{"id":271,"date":"2026-09-24T01:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:49","slug":"drill-of-the-week-dink-all-day-%f0%9f%99%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Drill of the Week: Dink All Day &#x1f64c;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Drill of the Week: Dink All Day \ud83d\ude4c#pickleballtips #pickleballdrills #dinking #franklin\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2DCYoaj2Ik?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>The Pickleball Clinic\u2019s drill of the week \u2014 Dink All Day \u2014 is about <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=761\">sustained quality dinking<\/a>. Use it to groove patience, depth, and pattern discipline so you don\u2019t panic-speed-up out of boredom in matches.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Long dink blocks build patience<\/li>\n<li>Quality over random pops<\/li>\n<li>Pattern the middle and crosscourt<\/li>\n<li>Boredom is part of the training<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>10-minute continuous dink; restart on pop-up<\/li>\n<li>Only crosscourt for 5, then middle for 5<\/li>\n<li>No speed-ups until coach\/partner says<\/li>\n<li>Log longest clean rally<\/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>Summary The Pickleball Clinic\u2019s drill of the week \u2014 Dink All Day \u2014 is about&#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],"tags":[228,496,497,155],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","tag-dink-drill","tag-drill-of-the-week","tag-kitchen-patience","tag-the-pickleball-clinic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/850"}],"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=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}