16 May 2012

THE BACKFOOT DROP: TAREK MOMEN vs. AMR SHABANA, 2012 BRITISH OPEN

Some coaches would make their junior players stop playing and force them to do fifty push-ups if they see them going for a drop in a situation where the ball is behind the body of the hitting player.
But by now we all know that Tarek Momen does not obey to the general rules of squash, or simply, of physics. Take into consideration that he went for this out-of-nowhere shot against one of the best readers of the game ever in the person of Amr Shabana
Do you remember Wael El Hindi? This shot, the drop from behind the body on the backfoot, has been his speciality. Check out all the four examples that we have had here on the blog with him, one more crazy than the other: vs. Shabana (at 0:24), vs. Alister Walker (at 0:33), vs. Darwish (at 0:37) and again vs. Darwish (at 1:02).