Leaning Syrndrome

Leaning syndrome is a term I have coined after watching many players throughout my video reading. LS symptoms include, weak drive serves, poor footwork, and front wall side wall shots into center court. Quite simply LS occurs when the player has all their weight on the front foot and no weight on the back foot. […]

Local Legend or Big Dog?

Local Legend vs National I remember walking into one of my first tournaments. In came the rock star guys, the guys in the finals all the time. All eyes were on the top dogs. In walked me . No respect does not even cover it. I had no clue what I was doing and got […]

Weekends Are Never Over

  From the archives!!! Friday-played some geezer ball with my sparring partner at 4, drove out to my secret lair and taught an up and coming young player and got home circa 8pm. Hit the office and broke down video for three players about to play in tournaments. Not playing these days due to health […]

How, not What!!

Every few months a player asks me about their shoulder or elbow pain. Usually they have a history of getting all sorts of advice from devices to put on elbows to going up in racquet size to getting lessons. The former are curing symptoms and the lessons could cure the cause! I watched them play […]

Go live with These Five!

The difference in a match will often be the little things. Here are some “little” things that may cause a lopsided loss to a lesser or equal opponent. 5 little things-lead to big gaps in results! 1. Serves coming off the back wall or side wall! Without a good serve, the athlete will under achieve! […]

The Art of the Chart

This email got my attention a few days ago.The question to me was, “Do you use a charting system when you coach matches?” By charting system I think they meant a nice excel sheet with codes for short serves, unforced errors, etc. I have had many friends try to explain to me their charting system […]

Best vs the Rest

Passing syndrome leads to a style of play called, “rallying”! The advantage of this style of play is the opponent will defeat themselves 80% of the time. Making the adversary beat themselves is the strong point to this type of approach to the game. Indeed, this style is taught at many camps and it is […]

Service Location for Racquetball Nation

I see many players underutilizing the service box. Player A serves from the right of center and hits drive serves left, right and a z serve right. This is a good basic offense for Player A. Player B starts same as player A but then moves left of center, way to the right, way to […]

Free Or ?

Getting paid for what you do is the cornerstone of American society. You would not go into work and tell your boss to not pay you,. You should be paid for your work in racquetball too. I do not 100% agree with the volunteer for racquetball mentality. Of course, that probably is not a surprise […]

Crashing and Burning?

You are crashing and burning on the racquetball court! Think it through! What is happening? Why are you losing rallies? Where are they serving you? Where are their points being scored? The answers to these questions will allow you to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and without the answers, vice versa!! Divide the […]