Love this drill! A couple question. Why place the cones 18 inches inside the kitchen line. Why not maybe just 6 inches in the kitchen? And why would you want dinks landing behind the kitchen line to be out? Seems that some of our best dinks are at or slightly past the kitchen line forcing our opponents off the line or jamming them with uncomfortable short hops.
Good for singles, IME. A good doubles teammate slides to the middle when the partner is pulled wide. Middle dinks in doubles always seem to get attacked, unless perfect. Best to be patient in doubles and go CC and wait for a high dink or low and deep DTL to avoid the erne.
I disagree, dink to left foot of the right hand player or just right of the T to tempt right side player to come across creating confusion is almost always a great option. I find speed ups and attacks happening more often with wider dinks.
It's difficult to reach in and take dinks out of the air if too far back. I was taught to stay within an inch or two of the line, take medium high dinks in the air and wait for high to speed up and put away.
18" from sideline and 18" from kitchen line should form a square, but cone placement looks like a rectangle. The mathematician in me wishes you used a ruler. Still adore you and your teaching content though!
Where are you and John playing out of / doing your videos? The two of you make a great video pair for pickleball advice!
Love this drill! A couple question. Why place the cones 18 inches inside the kitchen line. Why not maybe just 6 inches in the kitchen? And why would you want dinks landing behind the kitchen line to be out? Seems that some of our best dinks are at or slightly past the kitchen line forcing our opponents off the line or jamming them with uncomfortable short hops.
so when you add speed ups outside the kitchen isn't out anymore?
Good for singles, IME. A good doubles teammate slides to the middle when the partner is pulled wide. Middle dinks in doubles always seem to get attacked, unless perfect. Best to be patient in doubles and go CC and wait for a high dink or low and deep DTL to avoid the erne.
I disagree, dink to left foot of the right hand player or just right of the T to tempt right side player to come across creating confusion is almost always a great option. I find speed ups and attacks happening more often with wider dinks.
So much for the "foot plant" strategy!
When you add the attacks in, is the whole half of the court in play all the way to the baseline?
Cool drill! Really helpful! What was the background music? Sweet...
John plays further back from NVZ line than Zane. Is that intentional?
It's difficult to reach in and take dinks out of the air if too far back. I was taught to stay within an inch or two of the line, take medium high dinks in the air and wait for high to speed up and put away.
18" from sideline and 18" from kitchen line should form a square, but cone placement looks like a rectangle. The mathematician in me wishes you used a ruler.
Still adore you and your teaching content though!