{"id":1233,"date":"2026-10-29T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:38:11","slug":"low-attack-targets-flick-away-from-the-easy-backhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Low Attack Targets: Flick Away From the Easy Backhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Most players get this attack wrong\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHI5T3cDLdI?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>Briones Pickleball Breakdown flags a common low-ball attack miss: flicking into the easy backhand of a righty across from you.<\/p>\n<p>When you attack from a low position, put the ball where the next counter is hardest \u2014 not through the middle or at a comfortable backhand. On a righty in front of you, the better window is often the chicken wing or the forehand\/right side. Drive-drop and flick still work; the target selection is what separates a free counter from a tough reply.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Low attacks need hard-to-counter targets, not \u201cjust hit it\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Middle \/ body to a righty\u2019s BH is often too easy for them<\/li>\n<li>Prefer chicken-wing or FH-side flicks when the geometry fits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Next kitchen session: call target before every low flick (BW \/ FH \/ middle)<\/li>\n<li>Film 10 low attacks: mark how many landed on an easy BH<\/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>Briones Pickleball Breakdown flags a common low-ball attack miss: flicking into the easy backhand of a righty across from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"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":[676,123,614,1296,492],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attacks","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-attacks","tag-briones","tag-counters","tag-flicks","tag-targeting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08-forehand-drive-sunlight-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}