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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...