Thanks for an excellent lesson. Like most intermediate (3.5) players I don't spend enough time drilling. This at least gives me a few fun ideas on how to develop some important skills that might just raise my game to a 4.0. We'll see.
If you want to get to 5.0, the most critical lesson here is actually not in the video. It's in the description... "I follow this schedule 4 days a week for an hour and a half each day!" Still, good drills.
I'm sure the drilling helped. Also being young and blessed with excellent eye/hand coordination and quick reflexes had something to do with it. As a tennis instructor once said " I can't put in what God left out".
Those are a great series of drills that reflect the skills you really need to move up in the quality of play. The transition zone reset is the skill that keeps you in the game when you are under attack and is the single biggest weakness most of us 3.5 players have to work hard on.
@@tanner.pickleball For the reset game, can you share more about how the person at the net is playing? How cooperative are they trying to be? When the other player has a great reset, the kind where the net player would normally concede the kitchen and just dink it back, how do they play that ball during this drill (since the person in the NVZ is going to stay there)?
Great question, sorry I should have clarified. The at the net person should be OVERLY aggressive. Really seeing what they can and cannot do at the net. So when it comes to game time, they know what shots are makeable and what are not. @@dound07
Good stuff. One question though - I’ve been told elsewhere that shallow returns are good drive opportunities (due to reduced reaction time). But in that case I would be driving from the same area of the court that you say not to because they can hit your feet. Could you clarify this? Is it okay to drive on the 3rd but not so much on the 5th or other transition shots?
I watched a bunch of people playing and I'm pretty sure I'm a 5 right now. Day two. What a silly game, I'd rather play handball in Brooklyn or tennis again or racquetball. When 80 year olds are playing a sport, that's when you know it's easy. That's real shit right there. Like fat dudes bowling. Ha! I even bought a Gamma 505. Thing feels like a toy. And I call the inner section, "fire," bc it's as gimmicky as calling it The Kitchen. SMH.
I have been playing and watching videos for a month. Your content is invaluable!!! You go straight to the point and provide too much info in both mental and physical dimensions of the game. I hope your dream of becoming a pro player comes to reality.
i like making the 7-11 even harder by requiring the baseline payer to wait until after their 2nd return to move in all they way. this gives the back player more practice resetting before they're at the NVL.
I don't get it. I just started playing, and everyone is annoying. I just want to play for fun, I was a professional athlete 30 years ago, I'm not fond of competing against a bunch of other 50 year Olds now. Pipe down and hit the wiffleball back, Bill. Thanks.
There’s plenty of people who want to play just for fun and not get better. But a lot of people enjoy growing in their skill level, just like you did 30 years ago. But now that you’re done everyone else should be too? What a crazy thought. Just play the game and enjoy it, don’t hate on people who enjoy getting better.
How much time are you now drilling pickleball? You are a solid 5.0 player and would like to see what type of time it is required to get to your level. It will be different for everyone but nice to know a range. How many drilling session per week, how many hours etc….
Great drills. We'll be trying the speed up drill and the reset drill. But I have to say your voice and cadence is EXACTLY like Reece's in Malcom in the Middle. Too funny.
Nice drills but very "nice" to drill with someone that can't match you in most all rallies. Not very effective to improve if there is a huge delta between drill partners. I do love the drills on letting out balls go which is a common issue for most players trying to improve.
As a recently certified instructor I have grown to like more drills with some type of scoring to give you game conditions of some sort and to gauge just how well you are doing. You are doing that.@@tanner.pickleball
I would say sign up for either a 3.0 or 3.5 local tournament if you’ve been playing under 6 months. If you’re not an intermediate player already you will get smoked at 4.0
If you have a really powerful and accurate drive I disagree that you should never drive from the mid court when your opponents are at the kitchen. If you can direct it low and at their backhand you can often get them to mis-hit it.
Let's take a concrete example, Elite Pickleball in Houston TX a pretty good size club, located in an affluent part of a very large city. According to DUPR web site, as of today, out of 236 registered members there are two 6.x rated, zero 5.x rated, and seven 4.5+ rated. We are talking a few percent here. I usually play in the 50+ age group and pretty sure among players in this group none of them will ever get to 5.0. Personally, I know I'll never get to 5.0 in PB, just like I'll never get to 5.0 in tennis or 2000 in table tennis, or run under 8 minutes/mile. Yes, it is that hard and it gets exponentially harder when you get older.
Hmmm, I would disagree. I used to think this, until I saw higher level players. You must be able to capitalize on opportunity when it presents itself. If you are endlessly receiving dead passive dinks, it would be a must to speed them up.
Some decent drills but your transition drill aka 7/11 game is flawed. You have cutie pie feeding you a cupcake starter ball while you are at the baseline and actually hitting a third shot drop not a transition shot. Flawed because you easily made your way to the kitchen without hitting so much as one ball in the transition area.
Agreed. Tyson has a better progression drill / game where 1 player starts at the kitchen and 1 at the baseline. 3 balls must be hit "cooperatively" before the point is live. Then the baseline player must try to make his way through the transition zone to the kitchen. Either player can win a point by winning the rally. The transition player can win a bonus point by successfully hitting an in ball after establishing themself at the kitchen. The drill where you just stay camped in the transition zone the whole time is actually better for ingraining the skills required to improve resets.
Putting these to use for sure! Drilling can be boring without having some competitive structure. Thank you!!
Glad you like them!
Thanks for an excellent lesson. Like most intermediate (3.5) players I don't spend enough time drilling. This at least gives me a few fun ideas on how to develop some important skills that might just raise my game to a 4.0. We'll see.
Glad it was helpful!
If you want to get to 5.0, the most critical lesson here is actually not in the video. It's in the description... "I follow this schedule 4 days a week for an hour and a half each day!" Still, good drills.
Great input! Totally agree!
Totally agree but this was the best drill video I’ve watched
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Great set of drills. Going to send this video to my male and female playing partners. Thanks
Love it!
Man got lucky 50 times
Lmaooo
Soooooo freakin helpful! Tons of detail and insight-thanks man!
:)
I'm sure the drilling helped. Also being young and blessed with excellent eye/hand coordination and quick reflexes had something to do with it. As a tennis instructor once said " I can't put in what God left out".
I love that saying!
So good! Thanks! Simple and effective drills, exactly what i have been looking for but couldn’t find in concise and fun form presented by you, guys
Yep! That is what my channel is all about!
Very informative. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Those are a great series of drills that reflect the skills you really need to move up in the quality of play. The transition zone reset is the skill that keeps you in the game when you are under attack and is the single biggest weakness most of us 3.5 players have to work hard on.
Exactly! Thank you brother!
@@tanner.pickleball For the reset game, can you share more about how the person at the net is playing? How cooperative are they trying to be? When the other player has a great reset, the kind where the net player would normally concede the kitchen and just dink it back, how do they play that ball during this drill (since the person in the NVZ is going to stay there)?
Great question, sorry I should have clarified. The at the net person should be OVERLY aggressive. Really seeing what they can and cannot do at the net. So when it comes to game time, they know what shots are makeable and what are not. @@dound07
@@tanner.pickleballThank you!
Excellent drills
Glad you like them!
Awesooooooome content!!! 💯
Thanks so much brother!
Great drills! Loved this.
Glad you like them!
Just want to say you have one of the best pickleball channels. 👍
Thank you so much!
Thanks!
WOOOO!! A superchat! Thank you SO MUCH Rick! That means the world. I'm so glad you found this video beneficial!
@@tanner.pickleball You really meet your intent of ‘straight to the point with no fluff’ in your videos. Good job, keep going!
Love that, that you again brother! Many more on the way :)@@rickflores2525
Good stuff. One question though - I’ve been told elsewhere that shallow returns are good drive opportunities (due to reduced reaction time). But in that case I would be driving from the same area of the court that you say not to because they can hit your feet. Could you clarify this? Is it okay to drive on the 3rd but not so much on the 5th or other transition shots?
Driving 3rd is good, usually never on 5ths!
Great video, great drills, great explanation, great edit... please keep them coming. Thank you
You got it!
I watched a bunch of people playing and I'm pretty sure I'm a 5 right now. Day two. What a silly game, I'd rather play handball in Brooklyn or tennis again or racquetball. When 80 year olds are playing a sport, that's when you know it's easy. That's real shit right there. Like fat dudes bowling. Ha! I even bought a Gamma 505. Thing feels like a toy. And I call the inner section, "fire," bc it's as gimmicky as calling it The Kitchen. SMH.
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I have been playing and watching videos for a month. Your content is invaluable!!! You go straight to the point and provide too much info in both mental and physical dimensions of the game. I hope your dream of becoming a pro player comes to reality.
So kind of you, thanks!
i like making the 7-11 even harder by requiring the baseline payer to wait until after their 2nd return to move in all they way. this gives the back player more practice resetting before they're at the NVL.
Fantastic idea! I will certainly be incorporating this :)
My favorite drill is to never drill. 4.5 for life!!!!!!
Haha, to each their own!
Tanner always has babes in his videos and that accounts for why 75% of his subscribers are here 😂
Hahahahaah
Nice to see a leftie Player.
Lefties UNITE!
I don't get it. I just started playing, and everyone is annoying. I just want to play for fun, I was a professional athlete 30 years ago, I'm not fond of competing against a bunch of other 50 year Olds now. Pipe down and hit the wiffleball back, Bill. Thanks.
Ok
100% agree. Lots of dickheads have gotten into the sport recently. Honestly wasn't this bad even a year ago
There’s plenty of people who want to play just for fun and not get better. But a lot of people enjoy growing in their skill level, just like you did 30 years ago. But now that you’re done everyone else should be too? What a crazy thought. Just play the game and enjoy it, don’t hate on people who enjoy getting better.
Could you elaborate on how much you dedicated your time into tennis and for how many months or years? If you had a tennis background or not?
I only played tennis for 3 years in highschool! I am dedicating a BUNCH of time to pickleball now.
How much time are you now drilling pickleball? You are a solid 5.0 player and would like to see what type of time it is required to get to your level. It will be different for everyone but nice to know a range.
How many drilling session per week, how many hours etc….
Great content - easy to understand instructions! Thank you!👍👍
Thank you!
Stop getting lucky too many times :). Great content that shows advanced skills! Love it!
Thanks so much don!
Great drills! Thanks!
:)
I love competitive drills, they were the only ones I could put efffort into when I played soccer as a kid, so I got a lot more out of them.
Love that, Great!
This is exactly the video instruction that I need to bring me to 4.5 and 5.0. Thanks.
My pleasure!!
Another great vid. Tanner keep up the great work. I do half of these but plan to add the rest into my drills.
Perfect! Love it!
Great drills. We'll be trying the speed up drill and the reset drill. But I have to say your voice and cadence is EXACTLY like Reece's in Malcom in the Middle. Too funny.
Hahah! That is too funny!!!
Where are those courts? In Seattle, it is very difficult to drill. Too many players and not enough courts!
Same here.. this is Flordia!!
Surprisingly, good drills. You explained them well.
Thank you I’m so glad you found them useful.
I love the reset drill being able to score points only as the resetter. So smart!
Yep!!
Another Selkirk shill
:)
Excellent drills to improve the game. Subscribed!
Thank you very much!!
Suppose this shows how easy this activity is?😅
haha! Nice one!
Nice drills
Thanks 👍
👍
:)
Great drills
:)
Great video with great practice ideas, thx.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Looks fun and creative. Next time wear weighted gloves or ankle straps
hehehe
Love ❤️ your training!
:)
Nice drills but very "nice" to drill with someone that can't match you in most all rallies. Not very effective to improve if there is a huge delta between drill partners. I do love the drills on letting out balls go which is a common issue for most players trying to improve.
Yes I agree! Drill with someone your own skill level or better for sure!
As a recently certified instructor I have grown to like more drills with some type of scoring to give you game conditions of some sort and to gauge just how well you are doing. You are doing that.@@tanner.pickleball
Great drills. I’m going to try these with my partner this weekend (and every weekend😂)
Hahaha!
I'm new to pickleball but I'm pretty good. How fo I know my rating?
Sign up for a tournament at the 4.0 level to determine where you are at!
I would say sign up for either a 3.0 or 3.5 local tournament if you’ve been playing under 6 months. If you’re not an intermediate player already you will get smoked at 4.0
Big difference between men and women at 5.0 and higher level in Pickleball.
For sure!
Awesome Video, Tanner! Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Great video, thanks.
You are welcome!
Consider yourself blessed if you have a practice partner. Everyone around me just wants to play killer games. 😕
I totally get that.. that is why I moved to Delray Florida!! Haha!
THANKS!
:)
Do you have a list of all these drills? I wanna see more videos and demos of these drills
My next video is similar to this one!
Great content. subscribed. Rachel is a beast.
Thanks for the sub!
5 from 4.5??
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@@tanner.pickleball to get to a 5 from what level previously.. did u go from 4.5 to a 5
Or a 4 to a 5 in 90 days
No thanks, I will stick to Tennis. That sound of plastic ball with holes is just annoying!
hehehe
Put the volume at zero. Should fix the plastic ball sound problem 😂
why are you watching this video you dum dum? 🤪
Are you saying you don't need a drive for 5.0 ???
Not necessarily. It helps though
thank you. very usefull
My pleasure :)
Did you play tennis before
Yes I did! I played in high school for only 3 years.
Great stuff!!
Glad you think so!
He got “Lucky” every round
haha!
90 with zero tennis or racquet sport experience?
I played tennis!
Going to try these out! Great drills!
Thanks Kate!
I don't recall- does anyone remember if she got any points?
Shes a beast!
None
Truly awesome video. Straight to the point. No flashiness. No fluff. I’ll be drilling all these next time I’m on the court.
Thank you!!
And what is considered a dead dink?
I have videos on this all over my channel! A non aggressive dink you can attack!
5.0 picking on a 2.0 :*(
Hahaha
I got to 5.0 just by being less than 70 years old because this was made for old people lol
Loo
If you have a really powerful and accurate drive I disagree that you should never drive from the mid court when your opponents are at the kitchen. If you can direct it low and at their backhand you can often get them to mis-hit it.
Good call!
I feel like I just don’t need these drills lol
Lol
Because you need something easier?haha these are drills pros are still using to get warmed up
Probably 90% of all players will never get to 5.0 in their lifetime. Maybe came from 4.9 to 5.0 in 90 days?
Hmmm it’s not as hard as you think!
Let's take a concrete example, Elite Pickleball in Houston TX a pretty good size club, located in an affluent part of a very large city. According to DUPR web site, as of today, out of 236 registered members there are two 6.x rated, zero 5.x rated, and seven 4.5+ rated. We are talking a few percent here. I usually play in the 50+ age group and pretty sure among players in this group none of them will ever get to 5.0. Personally, I know I'll never get to 5.0 in PB, just like I'll never get to 5.0 in tennis or 2000 in table tennis, or run under 8 minutes/mile. Yes, it is that hard and it gets exponentially harder when you get older.
I'm getting lucky = I'm destroying
haha
Love this. One suggestion: use a name for your drill partner rather than "she" and "her".
Ahh ok that helps!
Now become a 5.0 tennis player in 90 days.
Ok
Speed up off the bounce is not recommended at 5.0+. Speed ups off the air is the preferred play.
Hmmm, I would disagree. I used to think this, until I saw higher level players. You must be able to capitalize on opportunity when it presents itself. If you are endlessly receiving dead passive dinks, it would be a must to speed them up.
@@tanner.pickleballHow often would you receive dead dinks at 5.0+?
Mostly every time? That's the point of drinking, giving dead dinks they cant put pressure on you with😅
Sure you did. Did you also become fluent in a foreign language in 30 days?
Why are you upset :)
Some decent drills but your transition drill aka 7/11 game is flawed. You have cutie pie feeding you a cupcake starter ball while you are at the baseline and actually hitting a third shot drop not a transition shot. Flawed because you easily made your way to the kitchen without hitting so much as one ball in the transition area.
More of just a showing of the drill so you understand it. You can take it as you will on your personal drills!
Agreed. Tyson has a better progression drill / game where 1 player starts at the kitchen and 1 at the baseline. 3 balls must be hit "cooperatively" before the point is live. Then the baseline player must try to make his way through the transition zone to the kitchen. Either player can win a point by winning the rally. The transition player can win a bonus point by successfully hitting an in ball after establishing themself at the kitchen. The drill where you just stay camped in the transition zone the whole time is actually better for ingraining the skills required to improve resets.
You should say your training partner’s name and not referring to her as “she” so much. What is her name?
Great input! So sorry for not using her name. Her name is Rachel!
I don’t think that this matters
@@rianweston-dodds6247 it’s just common courtesy, my friend.
Who cares
@@jakesemonin6980cause hes trying to poach a mixed partner lolol
Mannerisms are so cringey.
Sorry you feel that way.. luckily you're on a computer.. just click off :)
You've achieved wasting your time
This is the game I am passionate about!
As a pro I got to my level building my own paddles. My paddles have zip and spin like no other. I use wet sand paper and print USATA on my paddles.
Wow!!
You’re way too young to be playing pickleball. Play tennis while you can.
I did for the past 16 years!