{"id":127,"date":"2026-09-15T01:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:01","slug":"these-mistakes-are-keeping-you-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"These mistakes are keeping you stuck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"These mistakes are keeping you stuck! #pickleball #pickleballtips \ufffc\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ZyMcuzWVqM?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<p>Tanner lists three amateur patterns that stall improvement: swapping grips during a hands battle (then being wrong for the next dink), taking the third-shot drop while the bounce is still rising (hardest to control), and a fully backhand-biased ready position that telegraphs a speed-up hole.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your dink grip in the hands fight, wait until the bounce declines before the drop, and point the paddle tip more toward the middle so you aren\u2019t advertising a weak side.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hold one grip through hands battles (same as your dink grip)<\/li>\n<li>On third-shot drops, wait for the ball to start falling<\/li>\n<li>Ready position: tip toward middle, not fully 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>Tanner lists three amateur patterns that stall improvement: swapping grips during a hands battle (then&#8230;<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,6,20],"tags":[198,47,126,199],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-third-shot","category-transition","tag-hands-battle-grip","tag-ready-position","tag-tanner-pickleball","tag-third-shot-drop-timing"],"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\/127","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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/504"}],"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=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}