Beginner training plan
Your first lessonFor the first lesson, I’ll always assess the players level first - including asking about any prior racket sport experience which can help shape context for coaching.
For the first lesson for a pure beginner, I’ll always focus on some core fundamentals including basics like paddle grip, positioning, and stance. From there we’ll jump into Serves and Returns - the two most commonly hit shots when you first start playing!
Lesson 11+At this point you will have developed into an Intermediate player! From here on out, the topics we cover will be more advanced.
We’ll cover things like:
Attacking out of the air and off the bounce speedups, counters, advanced play patterns, attacking or defending in transition.
We’ll also begin to incorporate more high level strategies that tournament players use.
Lesson 4-10Depending on how fast you progress we can either take more time to expand on topics we covered in the first few lessons or accelerate into more advanced shots and strategy.
Things we cover here can include: drop shots (forehand and backhand, topspin and slice), resets (out of the air or off the bounce), and dinks (many different types!).
We’ll also begin to cover some more advanced strategies and thought process for how to approach the strategic side of the game!
Lesson 2-3For lessons 2 and 3, you can expect for us to do a quick review of all things covered in lesson 1. From there, all sorts of Volleys will be the name of the game!
This includes: punch volleys at the net, swinging volleys for shoulder height putaways, and then overhead smashes for any balls above head height.
