What’s Your Favourite Edmonton Summer Festival?
We’re not always just about squash. We’re wondering, what’s your favourite Edmonton Festival?
Edmonton Squash Club Members Achieve a Blood Donation Milestone
Congratulations to ESC members Anthony Looy and Rob Music for achieving their 300th and 200th blood plasma donations respectively! Anthony started donating blood all the way back in 1985 at the suggestion of his then-girlfriend and now squash-playing wife Heather as a good and easy thing to do. He donated whole blood back then, but … Read more
How Amanda Sobhy Uses Hardball Doubles to Improve her Singles Game
Recently Amanda Sobhy wrote an article for Squash Magazine talking about her love for the North American Hardball Doubles game. After suffering a devastating Achilles rupture in Cartagena, Columbia in 2017, Sobhy talks about how her return to professional competition was first in two doubles tournaments which she saw as a great way to get … Read more
Squash-Specific Nutritional Advice From Overhaul Fitness’ Mike Fouts
Mike Fouts from Overhaul Fitness has kindly taken the time to write us a nutrition primer focussed on squash. Learn About Squash Nutrition In it, he breaks down the body’s main energy stores, and how they are used while doing different types of exercise. For squash players who engage in medium to longer rallies, … Read more
Stretching Poll: Squash Game Day Rituals – Are You Stretching Before, After, Both or Never?
For our bi-weekly poll, we are curious whether you stretch before your match, after your match, or not at all. Stretching prior to exercise is controversial, with a number of studies suggesting the static stretching prior to performing decreases power with no real reduction in injury risk, however it is likely that recreational athletes do … Read more
2018 End of year Club Survey Results
Thank you to everyone who filled in our year-end survey. As a member-owned not-for-profit club, we want to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to the benefit of our members and we want as many voices heard as possible to guide our decisions. Overall we found that people are very positive about the … Read more
Warm-up Poll: What’s Your Style
Everyone has a different way of warming up during the 5-minute knock-up before a game. What’s your style before hitting the ball over to your opponent? Background reading: http://www.squashgame.info/ Official WSF Rules, section 4: http://www.worldsquash.org Results A few hits and then pass it over was the strong winner – good on ‘ya!
