{"id":157,"date":"2026-09-16T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:10","slug":"stop-chopping-your-3rd-shot-drop-do-this-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Stop Chopping Your 3rd Shot Drop! Do this instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop Chopping Your 3rd Shot Drop! Do this instead #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_hX3J9HixU?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>Prince of Pickleball explains that missing the third shot often comes from chopping down with the elbow. Fix it by rocking the shoulder through contact for a smoother path and body-controlled pace instead of a choppy arm path.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow the drop with shoulder rock, not elbow chop<\/li>\n<li>Feed 20 thirds focusing on a smooth shoulder path<\/li>\n<li>Note whether long misses drop when the chop disappears<\/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>Prince of Pickleball explains that missing the third shot often comes from chopping down with&#8230;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[239,230,240,32],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-third-shot","category-transition","tag-elbow-chop","tag-prince-of-pickleball","tag-shoulder-rock","tag-third-shot-drop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/519"}],"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=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}