{"id":788,"date":"2026-10-05T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2026-10-05T01:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:41","slug":"stop-these-mindless-habits-in-pickleball-pickleball-pickleballtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Stop These Mindless Habits in Pickleball! #pickleball #pickleballtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop These Mindless Habits in Pickleball! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jh828Sr0480?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>tanner.pickleball calls out three unconscious plays that cost amateurs points. One: on a short return, players sprint in and smack it with no control; drop it into the kitchen instead to get back to neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Two: when you&#8217;re stretched in the mid-court hitting a reset, aim for the middle instead of a sharp cross-court winner. Three: from the baseline, don&#8217;t drive two or three shots in a row; if you drive the first one, look to drop the next.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Short return: drop it, don&#8217;t sprint and smack it<\/li>\n<li>Stretched mid-court reset: aim to the middle<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t drive repeatedly from the baseline<\/li>\n<li>After a drive, look to drop the next ball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice dropping short returns instead of hitting them hard<\/li>\n<li>Aim every stretched reset to the middle for one game<\/li>\n<li>Follow each baseline drive with a drop in practice<\/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.pickleball calls out three autopilot plays that cost amateurs points, from smacking short returns to driving too many balls in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729,"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":[22,200],"tags":[539,807,126],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mindset","category-strategy","tag-bad-habits","tag-mindless-habits","tag-tanner-pickleball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}