{"id":163,"date":"2026-09-16T01:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","slug":"how-to-stay-focused-in-pickleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"How to Stay Focused in Pickleball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"How to Stay Focused in Pickleball\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eBn8wUuhSeU?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>Pickleball Daily: when opponents move a lot, players watch the movement instead of the ball and lose contact quality. Cue is the simple saying &#8220;see ball, hit ball&#8221; \u2014 eyes on the ball through paddle contact, not on the dancer across the net.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between points, <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=341\">pick one focus<\/a>: ball only<\/li>\n<li>On wide movement, deliberately refuse to track the body<\/li>\n<li>Film eyes\/head on contact if possible<\/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>Pickleball Daily: when opponents move a lot, players watch the movement instead of the ball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728,"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":[3,201],"tags":[83,247,249,248],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kitchen","category-mental","tag-contact","tag-focus","tag-pickleball-daily","tag-see-ball-hit-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}