Single Leg Strength for Squash

By Damon Leeedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Single leg strength is essential to improving speed, balance and movement in squash. Many strength programs place too heavy a focus on double-leg exercises such as squats and leg presses, or other...

Breaking Through the Levels

By Chris Hanson, US Elite Performance Program Member and World No. 84 While many adult and junior players consistently work on their game, trying to "break through to the next level”, only an elite few reach...

What They Used at the Open

By Pierre Bastien, squash equipment blogger at squashsource.com

Zyex Squash String Design and Performance

By Steve Crandall, Vice President, Sales & Marketing Ashaway Racket Strings In this and the next column we're doing for the February issue, I'd like to connect the dots between two major raw materials used in...

The Open Story

  by James Zug Parity is the watchword at the Delaware Investments United States Open. Two years ago, the national championship became the first major in the squash world to have equal prize money for men...

Playing Squash to One Hundred: Fantasy or Reality?

by Robert P. Mosier Is there anything an aging squash player can do to improve the odds of being on the court or even a national champion at age 100? With average life expectancy...

Good Literary Length: Three New Books

Good Literary Length: Three New Books By James Zug Trading Secrets: Squash Greats Recall Their Toughest Duels Rod Gilmour (Durrington, England: Pitch Publishing, 2015) Oral history books are notoriously unreliable. What one person remembers might not jib with the...