{"id":969,"date":"2026-10-09T02:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:26:28","slug":"drills-to-improve-your-forehand-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Drills to Improve Your Forehand Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Drills to Improve Your Forehand Drive\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IC58Rrwze0Q?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>Ed Ju shares three drills that clean up the forehand drive. First, a partner drops two balls: catch the first with your non-dominant hand, then drive the second \u2014 that trains the non-dominant arm as a measuring stick for spacing and timing.<\/p>\n<p>Second, line up five balls from the baseline and drive them while staying low through the shot so you build the muscle memory that prevents pop-ups. Third, catch a deep toss near the baseline with the non-dominant hand, serve from that spot, then put it together as a forehand drive so the swing feels smoother, lower and more consistent.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-dominant-hand catch before the drive improves spacing<\/li>\n<li>Staying low through the drive prevents pop-ups<\/li>\n<li>Deep-toss catch-then-drive builds timing from a real contact height<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Run the two-ball catch-and-drive drill for five minutes<\/li>\n<li>Place five balls in a line and drive each while staying low<\/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>Ed Ju shares three drills that clean up the forehand drive. First, a partner drops two balls: catch the first with your non-dominant hand, then drive the second \u2014 that trains the non-dominant arm as a measuring stick for spacing and timing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"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":[600,5,381],"tags":[184,350,299,926,933],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-drives","category-technique","tag-drills","tag-ed-ju","tag-forehand-drive","tag-non-dominant-hand","tag-stay-low"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08-forehand-drive-sunlight-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}