Description: Figure-8 dinking is the most important soft skill for new players who intend to move up in the sport to master. It is also the most challenging.
Intended audience: Novice pickleball players who want to improve their ability to dink straight-to-angle and angle-to-straight.
Technical objective: Teach participants to dink straight-to-straight, straight-to-angle, and angle-to-straight with forehands and backhands.
Tactical objective: Teach participants to send and receive straight and angled dinks.
Warmup: 10-minute freestyle
Instructional segment: 45 minutes of pickleball drills that emphasize dinking.
Game segment: 30 minutes of games that emphasize fast volleys.
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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