{"id":1212,"date":"2026-10-29T06:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:02","slug":"net-vs-long-swing-more-up-or-more-forward-then-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Net vs Long: Swing More Up, or More Forward Then Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Should you Swing UP or FORWARD?! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tAqsxijGiPo?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 simplifies miss diagnosis: net means you need more up; long means you need more forward.<\/p>\n<p>Aim through the target, then up \u2014 not \u201cup over the net\u201d first. Think underhand toss, bowling, or cornhole: forward through the target, then lift. Pure up floats long; pure forward dumps into the net.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Net \u2192 add up; long \u2192 add forward<\/li>\n<li>Path: through the target, then up<\/li>\n<li>Underhand-toss \/ bowling feel beats \u201clift over the tape\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bucket of soft feeds: say \u201cforward-then-up\u201d on every contact<\/li>\n<li>After each miss, call the fix (more up vs more forward) before the next ball<\/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 simplifies miss diagnosis: net means you need more up; long means you need more forward.<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,4,19,381],"tags":[83,290,28,288,76],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-drops","category-soft-game","category-technique","tag-contact","tag-drops","tag-soft-game","tag-swing-path","tag-universal-rackets"],"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\/1212","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=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/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=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}