Feb 2017 Oracle

PICKLEBALL CLUB NEWS Our pickleball club is working hard to earn a five star rating in our wonderful five-star resort! Our Open Pickleball play is busy from 8:00-11:00 every morning, and now has expanded to 3:00-5:00 pm in the after- noon. Our early afternoon times are also quickly filling up. We have Beginner lessons from 3:00-4:00 pm, and have introduced novice instruction and drills during this time for improved skill development. From 1:00-2:30 two days a week we have started an intermediate skill development clinic to provide instruction in advanced dinking, third shot drop and advanced play strategy. At 1:00-2:00 we will have mixer round robins Monday, Wednesday and Saturday for women’s, men’s and mixed fun play. Our ladder play is up and running— sign up at your skill level, and play a round robin with others at your skill level. See below for schedules for each event and check our website for further information: ORPSpickleball@wix.com . Working towards a five-star rating! LADDERS PLAY LADDERS PLAY has been introduced to our club. This has provided our club members the opportunity to rate their playing ability by playing games against other players at their self-rated ability level, and then moving up and down the ladder based on their game scores. Ladders play is scheduled for every Friday morning, starting at 8:00am.Ladders’ play is completely voluntary and recommended for players looking for competition at their own ability level.

BEGINNER PICKLEBALL LESSONS Beginner lessons for pickleball take place Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 3:00 -4:00 pm. All clinics are free. Please wear running shoes or court shoes. We will provide paddles for the clinic, if you don’t have one of your own. Our promise is that we will have you playing a game within 15 minutes of beginning instruction. You will learn:  how to volley the ball  how to serve  basic rules of the game  basic strategies of play  why you have to stay out of the kitchen! NOVICE SKILL DEVELOPMENT We have introduced novice skill development lessons from 3:00-4:00 Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. We encourage all novice players who would like to improve their skills to attend. We will provide instruction in:  improved serving  deep volleying  dinking  handling hard shots at the net  basic and more advanced strategies of the game. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN PADDLE WITH YOU. INTERMEDIATE SKILL DEVELOPMENT CLINIC Our club has begun an intermediate skill development clinic with 16 participants having one lesson per week for four weeks. These pickleballers are working on developing advanced skills in: dinking, using the drop shot consistently and using these skills in advanced game strategy. Many thanks to Barry Hill for volunteering to provide these clinics for our players.

PICKLEBALL SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 2017

SAT/ SUNDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Novice: Courts 1-2 Intermediate/ Advanced: Courts 3-7

7:AM-12 Noon

Novice: Courts 1-2 Intermediate/ Advanced: Courts 3-7

Novice: Courts 1-2 Intermediate/ Advanced: Courts 3-7

Novice: Courts 1-2 Intermediate/ Advanced: Courts 3-7

Ladders Play starting at 8 AM.

Open Play

12- 1PM

Open Play

Open Play

Open Play

Open Play

Open Play

Open Play

1PM- 2:30 PM

Mixed doubles Mixer

Men’s Mixer

Intermediate Skill Clinic Open Play

Women’s Mixer

Intermediate Skill Clinic

Open Play

3 - 4PM

Beginner Lessons

Beginner Lessons Beginner Lessons

Open Play

Open Play Open Play

4 -10PM

Open Play

Open Play

Open Play

Open Play

Open Play

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