For people who want to play squash from around next week

Precondition

     If you want play squash in Japan, you must find a friend who is
     a member of a club that has squash courts or join the club.
     The sqaush court list is here(Japanese).

Things to prepare to play sqaush

  1. T shirts or polo shirts. The preferrable color is white because the
     ball is black.

  2. Short pants or spats.

  3. White thick socks
 
  4. Squash shoes which are non-marking
     There are rental shoes in some clubs.

  5. A squash racket
     You may use rental racket in some clubs.

  6. A squash ball
     You can buy a ball at most of the clubs.

  7. Towels
     You may use rental towels at most of the clubs.
     Shampoo and body soap are prepared in the shower rooms at most of the clubs.

  8. Underwears

  9. If you have long hair, ribbon or something.

 10. Wrist bands in Summer.

 11. Band to fix glasses if you wear glasses.
     But soft contact lenses are preferable if you continue playing squash
     because you can have wider vision with the contact lenses.

 12. Some coins to buy some cans of juice or soft drinks.

 13. The courage to ask your girl friend or boy friend to play with
     that you want to become more intimate.

 14. Money to eat or drink after squash.

 15. To book a sqaush court.
     1 hour and half  will be enough if you play in 2.
     2 hours will be enough if you play in 3 or 4 

Things that you may use which is rentral

  1. Shoes

  2. Towels

  3. A Racket

Other thing to prepare

      To cut your thumb nails of your feet shorter to avoid tearing off.
      The author has teared of the thumb nails of the foot before.
      There are many squash players who have the same experience.

Before entering the squash court

     Stretch, especially Achilles's heels.

     Some people hang towels at the back wall of the court
     but in squash, back wall is used.  So do not hang the
     towels at the back wall.

     If both of you are biginners, look around and find someone who seems more
     experienced and ask the person to teach you around 10 minutes.
     Most of the experienced squash players are happy to teach biginners if
     you are first time to play squash.
     But most of the experienced players do not teach you if you don't ask them to
     do so because they are afraid of interfering you enjoying squash.

When you entered the squash court

     Warm up the ball around 3 minutes hitting the ball each other with the
     same sides.
     After the warm up, hit the ball each other using all court.
     If you think the ball or the racket may hit your partner, don't hesitate
     to stop the racket.
     At first, it's important that you enjoy the rally not caring about
     the rules so strictly.
     You don't use fast ball when you serve the ball unlike tennis services.
     Even pro squash players sometimes serve slow services because
     fast services hit the back wall and those services may not be always hard to
     be returned.

I recomment you to read squash tips in these pages. Part 1, part2, part 3 and Part 4.