Practice, Compete, Repeat!
Talk about getting a taste of your own medicine!. The toughest opponent you will ever face is the one you see every morning in the mirror. The mind can sabotage our best intentions with excuses, negative thinking, and poor practice scheduling. One of the ways to overcome such mental trials is to practice mentally as […]
Don’t Be That Coach!
I will never forget overhearing a losing coach for a foreign team saying to me, “Well we did everything we could do. We just did not have the talent on the men’s team.” While listening my mind was thinking this: “You are wrong my friend. The women’s team was totally neglected and that is where […]
Racquetball Ettiquette 101
“Is it me?” Racquetball Manners 101 I used to play cutthroat a couple of times per week and this one guy violated every etiquette rule of racquetball. So this tip is for all the “rude” players who do not seem to get it. Five rules of practice play etiquette. 1. Do not call double bounces […]
A Tribute to Mothers on Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day and sorry for the long personal post. This is not a racquetball tip but more like a life tip! I am so fortunate to meet so many great Moms out there in racquetball land. This is for you and your undying love for your children. To anyone whose Mother is no longer […]
Racquetball Strategies: Attacking the Squatty Body
Strategy revisited – The short-statured player presents challenges in shot selection. A good low pass can be cut off by this player and because of their low center of gravity, the ball is then rolled out. So the traditional shots have to be dead on if you are shooting from the back court. A good […]
Book’em Coach
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) […]
Dinky Do Serving!!
Most players have imperfections in their forehands or backhands. Hitting a soft drive serve at those imperfections greatly increases your chances of getting setups. I call these types of serves “dinky doos” as the ball is dinked back to an opponent’s forehand or backhand. This causes the opponent to have to use good footwork to […]
Zombie Crawl Symptoms and Cure
Racquetball Marathons-the Zombie Crawl!! Often viewed in the long tournaments, especially the IRF marathons and most recently, at the Arizona State Doubles one day tournament featuring a double elimination open division! By Saturday night many players were doing the zombie crawl made famous in the TV show, The Walking Dead! Symptoms of the Zombie crawl […]
Coach Check
You gotta believe if you wanna achieve! It is easy to doubt your coach when you are losing. Once you pick a coach, look for them to continue to correct your technique and footwork. (if they are a good coach) Each workout should be a learning process, more than a drilling process. Each time you […]
Rest Up and Drop The Racquet!
If the competition is getting you down. Get out of racquetball if you can and have some fun. Some years ago one of my billboard athletes had just had a crushing loss at the Nationals. Winning game one and way ahead in game two, my player just for lack of a better word, choked. The […]