{"id":1174,"date":"2026-10-24T03:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:24","slug":"drill-volume-cooperative-c-drops-targeting-live-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Drill Volume: Cooperative C-Drops + Targeting Live Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Why pros drill 500+ drops in an hour (and you don&amp;apos;t)\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/elOhteojkPI?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><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Pickleball Playbook\u2019s case for drilling: an hour of focused drop work can mean 500+ reps; a rec game might give you five. Pros spend most practice time on reps, not only matches.<\/p>\n<p>Start cooperative: partner deep, you drop into the kitchen with one continuous C-motion (slow\u2192fast, no stop; lean forward through contact \u2014 not back-then-forward). Then add competitive \u201ctargeting drops\u201d: make three kitchen drops before you can transition and the point goes live; miss early and they score.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Drilling hour \u226b match volume for drop reps<\/li>\n<li>Cooperative first: fluid C-motion, lean forward, find the kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Targeting drops: 3 in kitchen \u2192 point live; miss early \u2192 they score<\/li>\n<li>Build pressure in practice so tournaments don\u2019t feel new<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>5 minutes cooperative drops each of four positions (FH\/BH \u00d7 sides)<\/li>\n<li>Play targeting drops to 5 \u2014 only score after three clean kitchen drops<\/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>Pickleball Playbook\u2019s case for drilling: an hour of focused drop work can mean 500+ reps; a rec game might give you five. Pros spend most practice time on reps, not only matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729,"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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600,4,602,6,20],"tags":[1235,457,290,120,492],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-drops","category-practice","category-third-shot","category-transition","tag-cooperative","tag-drilling","tag-drops","tag-pickleball-playbook","tag-targeting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-doubles-at-the-net-over-shoulder-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","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=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}