WSF Restructures World Agreements
The World Squash Federation has radically altered the process by which World Championships and Conferences are allocated.
Until now, member nations wanting to host have simply applied for the opportunity. The result of this has been...
Core Training & Back Health for Squash—Part VI
By Damon Leedle-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Over the series of five articles on Core Training & Back Health we have progressed from exercises to help establish correct patterns of movement, the ‘Big 3’ series to...
Improvements strategies: Steps to step-up your game
By Richard Millman, Owner—Westchester Squash
No matter what your level of play, there are certain steps you can take to improve your game.
These steps—the pillars of your game if you will—are sure-fire ways of moving...
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink! #2
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Here’s the second in a short series of short articles dealing with what can be called ‘conventions’—used here in the sense of ‘understandings’ where we don’t necessarily follow...
String Quiz Challenge of the Decade
By Steve Crandall, Vice President, Sales & Marketing Ashaway Racket Strings
It has been 10 years—January 2001—since our last Racquet String Quiz ran in Squash Magazine. While many of the basics haven’t changed, there have been...
The Egyptian Magician and Other Train Station Tales
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Ramy Ashour won the 2011 J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, but it was his older compatriot, Amr Shabana, who stole the show in his epic semifinal loss to Nick Matthew.
The...
Access Youth Academy Becomes the First Urban Squash Program to Compete in U.S. High...
By Andrew Holets
Photos courtesy of Access Youth Academy
The term ‘underdog’ is so often used in sports that we can sometimes fail to recognize a genuine example. Normally the term is associated with a sports team...
Birth Pangs of a “New Era”
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
The World Series finals at the Queens Club in London were billed as the “new face of squash,” which would “lead it into a new era.” Perhaps it was, and...
Will’s World Paying the Least
By Will Carlin
In the mid 1990’s, New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority began to do two things simultaneously: lay off station attendants and install a new kind of turnstile. The new turnstile was designed both...