Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink #4
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Here’s the fourth (and last) in this short series dealing with what can be called ‘conventions’—used here in the sense of ‘under- standings’ where we don’t necessarily follow...
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink! #3
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Here’s the third in a short series of short articles dealing with what can be called ‘conventions’—used here in the sense of ‘understandings’ where we don’t necessarily follow...
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink! #2
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Here’s the second in a short series of short articles dealing with what can be called ‘conventions’—used here in the sense of ‘understandings’ where we don’t necessarily follow...
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink!
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
We now begin a short series of short articles dealing with what can be called ‘conventions’—used here in the sense of ‘understandings’ where we don’t necessarily follow the letter of...
The Uncertainty Principle
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Well, there’s a catchy title stolen from the lexicon of quantum physics—hinting that maybe we’ve at last found a unified field theory of officiating—and so ending all of...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q & A
By Barry Faguy
HEY REF! I was reading the new 2014 rules and was having a tough time figuring out the difference between ‘excessive’ and ‘exaggerated’ swings. Help!?
Welcome to the club. Most rules deal with...
Is Timing Everything?
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Well...in Squash, yes. And you won’t need a watch. Our subject here relates to the moment one of the players makes an appeal—and how you, as a referee, need...
Blocking or Trapping: What’s the difference?
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
The term ‘blocking’, as commonly used by Referees and players, is actually not specifically found in the rules. In the pejorative sense in which we usually use...
What the….!? Fair view—the neglected form of interference
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Now here’s a subject about which precious little is written but which, nonetheless, is a real part of the game—sometimes to great significance. There have been multiple...