Racquetball Rules

Series Summary

What better way to get out all the aggressions in your life than to swing a racquet as hard as you can at a small hollow ball against a wall in a rectangular room with parallel walls? It's like playing fetch with yourself. The entertainment is endless with these conditions as you try and outwit yourself at every angle. Testing your skill against your most formidable opponent...you. Then and only then should you venture into the competitive realm of racquetball. This brutal and unforgiving sport has broken many a man and woman throughout its short life. The sport was created in the 1920' by a one Joe Sobek who saw the future. And in it were small racquets, goggles and knee-high socks the likes of which had never been seen.

In this free video clip series out expert, Shawn Royster, will show you all the small and yet important details about racquetball that you need to know to get started playing this exciting game. Equipment, safety, the grip and the serve are just a few of the things he will walk you through so you can't afford to miss this series if you are serious about this racquetball thing. So take a look and just try and say you didn't learn something useful the next time you are on the course. Grab your racquet, goggles and most importantly your cup and lets get balling!

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to go over the basic rules of racquetball. There's a guy serving, there's a guy returning the serve, or a girl, and in order to get the rally started where they're starting to compete against each other, they stand in between this service box. You have to bounce the ball and hit it to the front wall. It has to cross this line, which is the short line, and it has to bounce before it hits the back wall. If, in fact, it lands before this short line, or if it hits the back wall on the fly, that's a fault, and you only get two serves, so if the first one's short or long, you have to hit a second serve, kind of like tennis, then the rally is started. You have to get the ball on one bounce, so if the guy returning the serve hits the ball, and I run up here and it bounces twice before I get it, I lose my serve. You can only score points when you're serving, and you play to 15. The pros, they play to 11. So, the object of the game is to get the server out of the box and score 15 points. Not always easy, it goes a lot back and forth, it could take hours to score those 15 points, but those are the basic rules of racquetball."