{"id":1351,"date":"2026-11-09T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:24:43","slug":"stop-slice-shots-going-long-swing-through-contact-until-the-paddle-tip-points-at-the-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Stop Slice Shots Going Long: Swing Through Contact Until the Paddle Tip Points at the Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop Your Pickleball Slice From Going LONG! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-J7A_xty6Q?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 says if you stop at contact on a slice, the ball goes long. The fix is to swing forward and through until the tip of the paddle is pointing at your target.<\/p>\n<p>If you paused a front-on video of a good slice, you should see the paddle tip traveling forward toward where you want the ball to go. Cutting the swing off at the ball \u2014 so the tip isn\u2019t pointing at the target \u2014 is what sends it out.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Stopping at contact on a slice sends the ball long<\/li>\n<li>Swing forward and through until the paddle tip points at your target<\/li>\n<li>A good finish has the paddle tip traveling forward, not stalling at the ball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow 10 slices and freeze at the finish: the paddle tip should point at the target<\/li>\n<li>Hit 15 crosscourt slices and note whether long misses came from a short finish<\/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 says if you stop at contact on a slice, the ball goes long. The fix is to swing forward and through until the tip of the paddle is pointing at your target.<\/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":[381],"tags":[408,1329,80,163,76],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technique","tag-follow-through","tag-hitting-long","tag-paddle-tip","tag-slice","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\/1351","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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/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=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}