{"id":785,"date":"2026-10-05T01:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2026-10-05T01:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:40","slug":"here-is-where-players-go-wrong-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Here is where PLAYERS GO WRONG! #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Here is where PLAYERS GO WRONG! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3jfA9GvjUgk?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>Universal Rackets shows where players go wrong: they aim for the lines and miss long or wide. Instead, aim for a target that gives you the most margin for error.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple reminder that safe targets win more points than line-painters.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aiming at lines causes long and wide misses<\/li>\n<li>Choose targets with margin<\/li>\n<li>Safe targets still pressure opponents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Place a target a few feet inside the lines<\/li>\n<li>Hit 20 balls at it<\/li>\n<li>Count misses vs. aiming at lines<\/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>Universal Rackets shows where players go wrong: they aim for the lines and miss long or wide. Instead, aim for a target that gives you the most margin for error.<\/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":[200,381],"tags":[802,801,588,76],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy","category-technique","tag-aiming","tag-margin-for-error","tag-targets","tag-universal-rackets"],"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\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"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=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}