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Birdie Ball progression can be modified for any racket sport.
This is how we set up the gym, creating 12 courts so that 24 kids can play at a time.
High 5 Warm up with paddles -
Birdie Ball Stations -
- Self rally - How many can you hit in a row to yourself while standing in a hula hoop?
- partner rally - How many can you hit back and forth with a partner (over the net or not)
- serve to a hoop - How many times can you serve it to the hoop on the floor?
- paddle tricks -
- Can you flip the racket between hits? (forehand,backhand)
- Can you hit, pass the racket around your back and hit it again?
- Can you hit it reach under your leg and hit it again?
- net on the wall - Can you hit a serve over the tape line on the wall? (same height
as net)
- partner toss and catch - Can you hit the birdie back after your partnerr tosses it to you?
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The Great Bean Bag game -
Each court has 2-3 (they are one team working together) behind each serving line with a paddle. There are two birdies
with one group, one group does not have any birdies.
On the signal go the group that has the birdies serves them both. They get to grab one bean bag for a serve that lands
inside of the court, and two if it lands in the hula hoop. They place those in a pile on their "joey" line.
Then the other side of the court serves and does the same. The serve rotates from side to side and each player takes
a turn.
Birdie Ball Tic-Tac-Toe -
- Two teams play against each other at each court. (See diagram)
- Teams "serve" the birdie to the tic tac toe board. If the birdie lands in a square the person who hits it gets to replace
the birdie with a beanbag (each team needs 5 bean bags of the same color, different than the other team).
- The two teams race to win at Tic tac toe, when the game is over shake hands and rotate to another court to play another
team.
The Banana Split -
The object of this game is to "build a banana split".
With every "good serve" (targets vary from over the net for K-1, to a poly spot in the corners of the court for
the 6th graders) your team gets to get a peice of the sundae from the ice cream shop.
Equipment: You need enough for every group to be able to build a sundae.
Hula Hoop - for a bowl (1 per group)
Balls - for scoops of ice cream (2 per group)
Football - for a banana (1 per group)
Bean bags - for sprinkles (3 per group)
juggling scarves - for sauce (2 per group)
When your team completes a banana split, you have to get together and say "Banana Split Yum, Yum!". Then take all of
your stuff back to the ice cream shop and start over.
Game Play -
Equipment:
Pickleball Paddles
Badminton Birdies – modified with a screw,
screwed into the underside of the rubber head
Courts (see diagram above)
Play
Each player gets 5 serves – at the end if
the score is tied the visitor gets the deciding serve
Score is kept rally score style (players can score
if they serve or not)
A point
is scored if:
1. The birdie lands in the other player’s court
2. The other player hits the birdie out of bounds (lines are in)
3. The other player’s serve does not cross the Joey line (see diagram)
4. The other player’s return of serve does not cross the Joey line
5. The other player double touches the birdie
6. The other player hits the ball into the net and it does not cross over the net
Rotation
At the end of the game the players shake hands,
and the winner raises his paddle. The first player from the line of students waiting to play comes into that game and gets
the first 5 serves. If a player wins 3 games they automatically leave to the line and the player that lost can stay as the
winner
- "Joey" Rotation - With 12 courts and 48 kids we have 24 kids playing at a time and
24 waiting. The kids wait on one side of the gym by the standards in a line to come in. If a game ends the winner raises his/her
paddle after shaking the opponents hand, and the first person in line comes into play the winner. The new player gets first
serve. The loser of the game goes to the end of the line. Once you win three games in a row you are out as well and 2 new
players come in.
- Pro/ College/ High School - With three sets of 4 nets each, we divide the nets
into "Pro" - very competetive, "College" - Competetive but not too intense, and "High School" - still learning, lots of questions,
wanting to play for fun.
- King's Court - Play for a certain amount of time, if you win you move
up, if you lose you move down until you get to one end or the other.
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