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Breathe
Racquetball
When you are in the middle of a match and finding
yourself running out of breath and running out of power with each
passing rallies, try this easy tip to increase your power and regain
your composure:
Breathing slowly and purposefully while you play
helps you to focus on playing one point at a time. This simple
technique provides natural rhythm and improves stroke productivity
and consistency.
On your groundstroke, take a breath as the ball
bounces and exhale as you make contact and follow through. On the serve,
breathe in as you toss, get a good, long look at the ball and then
breathe out as you go to strike the ball and follow through.
This
technique works for every shot in the great game of racquetball and
other racquet sports like tennis and squash. For example, you can use
this technique to hit volley and cutoffs, but the pace is faster so you
will have to quicken your breathing.
The breathing technique works even better with
grunting on every shot. Basically grunting is high level breathing where
you take a big deep breathe and blow out all of your power and breath
for the coming ball to crush it to smithereens! Grunting takes it to a more intense
level of plays and will dramatically improve your racquetball game on
every shot. You will see immediate results.
The pros apply this simple breathing technique to
increase their stroke productivity with less effort: If you are
observant of the top IRT pros breathing pattern, most of the top pros
take a deep breath, relax, focus and then exhale powerfully as they
vaporize the ball.
Watch any of the many Monchik vs. Swain U.S. Open
Finals and watch how both of them breathe according to the inhale/exhale
breathing technique. If you want a tennis example, watch the contingent
of Russian women pros and also refer to tennis legend Monica Seles and
her many grunting grand slam victories.
This breathing technique has been used in other sports
as well like karate, ice hockey, running marathon and sprints, relays,
rowing championships, baseball, soccer, chess, lacrosse, cross country
skiing and the infamous Tour De France bike race.
The inhale/exhale
breathing technique allows average athletes to become explosive hitter
because they are leashing that natural "chi" energy that resides in each
one of us.
So breathe in and breathe out, wax on, wax off and go
break the ball on your next rally!
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