{"id":1091,"date":"2026-10-17T01:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:14","slug":"light-continental-grip-for-soft-push-dinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Light Continental Grip for Soft Push Dinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"The grip mistake ruining your dinks\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vZaSHnnTYdE?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>Aylex says ruined dinks often start with grip pressure. Hold the paddle like a light handshake \u2014 continental grip \u2014 so you see a V along the side bevel.<\/p>\n<p>Squeezing tenses the arm and turns a push dink into a popup. A dink is a soft ball over the net into the kitchen; light hands make that possible.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Light continental \/ handshake grip<\/li>\n<li>Look for the V on the side bevel<\/li>\n<li>Squeeze \u2192 tension \u2192 popped dinks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dink rally with a &#8220;1\u20133 \/ 10&#8221; grip-pressure rule only<\/li>\n<li>Shake out the hand between points if you catch yourself squeezing<\/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>Aylex says ruined dinks often start with grip pressure. Hold the paddle like a light handshake \u2014 continental grip \u2014 so you see a V along the side bevel.<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,562,381],"tags":[921,1128,730,1129],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-fundamentals","category-technique","tag-aylex","tag-continental-grip","tag-dinks","tag-light-grip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","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=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/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=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}