{"id":373,"date":"2026-10-03T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:54","slug":"heres-why-you-keep-missing-your-drives-long-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why You Keep Missing Your Drives Long #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Here\u2019s Why You Keep Missing Your Drives Long #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hPp4k9DAbRw?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>The Prince of Pickleball short breaks down the most common reasons drives miss long. The three causes: (1) not getting to the ball and setting the feet, so you lose balance through contact; (2) lifting the head early, which sends the ball long; (3) swinging too hard \u2014 aim closer to ~65% power for a bounce you can manage.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Set your feet before the drive \u2014 off-balance contact sails long<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=386\">Keep the head down<\/a> through contact so the ball doesn&#8217;t climb<\/li>\n<li>Overhitting is the biggest long-miss habit; dial pace toward ~65%<\/li>\n<li>Controllable bounce beats a max-effort miss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Feed yourself mid-court drives and freeze until feet are set before swinging<\/li>\n<li>Film 10 drives: count how many you look up early<\/li>\n<li>One drill block at 65% pace only \u2014 no &#8216;kill&#8217; swings<\/li>\n<li>Cue word: plant \u2192 head down \u2192 65%<\/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 The Prince of Pickleball short breaks down the most common reasons drives miss long&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"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":[5,2,381],"tags":[533,617,704,703,136,230],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-footwork","category-technique","tag-balance","tag-drive","tag-head-down","tag-long-miss","tag-pace-control","tag-prince-of-pickleball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}