Description: Learning to dink defensively is not enough. In order to compete at 3.5 and above, players must know how to use dinking to apply pressure to their opponents.
Intended audience: Intermediate players who have achieved a rating of at least 3.25.
Technical objective: Teach players to use dinks to pressure their opponents.
Tactical objective: Use dinking to move opponents around and cause them to make mistakes.
Warmup: 10-minute freestyle
Instructional segment: 45 minutes of pickleball drills with individual differential coaching.
Game segment: 30 minutes of the dinking games.
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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