{"id":371,"date":"2026-10-03T03:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:21:03","slug":"roll-more-dinks-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Roll more dinks! #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Roll more dinks! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2hjFAP4Qu7M?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>Richard Pickleball short on rolling more dinks. Biggest struggle called out: not creating enough space \u2014 ball crowding the body kills confident rolls. Drill focus: back up, get behind the ball, hit aggressive rolls. Notes rolling helps at the net and on third shots.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Space creation is the limiter for roll dinks<\/li>\n<li>Crowded contact kills confident topspin rolls<\/li>\n<li>Back up to get behind the ball before rolling<\/li>\n<li>Roll skill transfers to kitchen and thirds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Drill: partner feeds into body; you must step back then roll<\/li>\n<li>20 rolls at kitchen + 20 roll-thirds from transition<\/li>\n<li>Cue: &#8220;space first, then roll&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Film: are you swinging while jammed?<\/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 Richard Pickleball short on rolling more dinks. Biggest struggle called out: not creating enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728,"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":[600,3,19,6],"tags":[100,698,700,14,699],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-kitchen","category-soft-game","category-third-shot","tag-richard-pickleball","tag-roll-dink","tag-space","tag-third-shot","tag-topspin-dink"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/02-kitchen-line-through-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}