{"id":1329,"date":"2026-11-07T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2026-11-07T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:25","slug":"dink-like-a-pro-aggressive-dinks-to-earn-pop-ups-then-lean-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Dink Like a Pro: Aggressive Dinks to Earn Pop-Ups, Then Lean Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"What pros are thinking when dinking! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghgugQkxEZo?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 pro dink thinking into under a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Amateurs hit a good dink and stand still. Pros use aggressive dinks to move the opponent and earn a pop-up, then step toward the middle and lean in so pressure is already on \u2014 if it pops, they\u2019re there to put it away.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t admire good dinks \u2014 use them to create the next ball<\/li>\n<li>Move opponents with aggressive dinks to earn pop-ups<\/li>\n<li>After a quality dink, step middle and lean in for the attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In dink games, after every \u201cgood\u201d dink take one step toward middle before the next contact<\/li>\n<li>Track how many pop-ups you earn when you actively move vs stand and watch<\/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 pro dink thinking into under a minute.<\/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":[220,3,200],"tags":[859,272,133,986,140],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-aggression","tag-dink","tag-pop-up","tag-pressure","tag-tanner"],"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\/1329","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=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/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=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}