Make your dinks Look Like Speed Ups! #pickleball #pickleballtips
Summary
Universal Rackets shares the best piece of advice he ever got at the kitchen: make your dinks look like your speed-ups, or your speed-ups look like your dinks. If the setup looks the same, the opponent can’t preload for the attack or relax for another soft ball.
Disguising the speed-up as a dink is especially valuable — you can dink or speed up from the same look, and even step back off the kitchen line without telegraphing the change.
Key takeaways
- Same setup for dinks and speed-ups hides your intent
- Disguised speed-ups are harder to preload for
- You can also step back off the line without giving the shot away
Action items
- In a dink rally, hold the same paddle path on every ball and occasionally flick a speed-up
- Have a partner call whether they thought it was a dink or a speed-up before contact