Try This Drill to Improve Your Footwork with Collin Johns
Summary
Pickleball 360 with Collin Johns: effective footwork isn’t just getting to the ball — it’s control through the shot and recovering for what’s next. Drill develops shuffling, lunging, recovery, and reset dinks while the partner works offensive dinking.
Key takeaways
- Footwork = arrive + hit + recover
- Shuffle/lunge/recover as a loop
- Reset dinks belong inside footwork training
- Partner roles: defense footwork vs offense dinks
Action items
- Run the Collin drill 5 minutes each role
- Cue: ‘recover before admiring’
- Film recovery steps after wide dinks
- Count only reps where you reset AND recover