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Winning Racquetball: Skills, Drills, and Strategies

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One has to apply the information that has been read from this book and use it on the racquetball court. The information is very direct, and their is no mystery to it. One of the authors who contributed information on this book [Woody Clouse] emphasizes that one has to practice hitting alot of balls on the court, lift weights, and run sprints in order to get better as a player-Male or Female. International Racquetball commissioner Hank Marcus along with Irt player Jon Ellis give this book a very positive evaluation. The book has many pictures illustrating situations where one has too be hitting the ball away from the player, etc. The book has several chapters that emphasize all the aspects of game-conditioning, nutrition. The book also has several pictures of players who play on the professional tour. Cliff Swain, Andy Roberts, Mike Ray, Drew Kachtik , and Ruben Gonzales are some of the player photographs one will see in this book. I have to say that my play was really very limited and highly primitive. I only knew how to serve the most basic serve in racquetball and that was the drive, and that was the only shot I knew since the beginning. I was very fortunate that when I was playing the game I purchased this book during the time to help improve my play. It has been a couple of months now, and my play is alot better. I can do a Z-serve, a left and right drive serve, and my lob is coming there. I also learned to hit the ball away from my opponent and not to hit the ball to him or her but away from my opponent. Alot of patience is needed, and alot of practicing if one desires to improve. So if your a racquetball player who is from Moscow, Russia, or Tijuana ,Mexico, or from Houston Texas who wants to be more knowledgeable playing the game, I highly recommend this book too you.

i am a current teaching club pro and after a few lessons, i have suggested to my students that they look at this book for a superb instruction, strategy, and exercises through drills to take their game to another level. this easy to read book is more than worth the price of 13.56 they are selling it for......cheaper than a one hour lesson with me. Well worth the investment.

I was disappointed by the lack of advanced instruction in this book. Winning Racquetball includes precious little information that an intermediate player wouldn't already know. It seems this book is mostly filler. I was expecting insight on advanced strategies and how to improve on fundamentals. Instead I found a lot of information on how I should eat and what I should wear.

If you gotta have just one book to win in racquetball-- this is it! My friends (after being frustrated with my newfound techniques) were surprised about my transformation... from a novice player to a real good contender within a month. I plan to join tournaments soon and win. Thanks to this book.

I regretably have to agree with an earlier reviewer who panned this book as being too basic to be really useful for the more advanced player. I figured that reviewer was looking for "shortcuts" to getting good, without the hard work of practicing the basics -- and I believe in the importance of working hard at mastering the basics. So I purchased the book. But, the problem is that the basics covered in this book are too basic -- like how to pick a racquet and the trajectory of a lob serve. Those are things the beginner needs to see, but the better player knows them in principle, but needs help in learning how to execute them better -- not the "what" of winning racquetball, but the "why" and the "how" so that the skills can be practiced and developed. It's not that there isn't good stuff in this book -- there is. It does a good job of treating the fundamentals, but that's where it stops. If you've already got a solid grasp of the fundamentals and are already playing at a reasonably advanced level, I would recommend the "Advanced Racquetball" DVD by Jim Winterton which demonstrates the mechanics and strategies that will allow better players to take their game up another notch. A word of warning -- Winterton's DVD is very good, but it is so loaded with specific coaching information that it can be hard to digest it all. Sometimes you just want to yell "explain that a little better before you move on!" But at least, when you've been exposed to Winteron's coaching comments you know what you're not doing right and need to work on, and because it is video rather than static pictures, you can play and replay the stroke mechanics being illustrated.

This book offers insights into the details of what is required to become a "total" racquetball player. This book offers detailed discussions on practice drills, exercise routines, nutrition, game strategy, shot selection, and solutions to some common problems. All of which are very concise and are very readable. I do not recommend this book to beginners because there is not much discussion on swing technique

I would like to see stop action sequenced photos of the basic forehand and backhand strokes. There is no picture of a decent backhand stroke in the chapter entitled "Hitting Forehand and Backhand Shots" and only two instructional photos.

All instructional photos in the book are of Woody Clouse a LEFT-HANDED player. Why would you use photos that are appropriate for only 10% of the population?

The text presentation is quite good but the photos leave a lot to be desired.

Book arrived on time and in excellent condition. The reprint is from scanned images and several pages are unreadable. Other than that an excellent book on the early days of conveyor belt design and application.

I loved it, I am a 15 year old playing just a year at "b" level, and I really learned a lot. Many things that I never really thought of. The book brought me some new insights on stratagies. I would really recomend it to any one that wants to improve their game.

WINNING RACQUETBALL IS A BOOK THAT MOST PLAYERS WHO PLAY THE GAME WOULD LOVE TO READ. THE BOOK IS VERY INFORMATIVE, AND IT HAS VARIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHOW THE READER WHAT EXACTLY HE OR SHE MUST DO ON THE RACQUETBALL COURT.FOR EXAMPLE, COURT POSITIONING, WHEN AND WHERE TO HIT THE BALL WHEN PLAYING AGAINST SOMEONE.IRT PRO WOODY CLOUSE DOES NOT SET ANY BARRIERS-LIMITS CONCERNING THE INFORMATION THAT HE WRITES. HE WANTS THE PLAYER TO KNOW HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED,ETC.I'VE BEEN PLAYING RACQUETBALL FOR TWO YEARS,AND WITH THE INFORMATION THAT I READ IN THIS BOOK IMPROVED MY PLAY ALOT. YOU MUST PRACTICE ALOT TO ACHIEVE THE RESULTS THAT YOU WANT AS A RACQUETBALL PLAYER.