{"id":1069,"date":"2026-10-17T01:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:32:57","slug":"forward-momentum-drive-crash-your-own-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Forward-Momentum Drive: Crash Your Own Third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"How to Poach and Crash the Net\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYPzhR5g1lk?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><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Marshall Brown (Selkirk TV) teaches beating better teams with the forward-momentum drive: hit the third and already crash so the returner&#8217;s margin shrinks and they miss under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Use it every point until opponents punish you or your thirds get soft. On the left (righty), commit full throttle to finishing on the right. When returns go deep, take a step back first so you still have room to surge forward.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Crash on your own third \u2014 force a perfect reply<\/li>\n<li>Default this tactic until opponents give you a reason to stop<\/li>\n<li>Deep return \u2192 step back first, then surge with room<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the next match crashing every makeable third for one game<\/li>\n<li>Vs deep returns, mark a &#8220;step back&#8221; cue before the drive<\/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>Marshall Brown (Selkirk TV) teaches beating better teams with the forward-momentum drive: hit the third and already crash so the returner&#8217;s margin shrinks and they miss under pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732,"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":[388,200,6,20],"tags":[36,1103,792,1063,793],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-offense","category-strategy","category-third-shot","category-transition","tag-crash","tag-forward-momentum-drive","tag-marshall-brown","tag-poach","tag-selkirk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","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=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}