16 Try to hit more aggressive dinks when you can (i.e. dinks that are deeper with a flatter trajectory to get your opponent off balance) 14:57 #17 Only dink crosscourt if the ball is at or inside your outside foot. If the ball is outside of your outside foot just reset to the middle or in front of yourself in order to not attempt a difficult cross court shot. 17:22 #18 When resetting the ball, try to hit the ball shorter into the kitchen to force your opponent to hit up on the ball 18:22 #19 Mix up the target of your dinks, changing crosscourt/down the line and forehand/backhand. 19:39 #20 Attack your opponent’s weaknesses (e.g. if they have a weak backhand, target their backhand).

[@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! 👍

[@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 🙌

[@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.

[@nchambers007]

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

[@okayest_amateur]

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

[@joshuamaya6231]

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

[@adamdonovan5633]

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

[@aztecothewar]

The Detail and pacing put into this video is awesome. I really feel like you breakdown things in a good way and I like how you reference a lot of different folks when giving tips. Awesome video! This is from someone who has been increasingly asking "what is my goal when dinking" for the last few weeks as I played. Thank you for shedding light on that.

[@linsu2854]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@pickleballstudent8523]

I really like the way you pooled all the great players' ideas. They're all correct but different at the same time because they're emphasizing different aspect of the dinking technique/strategy. This is a great video about really "understanding" the idea behind the dinking. Great job! Yes, for you to progress into more advanced game, the dinking is the base where the game should start from. Power players need to understand that you have to base the power game on solid dinks first to be effective.

[@Heyyitspaulo]

Love the meta analysis videos. Keep it up!

[@cRankerPickle]

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

[@tleparskas]

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

[@chrisvergara567]

The goat is back at it again with another banger

[@JohnRoberts-i7g]

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

[@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!

[@supermochithedog6896]

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

[@alohaleslie9407]

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

[@joq702]

Great lesson. I do see these patterns but usually do not jump on them as I do not know why they reappear. Now I have a better confirmation of what will likely happen and I’ll be able to pick a play I can perform well. I like the detail on what opens up when my opponents dead sink to the middle, which happens a lot at my level. Now I’ll look to sidelines of each player as they crash the middle anticipating I’ll play to the middle also.

[@joq702]

Dead dink

[@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!

[@yodatoy8792]

Your video is so good. I subscribed.

[@infomercialguy]

exceptional !!! i subscribed.

[@ejt06002]

Unbelievable compilation. Thank you

[@Pickleball_Longevity]

Good compilation 😊

[@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!

[@jisforjoy3314]

Great job compiling!

[@heidiskoglund-w7k]

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

[@annettee1605]

Really good compilation video!

[@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.

[@aljerones99]

The reason for a loose grip while dinking, is to lessen the recoil of the ball from the paddle when it is is hit. The grip of the hand and wrist serves as a spring. When the paddle handle is held tightly, the wrist also gets rigid. The effect is akin into the hand and wrist acting like a strong spring (hence a big recoil) and therefore, a pop up results. If the hand grip and wrist as loose on the other hand, the paddle is connected to limper spring with a weaker recoil. This results in having more control to lift the ball just over the net and placement with greater precision.

[@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.

[@dallinreynoso1243]

I love these video series!

[@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 😅?

[@pickleball_tomorrow]

Great video!

[@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.

[@TatsTalks]

Great work on this, Tony!

[@WithYou9234]

Wow nice video🎉

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@yoonyulntaeny]

4:50 Softening ur wrist reduces the staibility of your paddle i.e. reduces sweet spot in exchange for dwell time of the ball on ur paddle. The sensation comes from the micromovement of ur paddle when the ball comes in contact with it. This helps with controlling ur own power and accuracy for precision shots (and even deception i.e. hesitation dink). This is in contrast to non-precision shots like counters where sweet spot is more valuable because it's difficult to ensure the ball hits the middle of the paddle, so we stiffen up ur wrist to increase the stability of the paddle increasing ur sweet spot and decreasing dwell time

[@drewpix]

These are great 👍

[@frolfdoctor]

Love it!

[@Virdison]

Bunny Girl Senpai lofi goes hard lmao Anyways, sick tips. Ty 🙏🏼

[@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.

[@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

[@eyeojo]

🙄

[@3.99atBest]

Gimme some drive tips!

[@tkielion]

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

[@bentwookie348]

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

[@Jasminekaur2121]

Done

[@lymedog3176]

I’ve noticed one thing all the “pros “ have on these you tube videos… personal courts and $1500+ ball machines

[@yukuhana]

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

[@Dinkdifferent]

Pickleball PHD right here

[@KaybosheerBordoloi-yf8xo]

😊💯

[@douglasmurdoch7247]

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

[@LeeCabell]

Great video!