Group:
- Beginner
- 12 students – 8 to 14 years old
- Understand how to clear, drop, smash, net shots, lift but need lot of refining of techniques
- Develop basic game knowledge
Lesson Focus:
- Continue on Clear drills
- Practice on doubles serve and receive
- Games – apply serve and receive serve into
Warm Up (10 mins)
- Running forward to one wall and back to the starting point 2x
- Side shuffle
- Shuffle shuffle jump
- Crossovers
- High knees/butt kicks
- Lunges
- Sprinting
Notes:
- Warmup without rackets
- Increases heart rate and blood flow
Footwork – 4 corners (10 mins)
- Each player takes a half court facing to the coach
- Coach to point to one corner, student move to the corner and do a shadow swing then recover and move back to the center
- On the back court, players do a clear. On the front court, players do a lift
- Time drill: 1 min per set. Repeat for 5 sets, 30 seconds interval break
Notes:
- Students must do scissor kick when shadow clear at the rear court
- Proper footwork and shadow swing is a big focus of this drill
- Coaches should check the footwork, drip, and swing of students
Break and Rally (5 mins)
- Ask student to pick up a shuttle and find a partner to rally for 5 mins
Forehand Clear (10 mins)
- Students pick a partner and rally with only clear shots
- Rotate students partner every 3 mins
Notes:
- Focus on hitting high and far
- Contact point should be high
- Observe students and help student with correct movement when necessary
Doubles Serve and Receive Serve (20 mins)
- Group of 4 on one court. 2 vs 2 to simulate double games
- Each of the 4 players rotate to play server, receive and the partners.
- The Server
- Focus on low serve to deliver shuttle to the center of the court to cut down the possible angle of return
- For variation, low serve can be direct toward the receiver. This can disrupt their preferred way of returning serve
- Occasionally, serve can deliver shuttle to the wide line. But this can be risky as it is difficult to cover the straight return
- Following the low server, server must prepare to cover net reply
- The server should also look to anticipate push reply to mid court and flat return to the rear court. This usually involved choosing one side to cover
- Straight reply to the server should follow by the anticipate the straight reply from the
- The Receiver
- The receiver plays the net reply from the low serve, they should seek to dominate the net by kill any net reply from the server
- Straight return of serve to the mid court should be followed by an attempt to intercept any straight reply
- Straight return to the rear court, the receiver should look for any straight replies
- The receiver may choose to attack to the body of service partner in which case they should prepare to cover both sides for a possible return
- If the receiver plays an inaccurate return. They may have to retreat off the net and form a side by side formation
- The Service Partner
- Responsible to cover the mid and read court
- The Receiver Partner
- Stay focus and prepare to move back to attack or side by side to defend
Notes:
- Coaches watching on court side and help students following the instructions above
- Skip the flick server and flick serve return in the video
Games – singles and Doubles (30 mins)
- Coaches to play games with players for doubles
- Guide players on positioning during rally
- Coaches help to keep the rally going
Notes:
- Doubles should focus on low serve, net return and anticipation that practiced earlier
- Help students understand when to split side to side (defensive) and front and back (offensive)
- Make players move around, let them apply what they have learned from the lessons
Cool Down Stretches (5 mins)
- Calves
- Quads
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
- Groin