{"id":1256,"date":"2026-10-31T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:02:09","slug":"reset-challenge-dig-50-balls-from-transition-with-fewer-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Reset Challenge: Dig 50 Balls From Transition With Fewer Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Try this reset challenge \ud83d\udcaa Access Exclusive Courses and Personalized Pickleball Feedback at the\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFcv61kE6SU?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>John Cincola\u2019s reset challenge builds the ability to extend points under fire.<\/p>\n<p>One player feeds from the kitchen (starting around shoulder height \u2014 a high, attackable ball). The digger in transition tries to get to 50 successful digs total, but in the fewest balls possible \u2014 so a 10-contact rally counts 10 toward 50 on a single feed. Miss \u2192 new ball, keep the running total. A strong session lands in the five-to-six ball range (roughly 10 digs per rally).<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Train digs under attackable feeds from the kitchen line<\/li>\n<li>Score = total digs toward 50, minimized by sustaining longer rallies<\/li>\n<li>Target band: ~50 digs in 5\u20136 balls (~10 per rally)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Run one full reset challenge to 50; log balls used<\/li>\n<li>Repeat weekly \u2014 beat last week\u2019s ball count<\/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>John Cincola\u2019s reset challenge builds the ability to extend points under fire.<\/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":[391,600,18,20],"tags":[1318,1317,305,169,106,37],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense","category-drills","category-resets","category-transition","tag-challenge","tag-dig","tag-drill","tag-john-cincola","tag-reset","tag-transition"],"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\/1256","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=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/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=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}