{"id":954,"date":"2026-10-08T01:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2026-10-08T01:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:23:44","slug":"create-space-for-kill-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Create Space for Kill Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"You need to Create Space for KILL Shots NOW! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OmJYgXEB0QI?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 explains the difference between a ball you can attack and one you can only neutralize. When it&#8217;s close to your body, you&#8217;re jammed; moving back or away from it puts the ball in front of you and turns it into an offensive shot.<\/p>\n<p>He adds a layer that higher-level players use: they back up off the kitchen line to create space, but they also back up and then dink, because their opponents are good enough to read the speed-up from the step back. Space and distance create offensive chances, as long as the step back doesn&#8217;t give the shot away.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jammed at the body means neutralize, not attack<\/li>\n<li>Move back or away from the ball to make it offensive<\/li>\n<li>Space and distance create attacking chances<\/li>\n<li>Mix in dinks after stepping back so the speed-up isn&#8217;t predictable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Drill: partner feeds at your body, you step back and attack<\/li>\n<li>In games, step back and dink a few times before stepping back and speeding up<\/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 explains the difference between a ball you can attack and one you can only neutralize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"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":[2,3,604,200],"tags":[907,719,908,269,308,76],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-footwork","category-kitchen","category-speed-ups","category-strategy","tag-create-space","tag-disguise","tag-kill-shot","tag-neutralize","tag-speed-up","tag-universal-rackets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}