@@blockchainbaboon7617 thats a good one! one helpful tip is to move the location of your dinks around the kitchen to force your opponent to hit a variety of shots. if you are in a cross court dinking battle, try hitting some dinks to the middle of the kitchen or to the opponent infront of you. you can target either of your opponents feet or go to the middle to hopefully cause confusion. if you feel yourself losing after a couple of cross court dinking rallies, grab a friend and drill that type of senario can check this vid for more tips: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-40ap9ZC7EdI.html
Backhand dink. I recently changed my grip towards an eastern backhand grip. It has given me way more control and stability. It seems no one talks about this grip. Only continental, eastern forehand, and semi western.
What grip should be using for both the tip down dink and the slice dink? I was told tip down should be continental. Is that true and should slice dink also be the same?
8:30 - Sure you can do something different. Miss underneath the ball, and then reorient your paddle to be forehand - then speedup. It's a variant of the classic Kyle Yates backhand to forehand fakeout. The miss is more exaggerated as the paddle literally passes underneath the ball - instead of just quickly pivoting before the ball would have been contacted.
John, about the 12th time i've watch this video - has helped take a lot of angst out of dinking and incorporating movement has made speedup more successful. Thanks
The forehand topsin dink. For some reason the backhand (slice) dink comes easy to me, but on the forehand it's like I stand square to the line and the ball has to pass across my body, and I feel safest chopping a forehand slice back over crosscourt. I actually get it over and in most of the time, but it feels awkward and inconsistent. When I watch the pros it seems much more natural how they hit it out of the air and off the bounce.
There seems to be a third option which I often use and that's where, on a wide backhand dink, the wrist is cupped (in extension) and the paddle tip is above my wrist/hand which allows me to generate a lot of top spin and be offensive - similar to Ben John's offensive backhand dink. So maybe that would be called "tip up"? 😊Thanks for all your great videos John!
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Thanks John. I may have a naïve question. Do your concepts of situations that drive use of the tip down paddle versus tip up paddle position apply for using a two-handed backhand dink? I presume it would but really would like your thoughts. Thank you.
Yes, the two handed backhand dink would usually fall in the tip down situational use cases. Thanks for the question. I meant to cover this briefly and forgot
