Where is the possibility to make the biggest impact on the game currently? USA Racquetball Instructor certification and insurance (and SafeSport vetting) taken to college courts. Every community college and university that I have lived next to has “adult continuing education”. If that college or university has racquetball courts, then a certified and insured instructor … Continue reading Make An Impact For Racquetball This Fall
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The LA Fitness locations in Florida have filled their racquetball courts with equipment (first day post COVID-19 reopening). When asked when the courts will reopen for racquetball: at one south Florida facility, the manager was quoted as “it may be permanent”. at another north Florida facility, the front desk was quoted as “per CDC guidelines, … Continue reading Save Our Courts
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I like a comprehensive list of things like racquetball courts. USA Racquetball employees and interns put together a list of facilities from the R2 Sports “Home Club” records of the USAR membership. This resulted in a lot of noise. 🙂 Dozens of gyms that never had racquetball courts, dozens that are out of business, and … Continue reading Comprehensive Lists
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Originally posted on Facebook and Reddit. Now includes some of my responses to comments on that post. Recently reported: 3,000,000 racquetball players in the US in 2019 (polling methodology not provided, cannot confirm independently) USA Racquetball members: ~13,000 (2018 year end financials indicate ~7,400 full $50 yearly memberships sold, but it is likely a higher … Continue reading Interesting Maths…
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Have you ever seen the CrossFit style build your own workout alphabets? Here’s one for racquetball specific exercises. Remember that you aren’t trying to get in general good shape, you are working to be the best you can be on the racquetball court. You can get the spreadsheet I used to put this together originally … Continue reading Alphabet Workout For Racquetball Players
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Back on February 26th, a Reddit user asked: What do you do when you can’t play, but can’t stop thinking about it? https://www.reddit.com/r/racquetball/comments/f9upr7/what_do_you_do_when_you_cant_play_but_cant_stop/ This predated the COVID-19 closure of courts, gyms, and outdoor courts. On March 17th, a Facebook user asked: What will you do when you can’t access the courts or a gym to … Continue reading Racquetball in the time of COVID-19
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