{"id":1364,"date":"2026-11-10T04:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2026-11-10T04:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:21:11","slug":"two-handed-crosscourt-dink-dont-flip-the-paddle-with-your-wrist-get-topspin-from-your-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Two-Handed Crosscourt Dink: Don&#8217;t Flip the Paddle With Your Wrist \u2014 Get Topspin From Your Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Fix your backhand dink\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJootVewS8I?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>All Things Pickleball flags one of the biggest mistakes on the two-handed (&#8220;twoey&#8221;) crosscourt dink: flipping the paddle over with the wrist. Players think that close of the face will keep them from popping the ball up, but they often dump it in the net or pop it up anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Good crosscourt twoey players are not using the wrist to flip the paddle over. You start from your ready spot and come up almost to the opposite shoulder. Topspin comes from the legs \u2014 coming down, then up around the side of the ball \u2014 not from a wrist flip. The paddle itself never turns over sideways; it just travels down to up.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Flipping the paddle over with the wrist on a two-handed crosscourt dink often nets the ball or pops it up<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use the wrist to close the face \u2014 start and come up toward the opposite shoulder<\/li>\n<li>Topspin comes from the legs dropping, then coming up around the side of the ball; the paddle path is down to up, not a sideways flip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow 10 two-handed crosscourt dinks and watch the paddle: it should travel down to up toward the opposite shoulder, not flip over<\/li>\n<li>Hit 15 crosscourt twoeys focusing on using the legs for topspin and keeping the wrist from rolling the face over<\/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>All Things Pickleball flags one of the biggest mistakes on the two-handed (&#8220;twoey&#8221;) crosscourt dink: flipping the paddle over with the wrist.<\/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":[374,220,381],"tags":[234,752,73,1243,336,931],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backhand","category-dinks","category-technique","tag-all-things-pickleball","tag-backhand-dink","tag-topspin","tag-two-handed-dink","tag-twoey","tag-wrist"],"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\/1364","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=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/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=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}