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...
Don’t Let Training Cramp Your Style
By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S in Human Nutrition
If you have ever had a muscle cramp on the court, it is an event that will not be easily wiped from your memory. Muscle cramps have...
The Path to Excellence – A God Given Talent? Part 3
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
The understanding of ‘talent’ in sport—or indeed across other domains such as music and business—is an area which has received more extensive investigation over the last 10-20 years....
The Path to Excellence—A God Given Talent? Part 2
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the previous issue we began to discuss the concept of ‘Talent’ in sport, and considered those factors that seem to explain what separates the very best from...
The Path to Excellence – A God Given Talent?
By Damon Leedale-Brownb, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
How often do we watch a world class athlete or musician perform and marvel at the talent they possess – surely they were destined for excellence and were...
Off-Season Cross Training for Squash
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
For most players (professional and amateur) the competitive playing season will have recently come to an end. In the US most junior players are finished by mid-March at the...
Balancing Court Fitness & Body Health – Part 2
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Last month we discussed some of the mechanisms of injury on the squash court that typically are seen when there is too much focus/emphasis on playing, and too...
Managing Your Time: Micro, Macro, Body, Mind and Soul
By Richard Millman, Owner—Westchester Squash
This month I wanted to give you a simple way of monitoring your progress and development in your game.
Everything in Squash is about managing time (and I mean everything).
How you...
Balancing Court Fitness & Body Health – Part 1
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Hopefully this article will be read by players of all ages, some with aspirations to further improve their playing level, and others with the goal of simply trying to...
Core Training & Back Health for Squash—Part VI
By Damon Leedle-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Over the series of five articles on Core Training & Back Health we have progressed from exercises to help establish correct patterns of movement, the ‘Big 3’ series to...