{"id":762,"date":"2026-10-05T01:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:57","slug":"why-getting-up-to-the-kitchen-line-is-important-and-how-staying-backlosing-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Why getting up to the kitchen line is important and how staying back=losing #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Why getting up to the kitchen line is important and how staying back=losing #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W5ATFPa2prQ?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>Limitless Pickleball explains why <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=137\">getting up to the kitchen line<\/a> is so important, and why staying back usually means losing the point.<\/p>\n<p>Treat moving forward as the default goal of every rally, and use your drops and resets as the way to get there.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The team at the kitchen line usually controls the point<\/li>\n<li>Staying back gives your opponents easy angles and attacks<\/li>\n<li>Every early shot should help you move forward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After your return, move all the way to the line every time in practice<\/li>\n<li>Track how many points you finish at the kitchen vs. the baseline<\/li>\n<li>Pair this with drop practice so you have a way to get forward<\/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>Limitless Pickleball explains why getting up to the kitchen line is so important, and why staying back usually means losing the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730,"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":[3,200,20],"tags":[765,11,767,766],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kitchen","category-strategy","category-transition","tag-get-to-the-kitchen","tag-kitchen-line","tag-limitless-pickleball","tag-staying-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}