Secrets to Success in Sport & Play 2nd Edition PDF

Description Table of Contents Author In Secrets to Success in Sport & Play: A Practical Guide to Skill Development, author Marianne Torbert provides insights into biomechanical principles that will help parents, players, teachers, and coaches understand how to creatively and scientifically improve players’ skills. This revised text presents • instruction on improving balance—which in turn affects agility, power, and accuracy of movement; • guidance in improving the understanding of spins—which can enhance performance in sports such as basketball, tennis, bowling, soccer, and golf; • insight into the basic mechanics of movement that can be applied to many sports and play; • experiments and activities to hone and develop players’ biomechanical abilities and form problem-solving intuitions and habits that can be used in many sports; and • true-or-false questions at the end of each chapter (correct answers are detailed in an appendix) to test readers’ knowledge of the m