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Improve your game with some of these helpful hints to play your favourite shots... #5 The Straight Drive The straight drive. This very important, yet simple, shot is often played wrongly. As with the drop shot, many players angle the straight drive too wide so that it hits the front wall, then the side wall and comes back out towards the opponent enabling him to hit cleanly a choice of shots (Shot A). This is particularly wasteful when you have a good opening. The more effective shot is to play the ball narrower (Shot B). The ball will then reach the back of the court, ideally with the second bounce dying into the nick. Played in conjunction with the cross court drive, boast and reverse angle, the straight drive is a crucial basis to a good tactical game. BOOK YOUR COURT TODAY ON 9460 3611 STILL JUST $10 PER 30 MINS COURT HIRE

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Improve your game with some of these helpful hints to play your favourite shots... #4 The Cross Court Drive A simple and effective tactical deception is to address the ball as if to play it straight and then actually play it cross court. The opponents body weight will be leaning for the straight drive and the narrow cross court will pass him and die away deep into the corner. (Shot A) If the cross court is played too wide (Shot B), it will hit the side wall and come back towards the opponent. (Even to get out of trouble, this only delays the problem - the lob or straight drive would probably be better.) The narrow cross court will not be effective if played either obviously or too often. Also, generally where you have a large opening, play it straight (even though your opponent knows that you are going to play it). Played in conjunction with - and in the right proportions to - the straight drive, boast and reverse angle (all ideally played from a similar stance), the cross court drive is a crucial basis to a good tactical game. BOOK YOUR COURT TODAY ON 9460 3611 STILL JUST $10 PER 30 MINS COURT HIRE

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Improve your game with some of these helpful hints to play your favourite shots... #3 The Lob In squash, the lob is an extremely effective and under used shot that can be played both attackingly to create a loose return and also defensively to get out of trouble with interest. As always, the angle at which the ball is played is crucial. Most players play the ball too wide (shot A) so that it either goes out of court or hits the side wall and comes back well into the court making the opponents shot easy. The wider and harder it is hit, the worse the position becomes. The more effective shot is to play the ball higher, slower and narrower (Shot B) so that it lands in the back corner - short of the back wall - and dies away. On many courts it is surprising how high the lob can be played. When played in combination with the drop shot, the lob is a deceptively attacking shot. Also, don't be afraid to use the lob from the middle and back of the court, particularly under pressure. BOOK YOUR COURT TODAY ON 9460 3611

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Improve your game with some of these helpful hints to play your favourite shots... #2 The Drop Shot Ideally, we would like to hit the nick but lets be honest none of us actually manage it very often. We therefore need to play the shot that will cause the opponent the most problems without putting ourselves at risk. Most players angle the drop shot too wide so that it hits the front wall, then the side wall and comes out. This error enables the opponent to hit the ball cleanly in the middle of the racket, as in Shot A. The more effective shot is to narrow the angle so that the ball hits the front wall, then the floor and just as the opponent reaches it, it dies into the side wall allowing the opponent to make contact only with the very end of the racket, Shot B. It is therefore generally better to hit the shot too narrow rather than too wide. The ball is then drifting awkwardly away from the opponent rather than towards him. This forces him to play a weak shot which you can the hit deep (straight or crosscourt) again remembering to keep the angle narrow so that the ball does not hit the side wall. BOOK YOUR COURT TODAY ON 9460 3611

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Improve your game with some of these helpful hints to play your favourite shots... #1 The Boast Most players play too many boasts at an incorrect angle which is too wide and brings the ball back towards the opponent (Shot A) enabling him to play a choice of shots. The more effective boast is to play the ball at a narrower angle, further along the side wall, so that it hits the side wall, then the front wall low and dies away from the opponent before reaching the other side wall (Shot B). When played in the correct proportion to deep straight and cross court drives, the boast will generally force the opponent to play a loose and obvious cross court which you can then hit deep (straight or cross court), remembering to keep the angle narrow so that it does not hit the side wall. BOOK YOUR COURT TODAY ON 9460 3611

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