BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
A Video Course
To Help You Achieve
Your Best Pickleball Life
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tacie Townsend was introduced to pickleball by her
parents about two years ago and has never looked
back. A 20-year veteran of softball, who played for
Great Britain, the professional athlete was taken in by the
physical aspects of pickleball as well as the mental demands.
And, like anyone focused on personal betterment in athletics,
Townsend sought out a coach and found one in Steve Kennedy.
Together, they improved her game—and then she had an idea.
Why not make what she’s learning from Kennedy available to
everyone? So that’s exactly what she did.
Townsend says.
“He’s a great coach
and my game
has improved
tremendously,
despite having no
background in
racquet sports.
Coach Steve is the
real deal. Making his teachings
available to everyone is invaluable because people fall in love
with the sport and they don’t know how to find a good coach
and really improve. This is why we teamed up with Coach
Steve—to make the best pickleball lessons and knowledge
accessible.”
Townsend’s “My Pro Pickleball Coach with Coach Steve
Kennedy: Everything You Need to Know to Play Your
Best Pickleball and to Play Winning Pickleball” is a video
course comprised of 144 lessons with more than 7 hours of
instruction from Kennedy.
“The video lessons cover the various pickleball strokes,
strategies, fundamentals and drills, which are broken down
into 3- to 6-minute segments so you really understand each
lesson,” Townsend says. “For example, there are about 10
different videos on drop shots—each one focusing on a specific
drop shot skill or strategy. The video lessons are short,
organized, and designed to encompass a lesson you can work
on for the day to improve your pickleball game.”
Pickler’s self-guided tutorial also comes with a 394-page
e-book (with photos) that tracks the video lessons and gives
players another way to absorb the material. The video
lessons, which can be found on Pickler’s website
(www.thepickler.com), cover pickleball
mechanics, fundamentals, drills, skills
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and strategies—practically everything you
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could encounter on the pickleball court
and how to deal with it successfully.
“Knowing great coaches is something
I benefited from in my life as a softball
player, and I was lucky I found Steve
Kennedy in my life as a pickleball player,”
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Townsend says her target audience is any pickleball player
who wants to improve his or her pickleball game. Anyone—a
beginner, intermediate or advanced player—can improve their
game with Pickler’s video lessons.
On the mental rigors of the game, Townsend offers “The
Pickleball Mental Edge: Learnings from Pickleball Pros
and Pickleball Enthusiasts to Improve Your Pickleball
Mental Game.” This 40-page e-book is a quick read, and deals
with the more cerebral aspects of the game she’s learned
as a professional athlete. “The mental game can be just as
important as the physical game,” she explains. “This book
offers ideas on how to stay tough and be in the moment
so you can better handle the pressures on the court.”
For more information on “My Pro Pickleball Coach with
Coach Steve Kennedy: Everything You Need to Know
to Play Your Best Pickleball and to Play Winning
Pickleball,” $134.95, and “The Pickleball Mental
Edge: Learnings from Pickleball Pros and Pickleball
Enthusiasts to Improve Your Pickleball Mental Game”
e-book, $3.95, visit www.thepickler.com to order today!
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JULY/AUGUST 2019 |
MAGAZINE
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