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

Do you want to improve your pickleball game? Individual or small group private lessons will help your skills, strategy and rating level. During the one-hour session, participants will be coached through skill repetition and drills specific to improve your pickleball game. Prior to registering for small group training, please make sure you have discussed specific training dates and times that would work best for your group. Once all individual(s) have registered for the private lessons, you will be contacted by the instructor to choose some dates and times for the lessons. Once these are confirmed with Community Education, your instructor will confirm with you. Some instructors may suggest 1.5 hour lessons based on availability. If you have any questions, you may contact Sarah Carlton at carltons@stillwaterschools.org. Course 928-Individual: One-one coaching session with a personal coach. 3 session package is $155 5 session package is $260 Course 928-Small Group (2 participants): Two participants and one coach. Each person pays for the 3 or 5 session package. 3 session package is $99 5 session package is $134 Course 928-Small Group (4 participants): Four participants and one coach. Each person pays for the 3 or 5 session package. 3 session package is $60 5 session package is $80