{"id":1032,"date":"2026-10-14T01:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2026-10-14T01:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:18:48","slug":"bump-your-out-of-air-dinks-instead-of-slicing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Bump Your Out-of-Air Dinks Instead of Slicing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Do this in 2026! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G02i5nblhgY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Richard&#8217;s 2026 update for the kitchen: new paddles give enough dwell time that constant slicing at the net becomes predictable and dead. When your feet are set, bump the ball out of the air with a quiet wrist and shoulder push \u2014 forward, middle, or wide \u2014 instead of floating a slice Zach can roll.<\/p>\n<p>The bump also keeps options open: it morphs into a lob or a flick more naturally than a slice setup, which stays defensive once you commit to cutting under the ball.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Slice OTA dinks give opponents a readable dead ball<\/li>\n<li>Bump with quiet wrist + shoulder when feet are set<\/li>\n<li>Bump \u2192 easier path to lob or flick than a slice grip\/path<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a dink game, ban slice on any ball you take out of the air \u2014 bump only<\/li>\n<li>From a set stance, practice bump-middle then bump-flick on the next feed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard&#8217;s 2026 update for the kitchen: new paddles give enough dwell time that constant slicing at the net becomes predictable and dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,3,604,381],"tags":[1047,98,1048,1049,100],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-speed-ups","category-technique","tag-bump-dink","tag-flick","tag-out-of-air","tag-quiet-wrist","tag-richard-pickleball"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/07-lunging-volley-dark-background-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}