Stop Wasting Practice: Boring Dinks, Hands, and Drops Beat Flashy Drills

Summary

Ava Pickleball calls out flashy Instagram drills that look interesting but don’t transfer.

Shares and comments don’t equal improvement. The work that raises your level is boring on purpose: dink, hands battles, and drops — over and over. Skip the weird novelty circuits; stack reps on the shots that actually decide matches.

Key takeaways

• Flashy drills ≠ transfer; boring fundamentals do
• Priority reps: dinks, hands, drops
• Judge practice by match shots trained, not social novelty

Action items

• Next session: 15 min dinks, 15 min hands, 15 min drops — no novelty drills
• Delete one flashy drill from your rotation this week