Articles on Techniques

John Riches is a well-known croquet coach in Australia. He has published several booklets on various aspects of the game, including technique, tactics, strategy, refereeing, laws interpretation and the mental approach to the game.

John's booklets on croquet techniques are reproduced here. You may need to get the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Start by reading Technique for the basic techniques of the different croquet strokes.

Then read Error Correction to discover and correct any errors in your strokes.

Now you're ready to read about all the details in Finer Points. This is a large (1 MB) file, and may take a few minutes to load. Please be patient; it's worth it.

Finally, get your mind and body working together by reading Mental Approach.

John's booklets on croquet tactics are included with the articles on tactics. If you liked his booklets on technique, you'll love the ones on tactics.