{"id":206,"date":"2026-09-18T01:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:19:27","slug":"learn-the-scorpion-in-under-60-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Scorpion, in under 60 seconds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Learn the Scorpion, in under 60 seconds! #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uISXsJWXwHw?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\u2019s 60-second scorpion: when an opponent attacks a low ball out of the air, the reply often climbs and chicken-wings you. Seeing them reach means the ball must come up \u2014 answer by going <em>down<\/em> with the scorpion so you cover the high ball and discourage the next attack.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Reach\/attack on a low ball \u2192 reply tends to rise<\/li>\n<li>Scorpion = go down to cover the chicken-wing height<\/li>\n<li>Variety makes attackers think twice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner: intentional low air attacks; reply with scorpion only<\/li>\n<li>Film contact height vs miss type (long vs chicken-wing)<\/li>\n<li>Add scorpion as option 2 after standard BH block in practice games<\/li>\n<li>Cue: \u201cthey reach \u2192 I go down\u201d<\/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>tanner.pickleball\u2019s 60-second scorpion: when an opponent attacks a low ball out of the air, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"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":[21,3,200],"tags":[327,324,27,328,323,325],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hands","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-attack-out-of-air","tag-chicken-wing","tag-kitchen-defense","tag-overhead-defense","tag-scorpion","tag-tanner-pickleball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}