My Grandmother’s Teacups
By Richard Millman
For many years now, I have subscribed to the notion that hitting a squash ball with a squash racquet is only rarely a good idea. The contact between your racquet and the...
Setting a Personal Squash Development Plan
By Richard Millman
If you are a squash player who wants to challenge yourself, a good idea is to adopt a Personal Squash Development Plan (or PSDP). Before you can establish your plan, there are...
How to Improve: Performance Versus Outcome
by Richard Millman
Whether you are a parent, a coach or a player, chances are you are focused on improvement. If this is the case, I have some simple advice for you. But beware—simple never...
Righty Tighty
By Richard Millman
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being present at the final of the Delaware Investments U.S. Open in Philadelphia. Apart from the packed arena, one of the best...
Serious Solo
By Richard Millman
The summer is upon us, and now is the time to really get ahead of the competition. Solo practice is one of the least utilized and most valuable training regimes. It is...
The Difference Between “Building” and “Forcing”
by Richard Millman
Squash enjoys the patronage of people of all ages, skill levels, genders, nationalities and, to some degree, a broad range of the physical and mental spectrum of human beings.
No matter what group...
Understanding the Human Machine
By Richard Millman
As I have said before, I believe that our sport is in the very early stages of its development and we, its students, are somewhat akin to the doctors of the middle...
Psychological Strategy – The Key to the Game
By Richard Millman
As I have said before in this column, it is my belief that currently, we are still in the very early stages of development of this wonderful sport of ours.
In my program, ‘The Millman...
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...
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...