25 Ways to Gain the Advantage Off a Dead Dink Part 1 with Joey Gmuer

welcome to pickleball pirate i'm joey gamer and um i did dig deep for this segment because we're losing the cliff pickleball in a race to a thousand subscribers he has 984 we have 801 this is a hail mary you know but um i'm always up for a challenge so i came up with a segment 25 ways to speed up the point or to gain the advantage of a point off a dead dink when both teams are in the kitchen now guys this took me a long time like a really long time to do this is part one but um let's face it subscribe to clip pickleball subscribe to pickleballpirate if we can grow pickleball we win you know all the friends i made you know they're okay friends but um i'm really lucky to have them and um stay tuned to backhand roll henry ronaldo he's a pro so two things he did number one he didn't give the shot away it was the same exact motion as his dink he hit it at 50 speed and he's ready for that forehand kill if he needs to take note of where he hit it now he hit it at his opponent's right shoulder ben johns the best player in the world says hit the right hip or the right shoulder for a right-handed player i trust ben johns next the forehand flick now this is david now and he's very good at this he's a true 5.0 now watch what he does he disguises as a dink now the pace of this shot is extremely important he doesn't hit it super hard he almost flips it almost like he's hitting the surf at the opponent's shoulder and it's gonna be good good shot dave next the sideline angle dink now when i hit the shot i like to fake like i'm gonna hit really hard and then i almost hit a little top spin right at the corner if you hit an effective angled dink i should be ernie and cliff should be covering middle and i had would have put away ernie so that's an extremely effective shot next dink d middle cliff does this really well from cliff pickleball cliff i'm using your own videos to beat you so thinking deep middle is extremely effective it should be used a lot more if you watch cliff do it he does it at a medium paced shot it's not super hard it may not win you the point but it's gonna push your opponents back and you gain the advantage next the forehand crosscourt dink and this has been john so this is the john's brothers this just happened the john's brothers on orange and ben johns is in the left near court we have deco bar in the top left-hand corner in green and we have adam stone and blue now this is such a good point i just wanted to put the whole point out here but they're trying to gain the advantage really they're playing really good offensive thinking they're not hitting dead dinks and no one really can get the advantage in this point then ben johns does something and he's really good at this forehand cross-court dink there it is right here there it is his brother ernie's and that's just beautiful let's see that in slow motion he just hits it it pretty much hits the sideline where the kitchen line hits the sideline and that's so amazing that his brother recognized that but that isn't it is an extremely effective shot you can see it one more time guys please subscribe that's the first five i'm gonna do five segments to get all 25 and thank you so much i want to be cliff pickleball so please subscribe let me see that one more time subscribe to pickleball pirate on youtube