Training Days

Dear Coach- Please set up a training schedule for me and send it to me. I need a day by day schedule and month by month for the next three months. Signed, In Need of Guidance Dear INOG, How in the world can I do that without knowing your own day in and day out […]

Feel the Game

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 […]

Brain Games

The game within the game is always fun. In the 90s while coaching the USA team our number three player was matched up with a player from Canada. Our guy was cruising. He won game one, and was ahead most of game two but he began faltering, ran out of gas and lost a close […]

Get Your Own Contact Point

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. I was not one of those coaches but I […]

The Hay is in the Barn!

There is an old football saying, “The hay is in the barn”. I guess it would be a rural football saying but basically it means we have prepared the best we can (the hay is in the barn so farmers can weather the winter storms). We can apply the same thought to racquetball match preparation. […]

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?

This one came across my desk some time ago. I get many of these and it is hard to answer these if I never saw the player or the match. “Coach W, any advice or opinion for this man with a broken heart who was eliminated in the quarterfinals despite giving everything ?! I would […]

Ten Tips for Pressure Points

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 […]

The Program

  I am a lucky guy. I get to work with some of the best players in the world, and even the greatest ever for 18 years. But I also get to work with newbies, brand spanking new players who fall in love with this sport. I love coaching players of all levels. In this […]

No Dinky Do’s in Your Wavy Gravy

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, […]

Play Like a Champion

Notre Dame plays for the college football championship today. There is a coach named Lou Holtz who once coached the fighting Irish and his motivational sayings are gold! Here are a few! “Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it!” I Love Lou […]