Makhoti a Public Squash Atsegulidwa ku Lower East Side ku Manhattan

Alex Wessner ndi Ryan Wall ankasewera squash tsiku lina. “Linali tsiku lokongola la masika, kutentha kwa madigiri 75, ndipo ndinkangofuna kutuluka panja,” akutero Wessner. Vuto lokhalo? Squash, makamaka ku New York City, ndi masewera amkati okha. Patatha zaka zinayi, Wessner ndi Wall adagwirizana ndi okonda racquetball anzawo Brian Staub ndi Sean Dragann kuti ayambitse Public Squash ndikumanga mabwalo oyamba aulere a squash ku New York City.

Zitseko za nyumba yokongola yagalasi, yomwe kapangidwe kake kamakumbutsa kalembedwe kamakono ka Apple Store, zatsegulidwa mwalamulo Lachiwiri. Mabwalo amilandu, omwe ali ku Hamilton Fish Park ku Lower East Side, ali pafupi ndi dziwe losambira lalikulu la Olimpiki, mabwalo a basketball ndi malo osangalalira a Beaux-Arts omwe adapangidwa mu 1898 ndi Carrère & Hastings (kampani yomweyi yomwe idapanga New York Public Library yotchuka pa Fifth Avenue ku Manhattan). Okonda squash amatha kubwereka ma racket ndi mipira yaulere asanapite kumabwalo.

Okonda masewerawa adzazindikira momwe lingaliroli lilili latsopano. Mabwalo a squash ali ambiri ku Manhattan, koma ambiri ndi makalabu ndi malo ochitira masewera olimbitsa thupi omwe ali ndi mamembala ambiri, nthawi zambiri pamitengo yokwera. (Kuphatikiza pa ndalama zolipirira umembala, makalabu ambiri amalipiritsa ndalama zobwereka bwalo.) Weisner amatcha izi kuti ndi "vuto la preppy" la masewerawa, lomwe kwenikweni ndi lingaliro lolakwika. "Ngakhale kuti amaonedwa ngati masewera apamwamba," akutero, "kwenikweni ali ndi chiyambi chodzichepetsa." (Chodziwika bwino ndi chakuti masewerawa poyamba ankaseweredwa panja.) Osewera oyamba a squash anali akaidi a ku Fleet Prison ku London, omwe anayamba kumenya mipira ndi ma rackets pakhoma la ndende ngati njira yochitira masewera olimbitsa thupi kumayambiriro kwa zaka za m'ma 1800. Masewerawa adakonzedwa mwalamulo ku Harrow School for Boys ku London, komwe mabwalo anayi oyamba a squash adamangidwa mu 1864. Kuyambira pamenepo, masewerawa afalikira padziko lonse lapansi mosiyanasiyana, koma kwa anthu aku New York ndi aku America ambiri, vuto la preppy likadalipo.
Pokhala ndi malingaliro a zaka chikwi, mamembala a Public Squash Courts adachita kafukufuku wa digito ndipo adapeza kuti ngakhale kuti Google inkafufuza mabwalo a squash ku New York City kangapo, zotsatira zake sizinali zomveka chifukwa panalibe mabwalo. Ngakhale kuti panali mabwalo mazana ambiri a handball m'maboma asanu, kufufuza pa intaneti malo awa sikunali kofala kwambiri. Poyembekezera kusiya miyambo, gululo linapita ku Dipatimenti ya Mapaki ndi Zosangalatsa ya NYC ndi lingaliro losintha mabwalo ena a handball omwe alipo kale kukhala mabwalo a squash. Anaganiza kuti kungomanga makoma atatu owonjezera kungatseke malowo kuti agwirizane ndi miyezo yapadziko lonse ya squash. Atatsimikiza mtima, Dipatimenti ya Mapaki inabwereka mabwalowo kwaulere, koma kumangako kunagwera kwa Weisner, Staub, Wall, ndi Dragan.
Bungweli linayambitsa kampeni yopezera ndalama ya zaka zambiri. Zopereka za kukula kosiyanasiyana, makamaka kuchokera kwa abwenzi, abale ndi okonda squash, komanso kuchokera ku kugulitsa malaya a PS T-shirts, pamapeto pake zinapeza ndalama zokwanira zomangira bwalo lamakono la squash panja.

Kuyesetsa kumeneku ndi chiyambi chabe cha kuyesetsa kukonzanso dzina la masewerawa kuti abwezeretse mizu ya Ivy League ndikupangitsa kuti ikhale yopezeka mosavuta ngati masewera anu a basketball. Si osewera okha omwe amamvetsetsa kufunika kwa squash: Mosiyana ndi tennis, masewerawa ndi osavuta kuwapeza ndipo adatchulidwa kuti ndi amodzi mwa abwino kwambiri ndi Forbes. Mabungwe okhala ku New York monga CitySquash akhala akuzindikira kwa nthawi yayitali ubwino wa squash kwa achinyamata osauka: Webusaiti yake ikunena kuti 100 peresenti ya ophunzira a CitySquash amamaliza sukulu ya sekondale, ndipo 98 peresenti amapita ku koleji.

PS ikuyang'ananso tsogolo la squash pa Olimpiki. "Sipanakhalepo masewera a Olimpiki, makamaka chifukwa cha zovuta zofikira malo ochitira masewerawa. Tikukhulupirira kuti chitsanzochi chithandiza squash kuti ayenerere Olimpiki," adatero Wall.
Gululo limaonanso malowa ngati ochulukirapo kuposa bwalo lokha, pofotokoza kuti makoma agalasi amalola luso, ndipo malo amkati ali ndi kuthekera kochitira zochitika. Ngakhale mapulani a bwalo lachiwiri sanakwaniritsidwebe, ndithudi ndi sitepe yotsatira. Izi zimabweretsa funso: Kodi n’chiyani chikuletsa munthu kumanga bwalo lina? “Palibe chomwe chikumuletsa, ndipo tikukhulupirira kuti adzatero!” akutero Weisner. “Cholinga chathu ndi kupeza anthu omasuka, choncho khalani omasuka kukopera zimenezo! Tikufuna kuti aliyense athe kubwera kudzasewera.”