{"id":911,"date":"2026-10-06T01:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:22:42","slug":"keep-popping-up-your-dinks-or-hitting-them-into-the-net-watch-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Keep Popping Up Your Dinks or Hitting Them Into the Net? Watch This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Keep Popping Up Your Dinks or Hitting Them Into the Net? Watch This\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DY68kF9drk?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>Universal Rackets says that if your dinks go into the net or pop up, the problem usually isn&#8217;t your paddle face or your body. It&#8217;s your swing speed. Players decelerate because they&#8217;re scared of popping it up, or accelerate because they want to be aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>The fix is to keep the same continuous swing speed from start to finish, with no slowing down and no speeding up. Think of tossing a ball underhand: decelerate and it falls short, accelerate and it flies up. Toss it forward smoothly, just like your dink.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Decelerating through the dink sends it into the net<\/li>\n<li>Accelerating through the dink pops it up<\/li>\n<li>Keep one continuous swing speed through contact<\/li>\n<li>Picture an underhand toss to feel the right tempo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit 30 cross-court dinks focusing only on even swing speed<\/li>\n<li>Toss a ball underhand a few times, then copy that feel with your paddle<\/li>\n<li>Notice whether your misses are net or pop-up and adjust the speed you change<\/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>Universal Rackets says that if your dinks go into the net or pop up, the problem usually isn&#8217;t your paddle face or your body. It&#8217;s your swing speed.<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,3,381],"tags":[759,828,827,829,76],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-technique","tag-dink-consistency","tag-dinks-into-the-net","tag-popping-up-dinks","tag-swing-speed","tag-universal-rackets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"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=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}