Stay Connected: Balance & Focus
By Richard Millman
If we are to be successful squash players, the way we carry ourselves as human beings sometimes needs to be countermanded and positively untrained. A certain assumption that most people habitually employ...
Compounding Time and Pressure
By Richard Millman
In the recent FS Investments U.S. Open at Drexel University, the final between Ali Farag and Mohamed ElShorbagy was spectacular, stylish, extreme, athletic, skilled and strategic. It was instructional on many fronts.
Time...
Mindhunter: Profiling Squash’s Top Performers at the U.S. Open
by Eric Zillmer
Director of Athletics and Pacifico Professor of Neuropsychology, Drexel University
The 2019 FS Investments U.S. Open Squash Championships, hosted by Drexel University, showed off the sport at its finest. Great crowds, matches, players...
Doubles: Team Dynamics
By Suzie Pierrepont
Can you simply put two players together and expect a good outcome?
Team dynamics are complicated. We select partners for various reasons—availability, ability and friendship—all of which are great ways to find a...
Official Q&A: Tammer Alnaggary
U.S. Pro Tour Tier 2 referee Tammer Alnaggary spoke with Squash Magazine about becoming a squash referee and his work in the U.S. with junior, college and professional tournaments.
Squash Magazine: How did you get...
Dealing With an Acute Soft-Tissue Injury
By
AJ Lamb, MS, CSCS, PES supervisor/senior exercise physiologist at Zarett Rehab & Fitness
Joe Zarett, physical therapist and founder of Zarett Rehab & Fitness
It happens to most of us. We feel a pull or a...
Resilience & Grit: Amanda Sobhy
by Bailey Bondy, Sports Psychologist/toughminds.net
What does it really mean to have grit? And where do we, as competitive athletes, improve our grit and resilience? Dr. Angela Duckworth, a pioneer and best-selling
author, defines grit as...
Hey Ref: April 2019
by Barry Faguy
HEY REF Last call!
Well folks, nine years later, it’s the end of my writing the officiating column. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with a Canadian doing it, but it’s fitting that someone...
Hey Ref: January 2019
An “Official” Q&A
by Barry Faguy
HEY REF Is it true that the PSA decided to eliminate the usual practice of giving only a let (instead of an obvious stroke) when the striker refrains from hitting...