{"id":1154,"date":"2026-10-22T01:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:17:54","slug":"aggressive-fh-dinks-feet-tip-down-aim-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive FH Dinks: Feet, Tip Down, Aim Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Learn to dink aggressively in under 60 seconds! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kWIoPpxnWSE?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>Tanner Pickleball compresses aggressive forehand dink mistakes into under a minute. First: cement feet \u2014 standing still and arming it. Get active with the lower body so the hips get behind the ball and body weight goes through the shot.<\/p>\n<p>Second: paddle tip sideways won\u2019t catch the ball \u2014 tip down so you can hit through and grab it. Third: stop ripping aggressive dinks into someone who\u2019s already set; move them sideways to open the court, then attack the space.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hips behind the ball \u2014 don\u2019t arm aggressive FH dinks from cement feet<\/li>\n<li>Paddle tip down (not sideways) to catch and drive through<\/li>\n<li>Aim where they aren\u2019t \u2014 move them first, then attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow 20 FH dinks checking tip-down + a small step to load the hip<\/li>\n<li>One kitchen game: aggressive FH dinks only count if they land away from the opponent\u2019s strike zone<\/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>Tanner Pickleball compresses aggressive forehand dink mistakes into under a minute. First: cement feet \u2014 standing still and arming it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730,"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":[220,2,3,388],"tags":[1213,77,80,126],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-footwork","category-kitchen","category-offense","tag-aggressive-dink","tag-forehand","tag-paddle-tip","tag-tanner-pickleball"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/03-low-dink-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","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=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}