{"id":1169,"date":"2026-10-23T01:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:40","slug":"two-hand-bh-dinks-arm-push-not-wrist-plus-space-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Two-Hand BH Dinks: Arm Push, Not Wrist \u2014 Plus Space Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Dink better! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BYzLV0DTHXs?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 Pickleball names two reasons two-handed backhand dinks keep missing. First: too much wrist. Drop the paddle and push up so the non-dominant hand moves the paddle with the arm, not a wrist flick.<\/p>\n<p>Second: not enough space. Don\u2019t reach; get behind the ball early and go forward through contact instead of backing up as you hit.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Wristy two-hand BH dinks miss \u2014 move the paddle with the arm<\/li>\n<li>Get behind the ball early; hit moving forward, not retreating<\/li>\n<li>Drop \u2192 push up beats a flicky wrist at contact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow 20 two-hand BH dinks with a quiet wrist and visible arm push<\/li>\n<li>Partner feeds slightly wide BH dinks \u2014 only count the ones where you stepped behind first<\/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 Pickleball names two reasons two-handed backhand dinks keep missing. First: too much wrist.<\/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":[374,220,3,381],"tags":[100,700,1230,931],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backhand","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-technique","tag-richard-pickleball","tag-space","tag-two-handed-backhand-dink","tag-wrist"],"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\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/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=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}