{"id":1079,"date":"2026-10-17T01:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:05","slug":"pros-aim-drops-3-4-toward-the-sideline-deep-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Pros Aim Drops 3\/4 Toward the Sideline, Deep in the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Where Pros Aim Their Drops\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Ql71nLY5vI?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>Shea Underwood used to aim drops at the far sideline until watching Ben Johns. Pros aim about three-quarters of the way between middle and sideline \u2014 fewer wides and fewer well-timed Ernies.<\/p>\n<p>They also land deep near the kitchen line with plenty of net margin, so the ball rarely dies into the tape.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aim ~3\/4 middle-to-sideline, not the alley line<\/li>\n<li>Deep into the kitchen \/ near the NVZ line<\/li>\n<li>Leave net margin \u2014 rare tape misses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark a 3\/4 target cone and hit 30 drops only there<\/li>\n<li>Count wide misses vs Ernie victims vs the old sideline aim<\/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>Shea Underwood used to aim drops at the far sideline until watching Ben Johns. Pros aim about three-quarters of the way between middle and sideline \u2014 fewer wides and fewer well-timed Ernies.<\/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":[4,200,6],"tags":[571,214,1114,246,32],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drops","category-strategy","category-third-shot","tag-aim","tag-ben-johns","tag-ernie","tag-shea-underwood","tag-third-shot-drop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","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=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/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=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}