Doubles: both touch, then return
Ready when: Score and referee a set (b6) and Chest and head to the zone (i1) done.
What you are learning
The doubles rules and roles: only the receiver touches the serve first, both partners touch the ball before it goes back, and neither may use the same body part as the team's last return. One player controls the ball, the partner sets it up, and the first finishes.
Words on this card Net, Serve, Fault, Touch, Body part, Return, Set, Singles, No pass, Referee
- Net
- The low barrier across the middle of the table; at home a rope or a bench.
- Serve
- The shot that starts each point, and the line the server stands behind.
- Fault
- Breaking a rule, which loses the point.
- Touch
- Each time a player plays the ball; at most three per side.
- Body part
- Any part used to play the ball, such as a foot, a thigh, the chest or the head; never the hands or arms.
- Return
- The touch that sends the ball back over the net.
- Set
- One part of a match, played to 12 points.
- Singles
- One against one, or two against two.
- No pass
- In doubles, the fault when the ball goes back before both partners have touched it.
- Referee
- The person who calls the score and the faults.
Show it first for the one teaching
- Serve to the receiver, who controls it with the chest.
- The partner sets it up with a gentle thigh touch.
- The receiver returns it over the net with the foot.
Your part while they practise
Referee the order of play.
Step by step
- Only the receiver touches the serve first.
- Both partners touch before the ball goes back.
- No partner uses the same part as the team's last return.
- Roles: one brings the ball under control, the other sets it up, the first finishes.
How much: 1 set 20 min a session 1 day a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Doubles set
A full set to 12; rotate server and receiver every 2 points.
Who plays: 2 pairs and a referee.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Serve 2 points each in turn
- Play each point with the doubles rules
- First to 12 points
- Fair play
- The referee's call is final.
- Points
- 1 point for each point won.
- Fouls
- The point goes to the other pair
- A "no pass": the ball goes back before both partners touched it
- The same part as the team's last return
- A touch on the table or net
- Winning
- The first pair to 12 points.
- 4 points for 1 star
- 8 points for 2 stars
- 12 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
A bounce on the floor allowed once.
Free roles, but foot and thigh only.
What you will see, and what to say
- one player does it all
Both touch, every time
Share it. - a partner repeats the return part
Different part from last return
Change it.
Self-check
1 set with 0 "no pass" faults.
Stop and get a coach when
Playing on the table.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains doubles teamwork, rules.
Intermediate is done when i1 and i3 self-checks are met.
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