{"id":1372,"date":"2026-11-10T04:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2026-11-10T04:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:21:16","slug":"kitchen-recovery-drill-one-player-hits-open-face-pressure-dinks-the-other-works-reset-footwork-do-both-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Recovery Drill: One Player Hits Open-Face Pressure Dinks; The Other Works Reset Footwork \u2014 Do Both Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Try This Footwork Drill to Improve Your Recovery at the Kitchen in Pickleball\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oy3ORwyelI4?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>Pickleball 360&#8217;s Collin Johns shares a two-player kitchen drill that trains defensive footwork and reset dinks on one side, and offensive dinking on the other.<\/p>\n<p>One player creates offense with an open-face, straight-trajectory dink; the other works the specific footwork of playing defense and hitting a reset dink. Start with a high toss so the defender has a good hitting angle over the net, then repeat. Switch roles, and do the drill in both corners \u2014 a righty&#8217;s forehand corner on one side, backhand corner on the other \u2014 so every player gets every variation.<\/p>\n<p>Start straight-ahead rather than a sharp crosscourt angle. That keeps the ball from running too far off the court and lets the defender focus on intentional footwork and recovery.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One player hits open-face, straight-trajectory pressure dinks; the other works defensive footwork and the reset dink<\/li>\n<li>Toss high to start, repeat, then switch roles; do both the forehand corner and the backhand corner<\/li>\n<li>Begin straight-ahead, not sharp crosscourt, so the ball stays on the court and the defender can train recovery steps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Run this drill for several minutes in one corner, then switch roles before moving to the other corner<\/li>\n<li>Keep the first round straight-ahead; only add a sharper crosscourt feed after the recovery footwork feels clean<\/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>Pickleball 360&#8217;s Collin Johns shares a two-player kitchen drill that trains defensive footwork and reset dinks on one side, and offensive dinking on the other.<\/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":[220,600,2,3,18],"tags":[66,305,12,61,217,586,866],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-drills","category-footwork","category-kitchen","category-resets","tag-collin-johns","tag-drill","tag-footwork","tag-kitchen","tag-pickleball-360","tag-recovery","tag-reset-dink"],"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\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/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=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}