{"id":1331,"date":"2026-11-07T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2026-11-07T08:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:15:26","slug":"stop-netting-balls-swing-low-to-high-tip-down-loose-grip-brush-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Stop Netting Balls: Swing Low to High \u2014 Tip Down, Loose Grip, Brush Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"11 Tips So The Net Stops Taking Your Points #Shorts\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgR4oDsYIsY?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 packs multiple cues for getting the ball up and over instead of into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Swing low to high: point the tip down (or shine the butt cap at the ball), brush up the back of the ball with a loose grip, and exaggerate a high follow-through. Think three steps \u2014 back, drop, finish \u2014 like the curve of a \u201cC,\u201d not a two-step back-and-forward chop that drives the ball down.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Low-to-high path: tip down \/ butt cap toward ball<\/li>\n<li>Loose grip + brush less of the ball upward<\/li>\n<li>Three-count swing: back \u2192 drop \u2192 high finish (the C curve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit 30 soft feeds with only \u201ctip down + finish over shoulder\u201d as the cue<\/li>\n<li>When you net one in a game, reset with a shadow low-to-high before the next point<\/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 packs multiple cues for getting the ball up and over instead of into the net.<\/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":[560,381],"tags":[1195,880,287,289,76],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consistency","category-technique","tag-brush","tag-follow-through-2","tag-low-to-high","tag-net-errors","tag-universal-rackets"],"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\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/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=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}