{"id":1166,"date":"2026-10-23T01:19:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:36","slug":"middle-scenarios-inside-out-inside-in-ernie-inside-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Middle Scenarios: Inside-Out, Inside-In + Ernie, Inside-Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Master These Middle Ball Scenarios in Pickleball! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-ip76jKFtM?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>Tanner Pickleball compresses middle-ball decisions into three reads. If they\u2019re hugging the middle, hit an inside-out dink. If they\u2019re in front of you hugging middle, go inside-in and look to jump the Ernie. If they\u2019re hugging the sideline, attack the inside foot.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a quick pattern card for kitchen pressure \u2014 match the dink shape to how they\u2019re shading the seam.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hugging middle \u2192 inside-out dink<\/li>\n<li>In front + hugging middle \u2192 inside-in and hunt the Ernie<\/li>\n<li>Hugging sideline \u2192 inside-foot dink<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One kitchen game: only score when you pick the matching middle pattern<\/li>\n<li>Partner shades middle or sideline on purpose so you practice the read<\/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>Tanner Pickleball compresses middle-ball decisions into three reads. If they\u2019re hugging the middle, hit an inside-out dink.<\/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":[220,3,388,200],"tags":[1114,337,1228,731,126],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-offense","category-strategy","tag-ernie","tag-inside-foot","tag-inside-out","tag-middle","tag-tanner-pickleball"],"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\/1166","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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/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=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}