Pro Dink Drill Session: Slice-to-Slice, Roll-vs-Slice, Reach, Recover

Summary

Richard_pickleball walks through a high-quality dinking drill session with Zack.

Start slice-to-slice, keeping balls short in the kitchen, taking deeper ones out of the air, cross-stepping on wides, and always recovering after each ball — no cheating into the middle. Then switch: one player rolls while the other slices/reaches/pushes depending on depth. The session trains both sides of real kitchen variety and game-like recovery habits.

Key takeaways

• Slice-to-slice first: short kitchen depth + real recovery
• Vs rolls: short → push/reach options; deep → reach; don’t cheat middle
• Drill like match conditions — recover after every contact

Action items

• Run a 10-minute slice-to-slice block with mandatory recovery steps after every ball
• Add 10 minutes of roll-vs-slice; caller says “short” or “deep” so you choose push vs reach