{"id":1299,"date":"2026-11-06T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:23","slug":"faster-hands-tip-up-hinge-ready-not-paddle-dead-at-your-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Faster Hands: Tip Up, Hinge Ready \u2014 Not Paddle Dead at Your Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"How to Have Faster Hands\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LYLrhTq4VLc?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>Ty Butson argues most \u201cslow hands\u201d are paddle-position problems. A tip hanging down forces an extra hinge-up before you can counter.<\/p>\n<p>Keep the paddle head up with a relaxed hinge so you\u2019re already in the counter window.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Paddle tip up at the kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Relaxed hinge beats a tense high guard<\/li>\n<li>Dead tip at your side costs a full beat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kitchen ready-check: tip up before every feed for 5 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Partner random drives \u2014 no counter allowed if tip started down<\/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>Ty Butson argues most \u201cslow hands\u201d are paddle-position problems. A tip hanging down forces an extra hinge-up before you can counter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729,"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":[21,3,567],"tags":[504,61,47,591],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-ready-position","tag-hands","tag-kitchen","tag-ready-position","tag-ty-butson"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-doubles-at-the-net-over-shoulder-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","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=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}