Video & Match Analysis
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Last month we discussed watching the best players in the world in action and what can be learned from seeing them in competition. One common factor across all...
The Path to Excellence – A God Given Talent? Part 3
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
The understanding of ‘talent’ in sport—or indeed across other domains such as music and business—is an area which has received more extensive investigation over the last 10-20 years....
The Path to Excellence—A God Given Talent? Part 2
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the previous issue we began to discuss the concept of ‘Talent’ in sport, and considered those factors that seem to explain what separates the very best from...
The Path to Excellence – A God Given Talent?
By Damon Leedale-Brownb, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
How often do we watch a world class athlete or musician perform and marvel at the talent they possess – surely they were destined for excellence and were...
Off-Season Cross Training for Squash
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
For most players (professional and amateur) the competitive playing season will have recently come to an end. In the US most junior players are finished by mid-March at the...
Balancing Court Fitness & Body Health – Part 2
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Last month we discussed some of the mechanisms of injury on the squash court that typically are seen when there is too much focus/emphasis on playing, and too...
Balancing Court Fitness & Body Health – Part 1
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Hopefully this article will be read by players of all ages, some with aspirations to further improve their playing level, and others with the goal of simply trying to...
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...
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...
Core Training & Back Health for Squash – Part IV
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the last article we discussed Level 2 of our Core Training progression and looked at a series of three basic exercises—the Big 3—which are considered effective at...