Last night on Thursday, it was our official last Youth Racquetball team practice on the court before Junior Olympic Racquetball Championships starts on Wednesday. Our Wabash Valley Youth Racquetball Club will be competing at this national Junior event.
The tournament begins on Wednesday June 24th at 8am.
If you would like to follow our team you can go here:
http://www.r2sports.com/tourney/EntryList.asp?TID=4358&display=YES
The players going will be:
Ayla Hall
Dannie Luckey
RJ Kuhn
Sean Jacob
We drilled on taking balls off back the wall and hitting it knee level high for a passing shot.
It takes some time to get use to hitting the ball knee level high.
It takes a lot of patience and patience is one of the key pieces to becoming a player that wins more than they lose.
The longer the rally the more physical shape you better be in. When you play players of your skill level your rally’s tend to be much longer and good endurance is needed to win or compete.
We did a lot of shuffling drills. I put them in center court without their racquet one by one. I through the ball around challenging them to get it before it bounces twice. Every ball they didn’t get but should have gotten they had to do one court suicide per mistake with a max of 5 and they did it right after their one on one.
We also practiced drive serving and hitting it at different angles.
I’m very proud of my team. They have worked hard and have really pushed themselves. I have some up and coming kids that I feel are going to help put our club on the map.
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