{"id":1066,"date":"2026-10-16T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:21:16","slug":"flick-low-balls-with-the-paddle-tip-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Flick Low Balls With the Paddle Tip Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Learn to Flick Low Balls like the PROS! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Im_zDJYW5Ms?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 explains why amateurs struggle to flick low balls: they keep the paddle sideways because tip-down feels uncomfortable. Sideways flicks miss wide on slight mishits and cannot truly attack low balls.<\/p>\n<p>Pros set the paddle tip down before the attack. From there they can flick low balls, still dink deceptively from the same shape, and if they miss it tends to be long or into the body \u2014 not wide.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tip-down prep unlocks low flicks<\/li>\n<li>Sideways flicks miss wide and cannot attack true low balls<\/li>\n<li>Same tip-down shape also disguises the dink<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow 20 tip-down flicks before open play<\/li>\n<li>In drilling, ban sideways paddle on any flick attempt<\/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 explains why amateurs struggle to flick low balls: they keep the paddle sideways because tip-down feels uncomfortable. Sideways flicks miss wide on slight mishits and cannot truly attack low balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"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":[3,381],"tags":[98,1100,982,126],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kitchen","category-technique","tag-flick","tag-low-balls","tag-paddle-tip-down","tag-tanner-pickleball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}