Learn the fundamentals and enjoy competing in this fast-paced tactical game. Whether you already play the game, or are just starting out, Squash: Steps to Success will teach you the skills and strategies you need to play and win. In 12 progressive learning steps, you’ll find 82 fun and challenging drills and more than 140 illustrations that will help you master each skill and advance at your own pace. Author Phil Yarrow is a two-time U.S. National Champion and a teaching professional. With Phil as your coach, you’ll learn fundamentals and court movement skills, specific strokes for each game situation, and key strategies. Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Series, this book will help you become a skillful, smart, and confident squash player.
The first comprehensive history of squash in the United States, Squash incorporates every aspect of this increasingly popular sport: men's and women's play, juniors and intercollegiates, singles and doubles, hardball and softball, amateurs and professionals. Invented by English schoolboys in the 1850s, squash first came to the United States in 1884 when St. Paul's School in New Hampshire built four open-air courts. The game took hold in Philadelphia, where players founded the U.S. Squash Racquets Association in 1904, and became one of the primary pastimes of the nation's elite. Squash launched a U.S. Open in 1954, but its present boom started in the 1970s when commercial squash clubs took the sport public. In the 1980s a pro tour sprung up to offer tournaments on portable glass courts in dramatic locales such as the Winter Garden at the World Trade Center. James Zug, with access to private archives and interviews with hundreds of players, describes the riveting moments and sweeping historical trends that have shaped the game. He focuses on the biographies of legendary squash personalities: Eleo Sears, the Boston Brahmin who swam in the cold Atlantic before matches; Hashim Khan, the impish founder of the Khan dynasty; Victor Niederhoffer, the son of a Brooklyn cop; and Mark Talbott, a Grateful Dead groupie who traveled the pro circuit sleeping in the back of his pickup. A gripping cultural history, Squash is the book for which all aficionados of this fast-paced, exciting game have been waiting.
Learn the fundamentals and enjoy competing in this fast-paced tactical game. Whether you already play the game, or are just starting out, Squash: Steps to Success will teach you the skills and strategies you need to play and win. In 12 progressive learning steps, you’ll find 82 fun and challenging drills and more than 140 illustrations that will help you master each skill and advance at your own pace. Author Phil Yarrow is a two-time U.S. National Champion and a teaching professional. With Phil as your coach, you’ll learn fundamentals and court movement skills, specific strokes for each game situation, and key strategies. Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Series, this book will help you become a skillful, smart, and confident squash player.
