Yoga & Squash

By Peter Nicol I tend to have a short attention span when it comes to my physical conditioning—focusing day-to-day and/or week-by-week with my preparation and recovery. I was not always this way; when I was a professional my...

Nutrition Myths: They Will Make You Go Hmmm…

By Candace H. Chemtob, MS, RD, LD, CSSD Nutrition should be simple. Unfortunately, Americans are bombarded with inaccurate nutrition information from supplement manufacturers to TV personalities. This misinformation creates confusion, and nutrition myths take on...

Controlling Your Temporal Gaze – Part II

By Richard Millman Picking up from last month, we will now address the critical differences between future, present and past on the squash court. First, mechanically speaking, when one moves continuously the legs are necessarily engaged and, as they...

Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q & A

By Barry Faguy HEY REF! I made a good drop shot (admittedly not a winner) from the T because my opponent’s previous poor shot set me up there—and then my opponent came up against me...

Deceleration—The Art of Slowing Down, Part 3

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In this final article on deceleration we will look at a series of exercises that can be integrated into your training to improve your ability to control...

The Boast

By Lynn Leong, U.S. Junior Women's Assistant Coach The boast is one of my favorite shots to play. While some people, especially a lot of parents of juniors, think the boast is a bad shot...

Queens and Princes at Grand Central

By James Zug The eightieth J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions will be remembered for the long-awaited arrival of a queen and the wildly exaggerated, misreported demise of a prince. Nicol David had done everything in the game...

Safe Home: Don Goodwin Retires After More Than Thirty Years As The Voice of...

“I am not sure I can pin it down,” John Nimick said after the 2014 JP Morgan Tournament of Champions, “but I believe I have either played in or produced about fifty events with Don over thirty years, and in...

Ham Biggar Presented Brauns Award

By James Zug Photos by Ham Biggar At the eighth-annual Tub o’ Towels Cleveland Classic last month in Cleveland, Ohio, US Squash presented the 2013 W. Stewart Brauns, Jr., Award to Hamilton Fisk Biggar, III. The Brauns...

PSA World Series Finals

By Jay D. Prince The PSA World Series Finals are coming to the United States for the first time, to be staged in Richmond, Virginia, at the Westwood Club, March 15-19, 2014. First held as the Super Series...