Description: How to identify weakness and use your serve returns to exploit them for your advantage.
Intended audience: Intermediate pickleball players who want to improve their serve return performance.
Technical objective: Teach participants to identify weak third shots and exploit them.
Tactical objective: Identify opponents’ third-shot weaknesses and exploit them for your team’s advantage.
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 opponents’ weaknesses.
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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