7 offensive dinking strategy that pros use | How to control the kitchen like Gabriel Tardio. 

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I Watched a number of your videos and the content is excellent lots to think about. However, I do have a couple of suggestions that would make it easier for some viewers like myself to comprehend all the material that you’re talking about. 1) when you’re showing a clip of the player demonstrating a technique please don’t show such a brief clip that it goes by so fast. I can’t even know which one is doing what. Slow them down, go into slow motion when necessary to demonstrate your concept -that would be greatly appreciated. 2) honestly, I think if you actually demonstrated your concepts with three other players on the court, it would be more effective and grasping what you’re saying because what you have to say is very good. A good RU-vid video person is Connor hance hance Pickle Ball I believe and THE Pickleball guy -they both give lots of demonstrations of their concepts and slow motion as well, which is very helpful. So in the future, try thinking about incorporating those techniques into your videos and your content for some of us will be much better absorbed!!

Gabe Tardio is very good. But even when he is standing so close to the center line on cross court dinks between the left side players that, even with his great reach and quickness, I am amazed that opponents such as the Johns brothers are not able to take more advantage of the huge gap he leaves on his right/forehand side. Perhaps he may not leave his right side that open, if opponents are able to figure out a way to attack or push him away from the center line during dink rallys.

Good stuff. Keep em coming 💯

Really helpful video. Thanks bro

It is not about living longer. It is about the relative shortage of younger folks/ lower birth rate.

I'm almost 6'5" and I've experimented with leaning deep into the kitchen. For maximum reach forward, you need your shoulder just above the net tape. For me, from a normal stance, that involves a knee bend to almost 90 degrees. In addition to burning your quads, if you try to maintain this, your shuffle step is severely compromised. You are rooted to the ground in a small bucket of concrete. Additionally, once you fully stretch your long arm out toward the ball, you have next to no ability to move your paddle to the left or right side. You have to be absolutely certain the ball is coming directly toward you before you commit to a full reach. Longer arms are certainly an advantage, but shorter people fail to understand they need a much longer runway to achieve liftoff. From forward to wide is a big distance. Just because you have long arms, that doesn't make the distance go away. You can accelerate your arm faster than your legs, so you can cover this distance with your arm faster than a shorter guy or gal can cover this distance with his or her legs. But you can't go from forward to wide as fast as a short person goes from forward to wide, over a shorter distance. If you try, you will have to ramp up acceleration, making it a violent movement. Then you have to make a touch shot on a dime at the other end of the movement, using a paddle attached to a giant whip, violently repositioned. Good luck with that. Blocks are nice for tall players, because you just set the paddle up as a wall, without needing much touch at the end of the whip. I can position myself to block wide on the forehand, and still stand near the middle of my box. When I'm challenged wide, my arm shoots out like a frog's tongue, and I can often block the ball back down into the kitchen. It's just enough defense on my outside lane that it doesn't become a huge leak. For the price of having a barely adequate block out wide, I can constantly loom from within the center of my box, where the threat of reaching my very long arm deep into the kitchen is a constant worry for my opponents. What I've been experimenting with lately is taking a super wide stance, so that I don't have to knee bend to 90 degree to achieve maximum forward reach. This also roots my feet in a bucket of concrete, but with a super wide stance I can shift my balance point from one leg to the other over a fairly substantial distance. This plus the length of my arm gives me pretty decent coverage, despite my total inability to shift my feet quickly. What it comes down to, for very tall players, 6'4" and taller, is that you have to make early decisions about whether to sacrifice your foot movement to extend your forward reach or not, by locking yourself into a deep knee bend from an extra wide stance. Other upside from the low position: your sight line on the ball will allow you to read the path of the ball more accurately, and many dinks are easier to execute from down low. Downside: if they can pass you with a jab from in tight so that you _have_ to move your feet to field the ball, you are in big trouble. I should talk about sight line a bit more. Being very tall is terrible for your sight line for balls that barely skim over the net cord. My ability to read the path of the ball is about 2x better from a deep knee bend than from standing fully erect. When I stand fully erect, balls that barely skim the net are _not_ coming toward me, as I see them from my head up there in the clouds. We have all seen balls that track across our body at a 45 degree angle (azimuth), and we know how much harder these balls are to read. When I stand fully erect, balls skimming the net cord horizontally are crossing my field of vision at -45 degrees (elevation) before they reach my paddle. My final comment is that my absolute nightmare scenario is to play with a burly male partner who is 5'4" or shorter, who drives the 3rd shot, then runs up and drives the 5th shot from even closer to the net, while I am still running in after the 3rd shot. If I actually reach the NVL and begin to execute "down elevator" to achieve a deep knee bend, and the ball comes back to me, while I am still sinking down, I might as well still be running. The downward motion faffs up my execution just as badly as running forward. If I don't sink down, my sight line for reading a counterattack that ricochets to me off the 5th shot drive is severely compromised. These short partners then glower at me, because they think that my life as a skyhook is easy street. Well it is, but only after I find time to set up to best exploit this. Their stupid 5th shot drive completely explodes my window of opportunity to find this time to make my height work as an advantage rather than a liability. For the love of god, if you've got a skyhook for a partner, follow your 3rd shot drive with a 5th shot drop, to give your lumbering skyhook ample time to sink into his fortress at the kitchen line.

Brilliant analysis

Your actually such a good teacher it's insane. I'm thinking about buying the titan and using your code, but I don't know if it's worth it yet. Im a 4.5 in singles and I wanna go pro eventually, should I get it?

You do such a good job... love the way youy take your time... and explain... great job.....

Great video! That windshield wiper at 10:27 was so powerful it made your wrist crack, wild to sustain an injury in the middle of a training vid hope the recovery is swift!

I'm very tall and will be playing the right side in upcoming tournaments so naturally Tardio's style came to mind. Thanks for another great pro analysis. Lucky for me, your timing couldn't have been better!

Excellent videos and channel, thank you!

There’s no apostrophe in the word “pros”.

Would love to see some video evidence of the things you're claiming Gabe does. Essentially all 7 of the tips. I do trust you (long time subscriber), but your points would be so much better received if you showed video snippets of Gabe doing each of these things.

6:19 it would really help for this baiting shot strategy to see it demonstrated with players.

A lot of people tell you to use your wrist and forearm to hit a topspin dink/drop But those same mechanics are also used for a speed up. What makes them different? Swing speed?

Great tips and strategies to learn from the best pros. Thanks a lot!