SQUASH IN CROATIA
Squash is a sport two players or two pairs play on the field dimensions 9.75 x 6,4m.
Squash is very demanding sport - for an hour of playing squash a player can consume 600-1000 calories.
Squash developed from several types of games with a racquet. Squash is a sport that was invented in mid19th
century in Britain, three decades after Americans accepted it, and is very popular in the countries
of former British colonies.
Squash developed from the English game on the wall - fives, and was officially
born in late 1822 at the Harrow School, an elite English school. Although originally
used for warming up and played on the wall in the open air, squash is quickly moved indoors
and became an indoor sport. Squash is named after the soft balls of rubber that can be squashed by hand.
In western european countries in the last thirty years it has become more and more popular,
and the last five, six years it has been the case in Eastern Europe. For example, Germany in 1973.
had 12 squash courts, and now it has more than six thousand and more than two million players.
In Eastern Europe the trend in recent times follows Czech Republic with 500 courts, of which 150 were in Prague.
In Croatia, in addition to nine courts in Zagreb, there is one in Varazdin, Čakovec Frapa Marina, Split,
Pula and Osijek and at the beginning of next year two courts will be opened in Rijeka.
Today the strongest superpower in squash in the world is Australia, while in Europe
the primacy have United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Unlike badminton, for the adopting the techniques of squash much more time and effort is needed.
Squash is one of the most dynamic, fastest and most difficult sports, so it requires the engagement,
but also causes a notable physical fitness. In 60 minutes you run about 5 kilometers and lose about
840 calories, and squash, among other things, significantly stimulates the heart and cardiovascular
system and causes fat degradation, and thus the loss of superfluous kilograms.
Squash is played by women and men and the game does not win physically stronger player,
but the one who thinks faster.
Squash is popular among business people who have little time because
you can play at any time of day or night. Squash is not among the expensive sports,
because the basic equipment is not expensive.
Since the ground is small, and the ball quickly bounces and is returned to players
in high speed(record: 242 km / h). Pause between two strokes changes can not exceed 10 seconds.
Players who try to slow down the game, earn penalty points.
There are 4 categories of the ball, depending on the speed at which they bounce.
Color of the dots indicate in which category the ball belongs. If it is yellow it means
that it is slow, white is very slow. The red color indicates a fast ball, and blue very fast.
Bjelovar (1) Osijek (2) Rijeka (1) Sisak (1) Slavonski Brod (1) Split (1) Zadar (1) Zagreb (8) Sv. Ivan Žabno (1) Zagreb (3)