Badminton: Steps to Success (STS (Steps to Success Activity) - Softcover

Tony A. Grice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736072292 ISBN 13: 9780736072298

Publisher: Human Kinetics(ADVANTAGE) (Consignment), 2007

Synopsis

This new edition will be ideal for badminton players, coaches and instructors interested in teaching, learning or improving proper stroke development, footwork, tactics and basic strategies. The additional technical content for stroke development will include racket face angle, swing size and arc, racket speed and impact point. In addition, the new version will reflect the scoring and rule changes adopted internationally in the autumn of 2006.Specifically to tie in with the new scoring will be the tactical approaches needed to respond to the new game. The second edition will retain all of the components that make it a "Steps to Success" title, in addition to adding some of the newer features such as identifying the objectives for each step.In addition to further developing the Errors section to reflect more the visually (or kinesthetically) errant result, the Corrections section has been added to focus on the technical execution. Finally, information has been included to address the more developed player with additional strokes and/or variations and more complex tactics and drills.

About this title

Review:

"The illustrations and descriptions in Badminton: Steps to Success are easy to comprehend, and they provide players with the ability to quickly improve their skills. This book is the best resource for every badminton player."

Soohyun Bang
Olympic Gold Medalist

About the Author:

Tony Grice, who has been playing and coaching badminton nationally and internationally since 1975, has been ranked as 11th nationwide in men’s doubles and 15th in men’s singles. He has taught and coached the sport at both the high school and college levels.

Tony has been a board member and national team exercise physiologist for the U.S. Badminton Association (USBA). He traveled with the U.S. National Badminton Team to the 1987 World Championships in Beijing as team trainer. Two years later he was manager for the South Team at the 1989 Olympic Sports Festival in Oklahoma City, and he was official umpire at the 1993 Olympic Festival in San Antonio. He holds USBA certification as a Level III national coach and regional umpire.

Tony has taught badminton at Northwestern State University in Louisiana, the University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A&M University, where he served as coordinator of racquet sports. He has also conducted numerous badminton instructional clinics in the United States, Guatemala, and Mexico.

In addition to working with the 1996 Olympic Badminton Team, Tony continues to teach a badminton class each semester at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, where he is a professor in the Physical Education Department and director of the Aerobic-Human Performance Laboratory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Human Kinetics(ADVANTAGE) (Consignment)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0736072292
• ISBN 13: 9780736072298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200