{"id":1219,"date":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","slug":"plane-of-net-rule-follow-through-ok-after-legal-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Plane-of-Net Rule: Follow-Through OK After Legal Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Crossing the Plane of the Net Rule in Pickleball\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lasY0kcBMBE?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>Pickleball Daily clears up a common kitchen-line myth: your paddle can cross the plane of the net \u2014 after you legally hit the ball on your side.<\/p>\n<p>Follow-through across the net is fine once contact is legal. What you generally can\u2019t do is reach across and strike the ball before it crosses to your side. Wait for the ball; then finish the swing.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Legal contact on your side \u2192 follow-through across the plane is OK<\/li>\n<li>Reaching across to hit before the ball crosses = fault<\/li>\n<li>Wait for the ball, then finish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Next session: on close kitchen volleys, freeze the contact side before you worry about follow-through<\/li>\n<li>Call one partner drill: feed balls that die near the tape and practice legal follow-through only<\/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>Pickleball Daily clears up a common kitchen-line myth: your paddle can cross the plane of the net \u2014 after you legally hit the ball on your side.<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,3],"tags":[488,1280,1281,249,486],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentals","category-kitchen","tag-faults","tag-net-plane","tag-paddle-follow-through","tag-pickleball-daily","tag-rules"],"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\/1219","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=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/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=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}