Racquetball RX
As I watch some of my athletes play at the top levels, it occurs to me they probably are not doing what I am prescribing. Prescription after a poor performance. RX for athletes: 1. Every practice day work on your worst skill 2x more than your strongest skill. 2. Every practice day work your mechanics […]
Do You Need Them or Do They Need You?
Questions for Up and Coming Players 101. I am seeing more and more players out there taking a left turn when they should be staying straight on their path up. Surrounding yourself with the correct group of people will take your game will to the top. Surround yourself with the wrong people and your game […]
Racquetball Without Borders
Above Left, Yanna Salazar , World Junior Champion, Right, Yanna and Angelica Barrios, former world junior champion, Bolivia Many years ago, yours truly was the head coach of team USA. In pool play, there were many matches that were easy for the USA athletes. Back on those days qualifying for the USA team was harder […]
Timing is Everything
As the joke goes, a priest, a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar….you can fill in the rest, but the punchline has to be delivered perfectly to make the joke funny! What does this have to do with racquetball? Bear with me! I marvel at the lack of creativity sometimes when watching tournament […]
Individualized Instruction
So I am talking to a colleague regarding coaching. He told me he was shocked that one of his students took a lesson from three world famous players and/or coaches, and all of them told this student something different about their contact point during the swing. He seemed to think the coaches were wrong but […]
No Confidence Calvin
This one drifted into my “in-box” some time ago. Dear Coach, Do you work with mental skills as well as the mechanics of footwork and strokes? Signed, No Confidence Calvin Dear Cal, I did not realize i did but from day one I employed a method of teaching that carried over from my classroom days. […]
Coach’s Most Overheard
Winterton sayings–You can hear some of these in lessons–over the years here are a few goodies! “Hit and get, don’t hit and sit or your game wont be worth spit!” “Use your body, not your arm, to your shoulder will come no harm!” “Shuffalo to Bufflalo Makes your game go, go, go!” “Out and around, […]
Football, Family, and Friends
Thanksgiving day in the USA is a time for the three F’s; football, family and friends. What are we thankful for? I will never forget a memorable Thanksgiving at my sister’s house in North Carolina. She had like 25 people seated around a huge table and we all had to be thankful for something so […]
Preach it and Teach it!
An old friend of mine is working on their PHD and is rapidly becoming an expert on athletic movement. Since I used to coach this ex-athlete, they knew I’d be excited about the knowledge they were picking up. So this person calls me and immediately we launch into an in-depth conversation about court movement and […]
Top 10 For The Win!
Under pressure the mind does strange things and the athlete sometimes climbs aboard a mental roller coaster that renders that player out of control! How does this happen? 1. The pressure of wanting to win leads to a following thought; my opponent is trying to cheat me out of that win. 2. See above only […]