{"id":357,"date":"2026-10-03T03:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:20:53","slug":"flip-the-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Flip the script!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Flip the script!\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utVAI5ZNbRk?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>Jilly B short on the &#8220;modern kitchen&#8221;: stop playing glued to the NVZ line like it&#8217;s 2024 and instead hold a smarter spot a few feet back. She lists four benefits \u2014 better attacks, stronger counters, less lobbable, and unattackable 4ths.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Modern kitchen play is off-the-line positioning, not toes on the tape<\/li>\n<li>A few feet back improves attacks and counters<\/li>\n<li>Off-line stance reduces lob vulnerability<\/li>\n<li>4ths become harder to attack when you&#8217;re not glued forward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark a line ~2\u20133 feet behind NVZ; play a game from there<\/li>\n<li>In drills, forbid toes-on-line for one full set<\/li>\n<li>Track: more counters won vs more balls attacked behind you?<\/li>\n<li>Watch the full linked video for the four-benefit walkthrough<\/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 short on the &#8220;modern kitchen&#8221;: stop playing glued to the NVZ line&#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":[2,3,200,20],"tags":[676,614,527,666,675],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-footwork","category-kitchen","category-strategy","category-transition","tag-attacks","tag-counters","tag-jilly-b","tag-modern-kitchen","tag-nvz-positioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/681"}],"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=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}