Mitch Foster Pickleball Coaching

  • Head Pickleball Pro: JW Marriott Desert Ridge (North Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ)

  • Experience: 6 years of dedicated coaching & developing players / 19 years playing

  • Competitive History: Multiple Junior National Titles (Singles, Doubles, Mixed)

  • Roots: Introduced to the sport by my mother, a multi-time National Champion and 30-year coaching veteran.

PASS Pickleball Academy was founded from a deep passion for developing players and elevating their game.

My coaching philosophy is simple yet highly effective: find the core similarities across all facets of the game and distill complex technique, strategy, and new concepts into four easily digestible phrases that form our PASS acronym:

  • Path of your follow-through

  • Angle of your paddle face

  • Speed of your follow-through

  • Shadowing the ball

We empower our students to master court positioning. We instruct them to aggressively get to the net, because that is where points are won, and we strictly advise against engaging in extended battles with opponents at the Kitchen Line while trapped in the transition zone, as that is precisely where points are lost.

Ultimately, at a high level, we believe the game is played only two ways: take control of the point by playing with intention and setting yourself up for the next shot, or stay in the point by playing defensively and working to regain proper court position.

This focused methodology, refined over six years, has transformed thousands of players—taking our clients from merely hitting the ball to executing strategic, instinctual play on the court.

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