Millions of squash enthusiasts around the world, but far too few websites to cover this great game.

Introducing www.SquashZAG.com   We're like a website, blog, magazine and Facebook rolled into one.  READ articles, WATCH videos, CONNECT with friends new & old, SHARE ideas, blogs, videos and pictures.

We hope to deepen and broaden your enjoyment of squash with fresh ideas, coverage, content and use of web technologies.  Squash is more than scores and quotes.  Squash can benefit by choice and healthy competition.

With your support and participation we hope to create a destination that will enable the squash community to be informed, engaged and motivated to share and interact with eachother.  

We will need your help.   SquashZAG is merely a website (even with all its cool videos, tools and functionality).  It will live or die based on the support of the squash public and stakeholders such as club teaching pros, PSA/WISPA touring pros, associations, tournament organizers and squash businesses.

Visit, Sign Up, Invite your friends, Participate, Become a SquashZAG Champion or Regional Editor.

If you are passionate about squash we invite you to come take a look ...   www.SquashZAG.com

 

Squash360.com will shutdown permanently and completely on
November 21, 2008 6PM Pacific

Thank you all for your past support and recent kind words, Shawn

By Passant Rabie
From Egypt Today

Quiet laughter, hushed chatter and the occasional ringing of a cell phone were the only sounds filling the VIP hall of Cairo International Airport on October 20, just after midnight. But just a few seconds later, Ramy Ashour stepped off his five-hour flight from the United Kingdom and turned the quiet terminal into a chaotic flurry of press, family and rowdy friends, all vying for a moment with the champion squash player.

Views and News about Squash
By Ryan Barnett
From www.squashtalk.com

JEAN DELIERRE - A PASSION BECOMES A COMMITMENT TO HIS SPORT

Nov 25, 2003  Sometimes a person just has to take a step back and look at things from a different perspective. The problems facing professional squash are widely known and have been well documented. The interaction between players and referees, lack of financial resources, and failure to get squash included within the Olympic games have all been beaten to death by the media. Yet what are the results?

Many thanks as always
SB at www.squashblog.co.uk

The first World Squash Championships held in England for over twenty years were an opportunity for the sport to showcase its finest talent and provide a spectacle that would indisputably warrant Olympic inclusion.

But how did the event measure up ? ...

By Shawn Patton
Owner, Editor of Squash360
** Site closing November 21st **

First off, let me express a most sincere thank you to all of the squash fans around the world who visited squash360. 

From Gamesbids.com

Seven sports presented their cases to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Friday hoping to be included in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games program. The seven sports include rugby, baseball, softball, golf, karate, roller sports and squash.

Official Release
By Howard Harding

The bid by Squash to get onto the Olympic Games programme for 2016 took a step forward today (Friday) when a World Squash Federation delegation offered the credentials of the sport to the Olympic Programme Commission in Lausanne.

Courtesy of Eric Williams
From Seattle Squash League

1. Protect your eye sight.
2. Required by US Squash to participate our sanctioned league

By Tim Bacon, M.A., B.P.H.E. 
Smith College 
From Science of Coaching Squash 

One of the most important things I learned during the the Periodization (Annual Planning) task of my Squash Canada Level 4 Course in 1987, was the importance of sequencing training activities within a practice according to the principle of “fatiguability of the Central Nervous System (CNS)” (Bompa, 1999). 

This principle states that activities that require a fresh well-rested athlete should be performed first, while those activities that can have a good training effect when performed in a fatigued state should be carried out later in the practice.

By Jenny Coutinho
From www.merinews.com

To reach the top is one but to hold on to the peak tenaciously is quite another. The same goes for Squash.  Egyptian Amr Shabana and Malaysian Nicol David have, therefore, been adopting different approaches to the game to keep themselves on the top.

Sustaining at the top is a Herculean task in any sport. Squash is no different. Current world number one Egyptian Amr Shabana in the men’s section and Malaysian Nicol David in the ladies have been adopting different approaches to the games to keep on the top perch.

By Maureen R. Weiss, Ph.D
Originally Published January 2008

Coaches occupy multiple roles in children’s lives as sport participants. Coaches must be excellent instructors so that youth learn and improve skills, increase knowledge of strategies and tactics, and achieve their goals.

Coaches can also inspire children to maintain motivation for participating in sport and, in so doing, allow them opportunities to accrue such benefits as positive self-esteem, enjoyable experiences, long-lasting friendships, and a positive attitude toward the value of lifetime physical activity.