India, Pakistan and East Asia it's everywhere. I played every weekend in public university in the US. It's not what I'd call an upper crust sport. If you read the book Evgenia is talking about in the post you'll see some really arcane or at least uncommon stuff like horse skills & riding, sailing, yachting, skulling, lacrosse, languages, and all sorts of stuff most of us have never done. It's that I don't think squash really falls into one of those only rich people categories like the others. It's basically racquetball with a little more strategy.
I suppose a lot of it depends where you come from. Lacrosse was not an uncommon sport where I grew up, we played a version of it at recess in middle school. A lot of middle class people learned to sail on the lake, and you didn't need that much money to ski or snowboard. But no one played squash, there just weren't any courts nearby, so it always seemed like a prep school sport to me.
Squash isn't exactly arcane.
Well, we certainly didn’t get a lot of opportunities to play squash in New Hampshire public schools.
India, Pakistan and East Asia it's everywhere. I played every weekend in public university in the US. It's not what I'd call an upper crust sport. If you read the book Evgenia is talking about in the post you'll see some really arcane or at least uncommon stuff like horse skills & riding, sailing, yachting, skulling, lacrosse, languages, and all sorts of stuff most of us have never done. It's that I don't think squash really falls into one of those only rich people categories like the others. It's basically racquetball with a little more strategy.
I suppose a lot of it depends where you come from. Lacrosse was not an uncommon sport where I grew up, we played a version of it at recess in middle school. A lot of middle class people learned to sail on the lake, and you didn't need that much money to ski or snowboard. But no one played squash, there just weren't any courts nearby, so it always seemed like a prep school sport to me.