Every coach has drawn it. Cross court, straight drive, drop to the front. The problem was never the drawing — it's what comes after: you can't rally against a diagram. Without a partner willing to feed you the same ball a hundred times, the pattern stays in your head, and a pattern that lives only in your head never shows up at real rally speed. Closing that gap between drawing a play and actually hitting it — that's what we've been building Court View toward all along.
When we first introduced Court View, it was a visualizer: one player on a court, a shot path to sketch. It's a different tool now, wearing the same name. Here's what's been added — and how it connects to real training.
If you remember the first version
Start with the court and the players. Version one gave you a numbered mannequin on a gray wireframe box. Today, two remodeled 3D players stand on a lit court with a wooden floor, and they take forehand, backhand, and serve stances to match the shot. The walls (front, back, left, right) toggle individually, so you build whatever viewing angle you need.
The interface got a rebuild too. The old single long panel is now organized into collapsible sections — Players, Shot/Position, Walls & View, Playback — with a toolbar up top running from Undo/Redo to Annotate, Export, and Record. A sequence bar has taken up residence at the bottom of the screen, and on mobile, the little ? buttons explain each control.
What's been added since launch
- Two players and rally sequences — not one shot but a whole exchanged rally, stacked as S1, S2, … and played back-to-back.
- Playback controls — previous/next sequence, 0.5× to 3× speed, and a scrubber. Run a rally at real tempo, then slow it down and pick the timing apart.
- Power donut, shot ring, field-of-view cone — the same reach and sweet-spot displays the game uses, plus a cone showing what the player can actually see.
- Annotate, image export, video recording — layer arrows and notes on the board, export it as an image, record the playback as a video, and drop it straight into the team chat.
- Descriptions and My Page sync — leave a note on every drill and save it to your account. Which is where the next part begins.
Reading is one thing, trying is another — feel free to open Court View, drop a player on the floor, and tap a wall while you read. Your first shot draws itself in about thirty seconds.
Save once, open anywhere
Save a drill in Court View and it lands in the My Tactic Board list on your My Page. From there, any time:
- Open in Court View — in 3D, from the ball's point of view
- Open in the Tactics Board — top-down, from the positioning point of view
- Training — and this is the one that matters: your saved drill becomes a coach drill you can actually play
The two views share the same data, so where you built it doesn't matter. And if you keep Save Replay on during matches, your real rallies pile into the same list.
How closely did you play the drill? There's a score for that
Press Training and the coach (P2) feeds you the saved pattern, ball for ball, while you actually move and swing. And you're not just hitting around — you're being scored.
The rubric is the drill itself. For every shot you hit, two things are checked: did the ball land where the drill says it should, and was it the right kind of shot — a drive where a drive belongs, a lob where the drill calls for a lob. Both have to match for the shot to count, and your valid shots over actual swings become your rally accuracy. If the drill specifies return targets, a separate target success rate is tracked too. The summary also includes your receive reaction time and T-recovery time — and those two are rhythm metrics. You can hit the right shot to the right spot, but if your timing is late, the numbers will say so.
The difference between "I hit it roughly like that" and "I played the drill" shows up as a number — and in repetition training, that difference is everything. Got a saved drill? See for yourself in Training right now.
Draw it, groove it, take it to the court
This loop is what the update is really about.
Draw it — the pattern that keeps beating you, the pattern your coach taught you last week. Put it into Court View. Tactics that only existed in your head become coordinates and trajectories.
Groove it — play the pattern on repeat in Training. The same ball arrives at the same spot, at the same tempo. What that repetition builds isn't memorized positions — it's rhythm: push off the moment the ball leaves the front wall, hit, get back to the T. It's why the name on the door says Squash Rhythm Trainer. And because accuracy comes back as a number, you can watch the rhythm sink in — 71% yesterday, 84% today.
Take it to the court — and on a real court, it shows. A pattern you've repeated dozens of times reads half a beat earlier in a live rally. Your feet move before you've finished deciding where to go. Shot choices you've drilled come out mid-rally without deliberation. The gap between knowing a tactic and having it in your body as rhythm — closing that gap is what this loop is for.
Then the weaknesses you discover in real matches become your next drills. Draw, groove, court. Repeat.
The upgraded Court View is open right now. If you read the first post, tried it once, and moved on — this time, save a drill and press Training. The moment the drawing tool and the hitting tool connect: that's the heart of this update.