Squash Presents to IOC
A crucial step for the sport of squash in its bid for inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games came on June 15 when a team of six squash representatives made their most important presentation...
Training for Squash: An Overview (Part 3) Physical Testing
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In last month's article (Part 2), we discussed the use of 'performance profiling' as a simple technique for evaluating your abilities as a squash athlete. This month,...
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: The Wonders on the Squash Court Never Cease
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
This month we have yet another amazing story from the Wonderful World of Squash. Admittedly, squash is a very complex game, with arcane terminology and eccentric rules....
Let’s think about Squash—and then let’s talk and think about it.
By Richard Millman, Director of Squash, Kiawah Island Club
I've been stumbling around the four walls of my mind for just over thirty years as I’ve played, practiced, trained and struggled as a student of...
Prince 03 Silver
In 1989, Prince introduced their Extender technology, which elongated the sweet spot on its racquets by lengthening the center main strings down into the throat of the frame, and brought a new level of...
StreetSquash Opens Largest Squash Facility in New York
By James Zug
It started ten years ago with meetings in George Polsky’s Manhattan apartment. A second-year masters student in social work, Polsky had just gotten back from playing squash in the Maccabiah Games. The captain...
Rallying Cry: World Squash Day raises awareness for the sport’s Olympic bid
By Lee Stabert
If you’re trying to get attention, jumping off a bridge is certainly a viable option. That’s exactly what Phil Buscke, musician and erstwhile A-grade squash player, did on May 23rd in New Zealand—tumbling...
The World Hardball Doubles Rocks It
By James Zug
Photos by John Lau
The World Hardball Doubles is a pretty venerable title for a world championship. It is as old as the official World Juniors, and only six years younger than the...
The Super Series Finals: The Frenchman who kissed the Duchess
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Without wishing to bore you with tales of arcane protocol by the British, it was quite an insight to see the different reactions to Gregory Gaultier determinedly kissing the...
Rock Me Like a Hurricane: WISPA Sweeps Through Cayman Islands
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Five years ago, squash in the Caymans was on life support. Hurricane Ivan swept through the Cayman Islands in September 2004. Ivan, lest you forgot Katrina, was one of...