{"id":1253,"date":"2026-10-31T05:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:05","slug":"drive-power-tip-use-your-body-not-just-the-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Drive Power Tip: Use Your Body, Not Just the Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Use your body on your drives \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kpncWq8dRtA?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>Albert Wan\u2019s short cue is simple and on-court ready: use your body on your drives.<\/p>\n<p>Arm-only swings leak power and consistency. Load the legs and rotate the torso so the paddle is the last link in the chain, not the only engine. Treat every drive practice rep as a body-first swing \u2014 contact is the finish of rotation, not a wrist slap.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Drives need body rotation and weight transfer, not arm-only pace<\/li>\n<li>Paddle is the last link \u2014 load legs\/torso first<\/li>\n<li>Cue every rep: body first, contact second<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit 20 FH drives with a pause at loaded hip\/shoulder before swinging<\/li>\n<li>Compare arm-only vs body-driven contact sound and depth for 10 balls each<\/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>Albert Wan\u2019s short cue is simple and on-court ready: use your body on your drives.<\/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":[5,566,381],"tags":[171,1314,293,298],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-power","category-technique","tag-albert-wan","tag-body-rotation","tag-drives","tag-kinetic-chain"],"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\/1253","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=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/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=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}