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Pickleball Clinics
PICKLEBALL at Naperville

Pickleball Clinics

Named clinics from beginner to advanced. 'Learn to Play' is the perfect first session for new players — book online.

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Clinic sessions

Learn to Play

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Learn To Play pickleball in just 2 hrs! Come out to learn how to play America’s fastest growing sport! Make new friends, get exercise and have fun. Our learn to play clinic covers all the strokes, how to score and basic court positioning. We provide balls and paddles. You’ll put it all together and play a game to put into practice what you just learned. After this clinic, our graduates should feel comfortable joining a beginner level open play

Club Ratings

Participants are tested on specific technical skills, such as dinking, drop shots, volleys, serves, and returns in order to determine their DUPR equivalent rating. This rating is used solely by PNT for placement in leagues and open plays.

Drills

Drills are for all skill levels. This class is for players that want to work on their skills. We will focus on technique, consistency, strategy and building muscle memory to help you improve your pickleball game.

Cardio Pickleball Class

This is a fast-paced 1-hr class with aerobic and anaerobic exercises. You will burn between 300-600+ calories in 1-hr. You will do a combination of paddle drills, footwork exercises and weights. This is high intensity and designed to help enhance your footwork, paddle control and shot consistency. We are going to work on improving your speed, agility and hand-eye coordination. By strengthening your muscles, you will be stronger and faster on the court. If you are ready to drill, boost your fitness and have fun, this class is for you.

Dink Like You Mean It

This clinic will teach you how to dink properly, where to dink and when to dink vs. attack.

Bang Bang Bang

Learn how to defend against those dreaded BANGERS! This clinic is for you if you play against bangers. . Don’t let those bangers intimidate you…we’ll share tips and techniques to help you play against those dreaded bangers!

Let's See Those Hands

Do you want to have faster hands and win more points at the NVZ? Sign up for the “Let’s See Those Hands” clinic for tips, techniques and drills to improve your net game!

Rock Lob-Star

You want to sign up for this 1-hr clinic if you want to learn how to defend against those darn lobbers and if you want to learn how to use the lob as a strategic shot. Learn the proper way to defend the dreaded lob and when you should use the lob as a strategic shot. You’ll be a rock lob-star after this clinic!

Drop It Like It's Hot

This clinic will focus on the shot every serious player must master - get tips on how to get your drops in, where to drop it and when to drop it.

Bringing It Back

This clinic will focus on improving your BACKhand drives, BACKhand drops, BACKhand dinks and BACKhand volleys Don’t let your BACKhand shots be a weak point in your game. This clinic will help develop your arsenal of BACKhand shots.

Top Spin

This master class will teach you how to incorporate top spin into your serves, drop shots, dinks and volleys for more effective & winning shots. Higher level players use top spin and so should you

Defend

Don’t be defenseless! Learn how to defend when you are being attacked! This 2 hr clinic focuses on defending against bangers, how to use third shot drops to get to the net, how to reset to get from the transition zone to the NVZ. Get strategies, tips and techniques to help you in tough game situations.

Attack

This clinic will teach you when and how to attack and help you with your counter ATTACKs

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