The Maestro Moves On
By James Zug
Amr Shabana was never absurdly dominant. The Maestro wasn’t like Jahangir Khan going five and a half years without a loss, or Heather McKay not losing a game in sixteen years. Shabana won one match in five and another...
Look Sharp: A Rejection of Game Ball
By James Zug
Take yourself back to the 1961 National Singles. The men are playing at Penn. In the quarters Charlie Ufford faces his former Harvard classmate
Dave Watts. They are old friends and former teammates. They play together in New York....
The Small-World Network of Squash
By Michael Kearns and Ryan Rayfield
Not all social networks are built in front of glowing monitors with a Mountain Dew and a bag of Cheetos at hand. There are some social networks in which...
Importance of Physical Therapy in Sports
By Joe Zarett, MPT
The importance of physical therapy in sports can never be overstated. Sports physical therapy is a specialized practice that focuses on prevention, evaluation, treatment/rehabilitation, and performance enhancement of the physically-active individual....
2015 Dunlop Squash Racquets
By Pierre Bastien, Squash Equipment Blogger at squashsource.com
As the squash season gets underway, let’s take a look at six new designs from Dunlop that you’ll probably see around the courts in 2015-2016.
Dunlop Force Evolution
For...
Youth is Served
This issue, three young ladies from the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA, have wrestled the “Breaking through the Levels”column away from the Professionals to discuss drills, extra training, improving mental toughness, and lessons...
Sports Parents – A Guide From Your Kids
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
As both a coach and parent, the motivation to write this article came from the observations of sports parents’ behavior (good and bad) at squash events and...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q&A
By Barry Faguy
HEY REF! What does ‘playing through’ mean?
You’ve no doubt heard the old saying: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Well, with ‘playing through,’ the ‘cake’ is the striker’s right...
Two-Ball Feeds – A Wonderful World of Practices for Three Players
By Richard Millman
If you are working on your game and you have a couple of friends who are just as enthusiastic, two-ball feed drills are a marvelous discipline to help move your game forward.
As...
Spa-tlight
Julieanne Harris
Philadelphia Cricket Club
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What in squash has changed the most in your time in the game?
The entire style of play has changed. Changes in the scoring system have shortened the length of rallies...