{"id":153,"date":"2026-09-16T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:45","slug":"stop-bending-your-waist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Stop bending your waist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop bending your waist! #pickelball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G7W_fkxwumE?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>On resets, bending at the waist opens the paddle face. <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=394\">Get into the legs<\/a> instead so both paddle and body absorb pace and the ball stays low \u2014 even a slight knee bend beats folding at the hips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cue \u201clegs, not waist\u201d on every reset<\/li>\n<li>Film side-on: check for hip hinge vs knee bend<\/li>\n<li>Partner soft drives; practice absorbing with legs<\/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>On resets, bending at the waist opens the paddle face. Get into the legs instead&#8230;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[117,237,41,236,76],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-footwork","category-kitchen","tag-absorb-pace","tag-legs-not-waist","tag-paddle-face","tag-reset-technique","tag-universal-rackets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/828"}],"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=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}