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Hey guys, Connor Garnett here. We are going over my signature shot, the TUI.
All right, so in this video, we are going to be covering two at the kitchen line. We're going to be talking about the TUI side spin dink, the two topspin dink. We're going to be going over the off the bounce speed ups. We're going to be going over countering when to use one versus two hands, and then we're just going to talk about some of the strategy to set yourself up to use your tui most effectively. Let's get into it.
We're going to start with the two side spin ding. This is my favorite shot. This allows me to push my opponent pretty far wide over there. So, first thing, our back swing. We're going to start at a 45° angle from our knee here. We're going to have the paddle face pretty flat. It's not too open. It's not too closed. Closed meaning the top of the paddle is over the bottom. and vice versa for open. It's pretty flat here. And we're going to lift with the arms. I'm not moving my wrist. I'm not adding much to it. We're just moving with the arms. So, that is the first thing we're going to be doing, just moving that with the arms. See how I'm coming around the ball on this?
Next thing we want to be thinking about is where our power is coming from. It's that kinetic chain that I talk about in all my videos. We're going to be moving through this ball. So, we're going to now add a little bit of movement as well. So, keep in mind here, my whole swing isn't bigger than this. From start to finish, it's out here. It's a really small swing, but I'm still able to get power. Where the power is coming from is leaning in with my body moving through this shot. So, we'll see. I'm going to start ramping up the speed here. And nothing changes with the swing. A lot of times when I see people doing this, they try and take a big swing and they think all the power is coming from their arms. It isn't. It's coming from that lower body and kinetic chain. Level one pace here. level two and level three. See how far I'm pulling him wide there? That's really the goal when I'm moving into this ball more and hitting it harder.
All right, so now we're going to get into the topspin dink. This is very similar to that two side spin dink. Just the paddle face is going to be perpendicular to the court. So it's just facing our target where we're hitting it as opposed to the side spin is coming around it. So this is going to be effective in pushing someone off the line a little bit in front of us and to get a little bit of lift on the ball so we can kind of buy oursel a little bit more margin here with this dink. Same thing back swing except now perpendicular to the court. I'm dropping that paddle face a little bit and brushing up the back of the ball. So, it's I'm going to pass this here. It's almost this windshield wiper motion where I'm turning it over to get that topspin on the ball here. I can take that in all three spots down the line, middle, or crosscourt. So, this topspin dink as a little bit more versatile, but less penetrating pulling them wide because if you think side spin, it pulls them really far wide. This just pushes them back off the line, which is also effective as well.
All right, so now I'm gonna demonstrate this thing here. Paddle down. Rush up the back of the ball. Middle line. So, see how he's having to short hop this and some of these are popping up. This ball is penetrating. I'm getting that dip, so he's not able to take it out of the air easily and be aggressive. And I can look to be aggressive on some of those next shots that pop up. The benefit of this shot is I can start to move that person in front of me as well as the person crosscourt with this topspin dink here. We're going to go a little point here and then I'm going to talk through it a little bit.
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So there, I'm moving him around. When I have more time, I'm looking to really use this 2y dink. I'm mixing up a little bit more in the middle. I'm going a little bit more topspin. When I'm going wide, I'm going a little bit more side spin to pull him off the court. Now, you'll notice Jackson is using a little bit more of a slice stink. And the slice stink is a little bit safer. It just kind of resets it. When when you're thinking about when to use the slice stink, you're thinking about if I have less time, slice gives a little bit more lift and allows you to reset. When you want to take time away from your opponent, this is when these twoy dinks come in and you can really push them off the court and then look to be aggressive on that next shot. So, see there how I was able to hit a few aggressive dinks. He popped one up with a little softer dink. And now that allows me to attack that next ball. And really the goal of these two dinks is to start getting them to pop up softer balls that we can attack.
With this twoey dink, it's been so effective. We've seen people in the past kind of do a onehanded dink coming around the ball with side spin. So like that one side spin dink. But now you see even someone like Ben who is known for this shot starting to do the tui dink pulling them off the court as well. And it just kind of shows how the game has changed. And adding that left hand gives you so much more stability and power on this shot to push them off the court.
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All right, now we're going to get in to the Tui off the bounce speed up. This shot is really effective because we already have two hands on the paddle. So coming from here to now instead of dinking it back to speeding it up, the paddle looks very similar on this shot. This is one of my favorite shots. When I first started playing pickle ball, people were a little critical of me speeding up, saying I couldn't do it that often. I've kept doing it, and people are a little less critical. Now, what we want to think about, there are four things we want to think about when we're speeding up off the bounce. We want to think about the power that we're getting on this, how fast or soft we're hitting it, mixing that up, mixing up the spin, mixing up the location on the person, left shoulder, right shoulder, hips, etc. And then finally, where someone sits. So what I mean by that is people have a natural tendency to either block with their backhand or their forehand on different spots of the court. So, if I get pulled wide here and I know Jackson likes to counter with his backhand, I'm going to hit it down the line to his forehand. I don't want to be too predictable because at the pro level, people will make adjustments and even if it's not their preferred side, they'll start to change it up to be able to counter that. So there I'm mixing up the height, spin, and power of these shots. And knowing that Jackson likes to sit backhand, I'm going to go to that side there.
Next, we're going to be breaking down the actual mechanics of this shot. So the three things I want you guys to think about is one, footwork. You want to get behind the ball. Two, we want to be moving through the ball as we're hitting it so we can be ready to attack that next ball. And three, taking a compact swing where we're brushing up on the ball to get that ball to dip, but we're not taking too big of a back swing that the shot is chaotic and we can't recover back to our ready position. So, see there, I took too big of a back swing and I wasn't able to get on that next ball there. It was much more compact and I'm sitting on that next ball. So, see on all of these, I'm moving through this ball, starting by getting behind it and moving through it. Mixing up the height is effective as well. There, I got a little lucky, but he wasn't expecting that higher ball. and sometimes that can throw off your opponent as well.
All right, so the final thing we're gonna be talking about at the kitchen line is countering. So the two counter I like to think about when the ball is outside of my body, I let that second hand come on to the paddle and rip this. If it's in front of me, I'll still go with the one hand. This is really the only time that I kind of use one hand just because I have to block this ball and I don't have enough real estate to get that second hand on the paddle. Also, what I'm thinking about when I'm countering is the paddle is at 11:00. So, if we think about a clock here, I put my paddle right here because now I can cover a little bit more real estate with my back hand. If the ball shifts this way, I move my paddle following the ball. So, it's not always there. But when it's in front of me, that's my natural resting position. So, there is a little bit to the side. I can put that second hand gives me a little bit of extra power on that shot.
Thank you guys for tuning in. Hope you enjoyed learning about everything Tui at that kitchen line. We covered a lot from the dink to the off the-bound speedups to countering and when it's best to use that TUI dink to really push your advantage. If you have any questions or thoughts, drop them in the comments below. Thank you to my sponsors, Zia and the Pickler, for sponsoring this video. All my links below for all my gear when I'm on the pickle ball court to where I'm playing pickle ball. If you want to get fitted like me and some nice Zia clothing, that link is below. Also, the 30 for30 pickler membership. That means 30 days for $30 unlimited membership. Click that link below as well. Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel. We're dropping bi-weekly videos and if you have any questions or comments, drop those below as well. Thank you for tuning in. Tui Nation out.