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Beginner pickleball drills: Lessons plans for teachers

Pickleball drilling is one of the best ways to get better at the sport. If you are a pickleball coach or teacher, here are our favorite pickleball drills to teach your students.

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Jaclyn Brandt

03/17/2025

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Pickleball drilling is one of the best ways to get better at the sport. If you are a pickleball coach or teacher, here are our favorite pickleball drills to teach your students.

Top pickleball drills for 2 people

Advance your pickleball skills with these 5 drills you can do with a partner. Pickleball drills to help you practice your dinks, volleys, and drop shots — so you can speed up your hands, and slow down the game.

Find the right 2-person pickleball drill to skyrocket your skills in every aspect of the game.

2-person pickleball drills to create consistent dinks

If you want to improve your pickleball dinks, watch these 2-person pickleball drills to gain control of your pickleball dink, create consistency, and turn your pickleball dink into a drive.

Learn the Figure 8 Drill to improve your dinking placement and the Battleships Drill to help you turn your dink into a pickleball speed-up. Learn how to practice your dink, improve your speed-ups, and target the ball to exactly where you want it to go. Grab your cones and your pickleball paddle and master your dink before your next game.

Drive, Drop, & Reset Drill: Pickleball strategy to get to the kitchen line

Follow Barrett and Danea Bass as they teach you about this pickleball drill that will help you get to the kitchen line more quickly and win more points. They will take you through the drive, drop, and reset drill and help you turn it into a game so you are improving your pickleball skills with a partner.

With this drill, you will learn which pickleball shots you should block and reset, which shots you should counter, and which shots you should let go out. Improve your pickleball strategy with the Drive, Drop, & Reset drill and game.

4 pickleball drills at the kitchen line: Dinking, speed-ups, resets, and blocking

If you want to play pickleball like the pros, here are 4 drills to improve your basic skills to crush it on the pickleball court: dinking, speed-ups, resets, and blocking. Learn how to drill at the pickleball kitchen line so that you can be ready next time you are in a real-life pickleball game. Drilling is one of the most important ways to get better in pickleball, and these drills will help you master your game at the kitchen line.

Pickleball blocking 101: 3 tips for the perfect defensive shot (+3 drills)

Pickleball blocking is an underrated defensive shot, one that is rarely used by pickleball beginners (at least not on purpose). Learn what the pickleball block volley is, how to hold your paddle, and what you *shouldn't* do while you are blocking. Plus, 3 blocking pickleball drills you can work on to help you perfect your pickleball block volley.

Pickleball dinking master class (with drills)

If you are a beginner pickleball player or are just looking to improve your pickleball skills, this video will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the pickleball dink: What is a dink? How do you dink? What are the different types of dinks? Plus, Barrett and Danea Bass will teach you pickleball dinking strategy & drills to work on with a partner.

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