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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 material. The engaging text is presented in an easy-to-understand format with more than 100 illustrations that drive home the principles. The secrets to success unfold page by page as you learn about the biomechanical principles involved in acquiring and refining sport skills. Players are excited to learn these skills because they can see improvement as they learn and practice.Play can greatly contribute to personal growth and quality of life. It can open doors to social interaction and to enhanced self-confidence. Everyone can learn and improve skills and increase their joy of participating in games and sports. With Secrets to Success in Sport & Play, players will do just that.

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Dirigido a maestros, educadores y padres de familia, esta obra explica los alcances de más de 100 juegos para aumentar el proceso motor del niño, su capacidad de atención y concentración, su percepción auditiva y las capacidades físicas. Contiene una sección de variantes y sugerencias que acompaña a todos los juegos y que enfatiza la necesidad de permitir al grupo establecer sus propios patrones y límites, además de un apéndice con la forma de organizar juegos con materiales de bajo costo.

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