{"id":131,"date":"2026-09-15T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:02","slug":"understand-the-hand-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Understand the hand signals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Understand the hand signals! #pickleball #propickleball\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TnTQG5fQGI?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>Richard Pickleball demystifies common doubles hand signals behind the back: fist = stay on current sides; peace\/fake = pretend switch to bait a body drive for an easy counter; open hand = real switch for the next point.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing (and agreeing on) the code with your partner turns stacking and poaching into coordinated pressure instead of confusion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agree fist \/ fake \/ switch signals with your regular partner<\/li>\n<li>Use a fake after showing real switches a few times<\/li>\n<li>Practice calling stay vs switch before the return<\/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>Richard Pickleball demystifies common doubles hand signals behind the back: fist = stay on current&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731,"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":[205,200],"tags":[210,208,206,207,209],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doubles","category-strategy","tag-doubles-strategy","tag-fake","tag-hand-signals","tag-stay","tag-switch"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/04-overhead-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","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=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}