Core Training & Back Health for Squash – Part V
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the last article we looked at variations of two classic exercises—the push-up and the pull-up—as effective ways of developing lower back and torso strength, while also...
The Dreaded Cross-Court! When it is good it is very, very good and when...
By Richard Millman, Owner—Westchester Squash
You may have heard it said that there are no bad dogs—just bad owners. Well the humble cross-court suffers a similar sentence. You’ve said to yourself or heard others berating themselves on...
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink!
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
We now begin 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 the letter of...
PowerNick 19: At just over 1mm, it’s the thinnest string on the market
Ashaway Racket Strings has introduced PowerNick® 19, the thinnest string ever to grace a squash racquet. The new 1.05 mm string utilizes a monofilament core, based on a special formulation developed for Ashaway by Zyex...
Big League: US Junior Open is the World’s Largest Junior Tournament
By Vidya Rajan
Photos by Jay D. Prince
With 650 players from 20 different countries, the US Junior Open cemented itself as one of the premier junior tournaments worldwide. Played at Harvard University this year, the tournament drew...
Will’s World Dinner at Eight
By Will Carlin
In the fall of 1978, a promising squash player from Mercersburg Academy arrived as a freshman on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford. A few weeks later, he was gone, and no...