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
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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...
Avoiding Training Fatigue
By Candance H. Chemtob, MS, RD, LD, CSSD
Fatigue is a natural response to rigorous training. Ignoring the signs of fatigue and overtraining can lead to disappointing athletic performance, a lack of enthusiasm, and increase...
What to Work on Leading Into the New Season
By Peter Nicol
I have always been a proponent of focusing on areas of your game that need the most amount work. However, more recently I have started to understand that this is not always the...
Making The Shift
By Peter Nicol
The player recently that has made the most dramatic rise in the world rankings is Miguel Angel Rodriquez. Up until just a short time ago, Miguel was an exceptional squash player but...
Sports Nutrition Strategies: Reduce Your Risk of Injury on the Court
By Candace H. Chemtob, MS, RD, LD, CSSD
Squash injuries are more common than you might think. A study of 155 players in New York City found an injury rate of 44.5%. Of those injuries,...
Elementary, My Dear Watson: Fundamentals and How Simple isn’t Always Easy
By Richard Millman
Sir Conan Doyle's great detective Sherlock Holmes was wont to use his favorite throw away line: 'Elementary, my dear Watson!' on occasions when his sidekick finally understood how Holmes had solved the...