{"id":139,"date":"2026-09-16T01:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:05","slug":"start-with-your-paddle-up-so-you-have-less-distance-to-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Start with Your Paddle Up So You Have Less Distance to Travel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Start with Your Paddle Up So You Have Less Distance to Travel.\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F3bt_yam3Uo?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<p>If the paddle starts low, you are already late. Koszuta&#8217;s three cues: start paddle up, keep the path short, move straight to the ball \u2014 less travel equals more reaction time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ready position check: tip\/chest height before every point<\/li>\n<li>Cue &#8220;short path&#8221; on hands battles<\/li>\n<li>Partner feedback if paddle dips between balls<\/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>If the paddle starts low, you are already late. Koszuta&#8217;s three cues: start paddle up,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,3],"tags":[61,151,219,47,62],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-footwork","category-hands","category-kitchen","tag-kitchen","tag-paddle-up","tag-reaction-time","tag-ready-position","tag-thatpickleballguy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}