{"id":313,"date":"2026-09-28T01:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:53","slug":"handle-the-counters-better-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Handle the counters better! #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Handle the counters better! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wEiC9AFHnB8?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>Richard borrows this from Jack Munro: when a ball comes at your body on the two-handed backhand side, leave the high ones (they&#8217;re usually going out) and meet the rest well in front. Keep the dominant hand loose and let the backhand arm push through, so the block stays low and the opponent can&#8217;t hit hard again. The usual reply is a pop-up or a ball at your chest, which sets up a one-two finish.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=204\">Body balls<\/a>: redirect out front, don&#8217;t panic-swing<\/li>\n<li>Two-hand BH block can stay low and playable<\/li>\n<li>First touch sets up the put-away<\/li>\n<li>Controlled counter &gt; ego rip from jammed position<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner feeds body balls; only soft redirects count<\/li>\n<li>Cue: &#8216;out front, low&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Follow every good redirect with a put-away feed<\/li>\n<li>Film: are you jammed or extending?<\/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 Richard borrows this from Jack Munro: when a ball comes at your body on&#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,"_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":[598,391,21,3],"tags":[319,614,648,165],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counters","category-defense","category-hands","category-kitchen","tag-body-ball","tag-counters","tag-richard","tag-two-handed-backhand"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/02-kitchen-line-through-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/865"}],"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=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}