{"id":757,"date":"2026-10-05T01:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:57","slug":"forehand-volley-set-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Forehand Volley Set Up 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Forehand Volley Set Up 2\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9HQ-kDg4P4?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>All Things Pickleball shows how better players manufacture a forehand put-away instead of waiting for a pop-up. When you get an attackable dink, play an aggressive dink into one quadrant, then follow with another dink to the middle, rolling it toward your opponent&#8217;s inside foot.<\/p>\n<p>That pushes your opponent back. The moment you see them retreat, move up, <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=267\">hug the kitchen line<\/a> and get set, so you&#8217;re balanced and ready to rip the forehand volley.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Better players create the pop-up instead of waiting for it<\/li>\n<li>Start with an aggressive dink to one quadrant, then dink to the middle toward the inside foot<\/li>\n<li>Your opponent backing up is your cue to move in<\/li>\n<li>Hug the line and be set before you finish with the forehand volley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Run the two-dink pattern with your partner for 10 reps<\/li>\n<li>Watch your opponent&#8217;s feet after the second dink and step in when they retreat<\/li>\n<li>Only finish once you&#8217;re set at the line, not on the run<\/li>\n<li>Send it to your doubles partner so you can practice it together<\/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>All Things Pickleball shows how better players manufacture a forehand put-away instead of waiting for a pop-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"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":[373,220,3],"tags":[715,337,755,698,756],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attacks","category-dinks","category-kitchen","tag-forehand-volley","tag-inside-foot","tag-put-away","tag-roll-dink","tag-setup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}