{"id":1285,"date":"2026-11-06T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:13","slug":"poaches-need-a-forcing-drive-chest-high-body-balls-wont-open-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Poaches Need a Forcing Drive: Chest-High Body Balls Won\u2019t Open the Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Is your poach actually hurting you?\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHUHgQ9Vug0?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 film study shows a poach that looks aggressive but sits on a drive that never forced a reach. Amateurs copy the sprint without the setup.<\/p>\n<p>If the drive is chest-high into the body, the net player isn\u2019t stretched \u2014 wait for a lower or wider ball that creates the opening, then poach.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Poach percentage follows the quality of the drive<\/li>\n<li>Chest-high body drives rarely create a poach window<\/li>\n<li>Force a reach or low contact first<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In practice doubles, only allow a poach after a drive that makes the opponent reach<\/li>\n<li>Call \u201cno window\u201d when the feed is too friendly<\/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 film study shows a poach that looks aggressive but sits on a drive that never forced a reach. Amateurs copy the sprint without the setup.<\/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":[205,388],"tags":[123,1179,617,1063],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doubles","category-offense","tag-briones","tag-doubles","tag-drive","tag-poach"],"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\/1285","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=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/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=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}