Download or read book How the Tennis Gods Move written by Daniel McCain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secret to every great shot in this visual display of the tennis gods of today. See how the world's greatest players generate brilliant, explosive shotmaking through proven methods of movement fundamentals. Easy to learn functional training exercises are also revealed that will help you move like the tennis gods. "In today's game, one thing is for sure - the best players are also the best movers. How the Tennis Gods Move is a must read for those who not only wish to improve their game, but better understand the mechanics & elements of better movement." - Allistair McCaw, Movement Specialist to Grand Slam Champions & Olympians. McCaw Method Sports Performance "McCain has written a humorous & insightful book on movement mechanics with up to date analysis & helpful information for all of us to help us move like the Gods. The drawings & pictures give clear visuals of what exactly is happening with the movement of the top players with training exercises & hints on how we can use their techniques. This book is applicable to beginners, advanced players, novice coaches & master professionals. I highly recommend it." - Bruce Gullikson, President USPTA Northern Division "McCain's book How the Tennis God's Move is the end all be all textbook for understanding & duplicating world class tennis player movement. What makes this book standout is that McCain showcases his true teaching talent by making advanced & highly misunderstood concepts recognizable to any student of any playing level. Footwork is a critical component to great play. When reading this book, I can unequivocally say that you have already taken that first step to raising your level." - Kyle LaCroix, USPTA Elite Professional, USPTA Clinician & the 2014 National Tester of The Year, Head Tennis Professional at The Oaks At Boca Raton

Download or read book Functional Training for Tennis written by Daniel McCain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Academy Director, Division 1 college coach, the 2012 USTA Virginia Teaching Pro of the Year and the 2013 PTR Mid-Atlantic Teaching Pro of the Year comes the sequel to the critically acclaimed book How the Tennis Gods Move. Functional Training For Tennis unifies tennis movement with racquet technique and provides easy to do, real world training methods that help all players improve their game. The functional training exercises found in this book enable tennis players to build sound movement fundamentals and mimic the the mechanics of the pros.

Download or read book Momentum written by Daniel McCain and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Building A Champion & The I Formation comes both volumes of the show & tell of men's professional tennis: Momentum on the ATP Tour. What causes momentum shifts on the tennis court? Does it reallly exist? Pros on the ATP World Tour debate this question with their answers, revealing unique perspectives on how they achieved success in the pros. This book takes perspectives of past & present ATP Touring Professionals, their coaches, the media that cover them, & the psychologists that guide them, & explores the background & implications of what they discuss. Interviews & research on the ebbs and flow of performance on the tennis court show a web of viewpoints on performance, training, life on the tour, & what it takes to make it in the pros. ATP Tour veterans discuss what causes momentum shifts in matches, recall matches they played or coached through incredible comebacks, major moments of choking, tempers flying, & even how specific points in matches became pivotal in the direction of their careers. Interviews include grand slam champions, NCAA champions, former players ranked in the top 20 in the world, & household tennis names such as Vic Braden, Tim Mayotte, legendary Stanford Coach Dick Gould, & more.The book also explores how ATP pros physically generate, control, maintain, & use momentumto execute their movement & technique. Graphic illustrations & mutliple exposure taken from frames of video reveal pros executing the same b.i.o.m.e.c.hanics that enable them to hit with incredible precision & power. Filled with images, analysis, & research from the USTA, ITF, & the ATP, this book gives readers a visual array of the sport science behind the strokes.

Download or read book Momentum on the ATP Tour written by Daniel McCain and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Building A Champion & The I Formation comes the the show & tell of men's professional tennis: Momentum on the ATP Tour, Volume 2. Volume 2 of Momentum explores how ATP pros physically generate, control, maintain, & use momentum to execute their shots, Graphic illustrations & mutliple exposure taken from frames of video reveal pros executing the same b.i.o.m.e.chanics. Filled with images, analysis, & research from the USTA, ITF, & the ATP, this book gives readers a visual array of the science behind the strokes. Sport Science & visuals lead the way with drawings & images of ATP pros displaying how they maintain balance, use gravity, the elastic spring of their muscles, & kinetic energy to use tremendous momentum with their bodies & hit with power & precision.Don't miss out on Volume 1, which explores psychological momentum. With interviews of grand slam champions & legendary tennis names. Including research on the ebbs & flow of performance on the tennis court, this volume shows a web of viewpoints on performance, the existence of momentum, & what it takes to make it in the pros.

Download or read book The Inner Game of Tennis written by W. Timothy Gallwey and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997-05-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless guide to achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold! “Groundbreaking . . . the best guide to getting out of your own way . . . Its profound advice applies to many other parts of life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes (“Five of My All-Time Favorite Books”) This phenomenally successful guide to mastering the game from the inside out has become a touchstone for hundreds of thousands of people. Billie Jean King has called the book her tennis bible; Al Gore has used it to focus his campaign staff; and Itzhak Perlman has recommended it to young violinists. Based on W. Timothy Gallwey’s profound realization that the key to success doesn’t lie in holding the racket just right, or positioning the feet perfectly, but rather in keeping the mind uncluttered, this transformative book gives you the tools to unlock the potential that you’ve possessed all along. “The Inner Game” is the one played within the mind of the player, against the hurdles of self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses in concentration. Gallwey shows us how to overcome these obstacles by trusting the intuitive wisdom of our bodies and achieving a state of “relaxed concentration.” With chapters devoted to trusting the self and changing habits, it is no surprise then, that Gallwey’s method has had an impact far beyond the confines of the tennis court. Whether you want to play music, write a novel, get ahead at work, or simply unwind after a stressful day, Gallwey shows you how to tap into your utmost potential. No matter your goals, The Inner Game of Tennis gives you the definitive framework for long-term success.

Download or read book Bad News for McEnroe written by Bill Scanlon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shockingly honest memoir about life on the pro tennis circuit during its golden years by one of McEnroe's and Connors' chief rivals, Bill Scanlon. In the golden age of tennis, when players were just learning how to become media personalities, men like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Björn Borg and Ivan Lendl ruled the court. In a tell-all memoir, former top 10 seeded tennis star and chief McEnroe rival, Bill Scanlon, presents an unfettered look at the good old days of tennis when some of the most colorful (and infamous) players in history went head-to-head and the game was changed forever. Bad News For McEnroe is in part a revelation of the feud between McEnroe and the author that began when they were teenagers, but the essence of this book are the wonderful and surprising on- and off-the-court high jinks of such notable players as Guillermo Vilas, Borg, McEnroe, Ilie Nastase and Connors, all of whom Scanlan played and knew intimately, from locker room fights to on-court breakdowns and blow-ups. A story that could not have come from anyone but a true insider, Scanlon's tale of life on the pro tennis circuit will shock and delight tennis fans everywhere.

Download or read book The Little Green Book of Tennis written by Tom Parham and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golf is a disease, not a game. Especially when you take the game up in your fifties, as I did. After a series of injuries stopped my recreational tennis play, and my retirement from a lifetime of coaching and teaching tennis, I tried golf. It didn't take long to realize it was not an easy endeavor. Someone said, "You can't learn anything from a golf book, but you have to read a lot of golf books to find that out!" I found the gurus of golf instruction: Ledbetter, Pelz, and Hogan, who was said to have written the book with the secret! I did find one that really attracted me but in a somewhat different way.

Download or read book City of Blades written by Robert Jackson Bennett and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumphant return to the world of City of Stairs. A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions. Now, the city’s god is dead. The city itself lies in ruins. And to its new military occupiers, the once-powerful capital is a wasteland of sectarian violence and bloody uprisings. So it makes perfect sense that General Turyin Mulaghesh— foul-mouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov, rumored war criminal, ally of an embattled Prime Minister—has been exiled there to count down the days until she can draw her pension and be forgotten. At least, it makes the perfect cover story. The truth is that the general has been pressed into service one last time, dispatched to investigate a discovery with the potential to change the world--or destroy it. The trouble is that this old soldier isn't sure she's still got what it takes to be the hero.

Download or read book The Christian Athlete written by Brian Smith and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Athlete is a gospel-centered guide that assists athletes who identify as Christians and are seeking to understand how to practically apply their faith to their sport. Athletes desire—and deserve—a more substantive expression of the Christian faith in the context of sport, but they don’t know what it looks like or where to turn to learn more. Author Brian Smith shares his story as an athlete and coach, and his experience working with high-level athletes in the last decade to help readers better understand how to integrate faith and sport by: Assisting those who want a wide-angled understanding of how to live the Christian faith in the context of sports Walking through the many questions Christian athletes ask about winning, losing, injuries, practice, and everything in between Moving Christian athletes from simply having clichéd spiritual sayings decorating their bodies or t-shirts to actually living out their faith through all the opportunities their sport offers them The Christian Athlete will show readers how to live out a biblical perspective on athletics and urge them to engage in the gifts they are given to glorify God whether they are the team MVP or riding the bench.

Download or read book Gods and Goddesses in Love written by Agapi Stassinopoulos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient times, the Greeks created the gods and goddesses to represent the various personalities of human nature. In Gods and Goddesses in Love, Agapi Stassinopoulos tells the stories of the primary goddesses and gods, and how their myths can provide insight into your own romantic relationships. Included are two fun and fascinating quizzes: one for women to determine their own dominant personality type and which goddess she most embodies; and a second that will help every woman understand more about the "god" she is involved with, or searching for. In the book, the seven archetypal goddesses are portrayed in modern terms, highlighting not only each goddess's unique strengths but also the pitfalls or stumbling blocks she is likely to encounter in a relationship with her partner. Also included are interviews with real couples who reveal how they overcame obstacles to find true love. For anyone who desires the self-knowledge and empowerment to find their ideal other, Gods and Goddesses in Love is an uplifting, instructive, and enlightening guide for achieving greater fulfillment in love.

Download or read book Decision Making and the Will of God written by Garry Friesen and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God Have a Perfect Will for Your Life? Does God have a perfect will for each Christian? Can you be absolutely certain of God’s specific will for your life? In this expanded twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his highly acclaimed work, Garry Friesen examines the prevalent view on God’s will today and provides a sound biblical alternative to the traditional teaching of how God guides us. This new edition includes these helpful resources: • Study guide for small groups • Responses to Frequently Asked Questions • Guide to painless Scripture memorization Friesen tackles the very practical issues of choosing a mate, picking a career, and giving in this fresh and liberating approach to decision making and the will of God. Story Behind the Book Most Christians have been taught how to find God’s will, yet many are still unsure whether they’ve found it. God does guide His people, but the question is, “How does He guide?” After “putting out a fleece” to decide which college to attend, Garry Friesen began pondering why it was so hard to find God’s will when he had so sincerely sought it. Was he the only one who did not have 100 percent clarity for every decision? Then a new possibility struck—perhaps his understanding of the nature of God’s will was biblically deficient. Maybe there was a better way to understand HOW God guides.

Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Download or read book Momentum In Tennis written by Daniel McCain and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Functional Training For Tennis and How the Tennis Gods Move comes the 2nd Edition of Momentum in Tennis. Updated interviews from ATP Pros, coaches, media and psychologists reveal philosophies on competing, training, what it takes to make it in the pros, mental skills, and how players achieve peak performance. Grand slam champions, NCAA champions, former players ranked in the top 20 in the world, and household tennis names such as Vic Braden, Tim Mayotte, Dick Gould, and many more discuss what causes momentum shifts in matches. Stories are told about the matches they played or coached through, with incredible comebacks, choking, tempers flying, and how specific points in matches became pivotal in the direction of their careers. The main ingredients of peak performance for tennis players unfold. Stories and insights also from Richard Fleming of the BBC, ESPN and Tennis Channel, USTA National Coach and pro tour coach Andi Brandi, Tennis Australia Manager of the AIS Pro Tour Mark Edney, author and ATP ranked Jeff Greenwald, author and psychologist Jay P. Granat, the 2008 ATP 12th ranked Jeff Coetzee, Tennis Channel analyst and 2009 ATP 19th ranked Ashley Fisher, Wimbledon champ Stephen Huss, the 1989 ATP 27th ranked Dan Goldie, the 2008 ATP 38th ranked David Martin, the Stanford Head Coach and 2006 ATP 40th ranked Paul Goldstein, the 2003 ATP 64th ranked Brian Vahaly, the 2005 ATP 102nd ranked Harsh Mankad, the 2011 ATP 113th ranked Izak Van Der Merwe, the Egyptian Davis Cup player and Captain and the 1998 ATP 125th ranked Tamer El Sawy, the 2007 ATP 127th ranked Zack Fleishman, and 2010 ATP 174th ranked Ryler DeHeart, the University of Michigan college player and coach and the 1988 ATP 276th ranked Dan Goldberg, the 200 ATP 353rd ranked Rodolfo Rake, the 2005 ATP 692nd ranked David Loewenthal, the top singles player at Ohio State University and ITF 353rd ranked Chris Porter, the 2007 ATP 548th ranked Chris Wettengel, the 2002 ATP 726th ranked Will Farah, the 2009 ATP 838th ranked Guillermo Gomez, and the Director of Player Development at Advantage Tennis Academy and 2004 ATP 893rd ranked Brandon Fallon.

Download or read book Rats Saw God written by Rob Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve details his descent from bright star to burnout in this newly repackaged edition of the definitive, highly acclaimed novel from the creator of Veronica Mars and Party Down. Houston, sophomore year: Steve is on top of the world. He and his friends are the talk of the school. He’s in love with a terrific girl. He can even deal with “the astronaut”—a world-famous hero who happens to be his father. San Diego, senior year: Steve is bummed out, drugged out, flunking out. A no-nonsense counselor says he can graduate if he writes a 100-page paper. So Steve starts writing, and as the paper becomes more and more personal, he reveals how a National Merit Scholar has become an under-achieving stoner. And in telling how he got to where he is, Steve discovers how to get to where he wants to be.

Download or read book Punch Me Up to the Gods written by Brian Broome and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --

Download or read book Gods of Our Religion written by Lawrence Crawford and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods of Our Religion is a very deliberate conversation offering a "for real" look at the many images of God within America's Christian churches. Whether you consider yourself a Christian, atheist, agnostic, Jew, Muslim, or other religious designations, Gods of Our Religion seeks to whet your appetite to know more about the inside of Christianity in America. Humanistic culture and internal competition are redefining America's "Christian" church world. Even so, an authentic faith remains to be the connection that brings the heart of man to the heart of God. Everyone believes something. If you believe in nothing, this nothing is the something in which you believe. Either way, something or nothing, one has to press into their belief system in order to overcome the contrasting winds blowing in both directions. America's Christian churches clearly illustrate the confusion that can occur when the cultural winds create a mixture of belief systems that supposedly have the same origin. But do they? "Gods of Our Religion" is an very direct message based on a personal journey where the heart the imaginary. Many of the gimmicks, sermons, and methods used to promote life within the "America Christian churches" lend themselves to creating religious waves dressed in attractive and colorful clothes, but with a quick realization of a spiritual deficit. There is no doubt external forces are at work against Christianity in America. But, there is a bigger internal self inflicted conflict that veils the authentic faith we are meant to possess.

Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.