The use of the two serves rule in amateur racquetball is cumbersome
and promotes sloppy plays. The amateur player figures that he can hit
his first serve as hard as he wants because he will have a second chance
to stay in the service box.
This is highly unfair for the returners and
makes outsiders perceive racquetball as a mindless power based game
without much thoughts and accuracy, which we all know is untrue, but
first impression and ingrained perceptions are hard to break over time.
The One Serve Rule paints a positive image of our sport to the health
conscious populace that racquetball is a professional sport played by
professionals and following professional real world rules. The type of
rules that are a microcosm of real life rules.
Racquetball should be about skills, accuracy, precision, strategies,
tactics, shot making abilities, shot selection, and athleticism during
rallies. The current use of the two serves rule puts too much emphasis
on the serve and makes racquetball a one dimensional and slow sport. For
example, we have some tremendously gifted racquetball athletes that hit
a thunderous second hit hard drive serve, but that is about it, they
have no backhand and no ceiling.
McClayson has played with some of these
athletic ‘One Armed Bandits with a Great Drive Serve," and realized that
the Two Serve Rule does a major disservice to these tremendous athletes,
because the Two Serve Rule masks their weaknesses. Thus, these one armed
bandits with a killer second drive serve plateau out in their
racquetball development. Thus, these one dimensional player walks around
thinking that they are good at racquetball, when in reality, they are
good at hitting a drive serve when given two chances
(Sarcastic Woman: Wow! I am soooooooo impressed, two chances to hit a
ball less than fifteen feet from a front wall measuring 20 feet wide by
20 feet high, that’s a pretty big target to miss there bud and you get
two chances, that’s tough, that’s like trying to find Roseann Barr in a
haystack, tough assignment there!! hahahaha.")
