{"id":1176,"date":"2026-10-24T03:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:26","slug":"cone-dink-game-accuracy-targets-inside-a-real-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Cone Dink Game: Accuracy Targets Inside a Real Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Try this dinking drill \ud83e\udd19 \ud83e\udea6 RIP Carlos Access Exclusive Courses and Personalized Pickleball\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XQVZL2wPEY?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>John Cincola\u2019s beginner-friendly accuracy game: play half-court dinks like a normal game to 11, but each side has three cones with balls on them. Hit a cone for two points instead of one; knock all three balls off and you end the game early.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re still trying to win the rally \u2014 and hunting specific targets \u2014 so accuracy and footwork improve together.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Half-court dink game to 11 with three cone targets per side<\/li>\n<li>Cone hit = 2 points; clear all three balls = game over<\/li>\n<li>Win the point and hit targets \u2014 accuracy under rally pressure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Set three cones on each kitchen line and play one game to 11<\/li>\n<li>Level up: full court or add a speed-up only after a cone hit<\/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>John Cincola\u2019s beginner-friendly accuracy game: play half-court dinks like a normal game to 11, but each side has three cones with balls on them.<\/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":[220,600,2,3],"tags":[137,1212,303,1237],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-drills","category-footwork","category-kitchen","tag-accuracy","tag-cincola","tag-cones","tag-dinking-drill"],"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\/1176","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=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/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=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}