{"id":1261,"date":"2026-10-31T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:15","slug":"stop-wasting-practice-boring-dinks-hands-and-drops-beat-flashy-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Stop Wasting Practice: Boring Dinks, Hands, and Drops Beat Flashy Drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop WASTING Your Time In Pickleball!!\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_FzGSv-bgT0?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>Ava Pickleball calls out flashy Instagram drills that look interesting but don\u2019t transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Shares and comments don\u2019t equal improvement. The work that raises your level is boring on purpose: dink, hands battles, and drops \u2014 over and over. Skip the weird novelty circuits; stack reps on the shots that actually decide matches.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Flashy drills \u2260 transfer; boring fundamentals do<\/li>\n<li>Priority reps: dinks, hands, drops<\/li>\n<li>Judge practice by match shots trained, not social novelty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Next session: 15 min dinks, 15 min hands, 15 min drops \u2014 no novelty drills<\/li>\n<li>Delete one flashy drill from your rotation this week<\/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>Ava Pickleball calls out flashy Instagram drills that look interesting but don\u2019t transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728,"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":[600,3,19,381],"tags":[1272,730,184,290,575,504,188],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-kitchen","category-soft-game","category-technique","tag-ava","tag-dinks","tag-drills","tag-drops","tag-fundamentals","tag-hands","tag-practice"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/02-kitchen-line-through-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","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=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}