a plan made for you
What's your level, and what goes wrong most?
About 3.5. I serve and get stuck at the baseline.
Your planGet to the line · 3 milestones · 8 lessons, drills and videos
chalk talk for pickleball players
Learn pickleball the way coaches explain it: on the board.
Your game, your plan, every idea drawn on a court. Free, from your first serve to winning your first 5.0 tournament.
No account. No paywall. Just the game.
1 / 4Open in whiteboard
the road
Four stops from first serve to 5.0+
doublesThese paths teach doubles, the way most people play. Singles lessons will come later.
First timer
Learn the rules, the score and the basic shots, so nothing on court is a mystery.
What the game is about · The court and its lines · The basic rules · Calling the score · The gear you actually need · Finding courts and open play
Novicecoming soon
The shots, plainly, and where to stand: so you can rally properly and stop guessing.
Intermediate
Keep the ball in the right place: reach the kitchen line, and stop giving points away.
Third-shot drop · The transition zone · Dink patience · Moving as a team
Advancedcoming soon
Make the ball uncomfortable: dinks with a purpose, and hands that survive a speedup.
Expertcoming soon
Make yourself unreadable: disguise, tempo, and points built over several shots.
Made with AI: with a little help
An AI coach that only teaches from this site
It doesn't make up advice. It asks how you play, then picks from the lessons, drills and videos here.
Made with AI: Get your plan
say it, see it drawn
"We serve, I drop it cross-court, and we both move up."
1 / 4Open in whiteboard
every lesson comes with
The idea, the picture and the proof
Principles, explained
Short lessons on why a shot or a position works, not just what to do. Written to be read between games.
Every idea, animated
Each lesson draws the play on a court and runs it step by step. Pause it, step through it, open it in the whiteboard.
Only the videos worth watching
A short, curated list, each with a note on why it is worth your time and the moment to jump to.
then take it to the court
Practise it, watch it, draw it
DrillsReading a lesson is not learning a shot. Ten-minute drills for whoever turned up, each with the rally it should produce drawn out.Find a drill VideosThe one video worth watching for each technique, not the twenty, with the moment to jump to. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.Watch the picks WhiteboardDraw your own plays and watch them run. Share one with your partner, or describe it in a sentence and let AI draw it.Open the whiteboard
Everything on the site, in one place