Squash and wearing glass

Delboy007

I am starting up Squash and I wear glass, can u just wear your normal glass or can u get some special ones, or can u get some protective eyewear to go over your glass

abceire

I've been playing for 18years while wearing glasses my normal ones and never had a problem.
I'm sure you can get some kinda goggles with lenses in them. I've only played with friends socially though.

Delboy007

abceire wrote: »

I've been playing for 18years while wearing glasses my normal ones and never had a problem.
I'm sure you can get some kinda goggles with lenses in them. I've only played with friends socially though.

Thanks for that i played my 1st game there on sat and i just used my normal glass, i just got some string and tied it so they would not slip off and hit the ground, it work find the only small problem was they steamed up a bit, but as i am only playing socially with friends i can live with that.

The only strange this was my ass has been kiling me since then for some reason

abceire

You be grand after few games, lunges would be a good warm up so you not so sore, and stretch the bits that hurt once you finished would hepl, but mainly you using new muscles so you ll be fine.
How did you like it?

Delboy007

abceire wrote: »

You be grand after few games, lunges would be a good warm up so you not so sore, and stretch the bits that hurt once you finished would hepl, but mainly you using new muscles so you ll be fine.
How did you like it?

I am playing again tonight so will do lunges tonight before i start playing, yea i enjoed it, going to take a while before i get total used to how to play it, at the min i am just trying to hit the ball and not thinking to much on were i am putting the ball, i have read up on some tips so i found i was holding the rattect wrong, change that tonight, and other thing i will try from the tip was when serving try and get the ball to hit the side wall at the back of the cournt and also try and make the T part of the cournt mine.

If u have any other tips that would be great.

abceire

It's funny, I only played friends for the 1st 14 or so years, then happened to go to a coaching season at a squash/tennis club, I learnt so much of what I was doing was wrong. Like you should not be hitting the ball facing the front wall, you should taking it facing the side walls, taking a step to the side to hit it and back to the middle line. The serve was funny, just like how you said were to serve it to is were I had kinda always served it bar when I throw in other serves to mix it up now and then. I can remember all does years ago when my dad and I started playing , he'd complain about my serves, usually because he'd not get to hit the ball at all and he'd be saying, don't give me them **** serves , give me a nice one.
Which scoring rules do you use?
You can play like tennis were you have to of served to score a point, or I think the slightly newer way is , whoever wins the rally gets a point. I played the tennis way always until last few weeks. It makes it closer it seems playing the new way. and you have to make less mistakes.
One other tip I would say is, just try not hit the ball back to the other person, make them move, this should make you think of different shots to hit.
Also which ball have you? The pros use a slower ball, I think the black ball with 2 yellow dots is one of the slowest, you might have more fun with the fastest ball you can get, it bounces more so rallys will last longer and you'll spend more time hitting the ball instead of picking it up off the floor, and as you get better go for slower balls.

Delboy007

abceire wrote: »

It's funny, I only played friends for the 1st 14 or so years, then happened to go to a coaching season at a squash/tennis club, I learnt so much of what I was doing was wrong. Like you should not be hitting the ball facing the front wall, you should taking it facing the side walls, taking a step to the side to hit it and back to the middle line. The serve was funny, just like how you said were to serve it to is were I had kinda always served it bar when I throw in other serves to mix it up now and then. I can remember all does years ago when my dad and I started playing , he'd complain about my serves, usually because he'd not get to hit the ball at all and he'd be saying, don't give me them **** serves , give me a nice one.
Which scoring rules do you use?
You can play like tennis were you have to of served to score a point, or I think the slightly newer way is , whoever wins the rally gets a point. I played the tennis way always until last few weeks. It makes it closer it seems playing the new way. and you have to make less mistakes.
One other tip I would say is, just try not hit the ball back to the other person, make them move, this should make you think of different shots to hit.
Also which ball have you? The pros use a slower ball, I think the black ball with 2 yellow dots is one of the slowest, you might have more fun with the fastest ball you can get, it bounces more so rallys will last longer and you'll spend more time hitting the ball instead of picking it up off the floor, and as you get better go for slower balls.

Yea last night when i played i got more used to judging the bounce of the ball and how to use the side wall, how to grip the racket etc, I have read up on how to play and read some tip on best to play, in most of the tips it says the most important thing is to take over the T area, so with this is it better to get to the T at all times even if u are in front of the other player when he is taking his shout, this means u can not see the other player and it can be hard to know were he is going to hit the ball.

I am using the bingger ball, so it bounces more so gives u a better chance to hit the ball. We are playing 1st to 11 and who ever wins the rally gets the point, the guy i am playing with used to play a bit so he is winning most of them but i won 2 games out of the 6 i played so was good, he makes me run all over the shop.

When the guy i play serves from the right side he most of the time get it to bounce of the side wall at the back and i have to use my backhand which 8 times out of the 10 i mess up, i need to find a better way to retund, and some times i mess up my serves which gives him a easy point any tips on serving?

abceire

I'd just say, it's not tennis you can get most speed out of using your wrist, really flick the racket forward, and even if you can't his the side walls, drive it right back, if it drops early or comes back slow at other person it gives them alot more chance to hit it were ever they like.
When he serves from the right hand side you should be standing with body facing the side wall ready to take in with your back hand.
When you take over serving and it's your serve, you get to pick which side you want to serve from, if he is right handed too like most people are, you should always start serving from the right hand side, that way more chance you'll make him return it with a back hand shot, whic most people would be weaker with.

abceire

1st worry about getting them in most of the time, then worry about placing it on the wall.
I am basing this on 1 teo hour session of group coaching I got.
Also , try and run for everything and have some sorta shot a returning everything even if you seem like there no hope of getting the ball back. I found this helped me , I found new ways to get it back.

Delboy007

Ah thanks for that as i did not know when it is your serve u can pick which side you want to serve from, we were swaping from which side we were on after the point was won.

So the idea is to make the T area yours so does it matter if u have your back to who u are playing

abceire

I'm not sure if it's best to be infront of behind when at the T.
When serving you go have to swap over, but you get to pick were your 1st serve from, if that makes sense, so they serve you win the rally then you can pick which side you start from, so you can pick the right side every time, then if you win point after point swap side to side.
You only need one foot in the square so your best serving eith one in the square and the other foot out of the box on the middle line side so your nearest the middle and get to t quickly also you cut the ankle more, making it easier to make your serve go along the wall as much as possible, good to point this all out know, I must have a million bad habits by now and trying to cure them but it's hard.
When I get back to canada I think I'll join the local club. You'll get better playing different people, they'll play shots you've not seen before if they good, plus when you play same people all time you get used to how they play you react without thinking to their style and if you go on to play in competitions you'll find the new people hard to play against. I played a guy in canada that never met before, he wipped the floor with me in the 1st to games, I'd no idea what shots he'd use, then once I'd learnt him a bit he never got close to winning another game during the hour. But with competitons being best of 5 I would of made it hard work.