Practising alone has always had the same problem: you know a good drill when you see one, but keeping a collection of them — organised, in an order that makes sense, ready to run — is awkward. You end up with patterns scattered in your head, a few screenshots, and no real plan. So we built the piece that ties it all together: routines, and the ability to copy any shared drill straight into your own.
Drills and routines, briefly
A drill in SquashRT is a single shot pattern — a straight-drive rail, a boast-and-drive, a four-corner receive. You can open any drill in 3D Court View, lay it out on the Tactics Board, or train it directly, moving to each ball and recovering to the T in rhythm.
A routine is the next level up: a coach-style group of drills, kept in the order you want to run them. Instead of one pattern at a time, a routine is a session — warm up with length, move into movement patterns, finish with pressure drills — all in one place. It is the difference between knowing a few drills and having a training plan.
The new part: copy any drill into your own routine
The community shares public drills, and until now you could open them, play them, and admire them — but you could not make them yours. That has changed. Every public drill now has an "Add to routine" button, and it does exactly what it says: it copies the drill into your own collection and drops it into a routine you choose.
Because it is a copy, the drill is yours from that moment on. It sits in your My Drills list, it belongs to whichever routine you picked, and nothing you do to it affects the original. Found a great boast-drive pattern someone shared? Copy it, add it to your "Match Prep" routine, and it is waiting for you the next time you train.
How it works
The flow is deliberately quick, so building a plan takes seconds rather than a setup session:
- Browse the public drills. Open the drill list, use the search and sort to find patterns by name or description, and pick one that fits what you want to work on.
- Add it to a routine. Hit "Add to routine". A picker opens with your existing routines — choose one, create a new routine on the spot, or save the drill on its own without a routine.
- Build the session. Repeat with a few more drills until the routine reads like a real training plan: an order you would actually run on court.
- Train the whole thing. Open your routine and run its drills in sequence, or jump into any single one. From the routine page you can train every drill in order without hunting for each pattern.
Why copying matters
Copying — rather than just linking — is the point. A routine is personal. You want to reorder it, keep the drills that suit your game, and know that a shared pattern will still be there and unchanged even if the person who first made it moves on. By copying the drill into your own library, your routine becomes a stable plan you own, not a set of links that can shift under you.
It also means you can take a public drill as a starting point. Copy it, and it is yours to keep alongside your own saved patterns from Court View and the Tactics Board — the shared idea and your personal work living in the same collection.
From scattered patterns to a plan
The whole point of drilling is repetition with purpose, and purpose is much easier when your session has a shape. A routine gives your practice that shape: a warm-up block, a movement block, a pressure block, in an order you decided in advance. When you walk onto the court — or into a training session in the app — you are not deciding what to do next; you are running a plan.
Browse the public drills, copy the ones that fit your game, and start building the routines that match how you want to train. The patterns you have been keeping in your head finally have a home.