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		<title>Periodization of Squash &#8220;Speed&#8221;?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 02:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have &#8220;speed&#8221; in quotes and a &#8220;question mark&#8221; at the end of this post&#8217;s title because the world&#8217;s best players take a maximum of 2-3 steps before slowing down to hit the ball&#8230;that&#8217;s right.  Go to https://psaworldtour.com/tv and download any video &#8211; even Miguel Rodrigues&#8217; &#8211; and count the number of steps a player [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Learn Squash Tactics Quickly &#038; Efficiently!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 05:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why &#8211; in the &#8220;world&#8217;s fittest sport&#8221; (except for Nordic Skiing) are the athletes so old? Or put another way &#8211; how can these &#8220;old&#8221; athletes beat younger fitter athletes in their late teens and early 20&#8217;s?  The answer lies in the older players&#8217; &#8220;tactical expertise&#8221;, in other words their better decision-making and choice of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Evaluating Mental Skills for Squash</title>
		<link>https://scienceofcoachingsquash.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/evaluating-mental-skills-for-squash/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been doing sport psychology consulting with professional and national team squash and other racquet sport athletes since 1987 &#8211; including nearly 100% of the top U.S. juniors (thanks to Princeton Squash Camps:) and 100% of the Canadian National Jr. and Sr. teams until my move to the U.S. in the late 1990&#8217;s. Here [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Injury Prevention for Squash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most squash players and coaches &#8211; including the top PSA professionals are unable to manage physical training and match play schedules in a way that avoids costly injuries and lost training time: Pallikal, Aug. 2017 Gaultier, Nov. 2016 Heshem, Oct. 2016 Ashour, Jan. 2015 etc. Why?  The main reason is that the planning and implementation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>College Squash Players:  It&#8217;s June 1! Go!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[February 15, 2018 seems a long way off &#8211; but your performance in the CSA national Championships will be largely determined by what you do starting today.  Most squash players &#8211; especially juniors and college players do not appreciate the long term nature (months not weeks or days) of optimal improvement of athletic performance. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Squash Back-Court Defence: Nicole David</title>
		<link>https://scienceofcoachingsquash.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/squash-back-court-defence-nicole-david/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 17:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The problem with most published work on notational or performance analysis of squash is that it is stroke or technique centered.  The simplest example of notational analysis would be when a squash coach charts one of their player&#8217;s matches by putting a &#8220;W&#8221; (for winnner) or &#8220;E&#8221; (for error) on a diagram of a squash [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to Evaluate Squash Coaches &#8216;Scientifically&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://scienceofcoachingsquash.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/how-to-evaluate-squash-coaches-scientifically/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a funny position to be in &#8211; having yourself evaluated by someone who knows very little beyond their own minimal life experience about the subject that you are teaching.  College squash coaches, just like University and College Faculty are evaluated at the end of their annual teaching/coaching cycle. To muddy the &#8220;evaluation&#8221; waters even [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Visualizing Squash Tactics</title>
		<link>https://scienceofcoachingsquash.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/visualizing-squash-tactics/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How old are the best squash players in the world?  The PSA released the latest rankings today so let&#8217;s calculate the average age of the best of the best &#8211; the men&#8217;s top 5  (in the interest of gender equity we will look at the women&#8217;s top 5 in another post):  29.8 years old. Why [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>4 Simple Steps to Practical Mental Training for Squash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since sport psychology exploded onto the world scene with the 1976 Montreal Olympics there have been literally thousands of books and articles published on how to &#8220;do mental training&#8221;.  My particular approach was adopted by the Coaching Association of Canada and integrated into their 5-Level coaching system &#8211; I wrote the sport psychology content for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New AASP Logo for Squash Mental Training Consultants to Use!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Bacon, M.A., AASP Charter Member]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2015 22:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) contacted all of its members (I have been a Charter Member since its inception in 1985/6) today giving them permission to promote their consulting activities with its newly developed logo. Back in the 1980&#8217;s there were several North American organizations that represented the Sport Psychology field &#8211; AASP [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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