Pickleball Practice Makes Permanent

Instructors: Ronith Cogswell & Ruth Johnson

We've often heard that practice makes perfect. While practice is undeniably important for skill development and improvement, achieving perfection is an ideal rather than a realistic expectation. Instead of aiming for perfection, we suggest striving for continuous growth, learning, and refinement in our pursuits. It's essential to recognize the value of practice because our actions and efforts shape how we do things over time. By approaching practice with mindfulness, intentionality, and a focus on improvement, we can cultivate positive habits and skills that can be integrated strategically into a successful game plan.

Sessions will cover the following concepts:

- Dynamic warm-up and injury prevention strategies

- Court warm-up

- First shot: serve

- Second shot: Return of Serve

- Third shot: Drop or drive

- Fourth shot: Keeping opponents back or neutral shot

- Fifth shot/seventh shot/ninth shot: Getting yourself to the NVL

- Turning defense to offence

- Ideal court positioning

- Helpful body mechanics, including footwork

Session format: 15-minute dynamic warm up, 90 minutes of drills, 45 minutes of monitored game play.

Questions? Please email Vansport@Vancouver.ca