{"id":381,"date":"2026-10-03T03:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:21:09","slug":"your-stance-is-key-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Your stance is key! #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Your stance is key! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nu8oBM6HY80?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>Universal Rackets on stance. The key is your stance: with a super-narrow stance you&#8217;re prone to standing up; widen it a little and you automatically get into your legs, like a squat, and get shorter. His rule of thumb is to drop your center of gravity by about a foot (&#8216;if you&#8217;re 5 feet, be 4 feet; if you&#8217;re 6 feet, be 5&#8217;). He also suggests a visual cue: imagine a ceiling above you.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A super-narrow stance makes you stand up<\/li>\n<li>Widen your stance a little to get into your legs<\/li>\n<li>Drop your center of gravity: play about a foot shorter<\/li>\n<li>Visual cue: imagine a ceiling above your head<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Check your stance width between points; widen if your feet are close together<\/li>\n<li>Hold a slightly wider, lower ready position for a full dink rally<\/li>\n<li>Cue: &#8216;a foot shorter&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Film a game and compare your height at the line with your standing height<\/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 Universal Rackets on stance. The key is your stance: with a super-narrow stance you&#8217;re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"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":[562,567,404],"tags":[721,47,720,76],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentals","category-ready-position","category-stance","tag-center-of-gravity","tag-ready-position","tag-stance","tag-universal-rackets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/09-ready-position-closeup-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}