Building Acronyms!
Want to get mentally tougher? Why not build your own acronym? An acronym is a collection of letters that stands for something but forms a word. PUP-I put this on my shoe and folks thought I was an animal lover. I am, but PUP stood for Poise under pressure. Often in tight matches I would […]
State Board Blues
For three years I served on the Arizona State Board and I am now going on year 5 with a little break between terms. Prior to that I had stints as the NY State President back in the day and the NY State Board. Why do I do this? To give something back to the […]
Spillin’ Secret Sauce?
“Coach, stop giving away all those coaching points on your tip of the day!” This was one of the comments of a student of mine recently. This has come to me from more than one athlete from all levels of play. My athletes like the fact i teach differently than most pros and am always […]
Go Plan B
Think like the old boy and girl scouts motto–“Be Prepared”! If you are thrown a curve when least expecting, it could create havoc with your concentration. I have seen almost every dirty trick in the book. From hitting a guy in the face with an overhead to win a seniors title, to walking across a […]
Change Eye Level
Score more points by changing eye level! I am a baseball fan and love watching the games that go on with pitchers and hitters. The pitcher is constantly changing the location of pitches and creating confusion on the part of the hitter. So much confusion, the hitter fails at least 70% of the time! We […]
Don’t be a Fool for the 80-20 Rule!
This is a scenario that has played out again and again, in my classroom, on the athletic fields and on the racquetball courts. An extremely talented individual appears. They are so gifted I cannot believe my good luck! I know they will be a superstar! At the same time a seemingly ordinary person appears. They […]
Racquet World
You meet a lot of people in racquetball. In the 90s I met a young guy who was a decent player. He told me he thought he was going into racquetball business full time and I totally encouraged him to do so. Today that dude sits atop the RacquetWorld empire which is the largest racquetball […]
Undercover Racquetball Coach?
Some time ago I was doing my usual channel flipping in my man-cave in a man zoned out tv stupor when I stumble across this show called Undercover Billionaire. These billionaires get $100 and without their connections, name, etc they have to make a million dollars out of 100 in 90 days. This show had […]
Happy New Year! Welcome 2026!!
Happy New Year! Today is the day we make all of these resolutions for the new year. Here are a few of mine-from last year–and happy to say-I was successful and here are eleven for this year!! Rather than go on and on about our accomplishments this year-I am saving it for a later date–needless […]
Remote Coaching
Last year I had a student come in to work with me who has been doing video training with me for five months. Today was our first time on the court. We breezed through forehand, backhand, ceiling balls and serve in just under 3 hours. Usually this would take twice as long if this was […]