tanner.pickleball’s fix when drives keep beating you at the net: amateurs take a gigantic swing at the incoming drive and mistime it. As soon as you see the drive coming, move the ready position out in front.
Selkirk TV trains hand battles with a squishy wall ball that jumps fast. Drill 1: compact speed-up then immediately counter — tiny swing, loose aggressive wrist, already set for the reply (and triangle patterns: cross often comes back BH).
John Cincola’s beginner-friendly accuracy game: play half-court dinks like a normal game to 11, but each side has three cones with balls on them.
Jilly B coaches her wife Kristin’s two-handed backhand counter from a “reachy stabby” 3.5 into a trustworthy high-level shot.
Richard Pickleball names two reasons two-handed backhand dinks keep missing. First: too much wrist.
John Cincola’s Titan “fourth shot decision” drill uses rapid-fire from the transition zone (left or right).
John Cincola’s partner drill “Get Out of Jail”: both start near the kitchen and alternate feeding. The feeder hand-tosses an aggressive wide dink (FH or BH).
Tanner Pickleball compresses middle-ball decisions into three reads. If they’re hugging the middle, hit an inside-out dink.
All Things Pickleball: pros don’t force one dink from every position — they match the shot to where the ball is relative to the body.
Universal Rackets flags the habit of swinging at every ball into the chest — a lot of those were sailing long.