on squash - my favorite indoor sports
Squash is a popular global racquet sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. For its fast pace and requirement of mental agility, it has been described as "jet-propelled chess". The game was formerly called squash racquets, a reference to the "squashable" soft ball used in the game. For more general information check out wikipedia. For me, as a non native English speaker, it is worth mentioning, the the term squash is actually derived from the ball that we smash against the wall.
I learned squash when I was 17 and it was the first indoor sports that I really fell for. There had been a brief romance with tennis, but after I returned from Spain to Austria, weather conditions somehow forced me to pick up squash again. Tennis was fun outdoors, but I did not enjoy it as indoor sports. And although it took me two years to find a few squash mates in Shanghai, I continue to play squash in China since 2011. 20 years after I hit the first squash ball, which was then one with a white dot, I am now part of an old men team that meets every Saturday in Shanghai Xijiao Sports Center to sweat. I would like to play more, but spending time in a squash box doesn't work for me, if the outside temperature is close to 40ºC at 80% humidity, that is 4 months a year in Shanghai.
believe it or not, there are some people who say that squash is the healthiest of all sports: http://www.expertrain.com/blog/fitness/squash-is-the-healthiest-sport.htm
I learned squash when I was 17 and it was the first indoor sports that I really fell for. There had been a brief romance with tennis, but after I returned from Spain to Austria, weather conditions somehow forced me to pick up squash again. Tennis was fun outdoors, but I did not enjoy it as indoor sports. And although it took me two years to find a few squash mates in Shanghai, I continue to play squash in China since 2011. 20 years after I hit the first squash ball, which was then one with a white dot, I am now part of an old men team that meets every Saturday in Shanghai Xijiao Sports Center to sweat. I would like to play more, but spending time in a squash box doesn't work for me, if the outside temperature is close to 40ºC at 80% humidity, that is 4 months a year in Shanghai.
believe it or not, there are some people who say that squash is the healthiest of all sports: http://www.expertrain.com/blog/fitness/squash-is-the-healthiest-sport.htm