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#1 Strategy to Get to the Kitchen in Pickleball 🏆 #pickleball #propickleball #pickleballstrategy

ByChief October 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Preston’s Playbook shares his number-one strategy for getting to the kitchen: start the point with a third-shot drive, aiming to draw a weak volley that gives you a much easier fifth-shot drop.

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The Best Drill For Straight-on Dinks

ByChief October 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Ed Ju and his partner share their go-to drill for straight-on dinks. Too many players only train cross-court, so in this drill one player hits straight while the other hits diagonally, creating a figure-eight pattern.

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Close-up of a player scooping a low dink just over the net, paddle face open near the court surface

Never Miss a Dink After This..

ByChief October 5, 2026

Cliff Pickleball’s fix for missed dinks is about contact point and footwork. Whenever you can make contact out in front, you get more control, more consistency and better placement.

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Why Your Dinks Keep Going Into the Net — Complete Fix

ByChief October 5, 2026

Universal Rackets breaks down the three reasons dinks go into the net (a closed paddle face, deceleration and late, low contact) and the simple fix for each.

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Close-up of a player scooping a low dink just over the net, paddle face open near the court surface

双反丁克的两种打法,你该怎么选?

ByChief October 5, 2026

全天候匹克球 (All-Weather Pickleball) breaks down the two common ways to hit a two-handed backhand dink: paddle head pointing down and brushing up, or paddle head higher with a more compact push.

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Forehand Volley Set Up 2

ByChief October 5, 2026October 5, 2026

All Things Pickleball shows how better players manufacture a forehand put-away instead of waiting for a pop-up.

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Improve your dinks #pickleball #pickleballtips

ByChief October 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Ty Butson shares his favorite game for building a kitchen-line game. You keep normal pickleball scoring to 11 and serve diagonally, but every rally must start with five dinks in a row.

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Player in sunglasses moving into a ready position with his paddle held in front

How To Never Hit A Backhand Again: Use This Drill

ByChief October 3, 2026October 4, 2026

Summary Universal Rackets short: how to never hit a backhand again — use this drill….

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This video change how you speed-up FOREVER! #pickleball #pickleballtips

ByChief October 3, 2026October 4, 2026

Summary tanner.pickleball short promising to change how you speed up forever. Use it to build…

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Master Pickleball’s ‘No Man’s Land’ and Win More Points! #pickleball #pickleballtips

ByChief October 3, 2026October 5, 2026

Summary Universal Rackets short on mastering pickleball’s no-man’s-land to win more points. The focus is…

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Recent Posts

  • Prevent On-Court Falls: Test Single-Leg and Tandem Stance, Then Train Marches, Multidirectional Steps, and Reaches
  • Forehand Short Hop: Keep the Paddle Sideways and Push Through — A Vertical Face Makes You Flick and Pop It Up
  • Train Hands Battles With Three at the Kitchen: Protect Your Chest First, Let Partner Balls Go, and Reset a Chicken-Wing Hip Ball If You Can’t Counter
  • Split-Step as They Hit: When You Come In Off a Drop, Land Ready to Counter
  • Kitchen Recovery Drill: One Player Hits Open-Face Pressure Dinks; The Other Works Reset Footwork — Do Both Corners

Recent Comments

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  2. David Finlay (Kings Court) on After a Crosscourt Dink: Move Your Inside Foot Toward the Center Line and Hunt Middle
  3. David Finlay (Kings Court) on Vs Slice at the Kitchen: Take It Out of the Air — Don’t Panic-Back Up
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  5. Stop Rushing to the Kitchen Line! #pickleball #pickleballtips - The Drop Drive on How To Move Up To The Kitchen THE RIGHT WAY

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