{"id":1316,"date":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","slug":"vs-slice-at-the-kitchen-take-it-out-of-the-air-dont-panic-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Vs Slice at the Kitchen: Take It Out of the Air \u2014 Don\u2019t Panic-Back Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Opponent Slicing at the Kitchen? Here&amp;apos;s What To Do | Feat. Ben Johns\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GGYJ2zIv-E4?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>Ben Johns (Pickleball360) fixes the panic response to slice at the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Slice that bounces stays low and at your feet with backspin \u2014 a terrible place to neutralize or attack. Reach and take the ball out of the air instead of retreating. You\u2019ll miss less, and many of those floaters become attackable so the slicer pays for the soft ball.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t back up on kitchen slice \u2014 take it out of the air<\/li>\n<li>Bounce + backspin = ball at your feet, weight back, hard to attack<\/li>\n<li>Attackable air balls punish slice players who counted on your retreat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner feeds soft slice dinks; your only rule is \u201cair contact\u201d for 20 reps<\/li>\n<li>If you feel the urge to step back, freeze and reach forward instead \u2014 track how many you still control<\/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>Ben Johns (Pickleball360) fixes the panic response to slice at the kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"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":[598,220,3],"tags":[214,272,61,1262,163,685],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counters","category-dinks","category-kitchen","tag-ben-johns","tag-dink","tag-kitchen","tag-pickleball360","tag-slice","tag-volley"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/07-lunging-volley-dark-background-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","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=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}