{"id":314,"date":"2026-09-28T01:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:20:27","slug":"speed-up-reset-warm-up-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Speed up \/ Reset Warm-up Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Speed up \/ Reset Warm-up Drill\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BU9bKoQ_aDU?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>Coach Jess (Athena) shares a favorite warm-up: dink \u2192 speed up \u2192 reset, repeat. Cooperative for the most part \u2014 goal is switching gears (add pace, then kill pace), not winning the exchange. Harder than it looks; great offense\/defense combo drill.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Train gear-switching: pace on, pace off<\/li>\n<li>Cooperative reps build reset comfort after speed-ups<\/li>\n<li>Warm-up can load both offense and defense<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t turn it into ego winners early<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>3 minutes cooperative dink-speedup-reset before play<\/li>\n<li>Cue: &#8216;create, then absorb&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Only advance to competitive after clean resets<\/li>\n<li>Save the short and run it with a regular partner<\/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>Summary Coach Jess (Athena) shares a favorite warm-up: dink \u2192 speed up \u2192 reset, repeat&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730,"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":[600,3,18,604],"tags":[607,301,106,658,663],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-kitchen","category-resets","category-speed-ups","tag-athena","tag-coach-jess","tag-reset","tag-speed-up-2","tag-warm-up-drill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/03-low-dink-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}