{"id":241,"date":"2026-09-24T01:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:42","slug":"how-to-move-up-to-the-kitchen-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"How To Move Up To The Kitchen THE RIGHT WAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"How To Move Up To The Kitchen THE RIGHT WAY\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7AKAhTRisD8?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<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Universal Rackets long short on moving up to the kitchen the right way. Charging blind through no-man\u2019s-land while the ball is still live gets you punished. The right way is structured: use drops\/approaches that buy time, stay balanced at contact, then take the next step when the ball is actually safe.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kitchen approach is a sequence, not a sprint<\/li>\n<li>Earn the step with a quality ball first<\/li>\n<li>Pause to hit; don\u2019t contact while free-sprinting<\/li>\n<li>Bad third = stay back or reset, don\u2019t charge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Serve \u2192 drop \u2192 one freeze \u2192 then step (repeat 15)<\/li>\n<li>Partner punishes midcourt sprints; rewards pause-and-hit<\/li>\n<li>Film transition; mark every ball hit while running<\/li>\n<li>Cue: \u2018earn it, then move\u2019<\/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>Summary Universal Rackets long short on moving up to the kitchen the right way. Charging&#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":[4,2,3,20],"tags":[419,418,37,76],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drops","category-footwork","category-kitchen","category-transition","tag-approach","tag-move-to-kitchen","tag-transition","tag-universal-rackets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/567"}],"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=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}