350 Series: Skills & Drills Lab
Accuracy & Court Movement
Takeaways & Training Tasks
Keep the momentum rolling with these quick steps:
- Refresh your memory with the 2 skills, 2 drills, and training video.
- Knock out the drills 2–3x before we meet again.
- Each time you play, pick one skill and make it your mission to use it often and on purpose.
Dink Accuracy
- Contact Point: Push through the ball. GUIDE the ball don’t STRIKE the ball.
- Weight Transfer: Allow weight to transfer into the shot.
- Body Positioning: Square up to the ball.
- Hands: Soft Continental grip. Laid back wrist.
- Swing: Slow even swing speed. If overhitting the ball, slow down your swing.
- Follow through at your target.
Mini Pickleball
- Players set up at NVZ like doubles play.
- First 2 shots are cooperative - cross court dink serve and dink return - then GAME ON!
- Players may use all of the shots and strategies from lesson to build the
point. - Possession scoring. Play to 11 win by 2 or play in timed rounds.
Shifting with Partner
- Watch Video for Details
- FACE the ball, don’t Chase the ball!
- Square up to the ball using smaller steps- be deliberate.
- If partner gets pulled out super wide, shift towards middle then see where
partner places ball to make final adjustment.
Ground Strokes Box Drill
- Set out a line of cones to divide each service box verticaly in half.
- Players stand at baselines across from each other.
- Players hit cooperative ground strokes at designated targets
- 1- Down the line to outside quadrants - both sides
- 2- Cross Court Outside Quadrants - both directions
- 3- Cross Court Inside Lane - both directions
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