A dink shot is a soft shot hit on a bounce or out of the air (dink volley) from the NVZ. The intention is to have this shot land in the opposing teams NVZ, or near it, and ideally forces your opponents into a low contact. The NVZ stands for “non-volley...
Conventional wisdom in pickleball teaches that you want to hit that serve deep, hit the return deep, the serving team drops the next shot, the returning team has come in, and now you advance and both teams are up at the non-volley zone line get into a dink exchange...
Pickleball is the fastest-growing racket sport in North America. But don’t let any pickleball player hear you call it a racket… it’s a paddle. It is generally grouped under the “racket sport” category though, as is ping ping, which also...
Being a pickleball enthusiast, player, or coach, you must be familiar with the side-out or traditional game scoring system. However, with other sports such as tennis, squash, ping-pong, badminton, and volleyball experiencing amazing results with the rally scoring...
There are many shots to learn in pickleball if you want to be a complete player and advance to the levels of play that you desire. These shots include serves, returns, drives, resets, drops, dinks, overheads, attacking shots, etc. Those shots are certainly all...
You’ve likely heard that in pickleball, one of the best dinks to use is the cross court dink. We recommend it, as do most coaches, and we’ll recap why that is in today’s video/blog. But, there are conditions under which it’s not necessarily...
