{"id":375,"date":"2026-10-03T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:21:05","slug":"how-to-have-fast-hands-in-pickleball-stop-practicing-cooperative-volleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"How to Have Fast Hands in Pickleball (Stop Practicing Cooperative Volleys)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"How to Have Fast Hands in Pickleball (Stop Practicing Cooperative Volleys)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6wdQmB68-TI?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<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>The Flying Pickle Academy: Coach Susannah Barr and visiting pro Nick Wade show a raw, unscripted drill session. Higher-level players seem to have incredibly fast hands because they don&#8217;t just trade friendly cooperative volleys; they drill hands battles at full pace and try to beat each other. Setup: stand 14 feet apart, start every rep with a dead dink like you&#8217;d see in a real match, then your opponent speeds it up right at you and you play out the hands battle. It&#8217;s not cooperative: one of you comes out on top, then you feed a fresh dead ball and go again. Later they switch to volleys straight out of the air, skipping the dink. Goal: more hand speed, more confidence, and more hands battles won.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooperative volleys don&#8217;t build match-speed hands<\/li>\n<li>Stand 14 feet apart and start each rep with a dead dink<\/li>\n<li>The opponent speeds it up right at you; play the battle out to win it<\/li>\n<li>Progression: skip the dink and go straight into volleys out of the air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Swap one cooperative volley warm-up for full-pace hands battles<\/li>\n<li>Each rep: dead dink, speed-up at the body, battle until someone wins<\/li>\n<li>After each point, feed a fresh dead ball and go again<\/li>\n<li>Finish with a block of volleys out of the air, no dink first<\/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 The Flying Pickle Academy: Coach Susannah Barr and visiting pro Nick Wade show a&#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":[600,21,3],"tags":[706,708,86,710,707,225,709],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-hands","category-kitchen","tag-fast-hands","tag-flying-pickle-academy","tag-hands-battle","tag-nick-wade","tag-partner-drill","tag-speed-ups","tag-susannah-barr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/699"}],"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=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}