Description: How and why to serve with directional control for pickleball.
Intended audience: Pickleball players who already know how to serve safely and are ready to learn to serve more effectively.
Technical objective: Teach participants to serve with directional control.
Tactical objective: Serve to an opponent’s weak spots — forehand, backhand, or body — to generate weak returns.
Warmup: 10-minute freestyle
Instructional segment: 45 minutes of pickleball drills with individual differential coaching.
Game segment: 30 minutes of serving games that emphasize serving to opponents’ backhands. All players who miss their first serve get a mulligan.
Differential coaching: Not all groups who book this lesson will have the same composition. Not all students who participate in this lesson will have the same experience or abilities. Therefore the coach will make adjustments on the fly to tweak the lesson plan to best fit the group. The coach will also attempt to give each participant at least one thing to work on in order to improve moving forward.
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