U.S. Squash Partners with Squashskills
U.S. SQUASH has announced a new partnership with the online coaching site Squashskills, which will provide reduced price subscriptions to U.S. SQUASH members, allowing them to benefit from a range of interactive coaching and...
Portion Distortion: Do portion sizes matter?
By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nutrition
Just look around and you can see that America's waistline is expanding. More than 2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese, with an astonishing 75 million...
Sum of Its Parts: You don’t strike the ball in match play by ignoring...
By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation
Languages, cultures, pursuits, attitudes, personalities—all can be reduced to their constituent parts. But once we have taken them to pieces, we need to be very careful...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q&A
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies." Hmmm! I'll make an exception for the next few editions that will feature questions that have piled...
Attack! How to Carry the Game to the Opponent without Self Destruction!
By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation
The concept of attacking is one that can easily become suffused with emotion and, if this happens, frequently becomes a road to self destruction.
The problem is...
Getting to ONE
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist &Conditioning Specialist
In this edition I wanted to share with the readers an article that was written for the Tournament of Champions event brochure in January this year following an...
Technique! It starts with the feet!
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
As coaches and players, when we talk about technique, it is easy to narrow our focus around the swing, and analysis of the swing can too often become detached...
Contact on the Follow-Through
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Preamble
In the past, we featured a basic article about interference to the swing. Here, we get a bit more specific and deal only with the follow-through—the third...
Return of Serve: the Second best way to get an edge.
By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation
After the serve, the second best way to gain an edge in a rally is the return of serve.
By developing a consistent routine for your return of...
Rhythm—A Key Component of both learning and playing Squash.
By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation
Watching elite level players play often elicits the comment that it all looks ‘so effortless.’
Indeed the graceful flow of many rallies is one of the reasons...