Margins Between Winning & Losing
By Peter Nicol
The differences between player standards are so fine that even having a forehand that is 5% worse than your opponent can mean an almost certain outcome every time—losing the match.
We often spend...
The Sweet Life: All About Artificial Sweeteners
By Candace H. Chemtob, MS, RD, LD, CSSD
Saccharin was discovered more than a century ago. In 1878, a chemist at Johns Hopkins University found that a byproduct of coal tar derivatives had a sweet...
Bisecting the Angles of Opportunity
By Richard Millman
When it comes to strategic positioning on the court, the key factor is to develop your confidence at the same time as keeping your guard up.
This much-misunderstood subject is very accessible once...
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...
The Mind Game—Fear of Failure: Playing to Win or Not to Lose?
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Sport provides a great environment in which we can learn about taking risks, losing with good sportsmanship, and ultimately using our failures or losses to grow as...
The Lob Game
By Gareth Webber, Director of Squash, Squash Club Los Gatos Level IV Elite Coach, U.S. Squash National Team Coach
A great way to respond to “shot makers" and power players is by using the height...
Take Big Step: Henri Salaun (1926-2014) and Hashim Khan (1914-2014), the Honorary Memorial Chairs...
By James Zug
This summer Henri Salaun and Hashim Khan both died. It was like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, connected by their years together battling each other and at the same time fomenting the...
Travels with Hashim
By Beth Rasin
I only got to know Hashim during the last ten years in my role as producer of “Keep Eye on Ball: The Hashim Khan Story.” At ninety-something, Hashim joined our film crew, in 2005,...
Squash Magazine’s Top 50 Most Intriguing, Interesting, and Influential People of 2014
In locker rooms and galleries, during van rides and post-game chats, people always talk about who does what in the game, about which celebrity is rumored to play, about which coach or player is...
College Squash Recruiting
By Nell Schwed
Squash is many things, but what it first brings to mind—besides its elitist roots, genteel style and winter vegetable connotation—is the competitive edge it can provide a college applicant.
Typically, those schools who fall...