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Squash Coach Training & Education Must be “Context-Specific”
There are squash coaches who are excellent coaches at an elite level – but who are incompetent teaching beginners. There are squash coaches who are excellent coaches with beginning young children but not very good with adult beginners or advanced players.Collected in tbacon's videos Feb 2, 2011 -
Coaching Squash Front-Court Tactics with a Ball Machine
Most squash coaches use a squash ball machine solely for technical training – often working with their players to groove one particular shot – or hitting several shots from the same, identical feed. This training, although it can be valuable, is “closed” training and does not improve a player’s “squash intelligence”. Ideally, we should try [...]Collected in tbacon's videos Dec 19, 2010 -
Kinaesthetic Cues for Squash Coaching: Part II
Some learn about squash technique by seeing, some via listening, but most by doing – which means by the “feeling of doing”. The sport science term for using “feelings” to help learn is “kinaesthetic cues”. As discussed in my last post, I had two of my team’s recent tennis converts “throw” their racquets into netting [...]Collected in tbacon's videos Dec 9, 2010 -
Why I Purchased a Ping Pong Robot but Won’t Buy a Squash Ball Machine!
I’ll preface my post by saying that I did in fact own a squash ball machine – the first one that came out (1989??Collected in tbacon's videos Sep 6, 2010 -
Teaching Squash to Beginner’s (and other raquet sports too)!
As September rolls around most of us squash coaches, whether club or college, are going to be put in the position of introducing groups of new players to squash (and perhaps other racquet sports). To make a long story short, most of the mainstream coaching world has finally caught up with a pedagogy that has [.Collected in tbacon's videos Aug 27, 2010 -
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A Progressive Approach to Teaching Racquet Sports – Part 2
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Coaching Squash Deception Using the Games Approach – Drive or Angle from Front
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Squash Coaching Video of Front Court Deception: Games Approach Example
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tbacon There are squash coaches who are excellent coaches at an elite level – but who are incompetent teaching beginners. There are squash coaches who are excellent coaches with beginning young children but not very good with adult beginners or advanced players. Read More
Feb 2, 2011