{"id":1099,"date":"2026-10-18T01:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:24:39","slug":"speed-up-70-pace-change-not-a-heater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Speed-Up = ~70% Pace Change, Not a Heater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Power is NOT your key to a perfect speed up... PACE is! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7OcvYvCVyUU?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>Universal Rackets reframes the speed-up: players try to end the point at 100% and miss into the net or long. A speed-up is about changing space\/tempo \u2014 roughly 70% \u2014 not a pure heater.<\/p>\n<p>If your dink is soft, the speed-up is just a bump in pace. Slowing the swing raises make% and accuracy while still forcing a harder reply.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Speed-up \u2248 tempo change (~70%), not max power<\/li>\n<li>0\u2192100 swings miss long or into the paddle<\/li>\n<li>Smaller pace bump = more consistency + tactics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One game: ban any speed-up above ~70% effort<\/li>\n<li>Partner calls out telegraphed full cuts<\/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>Universal Rackets reframes the speed-up: players try to end the point at 100% and miss into the net or long. A speed-up is about changing space\/tempo \u2014 roughly 70% \u2014 not a pure heater.<\/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,"_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":[598,3,388],"tags":[1045,308,1142,76],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counters","category-kitchen","category-offense","tag-pace","tag-speed-up","tag-tempo","tag-universal-rackets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/03-low-dink-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","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=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/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=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}