Your camp group: eight players, one coach
Drilling at the net, not standing in line
Everyone here started exactly where you are
Four hours, and the game finally clicks
RallyUp Beginner Camp in The Villages, FL
The best way to learn Pickleball with like-minded people
✓ Fully refundable until camp day
Full refund anytime before camp day.
And if the camp doesn’t win you over, your next one is free.*
*T&Cs apply
What your $249 seat covers.
- 4 hours of coaching with a world-class certified coach
- Your personalised performance plan, emailed after camp
- Lifetime access to our players community
- Courts, balls and paddles all provided
- A few more surprises waiting for you after camp day
...and so much more that will be revealed once you register
Deb Harrison
Hi, I'm Deb Harrison. Most people call me PicklePong Deb.
I spent a career in classrooms. High school, then college, a bachelor's and a master's in education, and a lot of years standing in front of people who had never once done the thing I was about to teach them. That's the actual job. Not being the best player in the room. Being the one who can get somebody from nothing to something before the day is out.
I found pickleball in 2004, back when you still had to spell it for people. I've taught it every year since. Twenty-one years, and I've yet to meet a beginner I couldn't have playing real points by the afternoon.
Somewhere along the way I got competitive about it. Over 120 medals now, including gold at the Minto US Open and gold at the National Senior Games, and in 2018 Florida named me its Senior Games Female Athlete of the Year. I mention it not because it'll fix your dink, but so you know the person teaching you can still do it when it counts.
And if you've ever searched how to hit a third shot drop, there's a decent chance we've already met. Over 200 instructional videos on YouTube as PicklePongDeb, nearly all of them made because a student asked me the same question twice and I figured somebody else was wondering too.
Recreation Plantation is my home court. I'm the teaching pro here, so on Sunday, September 27 you're not getting a coach who flew in for the day. You're getting the person who runs these courts.
How I coach
- 1
One thing at a time. Twenty-one years of teaching says a new player handed ten corrections leaves with none of them. Hand them one, the right one, and it's still there next week.
- 2
I watch before I talk. You've got one or two habits quietly costing you most of your points, and they're not the same as the habits of the person on the next court. Blanket advice is how a camp wastes your morning.
- 3
Making those videos changed how I teach in person. When you explain a third shot drop to a camera and nobody can raise a hand, you learn to say it in plain words the first time. You get that same version here, with follow-up questions allowed.
- 4
And I teach the rules properly, because that's the real reason people quit this game. Not the dink. Not the serve. It's standing in the wrong spot, not being sure whose ball it was, and not wanting to look silly in front of strangers. We kill that in the first hour.
Walk in having never played, and here's how you walk out:
- ✓Your serve lands. Not now and then, consistently, and you'll know why.
- ✓You know the kitchen rule, the two-bounce rule and how to keep score, without anyone prompting you.
- ✓You stop reaching for the ball and start moving your feet to it.
- ✓You play real points in front of other people, and enjoy it enough to book the next one.
Here’s your whole Sunday.
Names first, then paddles
Meet your group of eight, easy warm-up, first rallies while Deb starts reading your game.
The court, in plain English
The kitchen, the two-bounce rule, scoring. Ask anything.
Grip & soft hands
Looser than you think. The touch drill that makes day one feel like week three.
Dinking, the soft game
The little shot everyone talks about, drilled until it stops popping up. Ends with a longest-rally contest.
Serve & return
In. Deep. Repeatable. Drilled against a target until it's yours.
Break
Water, a seat, and the part where the group chat gets made.
Volleys & the third shot
Hands at the net, and the one shot that gets you up to where points are won.
Where to stand in doubles
Move together, take the middle, stop colliding with your partner.
Real games, Deb courtside
Live points with your coach calling what to try next.
Your path forward
A recap of what you improved, and what to work on next week.
What a RallyUp camp looks like.
It was never about the paddle.
The paddle is just the excuse. What actually changes is that you stop saying maybe next time when someone asks you to play, and you walk onto a court full of strangers knowing you belong there.
You spend the day with seven people in exactly your spot, learning the same things at the same speed. Nobody is waiting on you, nobody is showing off. By the afternoon you're laughing between points with people whose names you didn't know at 9am.
Most groups swap numbers before they leave, and the chat keeps going long after camp day. That's how one Sunday turns into a standing thing you look forward to all week.
All of it starts on one Sunday
Is this camp for you?
It’s for you if…
- ✓You picked up a paddle recently and love it, but real games still feel shaky
- ✓You're 40, 50, 60, 70. Most of our players are
- ✓You want a coach watching your game, not a lecture with a paddle in your hand
- ✓You'd rather learn with 7 other beginners than sink-or-swim at open play
It’s not for you if…
- ✗You're a 4.0 with tournament weekends booked
- ✗You want 20 straight games and zero coaching
- ✗You're looking for a kids' program
What it would cost you anywhere else.
Your seat is $249. This is just what the pieces go for on their own.
Recreation Plantation.
Everything under one roof.
609 Hwy 466, Lady Lake, FL 32159 · 14 outdoor courtsFAQs
Isn't it hot outside in Florida in September?
I'm in The Villages. How far is this?
What if I've barely played? Will I be the slowest one there?
Where is the camp, and what's it like?
Do I need a rating to come?
I'm in my 50s, 60s, or beyond. Is this really for me?
Can I bring a friend?
Will I actually get individual attention?
What do I bring?
What if I can't make the camp date?
How does the guarantee work?
Sunday is four hours.The game is yours for years.
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