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Clinics by Pocono Pickleball

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And if you are looking to arrange s private Clinic, MOST can be adapted to your needs or style of play.   Clinics can focus on technique, strategy, situational awareness, courts coverages, but regardless the topic. we always make them fun!

We strive to offer unique clinics and are always coming up with new ideas to help players start, improve, or enhance their game to their best level. 

Clinics are offered in ONE DAY FORMATS, and some are available in multisession or multi-week format i.e 2WEEK, 3 WEEK, 4 WEEK FORMATS

Our clinic ideas routinely come from studying play patters of various level players, and producing programs which will best address the common themes which are occurring.  ADDITIONALLY ANY CLINIC CAN BE SCALED BACK TO 4 people or to accomadate any group looking learn or improve pickleball skills.   

 

 Intro Level and New Players (2.0-2.5) LEARNERS SERIES

BEST FOR NEWER PLAYERS TRYING TO FIND MORE SUCCESS OR START PLAYING OPEN PLAY - (available in 2 week, 3 week, or 4 week formats, OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS

 This Clinic is designed to help those newer players find success when starting with open plays.  Our rising stars will develop the habits, shots, and techniques so our newer and lower intermediate players can find more confidence and success as they enhance their skills.  Each week we will focus on a select types shots like dinking, volleying, serving, groundstrokes, and with each, help you to improve your mechanics, and control.    At the end of each session, we will have supervised play to help you best implement your new skills.  This clinic is excellent for those who want to improve their consistency, placement, and transitions on the court (movement), and are looking to ultimately find more success AND CONFIDENCE in open plays.


This clinic is available in 2 week (2 sessions), 3 week (2 sessions), and 4 week (4 sessions) formats.   OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS IT IS AVAILABLE IN A LADIES ONLY FORMAT.

This Clinic  based and will help break down how to better execute your dinks, volleys, serves, and groundstrokes.  Through various two person based drills we will give you the needed tools to better control your shots and improve your defensive strategies.  Additionally, it will help to control and handle the pace of your shots, and learn how to reset to point when needed and when challenged by harder hitting players. 

This clinic is available in 2 session  or 3 sessions formats.  The purpose of this clinic is to take you from  cucumber to full on pickler.  

        Our rising stars will develop the habits, shots, and techniques so our newer and lower intermediate players can find more confidence and success as they enhance their skills.  This clinic will be Skill based and focus on improving a few select shots during each session.  Additionally we will introduce some basic strategy and reinforce the most basic court positioning requirements to maximize your initial success.

   At the end of each session, we will have supervised play to help you best implement your new skills.  This clinic is excellent for those who want to improve their consistency, placement, and transitions on the court (movement), and are looking to ultimately find more success in the low intermediate to low advanced levels of play!

This ONE DAY CLINIC IS FOR NEW PLAYER who haved never played or have only played a few times.

Intro to pickleball will introduce you to the court, the rules, the basic positions, and how to execute the most basic types of shots.  This clinic will give you all you need to play a full game and every session concluded with a supervised doubles game! 


ONE DAY FORMAT. For newer players, or low intermediate who want to improve shot mechanics, and body positioning.

Looking to make way less unforced errors. Looking to pop the ball up less.  Looking to make more of the shots you intended to make.  This ONE DAY clinic is for you.

 

This beginner to low Intermediate clinic is great for anyone looking to improve their consistency.  The focus will to help improve your body setup, footwork, ball tracking, and anticipation for many types of shots.  Making contact with your paddle is often the last thing you do and when unforced errors occur it is often the preparation and body positioning that lead to the mis-hit.  This clinic will help to hone in the footwork and positioning to make more quality shots so you can better execute the shot you intended to take.

 

This clinic is also suitable for those intermediate players who want to improve their shot mechanics and better anticipate where to be to give themselves more shot options.


This ONE DAY clinic is designed to truly focus on how to start each point with the serve and return, as well as how to master the two bounce rule.  We will break down where you need to be during the first 3 shots of play, as well as those basic strategies. Additionally there will be a focus on how to best execute your serve and return.

Secondly we will work on the shot required to effectively play at the kitchen line. We will have drills, and best practices on how to excute your dinks, and volleys (shots that do not bounce).  This clinic will improve your overall effectiveness in lower level games.

 

Low Intermediate Level Pickleball (2.5-3.0) IMPROVER SERIES

BEST FOR PLAYERS WITH BASIC SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING LOOK TO FIND MORE SUCCESS IN OPEN PLAY OR LEVEL BASED GAMES - (available in 2 week 3 week or 4 week formats) & (women only format)  OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS

Pickleball This Clinic will focus on various elements to help you improve your game and strategies for all types of play, It will also introduce elements to help you to better execute YOUR game when playing team based doubles, and handle situations when you may need to dictate the pace of points.  It will help you to improve your transitions on the court through third shot selections and defensive resets.  Additionally, it will give you the tools to counter hard paced shots, and potentially deal with targeting situations in higher level play. 


This clinic is available in 2 week (2 sessions), 3 week (2 sessions), and 4 week (4 sessions) formats   OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS  

   Our Next Level participants will be looking to take their dinks, volleys, and shot selection to a higher level.  To build on your foundations we will be introducing skills that will improve paddle preparation, shot setup, as well as feel and touch with the ball.  Secondly there will be a greater emphasis on the strategic elements of pickleball.  Finally we want you to help improve your sense of shot selection, and using several types of specific shots to help aid in court coverage, and strategic goals.  Each session ends with a period of supervised play to help with implementation.

This clinic is available in 2 week (2 sessions), 3 week (2 sessions), and 4 week (4 sessions) formats, OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS 


Similar to Next Level our participants will be looking to modify their techniques through constructive improvement.  We will be looking to address any inefficiencies that you may need to work on to become master of the basic pickleball shots.   This will have less elements of strategy and focus on the more technical shot aspects than NEXT LEVEL. This is the perfect way to improve on your foundations and address any shot making issues you may not have noticed for yourself. 


This Clinic is Designed to reinforce the basics elements of pickle ball with how to take the most elements   From serve/ returns, Player Positioning throughout a rally. Scoring and seamless gameplay.  


BEST FOR PLAYERS WITH BASIC SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING LOOK TO FIND MORE SUCCESS IN OPEN PLAY OR LEVEL BASED GAMES - (available in 2 week 3 week or 4 week formats) & (womens only format)

Pickleball This Clinic will focus on various elements to help you improve your game and strategies for all types of play, It will also introduce elements to help you to better execute YOUR game when playing tean based doubles, and handle situations when you may need to dictate the pace of points.  It will help you to improve your transitions on the court through third shot selections and defensive resets.  Additionally, it will give you the tools to counter hard paced shots, and potentially deal with targeting situations in higher level play. 


This is a ONE DAY CLINIC FORMAT

This clinic is lower intermediate clinic which will work on reinforcing the technique involved for the three most used shots in pickleball.  We will work on paddle and body positioning for Groundstrokes, Volleys, and Dinks.  We will look to improve the foundation you have established and introduce techniques to make you both more effective and more consistent.  We will also start to reinforce the need to look for high percentage shot options, and begin the process to improve your court coverages. 





This ONE DAY Clinic is Designed to help elevate your game to include stronger kitchen play with a focus on dinking and volleying.  This course offers two formats for both low intermediate, and High Intermediate players.  The primary focus will be on better kitchen play, better dinking,  while the Intermediate course emphasis how to take more balls from the air, and when to look for attacks/counterattacks.

 

Intermediate Level Pickleball (3.0-3.5) PLAYER SERIES

This clinic is available in 2 week (2 sessions), 3 week (2 sessions), and 4 week (4 sessions) formats  OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS   

If you have already developed a basic understanding of most shots this will focus on advanced shot techniques, better shot selection, creating scoring opportunities, team defensive strategies, better movement patterns, and putting it all together on the court.  Each session ends with a period of supervised play to help with implementation. DONT MISS THIS ONE!


Available as ONE DAY CLINICs with a new focus each session.

NEW FORMAT this new clinic is a mix of drills for better skills, fun minigames, and is designed to help improve players at the intermediate level.  Each week we will create a fun assortment of drills, and minigames designed with an emphasis on improved technique , consitancy, and shot mechanics.  For serious pickleball players the key to improvement lies in their ability to drill and work on game specifics. and this fun environment will make the process of improvement as easy as possible for YOU.                                                                                                       

This clinic is available in 2 week (2 sessions), 3 week (2 sessions), and 4 week (4 sessions) formats  OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS 


Each session different shots will be enhanced or introduced, with an emphasis on consistent blocking, quality dropping, and ability to apply pressure to your opponents.  Additionally, there will be an enhanced strategic element, as well as a focus of shot selection, and playing with intent!   INTERMEDIATE + PLAYERS

This ONE DAY Clinic is Designed to help elevate your game to include stronger kitchen play with a focus on dinking and volleying.  This course offers two formats for both low intermediate, and High Intermediate players.  The primary focus will be on better kitchen play, better dinking,  while the Intermediate course emphasis how to take more balls from the air, and when to look for attacks/counterattacks.



This ONE DAY Intermediate only clinic will first focus on technique of the THIRD SHOT DROP, allowing you to evaluate your options after the first two bounces to get yourself in proper court position, while starting to evaluate shot quality of both you and your partners shot.  Additionally it will focus on defending against your opponents attempts to advance to the kitchen line.   Best For players who are looking to advance their game, improve their movement, and are starting to see Pickleball's strategic elements.

This ONE DAY clinic is for mid level intermediate to mid advanced players looking to step of their game and find higher levels of success in Advanced level play. Pickleball comes down to the time we need to effectively make quality shots, and the ability to cut down your opponents time to do the same.  If you are looking to stay at the kitchen longer, take less defensive steps away, and control the pace and time of your opponents play this clinic will teach you more about understanding how to create more time for yourself and less for your opponents.

 

Local Advanced (3.5 +)  ADVANCER SERIES

This clinic is available in 2 week (2 sessions), 3 week (2 sessions), and 4 week (4 sessions) formats,  OR OFFERED AS SINGLE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC SKILLS  


This Unique format clinic is designed for advance(ing) player to play with much more intentionality.  It will help you to better recognize and execute in common scenarios and better play TEAM pickleball.  We work on play creation and setup through constructed scenarios, and how to both setup yourself and your partner to make better on court plays and decisions. MUST have shot consistency, ability to dink , drop and reset, and are working on partner awareness.  This is what advanced play really looks like!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    


Available in ONE DAY or 2 Week (2 session formats)

This clinic is designed to bring pressure to your opponents, were talking shaking and baking, quality driving, better volleying, and all the required technique and footwork to better execute at a higher pace.   Additionally we will work on defending and countering pressure.  MUST BE COMFORTABLE WITH PACE and can effectively volley with moderate consistency. 

This ONE DAY clinic is designed to help improve moving your opponent, maintaining team balance and improving your patience so It time to start thinking!  Don’t miss Thinking and Dinking (sorry not Drinking) to add intentionality and set up to your pickleball game.  Focus on how to begin setting up the point (point construction) and how to achieve better team balance for patience execution of your scoring opportunities.  THIS IS GONNA BE A GAME CHANGER so don't miss it


ALSO AVAILABLE IN AN INTERMEDIATE FORMAT

This  ONE DAY clinic is for mid level intermediate+ looking to step of their game and find higher levels of success in Advanced level play. As we play we find out that the team element has a major component to success on the court.  It will help to reinforce how to utilize team based strategies through drills and mini-games.  This is perfect for when the 20ft of court seems big & you would like to learn how to shrink it for your opponents.  It will also start to focus on shot creation (setting up the next ball) & how you and your partner can move together.  THERE WILL ALSO BE A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO STACKING for those who may be interested in future tournament play.

This ONE DAY clinic is for mid level intermediate to advanced players looking to step up their game and find higher levels of success in Advanced level play.  The primary focus will be about hands (paddle prep)when to attack, making your attack shots more effective, how to counter attacks, and better technique for controlling the kitchen line and applying pressure to opponents. Topics will include strong countering, forehands and backhand rolls, and quality resets.  Ultimately it will allow you take control in hands battles, improve your hand speed in higher level games.


This ONE DAY clinic is designed to help improve moving your opponent, maintaining team balance and improving your patience so It time to start thinking!  Don’t miss Thinking and Dinking (sorry not Drinking) to add intentionality and set up to your pickleball game.  Focus on how to begin setting up the point (point construction) and how to achieve better team balance for patience execution of your scoring opportunities.  THIS IS GONNA BE A GAME CHANGER so don't miss it


ALSO AVAILABLE IN AN INTERMEDIATE FORMAT