Tips For Team Coaching
Suggestions for Team Coaching Junior Athletes 1. Treat all Junior athletes with respect-no condescending attitudes please! 2. Do use common sense in dealing with discipline issues. 3. Do use your captains. Personally I liked choosing my own captains because I had a good idea of who would lead and who would follow. 4. Do not […]
Rehearse the Perfect
Wow–opened up Facebook some time ago and saw a racquetball player demonstrating what they called a perfect workout. This athlete was doing a lot of footwork drills with feet going crazy in every direction. Only one problem-most of the movements we never make on a racquetball court. This renders the entire exercise as a cardio […]
Coach Head Case
Overheard from a “wannabe” Pro racquetball coach talking to others about his players. “These guys are all head cases!” Now I’m thinking–“Who are you to be judging Racquetball Players?” This sort of condescending attitude toward others says more about the speaker than the players they speak of! So Short and sweet is today’s racquetball mental […]
#8 Can Make you Great
Some observations from Coach: Note to any and all young coaches who think they want to coach-here are a few rules and a few thoughts on getting started. First: I wish they would not start you at the top! That is a terrible way to learn. I wish there was an apprentice program that governing […]
Tips to Play Pressure Points
There comes a point in many matches when the points are crucial. Many matches I have seen or played for that matter, the points came easy until……it came crunch time–the 12-12 points, the 14-14, the 10-10 etc. Here are some guidelines for pressure points–easy 10 rules for serving pressure point play. 1. Never give an […]
World Juniors Feedback
World Junior Racquetball is an exciting tournament. I loved my junior USA team coaching gigs and was able to experience success. Those days are long gone because today the cards are sort of stacked against USA. First, coaching academies exist in many countries and not too many places here in the USA. Those cities or […]
Mistakes Takes
Dear Coach W, “What kind of mistakes do you see top racquetball players making? I can list a few that I notice. 1. Very poor bio-mechanical execution of movement and stroke mechanics. In our sport leading pros are teaching incorrect footwork, horrible stroke mechanics and inviting overuse injuries. Instructors with poor mechanics is bad enough […]
Footworking the Footwork
I got an email today about the game today and shot selection. The author is a nice guy, but he is dead wrong about the modern game of racquetball. First, he goes into great detail on crossover steps and why they are important. I believe that thinking is way outdated and creates poor footwork, not […]
Footwork
Footwork is a biggie of course with racquetball. Now here is a tip–watch the feet. The more advanced the player, the more the feet move. The less advanced in technique the less the feet move. A good player will go to a ball, set their feet, and continue to “micro-adjust” their feet. This becomes […]
Late Post
Gasp!! No post today? My social media planning backfired on me as I was moving posts around. If I have one post about technique I like to follow that one with maybe a different topic. So I move posts around and in my rearranging I forgot today’s post. On the fly here it goes! Ramblings […]