Beginner training plan
Your first lessonPromptly after booking with me, you'll receive my welcome message and question: "Looking forward to your lesson. When you have a chance please let me know, in 2-3 sentences, about your pickleball, racquet sports, and/or other sports experience, and what you hope to learn/improve in your lesson(s)."
Student responses help me to get right into and make the most of our time during lesson. Then, based on my ongoing assessment during the lesson, I will customize the lessons to the student's level and learning style.
My teaching style utilizes evidenced based skill acquisition approaches so students learn and retain task/goal oriented pickleball skills more naturally. Every shot in pickleball can be accomplished using a variety of techniques and no technique is "the right correct way."
Lesson 11+If students have played enough during their first ten lessons they can usually identify some key points of their game that they would like to focus improving upon. No worries if you're not sure what you need because I can quickly assess a student's weaknesses versus strengths and then discuss ideas for skill improvement and proficiency.
Lesson 4-10By lesson 4, beginners will become novice and novice will improve towards intermediate. Again, find out how much student played since last lesson and start from where they've retained previously learned skills and start adding shots from different angles and distances plus the patterns of typical shot selections based on players court positioning.
I am an expert in technique error-detection and will help students identify the nuances and parameters of their various techniques necessary to become more proficient in accomplishing their task oriented skills.
KH
Pickleball with Kersten H.⭑ 4.9 (68 reviews)
