Good training, no coach.
Open Training is for advanced players, around 4.0 and up, who practise in pairs or groups of up to four without a coach. It gives you ready-made practice for the court. Pick a goal, like getting to the kitchen or winning the dink battle, and you get a 30-minute session of three drills that build on each other. Or pick a single shot, like the drop or the volley, and you get drills that repeat only that shot, from slow to full pace. Every drill comes with a short video of it, starting right where the drill is shown.
The system behind it
Every session is built so you learn the shot by playing it, not by being told. Behind that is a training system, made from more than 200 reviewed YouTube videos by coaches and pros. AI helped turn the videos into drills and sessions, and I decide which ones go online.
A session climbs in three steps, based on sports-science research on how players learn best: find the shot, add pressure, then play it in a real point. Along the way, simple rules like a target zone or a limit on shots make sure the shot you want to learn is the one that wins the point. Aim for about seven good shots out of ten.
You don't have to study the system to use it: the site chooses the drills for you. If you want to see all of it, the overview lays it out.
Non-commercial
This is a private, non-commercial project by Volker Max Meyer, a pickleball player in Berlin. No club or company runs it. There are no ads and no sign-up, and nothing is for sale. I want to help players improve and bring pickleball to the people.
Feedback welcome
The site is a work in progress. I add and change sessions and drills based on what players tell me. After a goal session, the short form at the end is the quickest way. For a shot drill, a missing drill or anything else, just email me at pickleballinberlin@gmail.com.