{"id":55,"date":"2026-07-30T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/2026\/07\/30\/why-your-slide-stops-three-inches-short\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:26:11","slug":"why-your-slide-stops-three-inches-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/2026\/07\/30\/why-your-slide-stops-three-inches-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your slide stops three inches short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch any club player slide on clay and you will see the same thing: the outside foot lands, the knee locks, and the slide stops dead about three inches short of the ball. The shot that follows is a reach rather than a stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fix is not in the feet. It is in deciding to slide one step earlier, which means reading the ball&#8217;s depth rather than its direction. We drill it with a cone placed where the slide should begin, not where it should end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Give it a fortnight of squad sessions and the change shows up in the footage before it shows up in the scoreline. Players usually notice it first as less soreness the day after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most club players brake with the outside foot instead of riding through the shot. Here is the drill that fixes it in a fortnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}