Description: Where and how to direct serve returns in order to capture the initiative.
Intended audience: Intermediate pickleball players who want to improve their serve return performance.
Technical objective: Teach participants to returns serves in ways that give their side an advantage.
Tactical objective: Force opponents to return serves unsuccessfully from uncomfortable positions.
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 to capture initiative.
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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