{"id":210,"date":"2026-09-18T01:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","slug":"two-handed-backhand-secrets-from-a-pickleball-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Two-Handed Backhand Secrets From a Pickleball Pro!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Two-Handed Backhand Secrets From a Pickleball Pro!\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oh3Mmk4rSN8?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<p>Richard Pickleball hosts Jack Munro (lefty) on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=387\">two-handed backhand<\/a> \/ \u201ctwoey.\u201d Jack\u2019s core mechanics: the off-hand does roughly 70\u201380% of the push while the dominant side stabilizes. He prefers two fingers on the paddle edge for stability and fewer shanks (personal preference; short handle factors in). The consistency rule is <strong>see ball, see paddle at the same time<\/strong>: set early instead of a big loop where the paddle disappears. He gets around the ball for side-topspin rather than pure topspin.<\/p>\n<p>Placement is not one-note: pull wide carefully (deeper if needed so you don\u2019t feed an ATP) and love the <strong>inside foot<\/strong> so you can crowd middle afterward. Follow the ball, hunt short hops and pop-ups, and take the next one out of the air. Speed-ups keep the same set as the dink; only acceleration and late wrist RPMs change, so disguise holds.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Off-hand pushes; dominant hand stabilizes<\/li>\n<li>See ball + see paddle \u2014 set early, no blind big loop<\/li>\n<li>Place to inside foot \/ careful wide; then lean in for next ball<\/li>\n<li>Speed-up = same set as dink, faster arm + late wrist<\/li>\n<li>After twoey: hunt short hops \/ air balls \u2014 don\u2019t camp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Wall twoeys: \u201csee paddle\u201d every rep; film takeback<\/li>\n<li>Crosscourt dinks aiming inside foot only for 10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>After each twoey, take one step in and look for air ball<\/li>\n<li>Speed-up drill: identical prep to dink; partner guesses before contact<\/li>\n<li>Track shank rate with 1 vs 2 fingers on edge for a session<\/li>\n<li>Rule: never miss speed-up in net \u2014 lob miss &gt; net miss<\/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 hosts Jack Munro (lefty) on the two-handed backhand \/ \u201ctwoey.\u201d Jack\u2019s core mechanics:&#8230;<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,21,3,200],"tags":[333,337,335,100,334,165,336],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-disguise-speed-up","tag-inside-foot","tag-jack-munro","tag-richard-pickleball","tag-see-ball-see-paddle","tag-two-handed-backhand","tag-twoey"],"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\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/834"}],"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=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}