{"id":791,"date":"2026-10-05T01:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:37:00","slug":"how-to-practice-with-partners-of-any-skill-level-5-must-have-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"How to Practice With Partners of ANY Skill Level! (5 must-have drills)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"How to Practice With Partners of ANY Skill Level! (5 must-have drills)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bo0gs1A0Yzo?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<\/div>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Troy Akin shares five drills you can do with a partner of any skill level, demonstrated with his 3.5 brother. It starts with 100 <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=755\">dinks in a row<\/a> with low net clearance, which builds consistency and endurance and adds real pressure as you get close to 100.<\/p>\n<p>The drills include hand resets where one partner attacks whenever they want and the other resets into the kitchen, a drill for defending attacks off a high third, and serve, return and third-shot work where both players focus on depth.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partners of any level can help each other improve<\/li>\n<li>100 dinks in a row builds consistency and pressure<\/li>\n<li>Hand reset drills sharpen defense<\/li>\n<li>Serve and return depth work benefits both players<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Try the 100-dink challenge with your partner<\/li>\n<li>Do 5 minutes of the hand reset drill<\/li>\n<li>Add serve, return and third depth work weekly<\/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>Troy Akin shares five drills you can do with a partner of any skill level, demonstrated with his 3.5 brother.<\/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":[600,602,18],"tags":[814,813,812,424,160],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-practice","category-resets","tag-100-dinks","tag-mixed-level","tag-partner-drills","tag-resets","tag-troy-akin"],"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\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/907"}],"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=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}