Pickleball π lessons with
Coach Gary Lee
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Pickleball π lessons with
Coach Gary Lee
Fromper lesson
92
Happy Student ScoreGreat
Gary is reliable and responsive. Students are happy and often return for more lessons.
Coach Rating
4.9
41 ratings19 reviews
92
Happy Student ScoreGreat
Gary is reliable and responsive. Students are happy and often return for more lessons.
Coach Rating
4.9
41 ratings19 reviews
About your pickleball coach
Gary Lee is a PPR Certified Pickleball Coach, competitive player, and experienced sports leader with 25+ years of coaching, teaching, and program leadership. A 2025 PPA semifinalist, Gary brings current competitive experience to every lesson, combining sound fundamentals, smart strategy, and practical game development. He works with beginners through advanced players, helping athletes improve technique, consistency, movement, court positioning, shot selection, and confidence. His coaching style is positive, student-centered, and built around learning through play. Whether your goal is to learn the game, improve your skills, compete at a higher level, or simply have more fun on the court, Gary is passionate about helping players become betterβand enjoy the journey along the way.
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Teaches: Kids, Teenagers, Adults, Seniors
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Levels: Beginners, Intermediates, Experts
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Lives in: Apex, North Carolina
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Years Coaching: 5 years
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Given: 64 lessons
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Accomplishments
π3.80 DUPR
βTravels to you
βTournament Competitor
βTournament Semifinals
Certifications & Badges
πPPR Certified
π3+ Years Teaching
Specializations
π―Doubles Strategy
π―Return of Serve
π―Kitchen Line Strategy
π―Dinking
Beginner training plan
Your first lessonIn the first lesson, my hope would be able to get to know you and your sports background. We will cover basic rules to the game of Pickleball, the dimensions of the court and how to hold the paddle properly. We will also learn how to do dinks into the kitchen and the basic serve.
Lesson 2-3οΏΌ lesson two and three well cover fore hand and back hand hit from the baseline from the transition zone and up close and across the court history of these groundstrokes are important!
Lesson 4-10These lessons will consist of all types of lollies, transition zone, variety of serves, team play, strategy, lobs, getting lobs, video, tape, and dissection and feedback.
Lesson 11+This section would include more event stuff in terms of serving, volley, consistency, and drilling and hitting the ball between your legs.
Advanced training plan
Your first lessonI would take some time to get to know you as a person and as a player. We will do dynamic stretching because practices and training will be intense and when to prevent injury. οΏΌ we will start with aggressive, dinging skills and drilling.
Lesson 2-3This lesson will consist of developing one strong serve, and a secondary serve that will serve as a change up the goal. Here would be to maximize your serving ability and making it a strength to your game.
οΏΌ The goal hair would be to have one solid hard and fast serve. And another serve that would be different, maybe a curveball or a screwball.
οΏΌWe will also work on forehand and backhand, this is important for consistency, power, precision, and pace!
Lesson 4-10We will continue to work on serves, and then the best type of returns to set up things. We will press into more advanced dinking and speed ups.
We will work on Advance valleyβs overhead, attack volleys, punch, volley, rolls, other variations of volleys!
We will also work on drop shots from everywhere in the court and resets!
The goal here would be to develop consistency, fast hands, and reaction!
We will also work on lobs, returning lobs, and learning how to hit the ball between your legs to return a lob!
As we continue to have lessons, Iβll continue to get to know you better and focusing on the areas of key development!
Also Ernieβs, around the polesβ¦
Lesson 11+This section would be the whole development of not just being good but being great at everything!
What you need to bringBring a water bottle and comfortable clothes.
Bring your paddle if you have one. If you donβt have a paddles, please let me know that you need to barrow one.
What I can bringI can bring up to 5 paddles, lots of balls and cones!
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If you need to cancel your lesson, no worries! You can get a full refund if you cancel within 24 hours of making your booking, as long as your lesson isn't in the next 24 hours. We want to make the process as hassle-free as possible for you.
And if you simply want to reschedule your lesson, change the date and time, or adjust the number of students joining, we've got you covered there too. You can easily make these changes within 24 hours of booking, and up to 72 hours before your lesson starts.
Our goal is to make your experience smooth, enjoyable, and worry-free. So go ahead and book with confidence, knowing that we're here to accommodate your needs every step of the way!