{"id":301,"date":"2026-09-25T01:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:52","slug":"how-to-hit-the-flick-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"How to hit the flick angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"How to hit the flick angle :\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKRbY-5V4CM?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>Parth Mody teaches the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=367\">flick angle<\/a> \u2014 one of the nastiest kitchen finishing shots \u2014 to a 4.5 partner. Setup, disguise, and contact so the flick isn\u2019t telegraphed, then shape it off the court. Useful when dink battles stall and you need a finishing pattern that isn\u2019t a flat speed-up into their wheelhouse.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Flick angle finishes dink battles<\/li>\n<li>Disguise until late; don\u2019t tip the speed-up<\/li>\n<li>Target sharp angles, not just pace at the body<\/li>\n<li>Practice with a partner who can feed high dinks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Feed high middle dinks; only flick angles for 10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Film: is the paddle face tipping early?<\/li>\n<li>Cue: \u2018look dink, leave flick\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Add a recovery ready after every flick attempt<\/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 Parth Mody teaches the flick angle \u2014 one of the nastiest kitchen finishing shots&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732,"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":[373,21,3,200],"tags":[162,98,99,434],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attacks","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-angle","tag-flick","tag-kitchen-attack","tag-parth-mody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}