{"id":322,"date":"2026-09-28T01:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:20:32","slug":"never-pop-ups-the-ball-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Never Pop-Ups the ball anymore&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Never Pop-Ups the ball anymore....\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9_O2HyIR3Y?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>Cliff Pickleball&#8217;s clip shows a target-based dink drill. The feeder aims at spots that bounce at your feet, forcing a decision on every ball: take it out of the air, or back up and let it bounce into a dink. Letting those foot-level balls bounce while standing still is what causes pop-ups, so the drill trains both movement and decision-making together.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Balls bouncing at your feet are pop-up traps<\/li>\n<li>Decide early: volley it, or back up and dink it<\/li>\n<li>Target placement in drills creates real decisions<\/li>\n<li>Movement and decision-making are trained together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner dinks to cones placed near your feet<\/li>\n<li>Call &#8216;air&#8217; or &#8216;bounce&#8217; before each contact<\/li>\n<li>Pop-up = lose the point in the drill<\/li>\n<li>Film: are you standing still on foot-level balls?<\/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 Cliff Pickleball&#8217;s clip shows a target-based dink drill. The feeder aims at spots that&#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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,3,18,19],"tags":[175,629,638,28],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-resets","category-soft-game","tag-cliff-pickleball","tag-kitchen-errors","tag-pop-ups-2","tag-soft-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/648"}],"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=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}