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Albert Zakay SquashSkills experience: A Transformational Journey, Lessons from the Masters

SquashSkills is a  venue where you have the top world players, top coaches, top high-performance fitness specialists, top refs and much more sharing with you a world of knowledge and experience about sport and squash skills that is unrivalled in the world.

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The Benefits of ‘Passive’ Warm-Ups for Squash Players

This blog delves into the benefits of passive warm-up protocols for squash players, shedding light on how they can optimise performance and help prevent injuries.

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Vital Vitamin Requirements for the Squash Player (Part 2)

There are 3 vitamins that athletes and very active exercisers are frequently found to be deficient in – they are: Vitamin D, Vitamin C, and the B Vitamin Complex.

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Vital Vitamin Requirements for the Squash Player (Part 1)

There is a wide range of vitamins that the body needs to be able to function optimally. This 2-part article takes a look at some of those that should be regarded as the most crucial, and discusses how best to fulfil those needs.

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Training Slower to Move Faster

‘Training slower to move faster” on the surface sounds perverse, and somewhat of an oxymoron. This article discusses the importance of slowing down your training to develop better speed and efficiency in your movement patterns.

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England Squash and SquashLevels team up to encourage clubs to go paper-free in 2023

England Squash has teamed up with SquashLevels, the world-leading global squash ratings system, to encourage clubs to adopt digital box leagues and ladders and do away with non-environmentally friendly pen-and-paper solutions in 2023.  

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Unleashing the Champion Mindset: 3 Winning Strategies for Success

In this blog, Jesse explores three main things that champions do to win more often and how you can change your thinking to reach success!

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Breathing During Play/Competition

Heightening your awareness of your breathing is key! We need to rely way more on nose breathing rather than mouth breathing.

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The Myth of the ‘Slow Starter’

It’s an oft-heard lament of players, that they’re a ‘slow starter’ and are never able to get going right off the bat in their matches. There’s no real physiological reason why slow starting should be a thing however, if a proper pre-match routine is constructed and adhered to.

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What Is My Game?

My hope would be by the end of this blog to arm you with tools about how to discover your game of squash and to thoroughly enjoy the process of this exploration.

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The Awesome Power Of Dopamine – To Improve Motivation, Hard Work, Discipline, And Consistency

My hope would be that you will be able to understand the real power of dopamine and how to leverage it correctly when it comes to key aspects around self-improvement such as developing greater motivation, hard work, discipline, and consistency. 

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Benefits of Bike Sprints

Whilst finding effective lower-impact squash-specific training methods can be difficult, there is one excellent method that comes highly recommended – Bike Sprints.

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Netherlands To Host 2024 WSF World Masters

Netherlands has been confirmed as the hosts for the 2024 WSF World Masters Squash Championships, with the Frans Otten Stadion in Amsterdam hosting all of the action between August 17-24.

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3 Tips to Boost Your On-Court Power & Acceleration

The ability to move powerfully around the court and accelerate rapidly onto the ball is a key prerequisite to being able to play at a high level, yet is an element that is often neglected or trained inadequately.

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Your Future Self – How To Be Confident And Clear-Minded

In this article, I am going to help you reframe parts of your belief system and to try and get you behaving and making choices today NOT based on your past self, but rather, your future confident ROCK STAR self!

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Trying vs Effort – The Key To Unlocking Your Full Potential

It may not seem much, but there is a vast difference between trying and effort. My hope by end of the blog would be for you to understand the difference between the two words, and ultimately become aware if you are merely trying, or, putting in full effort. And when understood, using this as the key to unlocking your full potential.

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Balancing The Body

By being deliberate in your training with balancing out both sides of your body, you’ll be helping yourself not just from a performance standpoint, but also from an injury prevention one.

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SquashSkills Launches Game-changing New Digital Platform

The waiting is over, we’re delighted to announce that we have launched our new platform, alongside our Coaching and Training apps, plus a new look for the SquashSkills brand.

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