Tennis to Pickleball - Pickleball Bootcamp
What you'll learn
- Rules, Scoring, & brief history
- Fundamental shots (serving, dinking, forehand, backhand, volleys)
- Advanced Shots (Topspin lob, drop volleys, swinging volley, inside out forehand)
- What DUPR is and how to manage your own local pickleball DUPR digital group
- How to Find local and International Pickleball Community (Asia) for social and competitive games
Requirements
- A pickleball paddle and ball would help and having played a few times before
Description
Tennis to pickleball is taught my a lifelong Canadian Athlete and Top 3 Junior Tennis player now known as Uncle Greg. This course is a fun bite sized online pickleball boot camp for beginner pickleball players and tennis players looking to transition to the game. Greg has over eight years of competitive tennis experience and has played pickleball for the past two years. He has launched a DUPR digital club and arranges socially competitive round robins.
This course aims to teach:
The basic rules for playing the game
The basics for hitting fundamental pickleball shots
Uncle Greg's Trademark trick shots, including the underhand spin serve, drop volley, and inside-out forehand
Tips for getting involved in the pickleball community and meeting other people
Tips for destination pickleball, which include playing in Canada, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam
The course is shot in Vancouver, Canada but we also take a Pickleball destinationtrip to South East Asia to film some of the lessons where we will explore the opportunities and communities to play in Vancouver, Canada; Bangkok, Thailand; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Danang, Vietnam.
You will also get an introduction to DUPR ratings and how it works. You will also learn from the organizer side and how to use the DUPR platform to organize and submit scores. You will learn how to set up a DUPR digital club and use the Picklehead's App to organize round-robin matches, and enter and submit scores to the DUPR platform.
Who this course is for:
- New players to Pickleball
- Beginner Pickleball players that want to learn more tools and weapons for their game
- Tennis players looking to transition to pickleball
Instructor
- 3.9 Instructor Rating
- 1,121 Reviews
- 26,077 Students
- 30 Courses
If you have a passion and talent for creating video and want to enjoy a life of time and location freedom then our courses can help you get there. I have followed this path since 2013 and my courses have been designed to share my know.
My passion is Travel, Video, Business and living a Freedom lifestyle. I've left the IT corporate world in Vancouver Canada after 13 years to pursue my passions. I left for Taiwan to start my Video Production business from ground zero. I discovered the Digital Nomad movement in Thailand and have honed my creative and business skills.
Improve your ability to Create
If you're looking to improve your ability to create and edit Video so that you can create amazing Videos for clients of your social media followings using camera's like Drones, Mirrorless Camera's, SLR camera's, Gopro's, Gimbals, and more you'll enjoy our course offerings.
Improve your Business Skills for Creatives
I'll arm you with business and marketing skills to help you market your skills and work to clients. I'll also share business models and specific how to courses to help you monetize on your skills and video assets.
Travel and Freedom Lifestyle
I've lived abroad in Asia since 2013 and started working on my business full-time since 2014. I share my experience on lifestyle design and living guides for popular destinations to live and create such as Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Bali, and more. I can also help you with productivity as a Videographer no matter where you are.