The 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 Court...
Experience Training Execution
Experience–>Training–>Execution Experience–> LEARN from past play. Review and judge the results of your past play by writing down what you noted was good and what you think needs work. That way you know what to adjust. From your review, learn how to fine tune...
Do I go this way or that way?
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...
Gestalt Racquetball Stroke – Part 2
Gestalt Racquetball Stroke Part 2 The Downswing or Contact Phase —> Here ball striking magic begins! = Also swinging myths are debunked and mysteries are revealed and solved… —> Swing secret = Here we are at shotmaking time. Although this is similar to a...
The Great Stroke – Gestalt
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....
Game Thoughts
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...
You Gotta Play Naturally… in Your Own Attack Mode Way
Racquetball Techniques You can’t just guide the ball around the court or aim your shots. You must prepare and then flow your racquet head thru the back of the ball, with deep meaning. What that means is you must have a plan for each ball you field and a matching...
Have a very Meta (my way) Racquetball shooting experience!
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...
The object of your distraction: Rules Called
The Object of YOUR Distraction: Rules Calls Rules Covered Rally Calls: First, Skip Balls Last, Two Bounce Gets Serve/Return Calls: Foot Faults: Starting Outside Box Service Line Cross Drive Serve Line Cross Non Serving Partner leaving sidewall Too Soon Other Fault...
You are a pattern recognition machine!
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...
New Racquetball Encyclopedia is now complete on the site
Racquetball Encyclopedia Check out my latest contribution to Racquetball Techniques in the form of a complete racquetball encyclopedia. I tried to keep it perfectly alphabetical, which was not always easy. Enjoy!
The Mental Game of Racquetball!
The Mental Game of Racquetball Every Shot Angle Starts Mentally —> In your mind's eye (or on the screen in your mind), see yourself controlling the starting line of each shot (and each serve). There you're controlling the ball's trajectory as it takes off toward...
Practice Bounce Situations
Bounce Situations Practice —> Get on court solo or better yet drill with a hitting partner and practice all of the situations or "patterns of play" you can design where you read and react to the bounce of the ball. Work on your ball read as you track down the ball...
Tough Deep Target Ceiling Balls
The Deep Target Ceiling Ball A shot perhaps practiced less than any other in racquetball is hitting a ball to the ceiling when on the run or on the move. There, in that semi-desperate or somewhat urgent situation, it's best to try to hit your ceiling to a new target,...
Shot Selection IS Voodoo Magic (almost)
Racquetball Shot Selection The Nuts and Bolts of Shot Selection In racquetball, you gotta know your limitations. So, as a player, you need to broaden your limitations. For a racquetball shooter, it's invaluable to own a great hitting range as a shooter by expanding...
Pressures for Treasures
Pressures for Treasures When You Shoot Familiar Shots for Recognized Patterns with Your Well Known Form, Both Moving and Swinging… Stress Tolerance You need stress tolerance where you're always willing to fight the good fight. Like Billie Jean King says, play with...
Topspin at its Very Best
Racquetball is A Topspin Game In a perfect world, every rally ball would be ankle bone low for you to sweep your racquet head smoothly through at the bottom of a shallow contact arc. Like you may have heard it described, an ideal swing image is seeing yourself...
Repeating Phantasms, er, Patterns
How and why recognizing repeating patterns can elevate your strategic game Identifying this pattern is THE foundation for in-the-now selecting of your owned racquetball tactic, which allows you to bring to bear your well-prepped, efficiency actions when playing each...
Game Pace Control and other serving and returning tricks of the trade, er, game
When It Comes To The Serve or Return…Control Time Play at your own pace, not theirs. Unlike tennis, in racquetball you needn't play at the pace of the server, but…when you are the server and say you want to pick up the pace, you can literally sprint (or jog, as that's...
Backwall Saves
Racquetball Backwall Saves Saving The Ball To The Back Wall Tactically There's an art to staying in a rally AFTER the ball has clearly gotten behind you. Wait to Decide Which Stroke is Best In what appears to be a routine situation, when covering a pass or less often...