{"id":999,"date":"2026-10-12T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:21","slug":"learn-christina-chins-heavy-topspin-dink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Learn Christina Chin&#8217;s Heavy Topspin Dink"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Learning the HEAVY TOPSPIN Dink! (ft. Christina Chin 5.47 DUPR)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9C8n1cbT6Xc?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><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Ed Ju trains in Toronto with seven-time Canadian champion Christina Chin, whose soft game forces opponents into a black hole of paced, topspin dinks. Her goal on the right side is strategic: move people around and create pop-ups for a power partner. She topspins every dink for pace so dead floaters never let opponents rest.<\/p>\n<p>The setup is the same as a speed-up: hold the paddle face dropped with the tip pointing at the floor and a loose wrist, so opponents cannot tell whether the next ball is a dink or a flick. Flat, tight dinks leave the face up and give away the shot. Chin drills this with a figure-eight pattern (one player cross, one straight) that demands soft touch and mid-kitchen landings, then swings through across the body for spin instead of chopping short on the same side. Shoulder, elbow, and a little wrist work together; advanced players add wrist only after they already have touch.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Topspin every dink for pace and less opponent time<\/li>\n<li>Drop the paddle tip toward the floor; keep the wrist loose<\/li>\n<li>Hold the face so every ball could be a speed-up<\/li>\n<li>Follow through across for spin; don&#8217;t slam the brakes<\/li>\n<li>Figure-eight drill builds soft mid-kitchen topspin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Run figure-eight dinks and land mid-kitchen only<\/li>\n<li>Film your dink finish: tip should face the floor, not flat<\/li>\n<li>Practice the same setup for dink and speed-up so partners cannot read you<\/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>Ed Ju trains in Toronto with seven-time Canadian champion Christina Chin, whose soft game forces opponents into a black hole of paced, topspin 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,"_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":[220,3,441,381],"tags":[981,333,350,758,983,982,699],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-spin","category-technique","tag-christina-chin","tag-disguise-speed-up","tag-ed-ju","tag-figure-eight-drill","tag-loose-wrist","tag-paddle-tip-down","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\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/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=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}