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325.07 How to Counter

Posted on November 29, 2024

Description: Understanding how to counter speedups is essential for anybody who wants to play at the advanced level.

Intended audience: Intermediate players who know how to speedup and now want to learn how to counter speedups,

Technical objective: Teach players to counter speedups effectively.

Tactical objective: Learn to counter speedups and put pressure back on the player who sped up.

Warmup: 10-minute freestyle

Instructional segment: 45 minutes of pickleball drills with individual differential coaching.

Game segment: 30 minutes of the 123 Speed Up game.

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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