​Hey Reader,​

If you've ever felt like the hard hitters at your club just have your number, there's a good chance the problem isn't their power.
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It's your response to it.

The moment you try to get cute and flip it soft into the kitchen, you've given up your offense and handed them exactly what they wanted.

Here's what Helle Sparre teaches in Kitchen Domination that changes how to think about this:

When a banger unloads from the baseline, your paddle is a wall with a punch behind it.
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Not a pillow.
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You're not trying to absorb the pace and redirect it softly. You're ricocheting it back.
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Same energy, controlled direction, get it in play. Let the bounce do the work. Now they're the ones dealing with their own pace coming back at them, and they have to come up with a fifth shot instead of teeing off again.

The three things Helle says you cannot do under a hard attack: pop it up, spray it, or miss it. Trying to go soft dramatically increases the odds of all three.

What you want is the sound of boom-boom. Not boom...bloop.

You're at the kitchen. You're in Offense Zone. Don't surrender that just because someone is hitting hard from Defense. Make them earn the soft game.
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That's your call to make, not theirs.

This is one of several things covered inside Kitchen Domination that tends to flip a switch for rec players (especially those who've been losing the banger battle for a while).

If you want to see the full breakdown, the course is here.

Go play well,

Trey

P.S. The banger section is just one piece of Kitchen Domination. The outside-to-outside dinking rule alone is worth the price of admission. Once you see it, you can't unsee it on the court.
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