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(1) How Brains see. Nature. YouTube. 8/16/2013
(2) Losing is Good for you, By Ashley Merryman, NYT OpEd, 9.14.2013
(3) Michael Jordan - On Persevering, By Cherie Friedman (LinkedIn Post)
(4) Is the 'Dumb Jock' really a Nerd? By Professors Jason Stanley and John W. Krakauer, NYT OpEd, 10.27.2013
(5) (Daily Squash Report Post) http://dailysquashreport.blogspot.com/2013/11/ferez-nallaseth-responds-to-richard.html
(6) Richard Millman and Ferez Nallaseth - A Brief Conversation in Coaching http://millmansquash.com/2013/11/05/a-golden-opportunity-for-discovery/
(7) Report in the TOI by Legendary Cricketer and MoA of Pakistan Imran Khan on Legendary Cricketer MoRS of India Sachin Tendulkar. Why Imran Khan's support for Squash and its players including his fellow Khans is so necessary? TOI.Comment.
(8) Some Numbers From Squash - And Reasons For Knowing Them! Ferez S.Nallaseth, PhD.1.4.2013.pdf: Ferez'nSquashDocs
Now posted on Daily Squash Report.1.6.2014
(9) Some Numbers From Squash - And More Reasons For Knowing Them! Ferez S. Nallaseth, PhD.4.5.2014.pdf.Ferez'nSquashDocs
Squash In the Olympics (also see the first article in the section on Critical Issues for Squash by scrolling down):
10 a- j Series:
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(a) SquashInTheOlympics.3.15.2014.pdf, Ferez'nSquashDocs
(b) SquashInTheOlympics.LinkedInThread.3.17.2014.pdf Ferez'nSquashDocs
(c)SquashInTheOlympics.PierreBastien&FSN.SquashSource.Thread.3.21.2014.pdf.Ferez'nSquash
(d) DSR-Guy. Olympics.Resp.c.4.2.2014.pdf Ferez'nSquashDocs
(e) DSR-Guy.Olympics.Resp.http://www.dailysquashreport.com/4_2_14_ferez.htm
(f) DSR-Guy.Olympics.Resp. Squash Ezine (copy & paste link into browser) http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=285947fb-22f7-4d54-a1f6-89e1387bb979&c=1df234b0-4f4f-11e3-a012-d4ae529cde13&ch=1ed40930-4f4f-11e3-a078-d4ae529cde13
(g) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' FSN Interviewed by Framboise Gommendy, Owner and Publisher of Carte Blanche In SquashSite 04 April2014.
(h) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' - Francoise Gommendy, Carte Blanche In SquashSite Pre-Edited Version. 4.5.2014. on Ferez'nSquashDocs.
(i) Carte Blanche: 'Fereze Nallaseth's Plans to Get Squash in the Olympics' 10g also posted on in Squash Ezine Online Magazine 10th April 2014.
(j) FSN response to Kenneth Tuttle Wilhelm Gowth of Squash vs Badminton in Daily Squash Report /4_15_14_ferez.htm
(k) Ferez S. Nallaseth Re-Replies to Kenneth Tuttle Daily Squash Report, 4.28.2014
(see comments about how these articles may relate to Squash in 1f, 1g, 1p, 1q1 & 1q2 below).
(1A) Latest Posts (1-24) for categories (1B(1a-1t) as well as associated comments Directly Relevant for Squash (Comments To Be Posted):
(1) Reflecting on Mirror Neurons, Mo Costandi, theguardian.com.aug/23/2013
(2) Language Can Reveal The Invisible, Study Shows, www.sciencedaily.com.2013/08/130826180526.htm
(5) The Real Neuroscience Of Creativity, By, Scott Barry Kaufman. blogs.scientificamerican.com
(6) Researcher controls colleague's motions in first human brain-to-brain interface, Doree Armstrong and Michelle Ma, washington.edu/ 08/27/2013
(7) Neuroprotective lifestyles and the aging brain, Gow et al, neurology.org.79/17/1802.abstract
(8) Losing is Good for you, By Ashley Merryman, Op-Ed NYT, 9.14.2013
(9) Executed and Imagined Bimanuals: A Study Across Different Ages, Piedemonte et al, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24059255/?goback=.gde_131689_member_278309378#!
(10) Molecule Produced During Exercise Boosts Brain Health.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131010124555.htm
(11) The Brain May Use Only Percent Of Its Memory-Forming Neurons, by Nikhil Swaminathan, scientificamerican.com/article. 2007
(12) Brain may flush out toxins during sleep; Sleep clears molecules associated with neurodegeneration: study, NIH/National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, sciencedaily.com/releases/ 10.13.2013.htm#!
(13) http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/131017/srep02972/full/srep02972.html#!
(14) Michael Jordan - On Persevering, By Cherie Friedman (LinkedIn Post)
(15) Is the 'Dumb Jock' really a Nerd? By Professors Jason Stanley and John W. Krakauer, NYT OpEd, 10.27.2013
(16) Your Brain Sees Things You Dont, ScienceDaily, 11/13/2013, Jay Sanguinetti, University of Arizona, posted on LinkedIn by Lorenzo Pia, Assistant Professor at the Universita degli studi di Torino
(17) Emotion detection via expression reading algorithms Applied Science Algorithms (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/technology/when-algorithms-grow-accustomed-to-your-face.html) - Implications for Stroke/Read-Get cycles in Racquet sports!
(18) How Unconscious Thought and Perception Affect Our Every Waking Moment [Preview], Unconscious impulses and desires impel what we think and do in ways Freud never dreamed of, By John A. Bargh, Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-unconscious-thought-and-perception-affect-our-every-waking-moment#!)
(19) Computational Neuroscience: Thinking an object into movement (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/disruptions-rather-than-time-computers-might-become-panacea-to-hurt/)
(20) Some Numbers From Squash - And Reasons For Knowing Them! Ferez S.Nallaseth, PhD.1.4.2013.pdf. FereznSquashDocs.
Now posted on daily Squash Report :http://www.dailysquashreport.com/1_6_14_ferez.htm
(21) Some Numbers From Squash - And More Reasons For Knowing Them! Ferez S. Nallaseth, Ph.D.,1.5.2013.pdf.FereznSquashDocs.
(23) Psychology: Our Unconscious Mind,Scientific American 310, 30 - 37 (2014), http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v310/n1/full/scientificamerican0114-30.html
(24) Cortical activity in the null space: permitting preparation without movement : Nature Neuroscience : Nature Publishing Group nature.com. The mechanism underpinning the way two brain regions communicates when they need to cooperate, yet avoiding interference with one another when they must work alone, has been discovered. Via. Lorenzo Pia Assistant Professor on LinkedIn
('Closed Loop? - 'Making a Stroke/Reading-Responding to make the 'Get' on the Court)
(25) Confidence - Making & Breaking It! LI Thread.LI .2.24.2014.pdf
(26) Blind Athletes Provide Clues About the Nature of Our Emotions, By Melanie Tannenbaum, Scientific American, 2.17.2014
(26) Vision Brain Region Responds to Human Forms When Images Converted to Soundscapes, By Lisa Weiner, Apply sci, 3.9.2014
(27) Contrary to received Wisdom the 'Game Face Evolved As A Plea For Help' By Stephanie Powers and Live Science, In Scientific American, (March 5th 2014) On A Study By Bridget Waller, an Evolutionary Psychologist at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.
(28) Invariant object recognition - how come we don't need to think about what is it that we see? By Gaia Vasiliver-Shamis, Ph.D Scientific Program Manager at NIH/ NIAMS Top Contributor LikedIn Group: Society for Neuroscience, http://www.myscizzle.com/blog/invariant-object-recognition/
Comments for New Articles 1-24 from LinkedIn, NYT, Scientific Journals (others to be posted) :
Article (1): Thanks for this interesting article. We and others have threads of comments on the Society for Neurosciences Group that may posit good reasons as well as a real time test from the Racquet Sports for the simultaneous effecting and learning functions of 'Mirror Neurons'. They would fit perfectly in solving the barriers if not outright contradictions in Racquet Sports. Additionally this article would help define the parameters that would be useful for studying Mirror Neurons: Are Scientists missing a rich resource in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games' and do such things exist? https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmZXJlem5zcXVhc2hkb2NzfGd4OjY2YzBiMGE2NjM
Article (2): Thank you for this interesting and important article. There is another relevant test in an 'Evolutionary Fish Bowl'- the Squash Racquets Court - that may lend a perspective on the results. How did they distinguish overlapping wavelengths of sounds e.g. wavelengths from different words from the words? Allow me to explain. As a serendipitous, uncontrolled, unquantified but empirical observation on the Squash Court we have found that when the lights are turned off and visibility is decreased to 2-3 feet (~4% of total path length of the ball), balls from one kind of stroke, made by a Player to himself/herself, can be recovered ('got') at a reasonably high frequency, but not from a second kind of stroke. The stroke that yields good recovery (~ 70%) sends the ball in a simple straight rail/down the line trajectory (or along Tramlines in Tennis) back to the stroke maker. The second kind of stroke that drops recovery (~10%) sends the ball in a cross-court trajectory (the same as in Tennis). What is the difference? More vectors in the latter - the Player stands in the same place in the former and the ball returns to him in the first case. The Player has to move across the court to recover the ball in the second case - so there are more vectors which have to be interpreted and integrated! This result confirms 3 basic inferences: (1) Auditory senses can partially replace Visual senses but both must play a Sensory role in the 'reading of a stroke' in real matches. (2) Auditory senses are also involved in the Motor Skills involved in the 'making of a Stroke'. The sound of the Ball contacted by a Racquet! (3) Although the Player 'knows' where he/she is sending the Ball, as the Stroke maker/receiver are identical, the Brain cannot integrate the additional vectors elicited from the second type of stroke. Which leaves us with the question of how additional factors such as overlapping wavelengths of sounds in different words might not affect these important conclusions of the authors?
Article 4: Thank you for this interesting and important post. Perhaps a particularly relevant perspective on the transitions from Habitual and Goal Directed Behaviors emerges from the performance of Racquet Athletes. To produce an immeasurably large and dynamic repertoire of Strokes, Moves, Reads/Gets, Spatial Awareness and Mental Toughness they have to master a large range of Motor Skills, Sensory Perceptions and Cognitive functions often at the limits of Neurophysiological extremes. All of which requires integrating, synthesizing and internalizing a myriad Physical, Neurophysiological, Chemical, Biological, Mathematical, Spatial and Behavioral functions in fractional (of seconds?) time spans, sometimes counter intuitively and in the innermost recesses of the mind at the interphase of the Conscious with the Sub-conscious. Of necessity many of these functions e.g. for effective Stroke production must be 'learned' and then executed as 'habit' in other words there can be nothing tentative let alone contemplative about the timing, execution, power and touch delivered to the Ball! Yet a myriad different Conscious processes involving at least 7 major joints must be drawn on to impose rigorous control of Posture, Stance, Spacing, Approach, Racquet Mechanics (e.g. Swing) for a good Stroke. In another of many examples, the Initiation (Player A)/ Response (Player B) Interaction lynchpin of Racquet Sports requires 'Reading a Stroke' and making a 'Get of the Ball' which are dependent on at least 2 main steps - Reading the Stroke by Looking at the Opponent (especially when he/she is making the Stroke from behind) and following the Trajectory of the Ball before making the 'Get' and without 'Jumping the Gun' i.e moving only after the Ball has left the Stroke Maker's Racquet. Yet this basic requirement in the interaction is the hardest thing to Coach, often being overridden by a reflexive frozen stnce and staring at the front wall, while acquiring ever greater sophistication with increasing levels of Play. In other words Evolutionary Flight or Fight Reflexes override the Conscious Known - we all know to look either way before crossing the street! Can the 2 hemispheres dictating the basic 'Habit' and 'Goal Oriented' Behaviors be overridden by Flight or Fight Reflexes identified in Racquet Sports? are there High Frequency Transitions and Modulations between them in Racquet Sports? Can the Evolutionary context of a Court, 'Clutch Games', Sports in general and the Questions they frame for the Neurosciences provide a rich analytical resource? We think so:
Are Scientists missing a rich resource in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games' and do such things exist? https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmZXJlem5zcXVhc2hkb2NzfGd4OjY2YzBiMGE2NjM1NTg4N2Y
Comments for New Articles 1-24 from LinkedIn, NYT, Scientific Journals (others to be posted) :
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Comment:
The above Article appeared on the online magazine Squash Ezine (http://www.squashezine.com/ (copy & paste into your browser) issue of 6th of June 2013 under the Section 'More Squash News'. The items (1b to (1h2) are related papers, articles, comments and editorials.
(1e) Fear Factor: Missing Brain Enzyme (Monoamine Oxidase) Leads to Abnormal Levels of Fear in Mice, ScienceNews (July 15th 2013)
(1f) Switching Between Habitual and Goal-directed Actions - a '2 in 1' System in Our Brain; ScienceNewslineBiology, Champlinaud Foundation, 08/06/2013,
(from 1q2) How Brains see. Nature. YouTube. 8/16/2013 (see comments about these articles as they relate to Squash in 1p, 1q1 & 1q2 below).
Comment on articles in (1f) and (1L):
Perhaps a particularly relevant perspective on the transitions from Habitual and Goal Directed Behaviors emerges from the performance of Racquet Athletes. To produce an immeasurably large and dynamic repertoire of Strokes, Moves, Reads/Gets, Spatial Awareness and Mental Toughness they have to master a large range of Motor Skills, Sensory Perceptions and Cognitive functions often at the limits of Neurophysiological extremes. All of which requires integrating, synthesizing and internalizing a myriad different Physical, Neurophysiological, Chemical, Biological, Mathematical, Spatial and Behavioral functions in fractional (of seconds?) time spans, sometimes they are Counter Intuitive and ocur in the innermost recesses of the mind at the interphase of the Conscious with the Sub-conscious. Of necessity many of these functions e.g. for effective Stroke production must be 'Learned' and then executed as 'Habit' in other words there can be nothing tentative let alone contemplative about the timing, execution, power and touch delivered to the Ball! Yet a myriad different Conscious processes involving at least 7 major joints must be drawn on to impose rigorous control of Posture, Stance, Spacing, Approach, Racquet Mechanics (e.g. Swing) for a good Stroke. In another of many examples, the Initiation (Player A)/ Response (Player B) Interaction lynchpin of Racquet Sports requires 'Reading a Stroke' and making a 'Get of the Ball' that are dependent on at least 2 main steps - 'Reading the Stroke' by Looking at the Opponent (especially when he/she is making the Stroke from behind) and following the Trajectory of the Ball before making the 'Get' but without 'Jumping the Gun' i.e moving only after the Ball has left the Stroke Maker's Racquet. Yet this basic requirement in the interaction is the hardest thing to Coach, often being overridden by a reflexive frozen stance and staring at the front wall, while acquiring ever greater sophistication with increasing levels of Play upto those of Pros. In other words Evolutionary 'Flight or Fight' Reflexes override the Conscious Known - we all know to look either way before crossing the street! Can the 2 hemispheres dictating the basic 'Habitual' and 'Goal Oriented' Behaviors be overridden by Flight or Fight Reflexes identified in Racquet Sports? Are there High Frequency Transitions and Modulations between them in Racquet Sports? Can the Evolutionary context of a Court, 'Clutch Games', Sports in general and the Questions they frame for the Neurosciences provide a rich analytical resource? We think so: Are Scientists missing a rich resource in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games' and do such things exist? This work dovetails nicely with the article in 1(L): Integrating events across levels of consciousness, By Katharina Henke, Thomas P. Reber, and Simone B. Duss, in frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14th June 2013/ doi 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.0068.
Could the articles in (1g), (1h),1(k) and (1L) below contribute to explaining how Competitors generally manage Initiation-Response (e.g. Squash Player's making, reading and responding to Strokes) interactions in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games'?
Recent work on how Meditation reinforced Brain functions/Neuronal Gene Expression and 'integrating events across various levels of consciousness', may have relevance for underlying Cognitive processes in the Making/Reading of Strokes, Moves and Court Coverage/Court Sense integrated (at many potential levels) at the interface of the Conscious with the Sub-conscious - hints and a framework emerge from studies of Neuroscientists reported in articles (1h), 1(i), 1(j), (1k)and 1(L), headers and comments that follow.
(1i) Evidence Builds That Meditation Strengthens The Brain, in ScienceDaily, 5/22/2013 (Primary data from - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Eileen Luders PI at UCLA, funded by NIH).
(1j) Meditation can change your genes, By Steven Handel, THE EMOTION MACHINE PSYCHOLOGY + SELF IMPROVEMENT, 29TH MARCH 2013
(1k) Genome-wide expression changes in a higher state of consciousness,
Ravnik-Glavač M, Hrašovec S, Bon J, Dreo J, Glavač D. Conscious Cogn. 9/2012; 21(3) 1322.
Comment on the Articles in 1(g), 1(h), 1(i) 1(j), 1(k) and 1(1L):
Both activity by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Gene expression profiles of the Brain show that Meditation 'reinforces its functions' (1(i), 1(j) and 1(k). Meditation requires physical immobilization so a relaxed state can be induced while simultaneously elevating concentration or focus. Training for Sports in general and Squash in particular requires the opposite condition - multiple transitions of mobility over a range of orders of magnitude while retaining focus. As the six time British Open Champion Jonah Barrington put it, Squash requires forcing oneself through 'Pain Barriers' , to which we add, with all the 'Flight of Fight' mechanisms inherited from Billions of Years of Evolution reacting to induce recoil, i.e. pulling one in the opposite direction (FN et al, in 1a)!! This is an absolute pre-requisite for all the variables of or in the Game discussed in (1a). These include:
(1) making good choices (e.g. playing within one's game, i.e. Physical and Technical abilities, without allowing fatigue/pain to cause a rushing to end rallies, etc..),
(2) elevated Motor Skills (e.g. executing the full range of Strokes, from Power Drives to Feather Touch Drops, bursts of elevation from basal to high mobility movements, etc...),
(3) elevated Sensory Perceptions (e.g. Reading the Stroke and not being caught making the 'wrong step', i.e. 'jumping the gun', tracking the ball/opponent, etc...) and several others.
These abilities mature under all, including at the limits, of Neurophysiological pressures, allowing a balancing of Stress-Relaxation ratios, mental toughness and result in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games'. Despite this fundamental contradiction, Meditation and Yoga are an integral part of prescribed training for Athletes! How can these contradictions be reconciled? How does the fourth article (1L) in which the authors document the ability of Brain for 'Integrating events across different levels of consciousness' i.e, at the interface of the Conscious and the Sub-conscious reconcile these contradictions?
Does this article (1L) clarify the abilities of Racquet Athletes to integrate the enormous numbers and repertoires (thousands, millions....?) of vectors/factors such as, Physical (Friction, Momentum, Force, Power, Elasticity, etc...), Mathematical (Angles, Court Dimensions, Ball and Racquet Trajectories, Statistical Probabilites, etc...), Biochemical (Redox, Hypoxia, ATP reserves, Actin-Myosin Contractile processes etc...), Neurophysiological (Cardio-Pulmonary and Muscle Endurance, Lung Tidal Volumes, Action Potentials, Habituation, Facilitation, highly sophisticated and finely balanced Motor skills in Racquet work, Sensory Perceptions in reading Strokes/making 'Gets without Jumping the Gun', Spatial Dimensions for Court Sense, Footwork, Fluid Movements and Depth Perception such as not running through the Ball in making 'Gets', Postures, etc), Emotional and Analytical Judgements (Playing, 'within ones Game' to preserve High Probability Strokes/'Gets' without becoming Predictability careful/a Pushover in rallies, etc...), Anatomical (Tall vs Short Player Stroke Selections, Reach vs Speed, Power vs Touch, etc...), Cognitive, Behavioral and Analytical (Tactics vs Strategy, Short Term vs Long Term Analysis, Adjustments, Finding out the Opponent's strengths and weaknesses, at times forcing performance by overcoming personal physical and technical limitations, etc...) ..[and too many others for the length of this article] that are at the Interface of the Conscious with the Sub-conscious (and often Counter-Intuitive), at the limits of Neurophysiological conditions and often occur within fractional times (of Seconds?). This is yet another set of questions for Neuroscientists that are posed by the rich resources of competitive Sports !
The dawning of the mechanics of a stroke - in other ways (1m), (1n) and (1o)?
1.Edited by Terrence J. Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, and approved April 30, 2013 (received for review December 4, 2012)
Comment on this Article:
THIS WORK MAY BE THE DAWN IN UNDERSTANDING THE MAKING OF A STROKE, A MOVE AND A GET - THE NEUROSCIENCE OF RACQUET SPORTS!!
(1o) The Sensitive Robot: How Haptic Technology is Closing the Mechanical Gap, By Erik Sofge, in Robotics March 2013
Comment on this Article:THIS WORK MAY EXPLAIN THE ROLE OF TOUCH IN A STROKE A e.g. WHY HOLDING RACQUETS WITHOUT WEARING GLOVES IS SO IMPORTANT TO MAKING A GOOD STROKE - AND CONVERSELY TO HAPTIC TECHNOLOGY i.e. THE NEUROSCIENCE OF RACQUET SPORTS!!
Basis of Spatial Skills, Court Sense and 'knowing' where the Opponent's Ball is going to end up - some variant of our GPS (1p), (1q)?
(1q2) How Brains see. Nature. youtube. 8/16/2013
Comment on Articles/Papers/Youtube (1f), (1g) (1p) & (1q1) and (1q2): Could this work by Neuroscientists also explain why some Player's Temporo-Spatial Perceptions on Court (Court Sense) are so good! They generally know when, where and how to get to the right position on the court, how to stand, where the ball is headed, where an opponent is standing and when and how to cut it off on the court while mostly 'playing within their games'?
Quote by Hashim Khan (ca. 1970) : "KEEP EYE ON BALL, Is most important one thing I tell you!"(self-entitled, Edited by Chris Widney, drawings by Richard Pitts, Published by Simon & Schuster, A Fireside Book, Rockefeller Center, NY, NY,1996).
(1r) For a full list and chronology of Neurosciences, Brain Mapping and Function with Distinctions Between Brain and Mind Articles in the New York Times visit their links (copy and paste URL into your browser):
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/brain/index.html
Weight gain, exercise and Adipose Tissue a story of Genes turned on, lost and modified genetic codes (1q) & (1r).
(1s) Overweight? Maybe You Can Really Blame Your Genes, By GINA KOLATA, New York Times, 7/18/2013.
(1t) A Six Months Exercise Intervention Influences the Genome-wide DNA Methylation Pattern in Human Adipose Tissue. Tina Ronn, Petr Volkov, Cajsa Davegardh, Tasnim Daveh, Elin Hall, Anders H. Olsson, Emma Nilsson, Asa Tornberg, Marloes Dekker Niters, Karl-Frederik Eriksson, Helena A. Jones, Leif Groop and Charlotte Ling, PLoS Genet. 7/27/2013, 9(6): e1003572; doi 10.137/jou
Comment on (1s) and (1t) also visit (1i) - (1k) : Yes weight gain maybe hard wired but nothing for which hard work cannot make amends - at least somewhat!
Critical Issues for Squash
Squash In the Olympics (also see the first article in the section on Critical Issues for Squash by scrolling down):
10 a- j Series:
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(c)SquashInTheOlympics.PierreBastien&FSN.SquashSource.Thread.3.21.2014.pdf.Ferez'nSquash
(d) DSR-Guy. Olympics.Resp.c.4.2.2014.pdf Ferez'nSquashDocs
(e) DSR-Guy.Olympics.Resp.http://www.dailysquashreport.com/4_2_14_ferez.htm
(f) DSR-Guy.Olympics.Resp. Squash Ezine (copy & paste link into browser) http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=285947fb-22f7-4d54-a1f6-89e1387bb979&c=1df234b0-4f4f-11e3-a012-d4ae529cde13&ch=1ed40930-4f4f-11e3-a078-d4ae529cde13
(g) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' FSN Interviewed by Framboise Gommendy, Owner and Publisher of Carte Blanche In SquashSite 04 April2014.
(h) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' - Francoise Gommendy, Carte Blanche In SquashSite Pre-Edited Version. 4.5.2014. on Ferez'nSquashDocs.
(i) Carte Blanche: 'Fereze Nallaseth's Plans to Get Squash in the Olympics' 10g also posted on in Squash Ezine Online Magazine 10th April 2014.
(j) FSN response to Kenneth Tuttle Wilhelm Gowth of Squash vs Badminton in Daily Squash Report /4_15_14_ferez.htm
(k) Ferez S. Nallaseth Re-Replies to Kenneth Tuttle Daily Squash Report, 4.28.2014
(2) How can Baseball, Squash and Wrestling return to, enter or remain in the Olympic movement?
Ferez Nallaseth, Ph.D., Joseph McManus, B.M., I.B. , M.B.A., C.E.O. - Pro Squash Tour, Hunt Richardson, B.A., C.P.T., S. Mahmood Ahmed, Ph.D. and Dhanjoo Ghista, Ph.D. (complete author affiliations at the end of the document).
Comment:
The above Article appeared (1) in the online magazine Squash Ezine, (2) was re- Tweeted by 'Squash Player Magazine' on the 7th of July 2013 and (3) was forwarded by Jonah Barrington on his Blog site 'Hit the Nick' .The items (1a1 to 1a4) are related papers, articles, comments and editorials.
(1) featured in online magazine 'Squash Ezine' (http://www.squashezine.com/ (copy and paste into browser) issue of 3rd of July 2013 under the Section 'More Squash News'.
(2) Squash Player Mag (@squashplayermag) retweeted one of your Tweets!
From: Squash Player Mag (Twitter) <n-srerm.anyynfrgu=tznvy.pbz-2109e@postmaster.twitter.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 4:53 AM
Subject: Squash Player Mag (@squashplayermag) retweeted one of your Tweets!
To: Ferez Nallaseth <ferez.nallaseth@gmail.com>
@squashplayermag This is on Squash in the Olympics & may interest Martin Bronstein, Richard Graham & Squash Player M docs.google.com/viewer?a=vπd…
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(3) Jonah Barrington in his Blog Hit the Nick quoted the article in (1) On squash and the Olympics in a posting on Squash Ezine as awaiting moderation. The article -
Jonah Barrington: Squash in the Olympics and the Egyptian dominance.
News Stories relevant to the article in (1) on Baseball, Squash and Wrestling in the Olympics:
(1a4) World Squash Federation - Squash Fan Federer Supports Olympic Bid (18th February 2013)
(2a) Why is Squash lagging?
(2a1) Why does Squash which, started 140 years ago, is played by more than 25 million players, in 188 countries, has highly sophisticated social media and other networks, lag behind in visibility, revenue and popularity, inclusion in the Olympic Games and in TV ratings than more recently arrived sports, with far lower numbers of players, playing nations and physiological demands?
(2a2) Is commercial (TV) coverage limited because of the communication factor [visibility of the ball due to audiovisual, broadcast (radio/TV) limitations and the associated commentary] limiting the Market Share with the reverse also being true - a cycle?
(2a3) Could a better communication factor, which though vastly improved in You Tube/ESPN is still much poorer than the communication and broadcast standards of Golf, Tennis and Soccer, provide the answer?
(2a4) How can well developed High Resolution Imaging - Time Lapse Photography and Super Computing technologies from the Natural and Physical Sciences which translate to e.g. resolution and visualization of, atoms, molecules, cells, the high frequency beating of wings of hovering Humming Birds and Bees, be recruited to improve communication factors in Squash?
(2a5) others to follow....
Coming Features
(1) Hashim Khan
Why does Hashim Khan transcend Squash to be ranked among the leading Sports Figures of History, such as Pelé (Edison Arantes do Nascimento) , Muhammed Ali, Michael Jordan, Roger Federer and Jesse Owens - Rankopedia notwithstanding? (for some reasons see links 2a-2d in (2) Squash Racquets - History, Features, Champions and Epic Matches). Others to follow....
(2) Ways of Coaching Squash - Ferez
(2a1) Why choose Squash? (2a2) Coaching levels of play from the curious to the expert - 7 points in making a stroke and 5 points in court coverage - the basis for a lifetime of development in the game; (2a3) Communication with Players/Coaches/Interested Audience - to be a good teaching Coach when and to whom, do you speak, show by actions, with whom do you compete and how? (2a4) When and how do you draw on Principles of Biological Processes - Neuromuscular-Physiological/Energetics and Biomechanical constraints on moves and strokes, Outlook and Court Sense to communicate and teach well? (2a5) How many of these Principles do you apply at any one time? (2a6) What part of Communicating and Teaching should involve Psychological constraints, Mental preparations for Matches and 'fall back (Plan B) thinking'? (2a7) How do you help Players to stop 'freezing' in matches, subdue hyperactive states such as the often counterproductive need to 'blast the ball' instead of using the logic of ball placement, Court Sense, to control the T and ball and tin 'visualization' to counter unforced errors? (2a8) What are the old vs new games/methods/ideas? (2a9) What are the Strategies versus Tactics of the game? (2a10) Which part of Physical (moves, conditioning, etc..), Technical (Racquet work, Running styles, Rest Positions, Court Sense) and Mental (Strategy/Tactics/Outlook/Toughness etc......) aspects should dominate and when? (2a11) When should you think - deeply, superficially, quickly, long term, short term and when should you stop thinking 'Squash' completely both off and on the court? (2a12) others to follow.....
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