Weber Leisure Center · Skokie, IL
Enhance your pickleball game by mastering the kinetic chain — the coordinated use of your legs, hips, and core to generate power, speed, and control. Efficient body movement not only boosts your performance on serves and groundstrokes but also helps reduce fatigue and the risk of injury. In this unique class, you’ll learn how the principles of Tai Chi Chuan (Tai Chi) — a Chinese martial art emphasizing slow, relaxed, and continuous movement with mindful breathing — can improve your balance, flexibility, and reaction time. Step-by-step, you’ll be introduced to foundational Tai Chi sequence and related exercises, with a focus on applying them directly to pickleball. Each session will conclude with pickleball play to put your new body awareness into action. Your instructor, Jeff Strauss, brings over 50 years of experience practicing and teaching Tai Chi and has been teaching pickleball with the Skokie Park District for the past five years. ** This course requires basic knowledge of pickleball moves, play and scoring. **
