{"id":976,"date":"2026-10-10T03:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:42:24","slug":"make-your-dinks-look-like-speed-ups-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Make your dinks Look Like Speed Ups! #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Make your dinks Look Like Speed Ups! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qT57lQ_phcQ?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 shares the best piece of advice he ever got at the kitchen: make your dinks look like your speed-ups, or your speed-ups look like your dinks. If the setup looks the same, the opponent can&#8217;t preload for the attack or relax for another soft ball.<\/p>\n<p>Disguising the speed-up as a dink is especially valuable \u2014 you can dink or speed up from the same look, and even step back off the kitchen line without telegraphing the change.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Same setup for dinks and speed-ups hides your intent<\/li>\n<li>Disguised speed-ups are harder to preload for<\/li>\n<li>You can also step back off the line without giving the shot away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a dink rally, hold the same paddle path on every ball and occasionally flick a speed-up<\/li>\n<li>Have a partner call whether they thought it was a dink or a speed-up before contact<\/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 shares the best piece of advice he ever got at the kitchen: make your dinks look like your speed-ups, or your speed-ups look like your dinks.<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,3,200],"tags":[945,61,946,76],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-dink-disguise","tag-kitchen","tag-speed-up-disguise","tag-universal-rackets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/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=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}