{"id":1252,"date":"2026-10-31T05:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:04","slug":"forehand-drive-power-chest-opens-first-then-arm-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Forehand Drive Power: Chest Opens First, Then Arm Follows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Building Forehand Drive part 2\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gLM2CNfnULM?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><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Backpaddle\u2019s Building Forehand Drive part 2 is a live coaching session on sequencing power.<\/p>\n<p>The miss pattern: both arms coming back and through together, upper body tight, arm firing too early. The fix cue is chest opens first, arm lags, then the arm catches up through contact \u2014 left arm (for a righty) helping release stored energy from legs and torso. When the sequence clicks, you hear it on the paddle and feel the lag instead of a simultaneous arm swing.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chest opens first \u2014 arm follows (don\u2019t swing both arms as one unit)<\/li>\n<li>Lag the hitting arm, then help it catch up through contact<\/li>\n<li>Loose upper body; use the non-hitting arm to release stored power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow 20 FH drives saying out loud: chest \u2192 lag \u2192 catch-up<\/li>\n<li>Feed 30 FH drives; only count clean contact that feels lagged, not muscled<\/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>Backpaddle\u2019s Building Forehand Drive part 2 is a live coaching session on sequencing power.<\/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":[5,2,566,381],"tags":[1313,264,1312,299,298],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-footwork","category-power","category-technique","tag-arm-lag","tag-backpaddle","tag-chest-open","tag-forehand-drive","tag-kinetic-chain"],"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\/1252","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=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/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=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}