{"id":770,"date":"2026-10-05T01:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:59","slug":"hitting-a-drop-shot-on-front-foot-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Hitting a drop shot on front foot myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Hitting a drop shot on front foot myth\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s2kdkKWTPac?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 pushes back on a common coaching line: that a <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=319\">drop shot<\/a> must be hit on your front foot. Using pro footage, including Anna Leigh Waters and Rachel Warnell, he shows drops hit off the back foot, from the side, and from the front.<\/p>\n<p>The real goal isn&#8217;t which foot you land on. It&#8217;s hitting the drop with your momentum moving forward.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Front-foot drops are only sometimes true<\/li>\n<li>Pros drop accurately off the back foot too<\/li>\n<li>Aim for forward momentum, not a specific foot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop forcing a front-foot landing on every drop<\/li>\n<li>Practice drops while moving forward through the shot<\/li>\n<li>Film your drops to see if your weight is moving 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>All Things Pickleball pushes back on a common coaching line: that a drop shot must be hit on your front foot.<\/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,"_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":[4,2,6],"tags":[12,779,780,32],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drops","category-footwork","category-third-shot","tag-footwork","tag-front-foot-myth","tag-momentum","tag-third-shot-drop"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/04-overhead-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/898"}],"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=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}