{"id":1155,"date":"2026-10-22T01:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:17:55","slug":"body-contact-knuckles-legal-elbow-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Body Contact: Knuckles Legal, Elbow Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Ball off Your Knuckles: Legal. Off Your Elbow: Fault\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lDMS9mV6MzI?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>Aylex cites USA Pickleball Rule 10.C.3: if the ball touches you or anything you wear or carry during a rally, it\u2019s a fault against you \u2014 even if the ball was flying out.<\/p>\n<p>The exception is your paddle and the paddle hand below the wrist while holding it. So a ball off the knuckles on the paddle hand can be a legal shot; a ball off the elbow is a fault.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Touching you \/ your clothes \/ carried items = fault (even if going out)<\/li>\n<li>Exception: paddle + paddle hand below the wrist<\/li>\n<li>Knuckles (paddle hand) can be legal; elbow is a fault<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Next time a ball brushes you, know the call before the argument starts<\/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>Aylex cites USA Pickleball Rule 10.C.3: if the ball touches you or anything you wear or carry during a rally, it\u2019s a fault against you \u2014 even if the ball was flying out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"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":[],"tags":[921,1214,1176,1215,1216],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aylex","tag-body-contact","tag-elbow","tag-knuckles","tag-usa-pickleball-10-c-3"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/09-ready-position-closeup-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}