Stillwater Community Education

Improve your pickleball technique, shots and game strategy. The intermediate lessons will focus on spin serves, drop shots, footwork, dinks, fast action at the net, and defensive techniques, with an emphasis on winning doubles strategy. The last 30 minutes of the course will be organized play. Participants can bring their own paddle or borrow one from the PAC. 

Prerequisites:

• Understands the rules of pickleball
• Gets in at least 75% of all serve attempts
• Gets at least 75% of return of serves (ROS) deep and to the middle of opponent's court and gets forward to capture the kitchen line on most of their ROS's.
• Occasionally performs successful third shot drop shots. (Success is defined as a third shot drop shot that is not returned or can only be dinked back)
• Can perform at least 5 dinks in a row without placing the dinks in the net, out of the court, or popping them up.