Not This Year

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 […]

Backhand Excellence

Okay so I received this on my youtube channel a few weeks ago. A viewer wrote basically what the heck was my intention to have a video of Kane hitting a backhand. There was no instruction, just a view, and not a great view either of his backhand. My response was I thought that was […]

90-10 Racquetball

90-10 was a phrase I heard last week from a Professional Football Coach. It hit home with me. The coach was saying he had to be careful because the athletes were 90% excellent but needed work on 10% of their game. The downside to that is if you end coaching the 10% too much you […]

The “It”?

So a few years ago I am watching one of my players and a fan asked me this question. Does this player have “it”? So I ask what do they mean by “it”? Response: “You know, can they be number one, win pro stops etc. and have the it factor?” My answer: “I have no […]

Pig Wrestling

Help! They are saying bad things about me!” Or “Coach W, do you know what they are saying about you?” People who used to be your friends may not be if you become a threat! When you are a threat, people will say bad things about you. I am shocked sometimes at things that come […]

Fundamentally Flawed?

Egan Inoue was a great racquetball player. He founded the racquet company E-Force and the E was for Egan! He has a history of excellence in MMA, and in life. He has always been much more than a fitness coach and today as he coaches up life lessons. I am re-posting his August 21 daily […]

Learning by Losing?

I need a coach or I cannot succeed. This is becoming a trend out here in racquetball land. I swear there were more coaches than players at the last junior tournament I attended. Let me take you back to a time where there were very few coaches in match play. in the 70s most junior […]

No Hack for Success!

A few months ago I had an, aspiring pro visiting me for help. I am going over video now and developing a game plan for this young phenom. For any coaching plan to be successful, I need the answer to one question, “What is your goal?” Once I have the goal we can attack the […]

Seerve 101

The serve can make the biggest impact in peoples’ games. Recently I worked with a couple of young kids who were just starting racquetball. Because both were good softball players in high school, I had them hitting pretty good drive serves within a few minutes of instruction. I took the racquets and put them to […]

Best Coach Ever?

This question threw me at first. I had to really think about it. The question was, Who are the best coaches you ever saw or coached against? Who is the best coach of all time? Wow, those are real loaded questions for sure. Let me illustrate with a story. When I was head coach of […]