{"id":1324,"date":"2026-11-07T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2026-11-07T08:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:20","slug":"stop-chopping-your-slice-swing-forward-through-the-ball-not-straight-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Stop Chopping Your Slice: Swing Forward Through the Ball, Not Straight Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop Chopping Your Pickleball Slice! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CUmogdeNbwU?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>Universal Rackets fixes the common chop that kills slice control.<\/p>\n<p>The slice path is high to low, but mostly forward \u2014 slice through the ball, don\u2019t cut straight down. Backspin comes from an open paddle face getting the back of the ball (grip\/face), not from a steep downward chop. If the slice floats, your path is too steep; flatten and drive through to keep it low and controllable.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Swing forward through the ball \u2014 not straight down<\/li>\n<li>Open face creates backspin; path should stay mostly forward<\/li>\n<li>Floats = too steep; flatten the path to keep the ball low<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow 20 slice swings focusing only on \u201cforward through,\u201d then hit 20 crosscourt slices and track floaters<\/li>\n<li>Film one rally: mark every slice that pops \u2014 check if the path was downward vs through<\/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>Universal Rackets fixes the common chop that kills slice control.<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[441,381],"tags":[71,41,163,288,76],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spin","category-technique","tag-backspin","tag-paddle-face","tag-slice","tag-swing-path","tag-universal-rackets"],"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\/1324","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=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"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=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}