{"id":56,"date":"2026-09-11T01:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:18:38","slug":"fun-points-flick-then-slide-to-backhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Fun points! (Flick then slide to backhand)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Fun points! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRICQTBKQW4?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<p>Richard Pickleball highlights a favorite combo: flick the ball out front, then immediately slide to take the next ball on the backhand so you react instead of guessing. An effective third shot also lets your partner close and apply pressure until opponents dump. The biggest key: after the flick, commit to the BH lane for the counter rather than freezing in place.<\/p>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After a kitchen flick, slide to BH ready for the next ball<\/li>\n<li>Use quality 3rds to create crash\/pressure for your partner<\/li>\n<li>Drill flick \u2192 recover \u2192 BH counter as one sequence<\/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>Richard Pickleball highlights a favorite combo: flick the ball out front, then immediately slide to&#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":[5,3,6],"tags":[40,98,99,100,14],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-kitchen","category-third-shot","tag-backhand-counter","tag-flick","tag-kitchen-attack","tag-richard-pickleball","tag-third-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/469"}],"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=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}