{"id":291,"date":"2026-09-24T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:20:13","slug":"to-hit-your-serve-in-always-do-this-before-every-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"To Hit Your Serve In Always Do This Before Every Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"To Hit Your Serve In Always Do This Before Every Swing\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ThOxhJb4OrI?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>PickleballPlaybook (Austin Hardy): to hit serves in, lock what you do before every swing \u2014 a consistent routine and mechanical checklist so the motion repeats. Consistency comes from the same start, not from aiming harder after a miss.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Same start every serve<\/li>\n<li>Routine before swing<\/li>\n<li>Mechanics checklist &gt; hope<\/li>\n<li>In % rises with repeatability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a 3\u20135 step pre-serve routine<\/li>\n<li>Use it on every serve for a full session<\/li>\n<li>Miss \u2192 restart routine, don\u2019t rush<\/li>\n<li>Track serve-in % with vs without routine<\/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 PickleballPlaybook (Austin Hardy): to hit serves in, lock what you do before every swing&#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":[7],"tags":[549,550,548,551,454],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serves","tag-austin-hardy","tag-consistent-serve","tag-pickleballplaybook","tag-pre-swing","tag-serve-routine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/617"}],"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=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}