Stillwater Community Education

Clinics provide group instruction focused on specific skills and based on your level of play. Each clinic will offer instruction, tips and tactics of play around those skills.

Jan 11, 22, Apr 8 - Kitchen Play

Jan 18, 24, Apr 10 - Transition Zone 

Jan 29, Apr 15 - Serving & Returning

Jan 31, Apr 17 - All Around Level Up

Specific Clinic Descriptions

1. KITCHEN PLAY - Dinking with emphasis on purpose, techniques, shifting and strategies.
-Volleying with emphasis on punch volleys, roll volleys and reset volleys
-Speed ups at the kitchen
-Lobs and retrieval of lobs
2. TRANSITION ZONE - Emphasis on using drives and drop shots to transition from the baseline to the kitchen line.
-Utilizing resets from the transition zone to move up to the kitchen.
-Determine when to transition from the baseline to the kitchen and when to stay back.
-We would play the 7-11 game in this session.
3. SERVING AND RETURNING - Serving with emphasis on speed, placement and variety to keep the returning team guessing
-Return of service with emphasis on depth, placement and spin
-Overhead smashes and retrieval (Survivor game)
4. ALL AROUND LEVEL UP - Emphasis on serve and return strategies, dinking strategies, volleying strategies, drop shots, overhead smashes