12 Tips For Coaches
The World Junior Championships were held a few weeks ago and I spent hours watching my athletes play. I had five players from different countries and they all played great and it was and still is an honor to work with them. But during the tournament I saw what I consider huge coaching errors made […]
Coach “Over-Coach”
Game planning can be over-rated for advanced players. Too much game planning can be counter-productive. Here is an example of over-preparation. 1. Coach or well-meaning friend-“This player is very weak on any shot above their waist. Keep the ball there.” 2. Coach-“This player has a weak backhand so keep the ball on that side of […]
5,209 and counting!
TODAY MARKS THE 5,209TH TIP OF THE DAY I HAVE PUBLISHED! For 5,209 consecutive days I have given you a racquetball tip of the day! Each day, I get up early, and post a tip of the day that has been written well in advance. To the athletes I coach: Special thanks. It is an […]
10 Improvement Tips
These days with fewer tournaments, how do you know if you are improving. Well, if you are killing every ball in practice you might be improving but remember these things….. 1. Almost impossible to simulate tournament conditions, especially the mental pressure. 2. There is practice tough and there is tournament tough. The latter means more […]
Anger Posts
“Im mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more!” so goes the line from the movie, Network back in the old days. Well on rball community within the past months I have seen several misguided and uninformed posts. Racquetball public–please take note. I wish I could go into specifics–I really […]
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 […]