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Never played before?

Beginner Pickleball is a one-hour introduction for people who have never picked up a paddle. You learn the shots, the rules and the scoring — and then you stay on and play with everybody else.

Book a Beginners session

It is an introduction, not a level

This is the part people most often get wrong about us, so it is worth saying plainly.

You come once

One session

Beginners is a way in, not a group you belong to. It is not a class you keep attending until somebody says you are ready, and there is nothing to pass.

Then you play

Straight into Social

Our Beginners sessions run half an hour before a Social session and then join it. You are not sent home with a leaflet — you carry on playing with the group.

Nobody expects you to be good

Genuinely

Everybody there was new once, most of them recently. You will miss shots, so will they, and that is roughly the whole point of the sport.

Next Beginners sessions

Live from the club calendar. Arrive at the time shown — where a session runs into a Social, it says so.

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What actually happens

What to wear

Nothing special

Trainers you can move in and clothes you would wear to walk in. Indoor courts, so no need for anything weatherproof.

Equipment

Provided

We have paddles and balls. You do not need to buy anything to try pickleball, and plenty of people play for months on club paddles.

Coming on your own

Very common

You do not need a partner or a group. Doubles rotates, so you play with several different people in an hour, which is the fastest way to meet anybody here.

Learn the basics, then come and play with us.
That is the whole pathway. There is no test, no grading and no waiting to be invited.

After your first session

You are welcome at Social from that point on — most people go to the very next one. If you would rather learn privately first, or want a family or group introduction of your own, there is private coaching too.

What Social is like