Put It Into Practice: Back To Basics – With Jesse Engelbrecht

No matter what level you are at it will always be worth revisiting the basics. You will often hear top professionals talk about getting their basics wrong in matches they lose. They will very often go back to the drawing board and be sure to check they have their basics down.

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Put It Into Practice: A Guide To Pairs Drills – With Shaun Moxham

It’s a fascinating playlist for coaches who want to add something new to their repertoire, but there’s plenty to learn here for players who want to spice up their practice and work as a three.

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power

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 ROCK STAR self!

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footwork

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

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.

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volley drop

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

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.

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body

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 website, alongside our Coaching and Training apps, plus a new look for the SquashSkills brand.

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variation

Common Amateur Fault: Playing Without Variation

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.

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Breathing for Sports 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. 

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footwork

Developing Fast Footwork

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

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play

Common Amateur Fault – Play Slow, Move Quick

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

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fitness

Considerations For Improving Your Squash-Specific 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

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flow

Accessing A Flow State

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.

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endurance

6 of the Best: Endurance Training

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

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fail

Deliberate Practice – Why You Should Lean Into Reach and Fail

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.

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gratitude

What Good is Gratitude?

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

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