Dylan Frazier Kitchen Intensity

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Reasons To Stay Low At The Kitchen 👌

1. The first reason why you want to stay low at the kitchen is movement. If you are standing straight up, it is significantly harder to move around the kitchen. When you are dinking and someone pulls you out wide, it is important that you are able to make a quick reaction to the ball. If you are constantly having to move up and down along with side to side, you will actually get more tired than you would if you just stayed in a ready position.

2. You will have more reach if you are in a ready position at the kitchen. This means that you will be able to take more balls out of the air. If you can mix in some out of the air dinks along with attacks, your opponents will begin to take a step off of the line. With your extra reach along with your opponents leaning back, you gain a significant amount of space to dink into. You become a much scarier player if you are taking balls out of the air and constantly ready for the ball.

3. It is easier to leave an out ball if you are constantly in the ready position. Your reaction time will increase, but you will also have a lower center of gravity. This means you will have to reach significantly higher if you want to hit an out ball. It is much less likely you will do this if you are bent as opposed to standing straight up trying to protect your body or face.

Getting Under Your Dinks 👑

More Reasons To Get Low:

• When you are dinking it is extremely important that you are getting under the ball. Pickleball is NOT tennis. If you try to hit the top of the ball from below the height of the net, the ball is going to go in the net.

• The higher you stand, the more likely it is you will use wrist on your dinks. We know that using wrist on dinks will cause the ball to pop up, but this is usually caused by improper footwork. If you are loading your legs, you don’t need the extra wrist to get the dink over the net.

• The lower you are, the easier it is to place your dink. It is simply an easier shot when you are always getting underneath the dink. A big problem players run into is when they try to go small margins while they are in a bad position at the kitchen. If you can get your paddle beneath the ball, it allows you greater margin for error based on the ball path.