400 Series: Skills & Drills Lab
Attacking Patterns
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 2ā€“3x before we meet again.
- Each time you play, pick one skill and make it your mission to useĀ it often and on purpose.
Attacking Patterns
- Angle of attack dictates angle of return like a flashlight beam bouncing off a mirror.
- Straight-on speed up comes straight back.
- Angled attack returns at the opposite angle.
- Options for Speed-Ups: Straight-on speed up, Slight angle down the line
Attacking Patterns
- Players set up straight on skinny at the NVZ
- Part 1: Cooperative- 1 player feeds dead dink to outside quadrant,
- Opposing player initiates speed up and both players look to counter.
- Part 2: Set it Up: begin with dinking rally looking to set up speed up
opportunity and attacking pattern. - Take turns who initiates speed up in both parts
Attacking Patterns: Forward Pressure
- Forward pressure = pace pressure
Ā - Angle of attack dictates angle of return like a flashlight beam bouncing off a mirror. - Straight-on speed up comes straight back.
- Angled attack returns at the opposite angle. - Options for Speed-Ups:
- Straight-on speed up, Slight angle down the line, Middle speed up, Middle to slight cross-court speed up
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.
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