{"id":966,"date":"2026-10-09T02:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:26:27","slug":"stop-chopping-your-dinks-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Stop Chopping Your Dinks! #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop Chopping Your Dinks! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U738fLv3viE?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>Tanner&#8217;s biggest amateur mistake on dinks is chopping at the ball with the wrist to make spin. That path is unstable and easy to miss.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare early with the paddle already down, and don&#8217;t pull it back past your back hip. Swing low to high using the shoulder, keep a relaxed grip, and lay the face back slightly so spin and lift come naturally without a wrist cut.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t chop the dink with your wrist<\/li>\n<li>Paddle stays in front of the back hip<\/li>\n<li>Low-to-high shoulder swing with a relaxed, slightly laid-back face<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit cross-court dinks focusing only on a shoulder-driven low-to-high path<\/li>\n<li>Check in video whether your paddle ever goes behind the back hip<\/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>Tanner&#8217;s biggest amateur mistake on dinks is chopping at the ball with the wrist to make spin. That path is unstable and easy to miss.<\/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":[220,381],"tags":[272,929,928,325,699],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-technique","tag-dink","tag-shoulder-swing","tag-stop-chopping","tag-tanner-pickleball-2","tag-topspin-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\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/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=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}