{"id":284,"date":"2026-09-24T01:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:20:08","slug":"tall-person-syndrome-the-bad-pickleball-habits-killing-your-game-%f0%9f%8f%93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tall Person Syndrome&#8221;: The Bad Pickleball Habits Killing Your Game &#x1f3d3;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"&quot;Tall Person Syndrome&quot;: The Bad Pickleball Habits Killing Your Game \ud83c\udfd3\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OqtlUj8YQaw?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>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Jilly B Pickleball (with the Pickleball Chiropractor) on \u2018Tall Person Syndrome\u2019: height helps until lazy footwork, standing too upright, lunging instead of stepping, and broken posture at the kitchen quietly wreck the game. Use length with athletic posture and real footwork \u2014 don\u2019t reach for everything.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Upright laziness costs reach quality<\/li>\n<li>Step; don\u2019t only lunge<\/li>\n<li>Hold posture at kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Height amplifies bad habits too<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Film posture on dinks side-on<\/li>\n<li>Lunge-ban drill: must step to ball<\/li>\n<li>Athletic bend cue every ready position<\/li>\n<li>One session with chiro\/coach posture checks if available<\/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 Jilly B Pickleball (with the Pickleball Chiropractor) on \u2018Tall Person Syndrome\u2019: height helps until&#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":[2,3,200],"tags":[530,527,529,528,526],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-footwork","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-footwork-for-tall-players","tag-jilly-b","tag-lunging","tag-posture","tag-tall-person-syndrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/610"}],"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=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}