{"id":1205,"date":"2026-10-29T01:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2026-10-29T01:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:25:59","slug":"teeter-totter-offense-only-speed-up-when-they-must-hit-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Teeter-Totter Offense: Only Speed Up When They Must Hit Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Teeter Totter Probability (1)\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jhr9GtaQYJk?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>All Things Pickleball explains the teeter-totter: balls you hit up on are defensive; balls you hit down on are offensive. The goal is to create a world where you\u2019re hitting down and they\u2019re hitting up.<\/p>\n<p>Beginners often speed up a low ball that arrives high for the opponent \u2014 flipping the teeter the wrong way (or sailing long). Pull the trigger when the bounce is high enough that you can hit down, or so the ball forces them to hit up by the time it arrives.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Offense = hitting down; defense = hitting up<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t speed up balls that gift them a down-ball<\/li>\n<li>Trigger when height\/probability puts them on the up-swing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kitchen game: only speed up balls at net-tape height or higher<\/li>\n<li>After each speed-up, ask: did they hit up or down?<\/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>All Things Pickleball explains the teeter-totter: balls you hit up on are defensive; balls you hit down on are offensive. The goal is to create a world where you\u2019re hitting down and they\u2019re hitting up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,21,3,200],"tags":[234,61,581,1270,308],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attacks","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-all-things-pickleball","tag-kitchen","tag-offense","tag-probability","tag-speed-up"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05-rec-doubles-outdoor-court-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}