{"id":159,"date":"2026-09-16T01:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:11","slug":"i-teach-her-how-to-be-aggressive-in-pickleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"I Teach Her How To be Aggressive in Pickleball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"I Teach Her How To be Aggressive in Pickleball \" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PSCf7kcnYsg?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><\/div>\n<p>Cliff\u2019s full uncut approximately 30-minute lesson uses A.C.T. \u2014 Aiming, Consistency (8\/10 standard), and Transition. Work includes backhand drives down-the-line and crosscourt, floating the third-shot drop to the kitchen (long misses from too much power or tension), then combining all three under pressure with one-motion drop-to-drive footwork. Best as a train-along template for a two-person practice session, not a 60-second tip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run the A.C.T. sequence: aim targets \u2192 8\/10 consistency \u2192 combine under pressure<\/li>\n<li>On drops: float it, finish soft, and kill tension<\/li>\n<li>Practice two airborne backhand drives while moving forward<\/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>Cliff\u2019s full uncut approximately 30-minute lesson uses A.C.T. \u2014 Aiming, Consistency (8\/10 standard), and Transition&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"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":[5,2,6,20],"tags":[241,242,175,243,32],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-footwork","category-third-shot","category-transition","tag-a-c-t-system","tag-backhand-drive","tag-cliff-pickleball","tag-live-lesson","tag-third-shot-drop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}