{"id":83,"date":"2026-09-14T04:53:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:18:46","slug":"dont-hit-every-ball-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Hit Every Ball Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Don&amp;apos;t Hit Every Ball Hard\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TwuYCTXgr28?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<p>If you hit hard a lot and miss a lot, try not hitting as hard so accuracy returns.<br \/>\nSimple, but it often feels harder than another \u201csecret\u201d tip.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On miss streaks, cut pace before changing mechanics<\/li>\n<li>Trade 10% pace for make-%<\/li>\n<li>Track unforced errors vs winners for one session<\/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>If you hit hard a lot and miss a lot, try not hitting as hard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732,"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":[5],"tags":[137,136,62],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","tag-accuracy","tag-pace-control","tag-thatpickleballguy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}