PSF to adopt special scientific based training for Squash Players : AIR CHIEF
By Asghar Ali Mubarak

ISLAMABAD — The 34th Annual General Squash meeting of Pakistan Squash Federation held at Islamabad. Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed, who is also the President of PSF presided over the meeting.
An extensive debate on the short term and long term strategies was carried out. The President PSF, while pointing out the short comings highlighted that besides meeting with coaches and the people associated with the game of squash, he had also met with the senior and junior squash players to acquaint himself with the root cause of the current level of the game because ultimately the players are the performers. The important point to note is that our players lack will to win (Mental strength) and physical stamina. The most glaring cause is that there is no scientific based specialist training and grooming of the players. We ought to switch over to technology, methodology and scientific approach. Unless these aspects are taken care the game of squash will continue to stagnate.The President PSF emphasized to pursue the following short term strategy whole heartedly.

(a) Enhanced focus on developing mental and physical stamina of players by well monitored training by the best coaches.
(b) Close monitoring, evaluation and development of selected juniors for further grooming.
(c) Enhance the base of the squash players in the country.
(d) Honest, fair and transparent selection across the board.
(e) Launch a talent hunt for undiscovered players.

The methodology would be to train extensively the "under focused" batch of players for a given time chart. A set of 5-6 specialist which include physical trainer, who possess the scientific knowledge for physical and body stamina, a sports dietitician, a court trainer, manager and coach, will train 1 or 2 players.
The close monitoring of these players will be carried out by these specialist persons on scientific basis and special emphasize will be given on debriefing on performance of players at the end of the game.
While talking about the discipline, Air Chief said," In sports we must adopt intrinsic discipline which requires grooming of players through counseling, motivation and punishment should be only for correction purpose. While, taking long term strategy into consideration the PSF besides training of coaches, trainers and referees will leave no stone unturned in expanding the base of squash players through fresh induction at primary and secondary level.