How to be Better at Squash


Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 14:30
Jason
Senior Marketing Manager


You’re decent at Squash, but you want people to look at you in amazement as they call your game ‘majestic’, and you want outer ring roads named after you. To reach majestic status, we suggest including these 3 crucial elements in your repertoire. You’re welcome.

Play by Yourself
Squash is almost unique as a racket sport due to the fact that you don’t need a partner to have a good productive training session. Getting on court on your own to really groove in a certain shot or practice a specific technique, is something that can benefit players of all levels – it’s quite rare to see a player spending time on this area however. Squash Gods spend at least a few hours a week on their own doing solo training. As an amateur player, just taking 15-20mins before a couple of your weekly games/training sessions to hit a ball on your own, can make a big difference to your game.

Play with Everyone
You’ve gone completely insane and have put yourself through training drills, learn-a-sport sessions, and partner routines. Why? Don’t lie to yourself, you did it because you want to win. If you want to improve as a player, you have to be playing regular practice matches.

Here’s the thing though: your range and variety of opponents must be vast. Ideally, you should be looking to get an equal proportion of games in against three categories of players

  • Players a little weaker than you
  • Players of an equal standard
  • Players a little stronger than you

Your matches against these three different levels of opponents will allow you to focus on different aspects of your development as a player. Against the weaker players, it’s an opportunity to practice and incorporate the new things into your game that you’ve been working on in training. Playing players that you know are a little stronger than you on the other hand, is a chance to really gauge your overall improvements. Finally your practice matches against players of a similar standard, are what you use to stay sharp and in form.

Torture Yourself
Getting fitter can have just as large an impact on improving your game, as actually improving your technique and your strokes. A lot of players pay lip service to getting fitter, but making a real effort to improve your physical attributes – and really sticking to it – will go a long way toward making you a better player. Stop going so easy on yourself!