Tragedy and Triumph!
The post below is one of my favorites and one of the first posts I ever did many years ago. Enjoy! This one is hard for all tournament players to take. It is bitter medicine but a pill that must be swallowed. When you work hard and train hard and really focus on getting better […]
Quiet the Cannon in Dubs Play
Playing doubles and the player on your side has a cannon for a forehand-what to do? Six power player killer tips for slowing that forehand down. 1. Make them provide their own power. Duh! If you hit it at them hard, it comes back faster! 2. Make them move forward. Pinches, side walls, anything to […]
Who Needs Whom? Or is it Who Needs Who?
Why hire a coach and then over-ride their coaching? A friend of mine told of playing a match and hitting shots vs another player. This player had a person telling them not to listen to their coach (not me for the record) and to do what they said because they could beat the coach. Okay […]
Best Quest
So today I get a text at 5:30am from a player. During our conversation the topic of being the best comes up. We arrive at a few truths regarding being the best. 1. Not too many people can be the best. 2. Surrounding yourself with people who need you is easy but surrounding yourself with […]
Video Quest
Hop in the time machine and going back 50 some years. I am standing in the hall in front of a mirror trying to recall the forehands and backhands I just saw the pros use at a big tournament. I came back from the tournament and got on the court and hit the ball great……and […]
Dear Coach Newbie
Note to any and all young coaches who think they want to coach-here are a few rules and a few thoughts on getting started. First: I wish they would not start you at the top! That is a terrible way to learn. I wish there was an apprentice program that governing bodies would use. So […]
More Coach Talk
Adv. You can be for sure-but coaching is not the same as playing, Coaching is transferring information in many different ways to different people and helping them progress. Playing is competing to win. 1. When you start, you will have no track record., so your athletes need to win or improve their games as fast […]
Under PRESSURE !!!
This one is as true today as it was when I learned it 52 years ago! Playing the pressure points-anybody can get on a roll and score a bunch of points, but when it comes to crunch time, only a few excel at pressure points. First, execute simple serves that you are comfortable with using. […]
Backhand Blues
The old pioneer racquetball techniques have changed drastically with one exception; the Dave Peck School of racquetball. Dave was way ahead of his time, having conferred with movement experts and linked science and racquetball very early in our game’s history. Tennis has gone through the same growing pains racquetball now is. USA tennis took a […]
Life, Forehands and Backhands
Private lesson profile-generally all of my lessons start the same way. “What are your goals?” How do your goals match your lifestyle, job, school, family, relationships etc.? How much time do you have to devote to racquetball excellence? To be good at it, you must make a schedule to train and get to work. To […]