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Example #1: A short video of how to play pickleball by Heather Pape
Don't Wait To Be An Expert To Share Pickleball Lessons Learned: Excellent Example
Pickleball 101 Topics
(Time Code List)
0:11 Materials Needed To Play Pickleball0:24 Court Lines0:43 The Kitchen Lines1:00 Outline Of The Court1:30 Serving1:53 Rules To Serving2:24 Serving Example2:37 Rules For The Kitchen3:20 Double Bounce Rule3:46 Scoring4:07 Example4:24 Doubles Demo4:39 Credits
Make a YouTube video explaining an aspect of playing pickleball. Include a time code list in the YouTube description. Post the link to the video in comments.
Assignment: Choose an individual from the above list and use their production style as a model to produce a training video. Post the link to your video in the comments.
Andy Leighton and his wife Helen discuss the positive effects on living with Parkinson's and playing Pickleball since 2011.
Pittsburgh pickleball tournament attracts more than 400 players while raising money for Parkinson Foundation
Pickleball player and Parkinson’s patient Andy Leighton can attest to the sport’s benefits.
“I love the closeness of it,” Leighton says. “You’re closer to your opponents than you are in tennis, and that fosters a social relationship that you won’t get in tennis or most other sports.”
Leighton was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about six years ago. Off the court, his symptoms will flare and his body will shake. But once he has a pickleball paddle in his hand, everything changes.
“My wife took me to a tournament — entered us in a tournament — didn’t tell me a thing about the sport, and I’m a tennis player,” Leighton says. “When I tried to apply my tennis skills, you can only do so much of that, so I suffered a little bit. And then I caught on. Now I’m a monster.”
Pittsburgh City Paper (June 28, 2017)Read More For more articles and videos regarding Pickleball and Parkinson's, check out this Port Townsend Pickleball search stream and the Gamma Pickleball Classic "Why Pickleball" page
This is the first of 10 modules from the Core Pickleball Strategies class On Google Docs, write a short review on each module and post the Google Doc link in the comments below.
