Baiting your opponent into coughing up more ATP balls is an effective offensive tool to add to your arsenal. It's also just a lot of fun.
You'd think that after years of analyzing pickleball strategy, coaches and players would've discovered some elaborate, multi-step system to dominate the kitchen.
But like anything, it's often the simplest approaches that prove the most effective.
Like baiting your opponent into giving you more ATP balls, for example. Kevin Dong from Kevin Dong Pickleball just shared one of the most elegant tactical adjustments you can make to achieve this end: hit more dinks out of the air.
That's it. That's the hack.
Love pickleball? Then you'll love our free newsletter . We send the latest news, tips, and highlights for free each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Now, before you scroll past thinking you already know this, hear us out. Dong's insight isn't just about the mechanics of taking dinks early. It's about what happens in your opponent's head when you start doing it consistently.
More ATPs: The Psychology of Margin Like you, your opponent is always calculating margins. They're thinking about how much space they have to work with, how much room for error exists in their shot selection, how much time they have to prepare for your next advance.
When you start hitting dinks out of the air, you're essentially shrinking that perceived margin in their mind. Dong explains it perfectly in his video.
"It tricks your opponent into thinking they have ... FULL ARTICLE FOUND ON: https://www.thedinkpickleball.com/simple-hack-to-get-more-atps-hit-your-dinks-out-of-the-air/
