In search of some academic articles that would help me contextualise and understand how I would explore this question of “how can one recreate the experience of playing squash?”, I did of course find it a little difficult to find articles directly referring to squash that suit the subject matter. As a result, I tried to explore topics like filming fast movement, and other sports, in a way to work out how fast movement can be involved in lingering. For instance, Jones (2011) opines about skateboarding, and how video practices were able to improve skateboarders understanding of their own work: creatively and skilfully.

One of the main takeaways is that ability of skateboarding to improve in this manner, I wonder how squash could achieve as much, and how much I would be able to achieve this with my own devices. Jones (2011) explores a concern I had when thinking about documenting squash more, in that traditionally “research on the relationship between media and sport has been primarily concerned with representations of sport in commercial media”, and how commercial media representations of professional sport can distort our (young people’s) expectations of how we play sport. This really resonates with me, and how I see the professional squash videos that I always watch, it almost isn’t something I think I try to aspire to, because it seems to unachievable, meaning it would definitely be worth exploring how fun the sport is for me in this project, in recreating an experience that not only does that but perhaps also encourages others to experience squash too?

Rodney H. Jones (2011) Sport and re/creation: what skateboarders can teach us about learning, Sport, Education and Society, 16:5, 593-611, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.601139