{"id":1254,"date":"2026-10-31T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:07","slug":"disguise-kitchen-speed-ups-open-feet-hold-then-accelerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Disguise Kitchen Speed-Ups: Open Feet, Hold, Then Accelerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Win More Kitchen Points With a Speedup They Can&amp;apos;t Read\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyZM7Ifbiig?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><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Aylex Pickleball (with 5.0+ Eugene) shows how to win kitchen points with speed-ups opponents can\u2019t read: feet, timing, and when you accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>The before look often swings too big and hits too hard \u2014 telegraphing the attack. The after look barely moves the hand, holds the dink shape to the last second, then adds speed. Open your feet on every dink so the setup for a speed-up matches a normal dink. Stock speed-up = small motion into fast; occasionally mix shapes, but the base is disguise over raw pace.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the feet on every dink so speed-ups share the same setup<\/li>\n<li>Hold the dink shape \u2014 accelerate late; small motion into fast<\/li>\n<li>Disguise beats raw power; big wind-ups telegraph the attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kitchen: 10 dinks \/ 10 disguised speed-ups with identical foot setup \u2014 partner calls \u2018dink or speed\u2019 only after contact<\/li>\n<li>Film paddle path \u2014 mark big wind-ups vs hold-then-accelerate<\/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 Pickleball (with 5.0+ Eugene) shows how to win kitchen points with speed-ups opponents can\u2019t read: feet, timing, and when you accelerate.<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,220,3,200],"tags":[921,730,719,1315,132,61,308],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attacks","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-aylex","tag-dinks","tag-disguise","tag-eugene","tag-feet","tag-kitchen","tag-speed-up"],"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\/1254","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=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/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=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}