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Learn Pickleball Dinking: Golden Rule Strategies

The crosscourt dink is the pattern everyone falls into, from brand new players to pros. Coach John Cincola says it is the one dinking habit he sees players get wrong at every level, because they hit it from positions where it cannot work.

Crosscourt is a real weapon when you use it right. The angle pulls your opponent off the court, and the longer distance over the lowest part of the net lets you hit flatter and more aggressively than you could down the line.

But a crosscourt dink has to travel across the front of your opponent's body. If it floats even a little high they can reach in and pick it off, and if you aim shallow to avoid that, the wide angle opens up an around the post opportunity.

Here is the golden rule. Picture a line running from your outside foot straight to the net; on the right side of the court, that is your right foot.

If the ball comes to you inside that line, every target is available: down the line, the middle, or back crosscourt.

Once the ball crosses outside that foot, take crosscourt off the table. Play straight ahead or to the middle instead.

There are three reasons. First, hooking a wide ball back across your body is an unnatural, low percentage shot.

Second, the wider you get pulled, the smaller your crosscourt window becomes. The opponent in front of you can reach in and cut the ball off before it ever gets back to your target.

Third, after every crosscourt dink your next job is to recover and help cover the middle. When you are stretched wide, you cannot get back in time.

The safest wide ball reply is the middle third of the box straight in front of you. It is nearly unattackable, and it avoids feeding an Ernie down the line.

Best of all, a straight reply comes back at you without an angle. That makes it easy to keep your outside foot outside the ball and resume crosscourt offense on the next shot.

Key points

Crosscourt dinks are your offensive dinks: the angle pulls opponents wide and the longer path over the lowest part of the net lets you hit more aggressively.
Picture a line from your outside foot straight to the net, and go crosscourt only when the ball stays inside it.
Once the ball crosses outside that foot, play straight ahead or to the middle instead of hooking it back across your body.
The middle third of the box in front of you is the nearly unattackable reply on wide balls, and it avoids the Ernie.
A straight reply comes back without an angle, so you can reset your outside foot and start crosscourt offense again.

Watch the full tutorial here.