{"id":910,"date":"2026-10-06T01:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:22:41","slug":"type-of-dink-to-hit-based-on-zones-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Type of Dink to Hit Based on Zones v1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Type of Dink to Hit Based on Zones v1\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mM55weOz93Y?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>All Things Pickleball gives a simple cheat code for choosing your dink. The kind of dink you hit shouldn&#8217;t be random. It should depend on where the ball lands and how high it will bounce.<\/p>\n<p>If the ball lands shallow in the kitchen (zone one), let it bounce. If it&#8217;s landing near your feet (zone two, the pressure zone), take it out of the air so it doesn&#8217;t get behind you. The exception: if a zone-two ball is going to bounce high, step back, let it bounce and attack it to put pressure back on your opponents.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shallow kitchen ball: let it bounce<\/li>\n<li>Ball landing at your feet: take it out of the air<\/li>\n<li>High-bouncing zone-two ball: step back and attack<\/li>\n<li>Better dink decisions beat better dink technique<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a partner feed mixed-depth dinks and call the zone out loud before you hit<\/li>\n<li>Practice the step-back-and-attack on high-bouncing balls near your feet<\/li>\n<li>Talk through the zones with your partner before your next game<\/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>All Things Pickleball gives a simple cheat code for choosing your dink. The kind of dink you hit shouldn&#8217;t be random.<\/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,"_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":[220,3,200],"tags":[234,826,823,824,825],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-all-things-pickleball","tag-attack-the-dink","tag-dink-selection","tag-kitchen-zones","tag-volley-dink"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/07-lunging-volley-dark-background-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"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=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}