The Egyptian Way
The Egyptian Way: How to use your body’s energy tank. Squash is a phenomenal sport. For a sport played in a relatively small space, there are countless ways to approach the same task – the task of winning a match. … Continued
Video Squash Coaching Vlog: Solo practices
Solo practice is THE BEST way to improve your control! Here we give you several different ways of improving your ball control. These exercises are all about hitting certain areas of the front wall while controlling the pace of the … Continued
Video Squash Coaching Vlog: Ghosting – Close-Up Footwork
A 2 minute video allowing you to carefully watch the footwork involved in a simple ghosting routine. This allows to to examine the flowing side-step movement through the T Zone. A few things to take note of: Always play a … Continued
The inspiring diary of squash star John Dale
JOHN Dale was tipped to become a world champion squash player before he was diagnosed with cancer. BRAVE Newcastle squash player John Dale died after a long battle against cancer but his inspiring words will live on forever. The 31-year-old’s … Continued
Squash Coaching Blog: Racket back!
I mention this quite a lot but I cannot stress it enough – please get your RACKET BACK but NOT UP! So often I see one of two mistakes when a player prepares by taking their racket up and not … Continued
Squash Coaching Blog: Triangles
Do you know where to aim when you hit a cross-court drive from the middle of the court or the front corners? I’ve tried to make it as simple as possible for you by using triangle targets. We can imagine … Continued
Squash Coaching Blog: The counter drop under pressure
I’m a big fan of playing a lob out of the front corners when under pressure, but more and more we are seeing the counter drop. Let’s look at the counter drop when we are under extreme pressure (not when … Continued
Squash Coaching Blog: This SHOULD BE your T position…
In this blog I want to show where you actually should stand on the squash court. ‘The T’ in squash is something everyone thinks they understand, I’m sure you do – but do you really? I specifically want to look … Continued
Squash Coaching Blog: Adapting to different conditions
I often hear performance excuses related to the court or the ‘unfavourable’ conditions like; “The ceiling was too low”, “The front wall was very slow”, “I didn’t get on court to play my match until 10.30 at night”, “I played … Continued
An night of FREE WORLD CLASS SQUASH!
A week ago, AWsome Sports hosted a FREE squash exhibition night at Warrington Sports Club in Cheshire. It was an huge success. The main event was between Nick Matthew and Nafiizwan Adnan – two players who will be representing Warrington … Continued