{"id":1001,"date":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","slug":"pressure-creates-margin-keep-moving-in-after-your-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Creates Margin: Keep Moving In After Your Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Pressure creates Margin!\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-tQ4Zt0dEc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Parth Mody&#8217;s rule for reaching the kitchen: pressure creates margin. A drop that is only slightly high or that the opponent takes out of the air is not automatic permission to freeze and reset forever.<\/p>\n<p>Anything net-high or below is a green light to keep going in and put pressure on their hands. Trusting those exchanges makes opponents more likely to concede 50\/50 balls, which widens the margin on your next drops and gets you to the line more often.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pressure after the drop creates margin<\/li>\n<li>Net-high or below = keep moving in<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t demand a perfect drop every time<\/li>\n<li>Trust your hands on 50\/50 balls at the line<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On practice drops, only freeze if the ball is clearly above net height<\/li>\n<li>Count how often opponents float the next ball when you keep walking in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parth Mody&#8217;s rule for reaching the kitchen: pressure creates margin. A drop that is only slightly high or that the opponent takes out of the air is not automatic permission to freeze and reset forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,200,6,20],"tags":[987,434,986,32,37],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drops","category-strategy","category-third-shot","category-transition","tag-margin","tag-parth-mody","tag-pressure","tag-third-shot-drop","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}