- Check the space and the kit.
- Get your child's attention first.
- Show it from two sides.
- Say one thing only.
- End on one that works.
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Is the space marked?
Soft balls.
Three minutes to get warm.
Easy jogging on the spot, then arms and legs. How to warm up well is explained at workonfitness.com.
- Stand behind the baseline, just to the right of the centre mark.
- Drop the ball and hit it from below the waist, diagonally into the box on the far side.
- If it misses (a fault), take a second serve. Then serve from the left side.
Show it once from the front and once from the side, slowly. Then let your child try.
- Stand behind the baseline, to the right of the centre mark.
- Serve diagonally into the right service court with an underhand serve.
- Two tries per point: a second serve after a fault.
- Then from the left.
- The receiver returns after one bounce.
How much: 20 serves
Feet behind the line
Serve and return
The rules
Each player serves two points, then the partner, as in a match.
- The server serves from the right, then the left
- The receiver lets the serve bounce and returns it; play out the point
- After two points, swap servers
- First to 7 points
Fair play: A grown-up serves from 2 steps further back.
- Points
- 1 point for each point won; a double fault gives the point to the receiver.
- Fouls
- A fault (the serve is taken again, or the point lost on the second): a foot on or over the baseline; the serve lands outside the box; serving before the receiver is ready
- Win
- The first to 7 points.
Score
- 2
- 4
- 7
6 of 10 underhand serves in the right box.
End on one that works. If it was hard today, finish with the easier version.
Well played.
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