A track is a topic that you sign up to focus on for four weeks of 30/30/30 sessions
Track 1 - Beginner Pickleball Fundamentals and how to play Pickleball
Track 1 is very basic and intended for beginners who have not played pickleball but want ot learn how. You'll learn the basic terms and rules of pickelball and how it's played. The independent session will focus on the start of playing the game.
Track 2 - Serve and Return
Track 2 will help you improve and develop your serving and return sills. This track is meant for all levels. The content for each partner pair will be tailored for their skill level and goals. Some of the topics we may cover in your session will be; Two Bounce Rule, Deep & In, Service Box Targets, Scoring and Positioning, Heave Serve, Lofty Serve, Back Third Consistency, Deep Returns, Backhand Returns, the Twoey Return, The Lofty Return, Return and Run, Targeted Returns, etc. The independent sessions will be drills and drill games to reinforce the learning.
Track 3 - 3rd Shot Drop and the Transition Zone Defense
Track 3 will help you improve and develop your 3 rd shot drop and Transition Zone defensive skills. Again the content for each partner will be tailored for their skill level and goals. Some of the topics we may cover are; the basic forehand and back hand technique, top spin drops, twoey drops, drop strategy, knowing your oponents, purpose for third shot drops, moving to the transition zone, transition defense and resets, cross court and down the line drops. Independent partner sessions will focus on 3rd shot drop trills, see saw drill games, 7-11 drill games.
Track 4 - “Unattackable” Dinking
You made it to the non volley zone line (the Kitchen). Now how do you dink, why should you dink, what's the purpose in dinking. How do you attack from dinks, dink lops, dink lop defense, agressive dinks, top spin dinks, twoey dinks, slice dinks and dinking strategy and are all topics that may be covered depending on your skill level. Independent partner session will be focused on drinking drills and dinking games.
Track 5 - The Wall: Mastering Pickleball Volleys, Resets and Hand Speed
Track 5 will help you work on your hands and fast hands game. This is the most fun and is a required skill to help you move from intermediate to advanced and win points at the advanced level. Depending on your skill level, we will work on volley's out of the air, faster hand volley's, controlling and targeting your volley, speed ups off the dinks, defending speed ups, resets, the chicken wing, folley strategies, twoey's. Independent partner drills will be used to improve your hands for your next fire fight battle.
Track 6 - The Lob - Offense and Defense
Have you said "I hate lobs", I know I have but guess what. They are becoming more and more a part of the game. You can your partner will learn how to cover lobs, strategies to defend and help prevent them, the offensive lop, the defensive lop, stategies for playing lobbers and more. We all could use work on your lob game. Indepenent partner drills will focus on lobs and lob defense.
Each Mini-Clinic track consists of 4 sessions spread out over 4 weeks. I call these 30/30/30 Mini Clinics. Each mini-clinic session may have up to four players** (2 sets of partners) participating at the same time.
Partner Required - You are required to sign up with a partner, someone you plan to practice and play and ideally at your level.
Each weekly session consists of:
30 Minutes of Independent Partner Warm-up and Drilling.
30 MInutes of Coached* Skills and Strategy Development. I will work with each of the four players to evaluate and coach on improving their technique to improve the skill based ont he Track and Topic for that week.
30 Mintues of Independent Partner Reinforcement Drills and Play
LInks to YouTube Videos will be provided each week for review by each player prior to attending the session for that week. The intent is to give the player some background and instruction on the topic for that week. Each player is exepected to watch the videos.
It's expected that you and your partner will get together atleast once a week to work on the skills that you learned in this weeks session.
Each week I provide instruction sheets for the 1st and 3rd 30 Minute Independent partner warm-up and reinforcement drilling sessions.
Again you are required to sign up with a partner. Each Mini-Clinic has a cost of $25 per session, per player for a total of $100 for the four week Track that you and your partner choose.
The Mini-Clinic Tracks will be run from May - September in or near Farmington Hills at one of the outdoor city courts. Unfortunately I need to schedule the session around low use times on the courts and so session will be mid-day, most likely Friday or Sunday. More details will be provided prior to signing up.
*Coached means this 30 minute segement 2 is the time you will receive active coaching on the skill or strategy for that session. The two other 30 minute segments are time for you and your partner. There will be casual observations by the coach. **There may be three sessions active at one time. Again The 2nd 30 minute segment will be the dedicated active coaching time for each group of 4 players (2 sets of partners)