Is Anyone Listening? Old Advice Recycled
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Since I have written over 100 columns about the Rules and Refereeing for Squash Magazine it is...
Conduct Unbecoming Why The PSA Must Put Its House In Order
By Rod Symington
A recent e-mail to Squash Magazine dealt with issues that arose during the Final of a PSA Event in September 2008 in...
Squash in the Octagon
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
A long, long time ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was in grade school, our...
The Labor of Sisyphus Questions, Questions, Questions!
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Squash is a very complex game, and the infinite variety of possible situations and scenarios is a...
The Mysterious “Spirit of the Game”
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
One of the least known Rules of Squash is Rule 15: “Duties of the Players.” Those players who...
Try, Try, And Try Again: What To Do When When Life Gets Complicated
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
At times squash can be a crazy game. As long as the ball travels up and down the walls...
Why You Should Use Three Referees: The Future is Here
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Over the past 18 months the newly formulated Three Referee System has been employed all over the...
The Greatest Myth in Squash
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
That was the worst decision I have ever seen!” The speaker was a professional player in the Kolkata...
How to Simplify the Game of Squash A Radical Proposal
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
I attended the Men’s World Team Championships in Chennai in December 2007, and on Finals Day (England beat...
T-Rex Lives! The Player Who Goes to the T
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
I don’t usually like answering questions of the “What if…?” variety, because the scenario described by one...