Tanner...you're the man! Drops, resets, dinks and handling speedups are the game and your drills are the best at mastering those. Thanks and I hope your channel explodes!
Please post your matches with thatpickleballguy from this weekend's APP tour! If you can do a breakdown of some of your games like you did in your recent videos that would be amazing!
This is fantastic Tanner, thank you. I don’t have a drill partner often, so when I do I want to get the most out of the time that I can. I can see how useful and well-rounded these drills are 👍
I have been playing for almost a year but I feel I've reached a plateau at 3.5-4.0. Mostly because I've never practiced any drill. This is definitely what I will be doing a couple times a week from now on, very nice video!
I can't commit to these drills 5 days a week(time and money-related reasons) but I am doing them 1-2x a week plus playing 5+ times a week. Currently a 4.2 DUPR, will report back in 90 days what I get to. I think I can reasonably be between 4.5-4.7, wouldn't expect to be 5.0
Anyone in north county San Diego need a drill partner? Great video Tanner! super helpful! now all I need is a reliable drilling partner who is willing to meet with me four days a week for a couple of hours in north county San Diego 😊
Great content. Might bebworthbdoing a followup on 3p variants of these. 7/11 with 2 at net and one back is probably my favorite drill with everyone rotating to the one back position. With 2 at the net its much more realistic and hones in when/where to attack with yellow balls in transition (and obv where to target resets)
Love this video! when you have time you should make a follow up video where you give us some drills to do off the court at home on the wall or with a ball machine.
Hey Tanner Id love to see a similar video with a Pickleball machine if you have one. I usually drill alone in the morning with my Titan pb machine.sometimes finding a drilling partner when I want is tough. Great video as always, Ill be focusing on these areas.
Hey Tanner, Love your content as a newer player myself to the sport though was a nationally ranked tennis player in my catergory some years ago. I have alot of the hand skills from tennis but need to work on consistency at my most recent event came 3rd in my first club championships but want to get better. Will hopefully compete in gender and para events. I would be interested in learning more and becoming more confident in my second career as a pickleball player.
A week ago I had a clairvoyant moment, and I knew where the ball was coming back, so instead of going back to my normal ready position for a punch volley, I surprised myself by instinctively spinning the handle into pancake grip, keeping the tip pointed up, and I smashed that ball so much better ever before.
Tanner, after months and months of studying PB on YT, I landed on your channel … I think your material has been incredibly helpful. Question: what’s your opinion on relatively head-light paddles with good pop for effective attacks and counters .
Hey! Thanks so much for finding me, love that you enjoy the channel. I think it depends on the person. If it works for you, it works! I use a pretty balanced paddle, and haven’t even thought to change or experiment!
Tanner Love your videos, awesome. I desperately need your advice on a particular shot that is absolutely killing me. The two guys i play against are big, young and very fast. When my partner and i serve they drive the ball back hard, deep and low. Nothing seems to work from here. They are now both at the kitchen line and i can't drop it, drive it or lob it. My partner and i can hold our own if we can get to the kitchen but because of their strength, youth, speed, size and reach this is making it extremely difficult. Any advice would be much appreciated or a video on your technical skill for dealing with this situation would be great. Thanks again for all your efforts, well done! Rob
My suggestion would be to stay off the court (maybe 2 to 3 feet) waiting for their return to give you time to either try a controlled 3rd shot drive that goes low and with top spin OR a 3rd shot drop. Maybe you can also try different serves, maybe a floater or to their backhand, I doubt they can hit wonderful returns deep and low off their backhand.
Awesome content. My only caveat to this video is you're assuming DUPR's algo will accurately reflect the correct rating after 90 days. Highly suspect 😂. Looking forward to your APP breakdown.
Hey!! It is good practice, but for me, it seems kind of a pain to set it up, gather the balls... may get boring fast. I prefer to practice with a partner!
Tanner, please elaborate a little on how many years of tennis, ping pong, bad-mitten and/or racquetball combined that you had prior to playing pickleball...?
In baseball, a meatball is a pitch that is easy to hit because it is right down the middle. So in this context, he's saying to not hit balls into the zone where the player at the net can swing the hardest, and instead make them drop into the kitchen.
That’s awesome, as I’ve just moved from head heavier paddles to relatively headlight paddles…,Including effects of customization . I also would love to get all your thoughts Tanner on how you customize your own paddle and what you feel you’ve gained vs other customization strategies vs the same paddle out of the box paddle
love the videos, hate to be that guy but @1.36 your leg was not behind the ball when you hit it, and one of your videos says that your leg need to be off the bounce. Good video though!
You also played tennis before playing pickleball didn’t you? It’s going to be very hard for a person who’s brand new to racket sports to get to a 5.0 in 3 months. Also, you didn’t include a cross court backhand dink drill?
@@tanner.pickleball yes, i used your drills last night. And as I was doing them, I figured out the answer. I will say that I think people should add skinny singles. Putting all the drills together in a game like situation is awesome…..plus I rarely get the ball in doubles so this way they HAVE to hit it to me. 😁😁
@@tanner.pickleball Coming from a tennis background, PB in single is very much the same like serve and volley in tennis but the returner is the one rushing to the net instead of the server in PB. Most former tennis players that play PB will hit topspin FH and BH passing shot and pass the PB net rusher easily. That's why you see guys like Jack Sock (former ATP player), or Chris Haworth (former D1 tennis player at OK state), are quickly well known on the PPA tour.
Tanner...you're the man! Drops, resets, dinks and handling speedups are the game and your drills are the best at mastering those. Thanks and I hope your channel explodes!
I appreciate that!
Please post your matches with thatpickleballguy from this weekend's APP tour! If you can do a breakdown of some of your games like you did in your recent videos that would be amazing!
Coming soon! :) so pumped for this!
Thank you for your amazing hard work, dedication to the game, and commitment to helping to grow the game. You and Kyle were amazing together.
Wow Carey!! That is INSANELY Nice you of! Thank you so much for that donation. So thankful for this.
Love these drills!! Thx!
This is fantastic Tanner, thank you. I don’t have a drill partner often, so when I do I want to get the most out of the time that I can. I can see how useful and well-rounded these drills are 👍
Thanks Johhny!
Doing this for 3 months. Currently a 3.751 on DUPR (5% confidence from DUPR). Will update on January 1, 3 months from now!
Lets go! I will be on the lookout for this!
Bro this video is so helpful. Best pickle content on YT🙏🙏
Glad you think so!
“Phenomenal value, for free” is correct! Thanks, Tanner❤
Thanks!!
Great vid brother. That’s why you’re one of my favorite pickleball TH-camrs
I appreciate that!
Fantastic drills! Can’t wait to put these in play.
Have fun!
Loved watching you and Kyle at Newport Beach APP. What a run, congrats! Bigger things to come I’m sure.
Thanks so much!!
Love this bro!! Concise and straight to the point 🔥
:)
tanner is the best pickleball coach on the internet, everything he says works
Thanks man!!
Tanner, this is so relevant. Glad you set up a membership to support your journey. Greetings from NJ.
Thanks Mark! I appreciate your willingness to support :)
Another great video. It's great that you show your struggles and not just the great rally ending points.
Thanks Ginny!
I practiced your drills as you teach them ,4 days a week for a month and a half and moved from 3.5to 4.0 plus
Amazing!!!
Brilliant and super helpful! Thanks Tanner. Great playing in APP Newport last week. 👏👏👏
Thanks brother!!
amazing tips .... Thank you . This is very helpful
You're so welcome!
I have been playing for almost a year but I feel I've reached a plateau at 3.5-4.0. Mostly because I've never practiced any drill. This is definitely what I will be doing a couple times a week from now on, very nice video!
Let’s go love it!
The GOAT of TH-cam pickleball
Thanks Fox!
Great great content - structured and concise!
Thank you!
I can't commit to these drills 5 days a week(time and money-related reasons) but I am doing them 1-2x a week plus playing 5+ times a week. Currently a 4.2 DUPR, will report back in 90 days what I get to. I think I can reasonably be between 4.5-4.7, wouldn't expect to be 5.0
Sweet! that is perfect, no rush!
well? how did it go?
Hey Tanner, nice meeting you at APP Newport! Keep it up, can’t wait for the breakdown vid of the games!
Thank you! Nice meeting you as well!!
Master class.
Thank you :)
Tanner & Marceau...what a combo. Great Video!!
The best!
Solid video, now I’m switching up my drills bc of this video
Glad I could help
Anyone in north county San Diego need a drill partner?
Great video Tanner! super helpful! now all I need is a reliable drilling partner who is willing to meet with me four days a week for a couple of hours in north county San Diego 😊
Happy to help!
Love the tip on how to counter! I completely lack this in my game.
Love it!
Great content. Might bebworthbdoing a followup on 3p variants of these. 7/11 with 2 at net and one back is probably my favorite drill with everyone rotating to the one back position. With 2 at the net its much more realistic and hones in when/where to attack with yellow balls in transition (and obv where to target resets)
For sure - love that one! It’s hard to get 3 people to drill!!
Love this video! when you have time you should make a follow up video where you give us some drills to do off the court at home on the wall or with a ball machine.
Great call and thanks!!!
Will be implementing these drills to my practices! Thank you!
Wonderful!
Thank you for all that you put into these videos. They are appreciated !
My pleasure!
Hey Tanner Id love to see a similar video with a Pickleball machine if you have one. I usually drill alone in the morning with my Titan pb machine.sometimes finding a drilling partner when I want is tough. Great video as always, Ill be focusing on these areas.
Ahh I don’t have one, I like to focus on always drilling with a partner for my focus! I feel like ball machines get old fast!
I love these drills - games. Now I need a partner to play with...
Yep - the hardest part lol!
I really appreciate that your partner was also skilled, making it so more realistic. Thx again, Tanner.
Drill drill and more drills. That really works. Thank you for sharing
You're welcome!
Thanks!
Welcome! Super kind of you :)
Thank you for sharing all of this.
My pleasure!
Great video Tanner!
Thanks!
So good! Thankyou. I'm going to try this.
Hope you enjoy
Loved the video. My wife and started the routine tonight!
Fantastic!
Hey Tanner,
Love your content as a newer player myself to the sport though was a nationally ranked tennis player in my catergory some years ago. I have alot of the hand skills from tennis but need to work on consistency at my most recent event came 3rd in my first club championships but want to get better. Will hopefully compete in gender and para events. I would be interested in learning more and becoming more confident in my second career as a pickleball player.
Amazing!! On my page I post DAILY tips! Making sure you become stronger :)
Love this video
:)
SO good. Thank you Tanner.
My pleasure!
Love this man! Great work and super helpful. Keep up the A1 content
Thanks! Will do!
Great work! Did you have a tennis background?
3 years in high school!!
awesome drills im getting to work BTW nice work in app newport!
Awesome! Thank you!
9:19 fantastic video. Thank you!👏🔥
Glad you liked it!
A week ago I had a clairvoyant moment, and I knew where the ball was coming back, so instead of going back to my normal ready position for a punch volley, I surprised myself by instinctively spinning the handle into pancake grip, keeping the tip pointed up, and I smashed that ball so much better ever before.
LOVE hearing that!!!
Bring it on!
:)
Tanner, after months and months of studying PB on YT, I landed on your channel … I think your material has been incredibly helpful. Question: what’s your opinion on relatively head-light paddles with good pop for effective attacks and counters .
Hey! Thanks so much for finding me, love that you enjoy the channel. I think it depends on the person. If it works for you, it works! I use a pretty balanced paddle, and haven’t even thought to change or experiment!
I really appreciate you Tanner .
Tanner Love your videos, awesome. I desperately need your advice on a particular shot that is absolutely killing me. The two guys i play against are big, young and very fast. When my partner and i serve they drive the ball back hard, deep and low. Nothing seems to work from here. They are now both at the kitchen line and i can't drop it, drive it or lob it. My partner and i can hold our own if we can get to the kitchen but because of their strength, youth, speed, size and reach this is making it extremely difficult. Any advice would be much appreciated or a video on your technical skill for dealing with this situation would be great. Thanks again for all your efforts, well done!
Rob
My suggestion would be to stay off the court (maybe 2 to 3 feet) waiting for their return to give you time to either try a controlled 3rd shot drive that goes low and with top spin OR a 3rd shot drop. Maybe you can also try different serves, maybe a floater or to their backhand, I doubt they can hit wonderful returns deep and low off their backhand.
Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a try. Once again thank you for your great videos and hard work.
Day 1 starts now!!! 5.0 🚀🚀🚀
Yesssssir
Thank you for sharing this. I was surprised to not see any cross court dinks drills on it. Could you share why you exclude cross court dinks
You can add them in if needed! My main focus is hand speed and low dinks!
Zack sure loves taking a huge backswing at the kitchen.
lol yes he does!
Awesome content. My only caveat to this video is you're assuming DUPR's algo will accurately reflect the correct rating after 90 days. Highly suspect 😂. Looking forward to your APP breakdown.
Hahah if you play tournaments, yes! 😉
Tanner, if you were to do this entire drill practice from start to finish without recording, how long does it take? 90 minutes?
I spend usually about 90 minutes drilling spending more / less time spending on the day!
Tanner, how much do you think a good ball machine would factor into leveling up? Im about a 3.8-3.9, and want to get to 5.0.
Hey!! It is good practice, but for me, it seems kind of a pain to set it up, gather the balls... may get boring fast. I prefer to practice with a partner!
@@tanner.pickleballcopy that!
What’s Zach’s paddle setup? Looks like an engage pro 6.0! What’s the Weight? And weight placement of lead tape was used?
I’ll ask him!
Any cross court action or everything down the line?
I always do down the line! You can throw in cross after that!
Tanner, please elaborate a little on how many years of tennis, ping pong, bad-mitten and/or racquetball combined that you had prior to playing pickleball...?
Great question! Just 3 years of tennis in high school!! Nothing more!
@@tanner.pickleball thanks, very impressive! Keep up the good work!
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
do you have racquet sports experience?
Tennis in high school
Those drops are so good lol
Practiceeeee!
Is it good to play 7-11 cross court as well?
Yes!
5:43 Oh my God I hit a one hand right!😂
Hahaha
great vid im currently a 2.2 but hopeful to be here one day
You got it!
At 3:52, Tanner says he's not throwing meatballs. Can someone explain what that means please?
In baseball, a meatball is a pitch that is easy to hit because it is right down the middle. So in this context, he's saying to not hit balls into the zone where the player at the net can swing the hardest, and instead make them drop into the kitchen.
@johnclikeman5041 Thanks friend!
Hard feeds, not easy ones that don’t give a challenge
Do you use any lead tape on your paddle? If so where? If not, why not? Maybe make a short video talking about it!
Will do! 4 inches in both corners on bottom!
That’s awesome, as I’ve just moved from head heavier paddles to relatively headlight paddles…,Including effects of customization . I also would love to get all your thoughts Tanner on how you customize your own paddle and what you feel you’ve gained vs other customization strategies vs the same paddle out of the box
paddle
I’m ready, Tanner. Please please make me a 5.0
Me too!! All I need is somebody with the exact schedule location and about equal or better than me to meet with me four days a week!
Hahahaha
Yep!
@@kifarurhino8258 I agree just need to find a dedicated practice partner that’s somewhere around my level
What paddle
Crbn 1x 16mm
Zach is taking huge wind ups for his forehand swings, shouldn't they be short and compact?
Ben Johns does that too. It's more of a fakeout than anything else.
He’s doing it when I’m back to throw off my timing. If it was at the kitchen line it would be a problem!
SUBBED. NJ ❤❤
Thanks man!
Are u mainly a doubles player? Singles seems to be a totally different game
Yes I mainly am doubles, I am not as good in singles, it is completely different!
Your content is incredible… I wish u the greatest success
🐐
:)
love the videos, hate to be that guy but @1.36 your leg was not behind the ball when you hit it, and one of your videos says that your leg need to be off the bounce. Good video though!
You are totally right! I rushed this shot (on purpose) so this clip would make sense in a quick fashion! Glad you pointed that out!
Benefit of playing 7-11 as opposed to skinny singles??
You can do both. This is more reps since it’s removing serve and returns just faster of what I’m focusing on!
You also played tennis before playing pickleball didn’t you? It’s going to be very hard for a person who’s brand new to racket sports to get to a 5.0 in 3 months. Also, you didn’t include a cross court backhand dink drill?
You can add in cross court if needed. I played just in high school. Obviously the person has to be somewhat athletic to achieve this goal.
Great video but the forced captions were distracting and presented a challenge to follow along with the details of your explanations and demos.
I’ll remove them for future videos!
For the sake of the drill, lobs should be avoided in the drinking and 7/11 game
Yes 100%
Why not just play skinny singles? It incorporates all the components plus serve and serve receive.
More reps / faster without doing the serve / return. Focuses on just what’s blaring weak
@@tanner.pickleball yes, i used your drills last night. And as I was doing them, I figured out the answer.
I will say that I think people should add skinny singles. Putting all the drills together in a game like situation is awesome…..plus I rarely get the ball in doubles so this way they HAVE to hit it to me. 😁😁
HIII
Hi!
Can I do it in 14 ? Maybe some Tito’s sessions thrown in
Hahahahaha yes you can, only you
why not use driving to reset the ball in the mid court
You want to get back to neutral in this position. If you drive it, generally it isn’t the best shot.
So if everyone becomes 5.0, who are 4.0?
People not watching this 😉
As a former 11 UTR tennis now playing Pickleball, your advice is completely useless because single Pickleball is a different animal.
What?
@@tanner.pickleball Coming from a tennis background, PB in single is very much the same like serve and volley in tennis but the returner is the one rushing to the net instead of the server in PB. Most former tennis players that play PB will hit topspin FH and BH passing shot and pass the PB net rusher easily. That's why you see guys like Jack Sock (former ATP player), or Chris Haworth (former D1 tennis player at OK state), are quickly well known on the PPA tour.