{"id":1123,"date":"2026-10-19T01:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2026-10-19T01:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:17:53","slug":"drive-crash-poach-on-dtl-drives-hold-on-cross-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Drive &#038; Crash: Poach on DTL Drives, Hold on Cross-Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Learn the drive &amp; crash #pickleball #pickleballtips #pickleballhighlights \" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikJW_AP_cPI?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>Elite Pickleball Coaching gives two drive-and-crash rules. When your partner drives down the line (in front of the opponent), the crasher can get bigger and poach \u2014 it\u2019s hard for them to go behind you while dealing with a drive at them.<\/p>\n<p>When the drive goes cross-court, the crasher must hold midcourt: it\u2019s easy for the opponent to go behind an over-aggressive crash. From the hold, attack a high ball or reset a good volley.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>DTL drive \u2192 crasher can shade\/poach<\/li>\n<li>Cross-court drive \u2192 crasher holds midcourt<\/li>\n<li>From the hold: attack highs, reset clean volleys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Call \u201cDTL \/ cross\u201d on every partner drive before you move<\/li>\n<li>One game: crash only on DTL drives \u2014 hold everything else<\/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>Elite Pickleball Coaching gives two drive-and-crash rules. When your partner drives down the line (in front of the opponent), the crasher can get bigger and poach \u2014 it\u2019s hard for them to go behind you while dealing with a drive at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732,"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":[5,200,20],"tags":[378,1168,1151,1063],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-strategy","category-transition","tag-down-the-line","tag-drive-and-crash","tag-elite-pickleball-coaching","tag-poach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}