Promptly 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."
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.
By 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.
We'll refresh what was learned in previous lesson and then proceed to learning additional skills. Complete beginners should be able to serve, return and understand the flow of a game by the end of the 2nd lesson.
Promptly 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 their 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." I can teach you the slice, top, push and lift dink, the overhead extreme angle put away, drive and drop and roll and flick volleys. How about the slice, top or lob serve. And, I can teach you how to hit deceptive shots too. I'm considered a power player with excellent finesse paddle skills. I can play right and left handed, hit dinks and half volleys between my legs and behind my back. If you want to pursue mastering pickleball and playing top level, even professional level, I'll get you to the highest level you aspire to the fastest!
I'll rely on student input for some key points of your game that you 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.
Warmup and assess level of skill retention since previous lesson. Refine 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 the particular goal of their various pickleball shots.
Depending on level of students skill retention from the first lesson dictates what we'll work on in the 2nd and the same for the 3rd, based on the 2nd
