Here's a couple of my favorite two-person dink drills. I like to use the
hula hoop because it gives me a good visual for a target on the other side of
the net. Just start out by dinking the ball back and forward trying to land it
inside the hoop. Now once you've managed to do that
fairly successfully ask your partner to hit the ball to the outside of the hoop
and then back to the inside of the hoop. Your goal would be to continue to drop
the ball in the middle of the other hula hoop. So here it goes to the outside. I'm
trying to hit it back to the inside. Again it goes outside I'm trying to get
it back to the inside. That gives me the ability to control the ball and hit a
specific target on the move.
Then move into the cross-court position again the hula hoops are a great visual
and bring a real target sense into your mind's eye. If you don't have hula hoops
try a piece of tape. While you're doing this make sure that you're consistently
using the five fundamentals that we talked about in the earlier videos. If
you didn't get a chance to see those click on the link that's popping up now
at the top of this video and it'll take you back to the first two videos where
we learned the what's the why and the how's of hitting successful dinks shots.
Here are some of my favorite 4 person dink drills. This is the bowtie drill. I
love this drill because I receive the ball from one direction and send it in a
new direction. Here Mary's going to hit it straight forward to Bill. Bill hits the
cross-court to Charlie. Charlie hits it forward to Jim. Jim hits the cross-court
back to Mary. So the people with their backs to the camera are always dinking
the ball to a forward position the people on the opposite side of the nets
are hitting a cross-court shot. Oncce you've successfully established this
pattern change it up so the people who were hitting the cross-court shot are
now going forward. Here we'll see Mary hit the cross-court. Jim hits it forward
to Charlie. Charlie hits a cross-court to Bill. That way you get to hit the ball in
a variety of different directions.
Now that you spent some time practicing your dink game let's make it fun! Turn it
into an actual game. All the rules apply just like they do in a regular game with
the exception of the non-volley zone is your baseline. If anyone hits it out of
the non-volley zone it's out.That team either loses the point or loses the
serve. This is a great time to practice your movement as a team and how you'll
actually cover the court as well as you're dinking.
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