{"id":1218,"date":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:31","slug":"speed-up-drill-attacker-needs-5-before-roles-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Speed-Up Drill: Attacker Needs 5 Before Roles Flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"How to master speedups in pickleball\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRndrYoi_5w?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>Shea Underwood\u2019s kitchen speed-up drill is built for getting to 5.0: one partner is the designated attacker until they win five rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Start dinking straight across. Only the attacker may speed up first; the non-attacker can reset or counter. Once a speed-up happens and the rally continues, the non-attacker may also speed up. Keep going until the attacker banks five wins, then switch. Counter side: paddle out front so you don\u2019t get jammed, and watch your partner\u2019s paddle to read speed-ups early. Both sides stay low and balanced.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One attacker until they win 5, then switch<\/li>\n<li>Non-attacker may only speed up after the first attack continues<\/li>\n<li>Counter ready: paddle out front; read partner\u2019s takeback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Run attacker-to-5, switch, then again \u2014 track how many counters you miss jammed<\/li>\n<li>Film one set: note every late read when you weren\u2019t watching their paddle<\/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>Shea Underwood\u2019s kitchen speed-up drill is built for getting to 5.0: one partner is the designated attacker until they win five rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,598,600,21,3],"tags":[676,614,692,246,225],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attacks","category-counters","category-drills","category-hands","category-kitchen","tag-attacks","tag-counters","tag-kitchen-drills","tag-shea-underwood","tag-speed-ups"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08-forehand-drive-sunlight-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}