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CK: A whole
4 to 5 years after you started playing the game? Tell us alittle about
Fran Davis and her Head Racquetball Camps Doc.
MM: I continued to love playing
racquetball from 1996 to 1999, but I was going nowhere fast, I reached
my plateau because I didn’t understand the basics of the game, that is,
until Fran Davis came to Minneapolis with her racquetball camps. I
signed up for a three days racquetball camp with Fran Davis and the
number 4 player at the time Jason Mannino for $325 and it was the best
monies I have ever spent on racquetball and sports in general. Fran and
Jason was instrumental in teaching me the fundamentals and basics of the
game and from 2000-2002 my game slowly crept upward to the ‘A’ level. I
also got to meet an excellent lefty female player named Kerry Stellmach,
she was pretty cool to play with because she was an accomplished
racquetball player.
CK: When
did you know that you were an ‘A’ player?
MM: Well Cindy, I took the fundamentals
learned at Fran Davis’s camps and practiced a lot afterward and I knew
that I was improving because I was starting to beat the tough ‘B’
players and then in early 2003, I started to give some ‘A’ players tough
games.
CK: So,
Fran Davis and her racquetball camps was a major influence on your
development as a player, what else contributed to your continual
improvement in the game?
MM: Definitely Love. I love this game…A
lot….it’s great exercise and you get to play with and meet some of the
most interesting people. I think a second major turning point was
putting up a hobby racquetball website and sharing my knowledge.
CK: How has
having your own website improved your game?
MM: Cindy, I started to write tons of
racquetball articles and examining and re-examining my game, my stroke
mechanics, my court positioning, basically, all facets of my racquetball
game, and writing all this down helped me a lot to understand
racquetball and increased my appreciation of this great game of
racquetball! It also helped sharpened my writing skills as well.
CK: And
Doc, I’m sure that a lot of fellow racquetball players out there
appreciate you spending your own hard earned monies to promote
racquetball.
VRB Fans: Doc! Doc! Doc!
MM: Thanks. No really, I don’t mind
spending thousands in the last two years maintaining this website, it’s
all worth it personally and it’s a tremendous satisfaction knowing that
I am promoting this great game of ours and introducing more people to
the marvelous workout for the body and the mind that only racquetball
can do! Anybody can do it, look at the rapid progress that Joel Gainsley
has made in the past year with hard work and dedication!
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