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

Grice, Tony

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9780873226134: Badminton: Steps to Success (Steps to Success Activity Series)

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ISBN 10: 0873226135 ISBN 13: 9780873226134

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1996

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Badminton: Steps to Success offers 10 easy-to-follow steps designed to help players learn and practice key skills. The book features 83 drills that develop players' skills. The drills come with performance goals and a list of key points to remember when executing each drill. Plus, many include instructions for increasing or decreasing the level of difficulty. Each step is an easy transition from the one before. The first steps--racquet handling, serving, and overhead strokes--provide a solid foundation for the more sophisticated strokes and strategies that follow. As players progress, they'll learn to execute more difficult techniques--drop shots, smashes, and drives. By studying the book's 112 illustrations and following the simple instructions, readers will learn: * why each skill or concept is important; * how to analyze and correct common errors; * how to practice each skill in a realistic way; * proper racquet handling, position, and footwork; * the mechanics for five basic serves (long serve, forehand and backhand short serves, drive serve, and flick serve); and * six basic strokes (overhead, clear, drop shot, smash, drive, and around the head). The book also discusses the basic principles that guide singles' play and fundamental strategies and formations for doubles' play. Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Activity Series, this book will help badminton enthusiasts become more confident and capable players.

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"Tony has written an excellent step-by-step instructional guide to playing better badminton for players and coaches at any level."

Martin R. French Former president, U.S. Badminton Association U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Directors (1988-1992

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.

Tony received his BS and MEd degress from Memphis State University and an EdD from Northwestern State University in Louisiana. He resides in Abilene with his wife, Kristen, and in his spare time enjoys playing badminton, tennis, and golf.

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