{"id":141,"date":"2026-09-16T01:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:06","slug":"how-pros-win-a-dink-battle-in-3-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"How Pros Win a Dink Battle in 3 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"How Pros Win a Dink Battle in 3 Steps\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PnIX0tweOEk?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<p>John Cincola breaks down the pro &#8220;half-volley hunt&#8221;: read when the opponent cannot speed up, shift into a hunting position, then take weak dinks out of the air to build pressure shot after shot (illustrated with Gabe Tardio PPA footage).<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to stop resetting every rally and start winning the kitchen exchanges that separate 3.5 from 4.0 habits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn the 4 signs they cannot speed up (from the video)<\/li>\n<li>Practice taking one dink out of the air per rally on purpose<\/li>\n<li>Alternate counter-ready vs hunt posture in partner dink drills<\/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>John Cincola breaks down the pro &#8220;half-volley hunt&#8221;: read when the opponent cannot speed up,&#8230;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,3,200],"tags":[221,223,222,169,38],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-dink-battle","tag-gabe-tardio","tag-half-volley-hunt","tag-john-cincola","tag-kitchen-pressure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/511"}],"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=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}