Help! A Guru is Coaching Against Me!
Help-a guru is scouting me! This happened to me years ago at a tournament. Some legend showed up and was videotaping my match. Not on the sly but like “hey crowd, look at me-I’m a guru videotaping a peon player”! It is unnerving but watch the pros. They are on tv and they have cameras […]
Pressure Point Play
To me, this is one of the most important things in Racquetball competitive play. Pressure point play-I define Pressure Point play as that big time in the match when you can turn the match totally in your favor. Now I know what you may be thinking-10-10 breaker type pressure point-nope-I am thinking up 4-0 and […]
Remote Coaching
Whenever I hear someone refer to themselves as a pioneer of remote coaching I have to remind folks I have been doing remote work for 35 years via the internet and phone calls with the old VHS Cassette tapes! I run into all sorts of misguided people who think the pro has to be present […]
Hydration for Racquetball Nation
If you play tournaments and move around the country you will run into climate challenges. One such challenge is the great SouthEast. Heat and high humidity can wear down a player, even in air conditioning. Hydration is crucial. Even more challenging is altitude. There dehydration happens rapidly due to increased evaporation off the skin and […]
4 Footwork Tips
Speed–footwork-we all hear the terms but I maintain these terms are not well understood. 1. First, you need muscle for first step explosion. That means proper weight training preferably with an expert who can make sure you are working on counter movements as well as movement. 2. Next, you need technique; the way you are […]
Free Advice
I sometimes get well-meaning “advice” emails from other folks “helping me” coach athletes. It amazes me that others think I am not trying or something. Let me throw something out there to all of you. I coach athletes who are human beings. I know their skills make them look like gods or goddesses, but they […]
Write it Down!
What is he writing in the book? In the national tournaments and pro tournaments you will see me with a notebook plugging away and writing. People ask me all the time what I am writing. First and foremost is the score. Believe it or not referees lose track of the score (and who is serving) […]
No-Brainer-Get a Good Trainer!
If you play serious racquetball you need serious strength training. Back in the day I was told never to weight train for racquetball. Believe it or not that was the thinking in the early 70s by many people. I knew that was wrong so I enrolled in our local Nautilus club and began weight training. […]
Get Racquet Power
So I get this long video of how tennis champion Carlos Alcaraz can hit the ball harder than anyone. It has to do with his technique. One of my eager young charges sent it to me. The reason he sent it to me is the narrator sounded a lot like me when explaining the way […]
Brain Games
Mental toughness is a phrase bandied about rather liberally. I have had many athletes come to me with a reputation of poor mental concentration. In every case I found it was not a mental problem, but a practice problem. If you are not logging your hours on the court, you will not be performing at […]