{"id":191,"date":"2026-09-17T01:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","slug":"heres-where-to-make-contact-on-your-forehand-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s where to make contact on your forehand drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Here\u2019s where to make contact on your forehand drives\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8A6NkC7tu0k?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>Coach Jess (Athena Pickleball) shows <strong>where to make contact on your forehand drives<\/strong>. It\u2019s a quick visual demo, so watch where the paddle meets the ball relative to the body and copy that contact point.<\/p>\n<p>Contact point is one of the biggest drivers of drive consistency. Use the short as a visual reference: pause at contact, note the spot, and build your reps around matching it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Topic: where to make contact on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=302\">forehand drive<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a visual demo \u2014 watch the contact point closely<\/li>\n<li>Pause at contact and note the landmark before you drill it<\/li>\n<li>Match the contact point you see rather than guessing<\/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>Coach Jess (Athena Pickleball) shows where to make contact on your forehand drives. It\u2019s a&#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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[300,301,299,302],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","tag-athena-pickleball","tag-coach-jess","tag-forehand-drive","tag-music-only-captions"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08-forehand-drive-sunlight-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/833"}],"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=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}