ADULT PICKLEBALL LESSONS

• Ages 18+
• 4 Lessons per class
• Class Times
  • Pickleball 101: Mondays at 6P
  • Pickleball 101: Mondays at 7:10P
• Pickleball 101 (Beginner Class) – Learn the fundamentals of pickleball in this four-week beginner course. Players will be introduced to rules, paddle grip, serving, and essential shots like dinks, drops, and volleys. Each session includes skill-building drills and guided gameplay to prepare you for recreational play.
• Pickleball 102 (Intermediate Class) – For advanced beginners to intermediate players. Focus on strategy, shot placement, communication, and advanced techniques like the third shot drop and net play. Sessions combine instruction and gameplay to strengthen skills and teamwork.

Week 1: 

• Introduction to pickleball: history, rules, and fun facts
• Warm-up exercises
• How to grip the paddle
• Ball/paddle control drills
• Types of serves

Week 2:

• Review of Week 1
• Introduction to dinking
• Introduction to forehand shots
• Guided game play

Week 3:

• Weekly review
• Introduction to backhand shots
• Introduction to the third shot drop
• Guided game play

Week 4: 

• Weekly review
• Introduction to net play
• Lobbing fundamentals
• Punch blocking techniques
• Game play and skill integration

Week 1: 

• Go over  history of the game, basic rules, warm up exercises

• Ready Position and Commu

• Intro to 3rd shot drop

• Play a game using  dinking , drop shot

Week 2:

• Intermediate theories on serving

• Into to serving placement

• Review of f

• Game play

Week 3: 

• Third shot drop game

• Incorporating  week 1 and 2 into game play

• Blocking vs attacking while at the net

• Using  communication skill while at the net

Week 4:

• Introduce overheads

• Strategy on how to return overheads

• How to play as a team

• Game play using all of the above.

Tom R. Wheeler

Tom Wheeler, Founder and CEO of Purely Pickleball, LLC, has been involved in pickleball since 2005. His love of pickleball started while living in St. George, UT. In 2010. Tom started his own pickleball company, Pickleballnow Inc., manufacturing custom designed paddles, which were unique at the time. His company donated paddles throughout the school system and helped teach and start programs within the local schools. He launched his paddles into two major sporting goods chains and soon his products were available nationwide.   He gained the attention of a large sporting goods company and was acquired in 2015. Tom helped establish a nationwide court dealer network and traveled extensively around the country promoting pickleball and the company’ s renamed  brand ONIX pickleball.

Tom moved to Williamsport, Md in 2022 and has been involved in local pickleball through the YMCA in both Hagerstown and Frederick, playing as well as teaching new players. Tom is excited to begin teaching at the Hagerstown Field House beginning in June.

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