{"id":998,"date":"2026-10-11T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:25:07","slug":"watch-the-player-off-the-ball-in-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Player Off the Ball in Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Check this out! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7nwwA5Mj8Lw?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>Richard Pickleball uses a pro point to show what to watch when high-level players compete: how they transition. A good transition game is what gets a team to the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the partner who isn&#8217;t hitting. Their positioning and movement help the team move forward together, so transition isn&#8217;t just about the player striking the ball.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Transition is a team job<\/li>\n<li>The player off the ball sets up the move forward<\/li>\n<li>Study pros by watching the non-hitter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rewatch a pro point and track only the player off the ball<\/li>\n<li>In practice, move up with your partner on every drop, side by side<\/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>Richard Pickleball uses a pro point to show what to watch when high-level players compete: how they transition. A good transition game is what gets a team to the kitchen.<\/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":[2,200,20],"tags":[979,978,980,100,37],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-footwork","category-strategy","category-transition","tag-moving-as-a-team","tag-partner-movement","tag-pro-analysis","tag-richard-pickleball","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/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=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}