by Ken Woodfin | May 11, 2020 | Racquetball Strategy, Racquetball Technique, slow-mo swing
The Slow-Mo Swing This piece reveals a surprising secret how to hit your drive serves harder (and also be able to smoke the ball when you have a setup and the time-is-your-own) More Racquet Head Speed It’s time to add (more) power to your ball striking. Deep...
by Ken Woodfin | Jan 18, 2020 | feetwork, Racquetball Strategy, Racquetball Technique, Strategy
Directional Play Techniques for Racquetball “Do I go this way or do I go that?” Make sure your binary decision making rules your tactical execution and your hustle thinking, too… Directional Techniques…as you play… It’s the world you make of it. Ideally it’s the world...
by Ken Woodfin | Sep 9, 2019 | Lessons by Ken Woodfin, Racquetball Strategy, Racquetball Technique, The Gestalt, Uncategorized
The Great Stroke Gestalt… Part 1: The Backswing… Do you know what’s better than all the stroke parts by themselves? It’s all the stroke parts working together. In fact the racquetball stroke is even greater than the sum of the forces produced by its individual parts....
by Ken Woodfin | Jul 15, 2019 | Game Planning, Lessons by Ken Woodfin, Racquetball Strategy, Racquetball Technique, Strategy
Game Thoughts The opponent within your head is far more daunting that any player you might face or the one with whom you actually “share” the back half of the court today. What that means is your THOUGHTS BEFORE you play (and AS you play) really matter. Know that you...
by Ken Woodfin | Apr 22, 2019 | Lessons by Ken Woodfin, Racquetball Strategy, Racquetball Technique, Strategy
Racquetball Shooting Experience As a player, set the reference point for how YOU compete. Make it a “Meta” shooting experience. There optimally play racquetball on YOUR own terms. Attack Mode A fundamental part of your game should be playing in attack mode. If you...
by Ken Woodfin | Nov 14, 2018 | Lessons by Ken Woodfin, Racquetball Strategy, Racquetball Technique, Strategy
Pattern Recognition Machine YOU are a pattern recognition machine. Between reading the bounce of each and every ball in a rally and formulating your attack or defense, start by taking a mental Polaroid which determines how you will realtime self assess YOUR...