Learn How To Hit an Aggressive Drop in 6 Minutes (All 5.0s do it)
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2024
- Having an aggressive 3rd shot drop will allow you to win points faster than you ever have before.🧠 If this shot is hit effectively, your opponents will pop up the next ball giving your partner an easy poach. 🎯💥
Amateur players use the 3rd shot drop as a means of approaching the kitchen line (passively). 🐢
Advanced players use this shot to “strike” first, and be on the offense before their opponents. 🛡️
The 🔑 to this, is to hit a topspin drop LANDING on your opponents side of the kitchen. If they’re able to get it out of the air, it defeats the purpose. 👍 When it lands, the ball will “kick” off your opponents paddle from the topspin, giving your partner an easy poach.
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the ability to topspin several types of shots, volleys, drops, drives has pushed me closer to 4.5 than any other concentrated effort in my journey. great vid.
Thanks for sharing, and yep!
Couldn’t agree more with your comment @postaudio!
Tanner, love your vids! Keep up the good work!
Excellent!! Your examples and comparison to a wave, breaking it down from the wave to the finish, as well as the slow motion was perfect!! This was great!
Thanks Renee!!
Passive drops get attacked EVERYTIME where I play and are useless.
I have been using the aggressive drops for some time.
Need more consistency.
Sometimes hitting a little high.
Hopefully, your instruction will allow for some "fine-tuning".
Since you kindly send out great info Tanner.
Just a side note to include Pickleball in your titles to help with the algos.. 😊
Noted! Great call!!!
This is so helpful Tanner! I recently started practicing more aggressive drops and have struggled with them landing in the net. I now realize my follow throughs have been too short. Can’t wait to drill this today.
Happy to help!
Great video, super informative as always, especially your breakdowns and explaining the rationale! For a couple of months now I’ve been working on my topspin drops and tend to hit them short into the net. It was really helpful to not only see the technique, but also to see what it’s supposed to look like from the other side. I think I’ve been trying too hard to be “perfect” (PTSD from getting my passive drops attacked), and it was really good to see how much margin for error there actually is! Thanks, Tanner!
Thanks for sharing this! I hope you start to connect the dots :)
Revisiting this CZcams lesson, now I am ready to practice aggressive drop shots. So much to learn and improve the game.
You got this!
so far, the best demo of technique I've seen. Can't wait try it
Hope you enjoy it!
This is a great video. I love the slo mo... It helps me understand what you're talking about.💯
Thanks!!
This is the most helpful video for drops I’ve seen. Excellent job. You’ve earned my follow
Thanks Jacob!
Excellent video once again I can't wait to start trying this I've been getting good at drops but I haven't been doing it aggressive enough this is going to be a game changer can't wait thanks brother
You got this!
Will practice on the aggressive drops more. Thanks.
Love it!
Good stuff!! Thanks, Tanner!!
Yeppers!
Thank you for this. It really helps me cause I see my errors here. Now I'll work on the corrections you suggest!
Sweet!!
As a new player instruction like this is awesome. Thanks tanner.
Thanks!!!
Excellent instructional video. Please keep it up. Can you do a clip on judging out balls.
Great suggestion!
Good stuff -- can't wait to try out those tips out.
Have fun!
@@tanner.pickleball Thanks I did... it will definitely take some work as I tried it in a pick-up game (need to practice through drilling) some successes.
Outstanding video as always! This is something I definitely need in my game. I easily can hit drop shots but adding top spin would be a game changer for me...lastly cool shoes!!
Right on!
What a great video. Can’t wait to do this drill
:)
Hitting with topspin has eluded me so far but I feel like I saw something in your slow mo shots that might really help. Thx!
Glad it helped!
Thanks Tanner. Good stuff!
Any time!
Another fantastic video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting tip. I’ve definitely noticed as I’ve gotten better that the passive drop just gets attacked hard almost every time unless you’re absolutely perfect. With 4.5+ players good luck getting to the nvz if you aren’t applying pressure
Good stuff! Exactly!
Yes they salivate when they see it.
Love Tanner's analogy to a "meatball" 😅.
Im great at hitting aggressive drops.....straight into the net....
Aren’t we all hahaha
You are not alone. Sometimes it becomes a kamekaze shot (pop up or short lob). 😂
Literally just thinking the same thing! 😂
Best drop video drop ever! I'm going to try it tomorrow.
Hope you enjoy
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
This is great - can you do a video on how to practice a 3rd shot drop from an aggressive return of serve?
Yes I can!
For real, I’ve got such a hard time if it comes in like a bullet
@@MichaelEverheartt agree! most people are returning the serve with a hard drive! that makes it harder to soft it up
@@vanessasiren7667hit a drip or a drive drop and setup the 5th shot drop instead of they have to hit up on the ball it softens it a lot coming back to you
Hi Tanner, great video. Are you using Continental or eastern for your topspin drops? Thanks.
Eastern on everything!
Thanks!
LETS GOOO! Thank you so much for dropping that!
Good one!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video! Would you say you aim about two feet above the net on your side?
Yes, absolutely
Bro, your vids rock!!
:)
Thanks for this. May I ask what is your grip for this topspin thirdshot drop-drive? I use semi-western grip for serve and drives, and I wonder can I bring the same semi-western grip for this aggressive drop shot.
Semi western is perfect!!
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YESSSS
Great video! - how about doing this with the bh drop? What would be the technique for that
Coming soon!
Thats the one I like, slice drops are the best
@@frankgonzales8340 ya I do slice drops on my bh too, but wanted a more aggro drop
love the shorts but these longer videos are invaluable - keep it up man! always appreciate your insights
Glad you like them!
Three questions:
1. What is your grip pressure?
2. How fast are you swinging (compared to say the swing speed of a dink or a drive)?
3. What type of grip are you using?
5/10
Half speed of a drive
Eastern grip
i naturally like hitting my drops like this...prob. the result of be coming from a table tennis background. i've heard it called "a drop drive". but like Tanner says, it's def hitting w/ more topspin. I just got a 1X 16mm myself...and it's a great paddle for generating spin...making drops like this easier.
Interesting! And absolutely!! Love this paddle :)
Hey tanner, what arm parts are moving in your drop? You say to finish over your shoulder, so do you mean, forearm, shoulder wrist, everything is activated? What specific arm parts? Thanks! Also for the 2 handed backhand topspin drop, is it only wrists or are there other arm parts involved? Thanks😊
forearm and shoulder mostly for this! Wrist is involved but super subtle and controlled. Alot of forearm!
@@tanner.pickleball what about the 2 handed backhand topspin drop? Only wrist or added forearms and shoulder?
It seems to me that the main difference between these two shots is the velocity off your paddle. In the nonaggressive shots you're hitting it with less velocity, floating it higher. In the aggressive drop you're hitting it harder and lower, with more topspin. If you don't hit it harder, with all that topspin and a lower trajectory, it will dive into the net. It feels like a hybrid shot, half way to a topspin drive.
Great way to look at it! Totally agree!!
Question,doesn’t this shot give your opponent (if they’re a good player) the chance to take it out of the air?? Or does the topspin make it difficult to do that? Thx in advance man
Love your videos
Aim more middle or down a sideline and it should drop!!
You are making great videos
Glad you like them!
Very good video. Lots of examples from different angles and no rambling, just straight to the point. Short and sweet. Just curious which state you’re in it looks so tropical there?
Florida!!!
Great video - however the live example around 4:20ish has the person feeding the balls hitting them very softly and multiple feet short of the baseline. I understand the idea is to illustrate the aggressive drop but perhaps a more realistic version? The level of difficulty of these feeds are very low. There's far less worrying about net shots or popping up in these feeds. Seeing the same tutorial but vs returns coming full court aggressively with topspin (and some with slice) that are hitting within a foot and half from baseline and how a higher level player would handle those with an aggressive 3rd could be a lot more informative and realistic perhaps and certainly of interest to me.
I hit really hard serves so this simulates a weak return. The idea of these examples is for you to see the dip on the ball and see how it’s effective… I would not have my partner rip the ball at me so I can barely get it over not getting the point across….
@@tanner.pickleball Fair point. Thanks.
Hey Tanner love the video but your opponent could have taken the aggressive drops out of the air but instead let it bounce. That makes all the difference.
I agree a top spin drop is the best way to go.
This was for example. In actual matches ideally you want them to bounce!
No.mention of the grip, i..e, using a an eastern , semi Western or even a Western.
eastern always!
Can’t they also do a step back 4th shot drive into you as you are crashing up into this?
Not if it is aggressive enough!
The fear is 3rd shot drops and opponent hitting out of the air.
Yep!
What is the best way to avoid?
But I'm not left handed 😂. Great video
Hehehe
The receiver should be taking those deep drops in the air
Yes!
If you're taking that drop in air. Pop-ups, men. And you're done.
Ben Johns says it's better to work on your transition skills than worrying about hitting perfect drops.
Some top pros rarely use topspin drops. J-dub typically drives or slice drops.
Thoughts?
I think this is definitely a skill that most players should have. There is always going to be an exception of two players out of hundreds.
Excellent tips!
at 4:29, 4:40, 4:43 penalty calls for standing on the kitchen line. But you're teaching, not playing. 🙂
Hahaha
I very much appreciate your tips but in your examples at 4:20 aren't really the best imo bc your partner is clearly just giving you the point instead of actually playing it correctly. No way any good player is hitting that directly back to you when the left side of your court is WIDE open
This is called skinny singles…… You only play on half of the court.
Compare it with Zane topspin drop czcams.com/video/7Gs5ke38K-o/video.htmlsi=hntzaIl2RV3QUC8J
Yep
Great tips. Please try to cut down on the upspeak 🙏🏻
Ok sorry