{"id":1177,"date":"2026-10-24T03:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:20:27","slug":"three-wall-drills-for-faster-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Three Wall Drills for Faster Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"3 Wall Drills to Win More Hand Battles\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jrYmAEtg6Jw?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<\/div>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Selkirk TV trains hand battles with a squishy wall ball that jumps fast. Drill 1: compact speed-up then immediately counter \u2014 tiny swing, loose aggressive wrist, already set for the reply (and triangle patterns: cross often comes back BH).<\/p>\n<p>Drill 2: feed yourself FH speed-ups out of the air (cross or in front) and stay ready for the next ball. Drill 3: BH flicks up the line or across, always prepared for the counter. Compact beats big swings when hands get loud.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Compact speed-up \u2192 instant counter readiness<\/li>\n<li>Out-of-air FH speed-ups with recovery for the next ball<\/li>\n<li>BH flick line or cross \u2014 stay ready for the reply<\/li>\n<li>Loose wrist, tiny swing \u2014 not a home-run cut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2 minutes each wall drill with a soft ball before your next open play<\/li>\n<li>In games: after every speed-up, freeze ready \u2014 no spectator finish<\/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>Selkirk TV trains hand battles with a squishy wall ball that jumps fast. Drill 1: compact speed-up then immediately counter \u2014 tiny swing, loose aggressive wrist, already set for the reply (and triangle patterns: cross often comes back BH).<\/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,"_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":[600,21,3,604],"tags":[98,788,793,658,810],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-speed-ups","tag-flick","tag-hand-battles","tag-selkirk","tag-speed-up-2","tag-wall-drills"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05-rec-doubles-outdoor-court-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","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=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/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=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}