Description: Where and how to direct serve returns in pickleball.
Intended audience: New pickleball players who want to learn how to return serves effectively.
Technical objective: Teach participants to direct serve returns to forehand, backhand, and the body.
Tactical objective: Make it difficult for opponents to return your serves.
Warmup: 10-minute freestyle
Instructional segment: 45 minutes of pickleball drills with individual differential coaching.
Game segment: 30 minutes of serve return games that emphasize returning serves with directional control.
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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