{"id":183,"date":"2026-09-17T01:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:20","slug":"learn-the-drip-drive-drop-combo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Drip! (Drive drop combo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Learn the Drip! (Drive drop combo) #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MD1MrCdqYY?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<p>Tanner Pickleball teaches the <strong>drip<\/strong> in under a minute: a <strong>half-drive \/ half-drop<\/strong> hybrid used when the opponent is <strong>late to the kitchen line<\/strong>, so you can catch them on the run. It is not a standard soft third and not a flat drive \u2014 it is an aggressive dipping ball meant to be a clean winner or to set up an easy putaway.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanics: <strong>lay the wrist back<\/strong> and keep the <strong>paddle tip down<\/strong>. Think of hitting a normal drive, but <strong>do not use the wrist<\/strong> \u2014 simply <strong>brush up the back of the ball with the shoulders<\/strong>. That shoulder brush creates the aggressive dip.<\/p>\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>Tanner Pickleball teaches the drip in under a minute: a half-drive \/ half-drop hybrid used&#8230;<\/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":[5,4,6],"tags":[182,286,126,285,284],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-drops","category-third-shot","tag-drip","tag-shoulders","tag-tanner-pickleball","tag-tip-down","tag-wrist-laid-back"],"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\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/532"}],"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=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}