{"id":1161,"date":"2026-10-23T01:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:31","slug":"let-out-balls-go-waist-at-baseline-shoulders-at-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Let Out Balls Go: Waist at Baseline, Shoulders at Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"STOP hitting pickleball shots that are going OUT! \ud83c\udfaf\u203c\ufe0f\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53Ey79yC_78?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 flags the habit of swinging at every ball into the chest \u2014 a lot of those were sailing long. Simple height rules: at the baseline, if it\u2019s above your waist, let it go; at the kitchen, if it\u2019s above your shoulders, let it go.<\/p>\n<p>Balls that high are usually going out. The best shot is often the one you don\u2019t hit.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Baseline: above the waist \u2192 let it go<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen: above the shoulders \u2192 let it go<\/li>\n<li>Discipline beats hero swings on balls that were dying long<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One game: call \u201cout\u201d aloud before you would have swung on high sitters<\/li>\n<li>Partner feeds chest-high floaters \u2014 practice the freeze instead of the swing<\/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 flags the habit of swinging at every ball into the chest \u2014 a lot of those were sailing long.<\/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,"_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":[391,562,3,200],"tags":[1156,1131,61,329,76],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense","category-fundamentals","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-baseline","tag-discipline","tag-kitchen","tag-out-ball","tag-universal-rackets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/07-lunging-volley-dark-background-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","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=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/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=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}