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

• Psychology

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 ROCK STAR self!

Put It Into Practice: How To Improve Your Footwork In All Areas Of The Court – With Lee Drew

• Put it into practice

In this playlist with Alex Stait, you’ll learn how to play the volley drop in a range of different scenarios, and understand the subtleties needed to make it an effective tactic.

Put It Into Practice: How To Perfect Your Volley Drop – With Alex Stait

• Put it into practice

In this playlist with Alex Stait, you’ll learn how to play the volley drop in a range of different scenarios, and understand the subtleties needed to make it an effective tactic.

Trying vs Effort – The Key To Unlocking Your Full Potential

• Performance
• Psychology

Balancing The Body

• Fitness

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.

SquashSkills Launches Game-changing New Digital Platform

• Other

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

Common Amateur Fault: Playing Without Variation

• Tactics

Playing without variation is a very common amateur fault. This can be especially true when players have found the joy and thrill of hitting the ball hard.

The Lost Art Of Breathing

• Performance

Breathing is like any technique, your grip, swing and footwork, if you have bad technique, it hinders you and works against you, if you have good technique, it helps and works for you to improve and grow. 

Developing Fast Footwork

• Fitness

Frequent rapid movement is an integral part of squash, so developing the speed of your footwork can make a big difference to your performance.

Common Amateur Fault – Play Slow, Move Quick

• Technique

A solution I propose to help stem the tide of a confident opponent is to move quick but play slow.

Considerations For Improving Your Squash-Specific Fitness

• Fitness

The first thing to keep in mind is that there is a lot more to ‘fitness’ than just being able to keep plodding away for the course of a game

Accessing A Flow State

• Performance
• Psychology

This blog will look to give you an understanding of flow as well as the practical tools to use to get into your flow channel for best results.

6 of the Best: Endurance Training

• Fitness

Not sure where to start your endurance training? Check out our SquashSkills ‘6 of the Best’ endurance workouts, crucial for a squash player

Deliberate Practice – Why You Should Lean Into Reach and Fail

• Psychology

What I would like to propose and get you to try and think about is that real growth and deeper learning happen in what is called the reach and fail state.

What Good is Gratitude?

• Psychology

The concept of gratitude has been talked about and studied for some time now and the benefits that come with practising gratitude are undeniable.

Match or Event Preparation

• Performance

Check out some valuable tools and ideas for the mind and how to have the best mental preparation you can have for the match day.

Fundamentals Of Deception

• Tactics

Deception is a very fun, and highly effective, part of the game of squash. This blog will look at some of the fundamentals of deception.

SquashSkills To Celebrate 10th Birthday With A New Website, Apps, And Re-Brand

• Equipment

SquashSkills, the world’s leading provider of online squash coaching is preparing to unveil a new website, dedicated mobile apps, as well as a fresh look and feel for the brand.

SquashLevels Officially Launched In Australia

• Performance

The world’s most advanced squash rating system, SquashLevels, has teamed up with Squash Australia (SQA) to bring the national squash-playing community together.

5 Tips On Playing Someone Who Is Injured (The Wounded Buffalo)

• Injuries & rehab

An injured player is an uncontrollable factor. You need to try and block out this external distraction and continue to play your game.