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O.k., one of the most common shots, one of the most common sequences in squash is a long
rally up and down the backhand wall. And it’s going to look something like this. You hit
a ball, you recover the t, your opponent hits it, he recovers the t, and you're doing what's
called a circle. So the idea here is you can see that I'm not going to recover all the
way here to the t because that's going to make the longest run possible for me to cover
the ball in the back corner. So, I'm most likely going to recover to about right here
off that shot. Which is why all these parts put together; if I don't get a good clean
deep tight shot, if my opponent gets a ball away from the wall, then he can cross court
me. So, if I'm standing here and he cross courts me, now I'm going to be buried in to
that corner. So my goal here is to hit nice good shots so I can get up to here and then
take the ball out of the air, as a volley or again we have a loose ball, hit an attacking
shot. So that's why being able to hit the ball cleanly and knowing where to recover
to is very very important, because if I recover to far up and he's able to hit the ball deep
on me, then I'm in a deep hole. If I hit a nice shot and I don't go up enough, then I
don't really take advantage of the opportunity that my good shot can do. So, this is why
experience comes in to play in where to stand at the t. But all these concepts are interrelated
to movement, the shot, the t. So, keep watching, keep practicing, keep playing.