{"id":1167,"date":"2026-10-23T01:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:19:37","slug":"get-out-of-jail-drill-soft-out-of-trouble-vs-hands-at-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Get Out of Jail Drill: Soft Out of Trouble vs Hands at the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"\ud83d\ude94get out of JAIL \ud83d\ude94 Access Exclusive Courses and Personalized Pickleball Feedback at the Winner\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8coJ_Ae7BLk?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>John Cincola\u2019s partner drill \u201cGet Out of Jail\u201d: both start near the kitchen and alternate feeding. The feeder hand-tosses an aggressive wide dink (FH or BH). The partner starts about one step off the kitchen \u2014 like after a dead dink \u2014 and must get out of jail by making the next ball bounce.<\/p>\n<p>The feeder reaches in to take it out of the air and they play out the point, then switch roles. It trains soft hands under pressure against someone hunting the speed-up.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Start a step off the kitchen as if you just hit a dead dink<\/li>\n<li>Job under fire: make the next ball bounce (get out of jail)<\/li>\n<li>Feeder hunts the out-of-air ball \u2014 then switch roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Steal the drill for 10 minutes: alternate feeder \/ jailbird every point<\/li>\n<li>Track how often you earn the bounce vs getting handcuffed out of the air<\/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>John Cincola\u2019s partner drill \u201cGet Out of Jail\u201d: both start near the kitchen and alternate feeding. The feeder hand-tosses an aggressive wide dink (FH or BH).<\/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":[391,600,3,18],"tags":[1213,1212,305,1229,106],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense","category-drills","category-kitchen","category-resets","tag-aggressive-dink","tag-cincola","tag-drill","tag-get-out-of-jail","tag-reset"],"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\/1167","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=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/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=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}