{"id":1335,"date":"2026-11-07T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2026-11-07T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:31","slug":"pro-dink-drill-session-slice-to-slice-roll-vs-slice-reach-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Pro Dink Drill Session: Slice-to-Slice, Roll-vs-Slice, Reach, Recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"The BEST Dinking Drill Session! Master Your Dinks\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HpJ-00FoKrs?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>Richard_pickleball walks through a high-quality dinking drill session with Zack.<\/p>\n<p>Start slice-to-slice, keeping balls short in the kitchen, taking deeper ones out of the air, cross-stepping on wides, and always recovering after each ball \u2014 no cheating into the middle. Then switch: one player rolls while the other slices\/reaches\/pushes depending on depth. The session trains both sides of real kitchen variety and game-like recovery habits.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Slice-to-slice first: short kitchen depth + real recovery<\/li>\n<li>Vs rolls: short \u2192 push\/reach options; deep \u2192 reach; don\u2019t cheat middle<\/li>\n<li>Drill like match conditions \u2014 recover after every contact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Run a 10-minute slice-to-slice block with mandatory recovery steps after every ball<\/li>\n<li>Add 10 minutes of roll-vs-slice; caller says \u201cshort\u201d or \u201cdeep\u201d so you choose push vs reach<\/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 walks through a high-quality dinking drill session with Zack.<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,600,3],"tags":[228,586,100,778,163,1377],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-drills","category-kitchen","tag-dink-drill","tag-recovery","tag-richard-pickleball","tag-roll","tag-slice","tag-zack"],"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\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/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=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}