{"id":1320,"date":"2026-11-06T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:06","slug":"speed-ups-arent-kill-shots-flat-angle-50-70-setup-the-putaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Speed-Ups Aren\u2019t Kill Shots: Flat Angle, 50\u201370%, Setup the Putaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop Trying to Hit Your Speedup Hard\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4cb0dMEbdVM?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>Aylex Pickleball with Coach Eugene Mak reframes the speed-up as a setup, not a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Ditch the low-to-high \u201chit it hard\u201d swing for a flatter horizontal path that stays low. Aim placement on the body and dial pace to about 50\u201370% (vary 30\u201350) so you catch them off guard and earn the putaway \u2014 you\u2019re not Anna Leigh Waters swinging at 100.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Speed-up = setup shot, not the point-ender<\/li>\n<li>Flatter horizontal path beats low-to-high muscle<\/li>\n<li>Body placement + 50\u201370% pace (vary); save 100% for the rare elite case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In kitchen hands drills, score only if your speed-up sets up a putaway \u2014 winners off the first ball don\u2019t count<\/li>\n<li>Call \u201c30 \/ 50 \/ 70\u201d before each speed-up for one game to feel the range<\/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>Aylex Pickleball with Coach Eugene Mak reframes the speed-up as a setup, not a winner.<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[598,3,200],"tags":[921,1371,504,61,506,658],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counters","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-aylex","tag-eugene-mak","tag-hands","tag-kitchen","tag-placement","tag-speed-up-2"],"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\/1320","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=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"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=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}