Controlling Your Temporal Gaze

By Richard Millman Are all of your efforts combining to keep you in the best place on the time line of the game—and of your life? Tempus Fugit, the old Latin maxim goes (literally: Time Flies) and as...

Building Pressure – Or the Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back

By Richard Millman Camels are strong animals. Over eons they have evolved into beasts of burden with amazing endurance. But even camels have a breaking point. Now imagine an improbable competition between a couple of camel merchants who decided to test...

Deceleration—The Art of Slowing Down

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Take time to watch the top players in the world in action and observe how well they are able to control speed and movement onto the ball...

Head Turn Progressions

By Richard Millman Picking up where we left off last month, you’ll recall that “a deep understanding of how to create a ninety-degree angle between the racquet and the direction that you wish the ball...

Head Turn Progressions

By Richard Millman There is a story—how much of it is true I am not sure—that when Nick Matthew achieved the laudable ranking of 100 in the world, he had occasion to video his backhand...

Shorten Your Swing

By Peter Nicol When coaching, I tend to spend a lot of time on shortening the swings of players I’m working with. The reason for concentrating on a shorter, tighter swing is to help the...

Rally Cycle

By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation Squash is dependent on a continuous organic cycle of behavior which I call 'The Rally Cycle'. This involves a continuous and seamless flow which passes through...

Slingshot Mechanics: Movement seamlessly powers shot production

By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation The way that Squash is frequently learned is to first strike the ball. Unfortunately this tends to lead to a mechanically inefficient method of power transfer that, for some players, results...

Movement technique— Forget that old banana!

By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation This month I am going to talk about movement training. Some traditional methods of training Squash players to move on the court have included the use of...

Serves—Standard and Variation: What are your Options?

By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation As we have often heard, the serve is the one time in a game when we have absolute control over how and when to hit the ball....