{"id":72,"date":"2026-09-14T04:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:42","slug":"never-miss-a-slice-drop-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Never Miss a Slice Drop Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Never Miss a Slice Drop Again! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ORi4u0xwzqs?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>Tanner\u2019s fix for missed slice\/third-shot drops: amateurs chop from an open stance that\u2019s hard to control.<br \/>\nLine the feet to the target so you push with the body, start with the paddle down, and catch with the shoulder \u2014 not high-to-low under the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Action items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Align feet toward the drop target before the swing<\/li>\n<li>Paddle down early; catch with shoulder<\/li>\n<li>Stop the high-to-low <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=157\">chop on thirds<\/a><\/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>Tanner\u2019s fix for missed slice\/third-shot drops: amateurs chop from an open stance that\u2019s hard to&#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":[4,20],"tags":[125,124,14],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drops","category-transition","tag-open-stance","tag-slice-drop","tag-third-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/813"}],"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=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}