{"id":1006,"date":"2026-10-12T01:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:24","slug":"how-ben-johns-beats-lob-heavy-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"How Ben Johns Beats Lob-Heavy Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"How to Defend Lobs in Pickleball with World No. 1 Ben Johns\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fC7HrGb3T90?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>Pickleball 360 has Ben Johns address the lobber who floats everything from anywhere. When both players are deep, you still need a real overhead: turn the body so you can rotate and generate power instead of arming the ball flat through the court.<\/p>\n<p>Winners come from angling the smash off the court where they cannot reach it, pointing the shoulder at the target and rotating through. In a mixed lob rally, take a solid midcourt overhead and wait for a shorter lob before you go for the finish.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lobbers lose if you overhead correctly<\/li>\n<li>Turn and rotate for power; don&#8217;t arm smash flat<\/li>\n<li>Angle winners off the court<\/li>\n<li>Finish short lobs; neutralize deeper ones first<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice overheads aiming past the sideline, not down the middle<\/li>\n<li>In lob games, call &#8216;short&#8217; before you try to put one away<\/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>Pickleball 360 has Ben Johns address the lobber who floats everything from anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729,"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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[391,200],"tags":[996,214,995,161,217],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense","category-strategy","tag-angle-off-court","tag-ben-johns","tag-lobs","tag-overhead","tag-pickleball-360"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-doubles-at-the-net-over-shoulder-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","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=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}