{"id":1002,"date":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:22","slug":"fourth-ball-decision-making-by-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-Ball Decision Making by Height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Learn 4th ball decision making! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5HdtdWrKcH8?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>Tanner boils fourth-ball choices down to contact height. Below the knees, concede it \u2014 that ball is too low to attack or force.<\/p>\n<p>At waist height, roll it to keep pressure without overhitting. At chest height, slap it and take the offensive look the height gives you.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Below knees: concede<\/li>\n<li>Waist: roll<\/li>\n<li>Chest: slap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a partner feed fourth balls at three heights and call the choice before contact<\/li>\n<li>Play transition points where you may only attack chest-high balls<\/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>Tanner boils fourth-ball choices down to contact height. Below the knees, concede it \u2014 that ball is too low to attack or force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730,"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":[18,200,20],"tags":[990,257,988,989,326],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resets","category-strategy","category-transition","tag-concede-roll-slap","tag-decision-making","tag-fourth-ball","tag-height","tag-tanner-pickleball-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","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=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}