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🤾♀️ Popping up dinks? Try these 3 fixes.
Plus, a quick dynamic warmup for pickleball players, the best practice pickleball techniques, and much more
Brandon Mackie
November 21, 2024
Hey there reader,
Welcome back to the Pickleheads Newsletter!
Here’s your first-ever Pickleheads Newsletter dedicated to levelling up your game! But next week, things are going to look a little different.
Here’s our lineup:
Monday: Our top Early Black Friday Deals—epic savings await!
Tuesday: Your usual highlights, epic points, and fun.
Thursday (Thanksgiving): No email—enjoy your turkey and hopefully some pickleball!
Friday (Black Friday): After talking with over 40 pickleball brands, I’m sharing my top Black Friday deals. There’s one deal I couldn’t believe when I saw it 🙊
It’s going to be a festive, fun, and savings-packed week. After that, we’re back to our usual epic points and leveling up your game! 🛍️✨
In this issue:
🤾♀️ Popping up dinks? Try these 3 fixes
😍 12 amazing reset tips
🏓 Best practice pickleball techniques
🙆 A quick dynamic warm-up for pickleball players
🤾♀️ Popping up dinks? Try these 3 fixes
Excited to welcome back Tanner Tomassi of Tanner Pickleball for this week’s Level Up.
Hey Pickleheads readers,
If you’re struggling with popping up your dinks, here are three tips so it never happens again!
Stop flicking the ball with your wrist
When you’re making contact with the ball, you’re probably flicking with your wrist.
Instead, imagine you have two balls stacked on your paddle. Then, push through both of these balls with a stiffer wrist.
Stay down
No matter what height you hit the ball at, you want to stay low and then rise.
If you hit the ball as you’re rising, you’re always going to pop the ball up.
Move
Bad dinking stems from poor footwork.
I see so many players have cement feet and they lunge for the ball.
Instead, as the ball comes, try to get your lead foot as close to behind the ball as you can.
Otherwise, you overstretch! And this is another reason you’re popping the ball up.
Hope this helps.
Click below to watch my 60 second clip where I walk you through this week’s tip👇
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😍 12 amazing reset tips
Turn DEFENSE into OFFENSE with these 12 reset tips delivered in 45 seconds.
🏓 Best practice pickleball techniques
🙆 A quick dynamic warm-up for pickleball players
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Try the Pickleheads Round Robin Tool before you hit the court
I’ve told y’all how excited I am about our new round robin tool. I ran a 32-person round robin last week at USA Pickleball Nationals and it was a BLAST.
Well today I’m excited to share you can preview the tool before you get everyone out on the court with…
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Try any number of our 6 unique formats
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You’ll get to see how the tool generates matchups in each format and crowns a winner.
This is a great way to make sure the tool works for your group before you get everyone out on the courts.
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