Contact on the Follow-Through

By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee Preamble In the past, we featured a basic article about interference to the swing. Here, we get a bit more specific and deal only with the follow-through—the third...

Return of Serve: the Second best way to get an edge.

By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation After the serve, the second best way to gain an edge in a rally is the return of serve. By developing a consistent routine for your return of...

Female Triad

By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nurtition There is enormous pressure on competitive athletes to have the "ideal" body size and composition for their sports. This pressure can come from coaches, parents, teammates,...

Black Knight ion X-Force

Stiff yet powerful. Or power with control. Either way you look at them, the new ion X-Force sticks from Black Knight offer both critical elements every squash player is looking for. The ion X-Force comes...

Hard Power: Ashaway’s PowerNick® Multi-stranded Monofilament Zyex® Strings

In the November 2011 issue, we talked about Ashaway’s UltraNick® family of Zyex® based strings. This time, we’ll take a look at the company’s other Zyex-based line, PowerNick®. With the UltraNick family, we talked about...

U.S. Junior Open 2011: Ubina Keeps U19 Streak Alive for American Hosts

Article and photos by Jay D. Prince To call the U.S. Junior Open an "international" event is perhaps one of the biggest understatements of the junior squash world. Since we began covering the championship in 1997,...

His Cup Runneth Over: Willstrop Celebrates Kuwaiti History on the Way to the Top

By Richard Eaton Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com From the moment James Willstrop stood arms aloft and triumphant, not far from what used to be Saddam Hussein's killing fields, it was clear that squash was likely to...

CitySquash Success

On the afternoon of Dec. 16, when the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics dismissed its students, high school senior Katiria Sanchez hurried to Prospect Avenue to catch the #21 bus. She texted her...

Will’s World Repeats

By Will Carlin In mid-November of last year, something occurred that only happens once every hundred years—the date, as commonly written, had six repeats of the same digit: 11.11.11. Before the day actually fell, there were many predictions for...