Your Questions About Court Shoes Squash

Helen asks…

Teens: Will you take this weird survey?

I will try to keep this short and sweet. :) Do not answer unless you are actually going to take the survey please. I will keep making these no matter how many of you try to put me down for it. 1. Your niece and her friends want to go to a Justin Beiber concert, so you are stuck chaperoning them. When you get there your niece and her friends run to find a spot, you stumble through the crowd searching for a quiet bathroom. You stumble into the room and find yourself backstage. The manager of the show comes up to you and screams "Where have you been and what is with that ridiculous gettup beiber? Are you trying to be a drag queen?" Then you are shoved onstage and all the fans are begging you to sing Beiber's latest hits. What do you do? 2. What would you do if you went to a shoe store and the salesperson released 400 cockroaches and said that you would get free shoes if you squashed them? 3. What would you do if your class went on a field trip and they all fell into a giant vat of honey except for you. They all mutated into giant bees including your teacher. For now on you have to go to class with all of them. What do you do? 4. Would you rather dress up in a ketchup costume then come up to random people eating fries in the mall food court and ask if they need some ketchup, or put a pillow under your belly so that you look really fat, then outrun all the skinny people at the gym on treadmills?

Our pick of the answers:

No. I'm kidding, of course I will. 1. I'd start singing some Nirvana for them or something, lol. That ought to cause an uproar, I'd think. 2. I'd tip my imaginary hat and leave the store. I don't care about free shoes. 3. I'd use the honey to manipulate them to doing my bidding. 4. The first one, seems funnier. Thanks for the survey, I liked this one.

Linda asks…

For playing Squash, should the shoe size you choose be slightly LOOSE as opposed to SNUG?

The thinking is that in sports such as soccer, the shoe should have a tight or snug fit else it will come off because of the sheer action of kicking. Conversely, for running, one should have a looser shoe (by about a half size preferably I think) because: 1. It allows the foot more space and minimizes developing the common black 'runners toenails' that occur with a tight fit 2. It's NOT a sport/activity where the repeated movement/action risks the shoe coming off. So, what's the best fit of shoes for Squash? Assume they can be used for badminton also?

Our pick of the answers:

I think that Squash shoes should fit snugly, otherwise when you lunge your foot slides forward and your toes smash into the front. I used to own Wilson squash shoes and those her a half size too big and my toes always dug into the front. I talked to other squash players and they all had the same problem, it's not fun and it's rather painful. And also, squash shoes cannot really be used for badminton or any other sport, because they cannot get dirty at all. If squash shoes are dirty, they'll track dirt onto the court and it will ruin it. Dirt prevents friction and then it's easier to slide or trip.

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