{"id":1178,"date":"2026-10-24T03:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:28","slug":"vs-bangers-out-front-ready-block-to-their-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Vs Bangers: Out-Front Ready, Block to Their Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Learn to Beat Bangers in under 60 seconds! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQOvusOiBqE?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\u2019s fix when drives keep beating you at the net: amateurs take a gigantic swing at the incoming drive and mistime it. As soon as you see the drive coming, move the ready position out in front.<\/p>\n<p>From there you only need a wrist block \u2014 no timing heroics. Goal isn\u2019t a home run; it\u2019s getting the ball down to their feet so the next net ball is harder.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Giant swings vs drives = mistimes<\/li>\n<li>Ready position out in front when you see the drive<\/li>\n<li>Block with the wrist \u2014 aim for their feet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner drives at you from midcourt: 20 blocks to feet, zero full swings<\/li>\n<li>One game vs a known banger: only blocks at the kitchen until you\u2019ve reset two balls<\/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\u2019s fix when drives keep beating you at the net: amateurs take a gigantic swing at the incoming drive and mistime it. As soon as you see the drive coming, move the ready position out in front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728,"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":[391,3,200,192],"tags":[514,462,47,140],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense","category-kitchen","category-strategy","category-volleys","tag-bangers","tag-block-volley","tag-ready-position","tag-tanner"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/02-kitchen-line-through-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","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=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}