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In Kinetic Golf, Nick Bradley uses 115 extraordinary photographs, accompanied by clear, direct text, to raise the bar on golf instruction and give golfersamateur or professionala unique way of actually feeling their way to mastering the game. Offering insights that words alone cannot convey, the book provides a vastly improved golf game as the reward. Drawing upon his deep knowledge of trade and Tour secrets, Bradley shows how to build a powerful and consistent game while also debunking many of the myths that cloud the confidence and hinder the performance of the novice and developing golfer. Throughout Kinetic Golf, Bradley boils down the very essence of swing motion and technique, blends it with a feeling, and then creates an image that says it all. Take one look, and youll get the picture.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	09 avril 2013
Nombre de lectures	6
EAN13	9781613125588
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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Nick Bradley is the world s most innovative golf coach. - Golf Digest
Using his deep knowledge of golf, Nick Bradley here gives the golfer-amateur or professional-a unique new way of actually feeling the way to master every aspect of the game. In 125 amazing composite photographs, he shows you how to build a powerful and consistent game, offering insights that words alone cannot convey.
A leading Tour consultant who has worked with some of the world s top golfers-including Ryder Cup players; Walker Cup players; nine national champions; and European Tour, PGA Tour, and Nationwide Tour winners-Nick Bradley also coached Justin Rose to the European Tour Order of Merit win in only twelve counting events, a new tour record.
Nick Bradley is a frequent contributor to the top golf publications, including Golf Digest , Golf World , Golf International , and Golf Monthly . In this book he shares trade and Tour secrets that will enhance your understanding and promote the visceral, muscular feelings of the right way to tackle specific kinds of shot-making, the golf swing, and your mind-set in various situations, helping you to vastly improve your game. He has a unique ability to boil down the very essence of swing motion and technique, blend it with a feel, and then create an image that says it all. His method transcends any verbal explanation: Take one look at an image and you will get his message.

CONTENTS
Foreword by Butch Harmon
Introduction
IMAGES OF SHOTS
The Big Drive I: Hang Back and Fire!
The Big Drive II: Face It: No Short, Pokey Swing Hits It Anywhere
The High Shot: Shrink for Lofty Goals
The Low Shot: Diving Planes: Planely Body Language
Occupying the Mind: More Will Be Less
Verbalizing the Shot
Fading I: Static Fade: Dominant Body Fading
Drawing I: Static Drawing: Drawing on Your Setup
The Ball Has Gone with the Wind
Judging Wind Thermals
FROM THE FAIRWAY
Fading II: Fading Fire
Fading III: The Stinger Fade
Feeling a Fade: Aim the Face and Feel the Fade
Drawing II: Feeling a Draw
Baseball Bat It from Sidehill Lies
The Sidehill Slider
The Downhill Shot
Playing from a Divot: Earth-Shattering Divot Play
The Fairway Bunker: Don t Crack the Egg, Because You Might Lose More Than a Shot!
Your Shot-making Menu: La Carte Your Way to the Shots You Choose
The Third Eye of the Mind
Attacking the Front, Middle, and Back Flag Positions
From the Rough I: Playing with a Caddy Named Ego?
Don t Clown Around with Sucker Pins!
From the Rough II: Become the Rough Diva with an Extra Lever
Into the Wind: To Hit the Ball Low, Ahead the Sternum Must Go
Controlling Your Ball Downwind
The Crosswind Hold
The Pain of Rain
Put the Ball into the Hole
The Crosswind Ride
INTO THE GREEN
Trajectory Targeting
Rocket Uphill Shots
The Two-Bounce Rule
The Uphill Pitch
The Spinning Wedge: Spin the Cover, Not the Core
The Expectancy Routine: How to Front-load Your Mind
AROUND THE GREEN
Bunker Shot Ballistics I
Bunker Shot Ballistics II
Distance Control in Bunker Play
The Plugged Bunker: Homage to Bruce Lee s One-Inch Punch
Pinball Wizard: That Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Kid Sure Plays a Mean Pinball : Sensory Putting
The Short Putt: Don t Be the Grim Reaper; Be the Happy One!
Toe-to-Toe Putting
The Hole of Time
The Flop Shot: Hands Behind-Handle Behind
The Wind Pitch-and How to Avoid Being Gone with the Wind
Building Layers of Feel with the Ego
IMAGES OF SWINGS
The Left-Hand Grip: The Golf Swing s Genesis Moment
Pincer Pressure: The Finger Anchors of a Great Grip
The Short Left Thumb: Torque Up Your Grip
Equality in Your Setup Position
Spine-Wrecking Posture
Energized Posture: Ready to Flow
The Relationship Between the Inclined Spine, Trajectory, and Ball Position
Body Alignment
Balance: Stay with Me on This One!
The Two Roles of the Right-Hand Delivery
Driver Setup: An Image for the Slicers Among You
Connection to a Bigger Mass: The Swingweb
The Zip Grip
The Pivoting Motion of the Body: Firing the Right Knee
The Three Points of Resistance: The Chaos Theory of Swing
The Right Knee: Your Swing s Anchor and Battery Pack
Kinetically Flowing for Power Blowing
So What Is the First Move Down?
The Combination Lock of a Great Follow-through: Start with the End in Mind
Ground-Pressured Power
Boundary of Your Swing
You Can t Make a Downswing Without Breaking a Few Eggs
Good Body Motion Is Sheer Magnetism
Athletic Foot Grounding and Dynamic Balance
THE CLUB, THE ARMS, AND THE HANDS
The Release of the Right Arm
The Feeling of Mid-Plane in the Club and the Arms
The Radius of the Swing
Swing Synchronization: Great Circles of Fire
Drag It, Lag It, WHACK IT!
Disciplining Your Armswing at the Top
Liberate the Motion of the Club
The Puck Release
The Club s Initial Path and Motion from the Ball
To Invert Your Mid-Plane
To Rotate and Round Off Your Initial Plane
Stretch Your Way to the Top
As a Rule, Get Some Leverage
The Plane s Line of Fire
IMAGES OF MOTIVATIONS, ATTITUDES, AND AFFIRMATIONS
A Round of Golf? No, a Round of Life
Confession Time: Let s Be Honest
Reincarnating After Every Shot
It s You and the Golf Course, Nothing Else
The Memory Chip
Too Excited and Fired Up
Aggression
Tiredness
Frustration
The Ego Loves the Long Game but Hates the Short Game
Gambling: To Be or Not To Be? That Is the Question
Your Persona and Your Story
In a War Zone? Don t Go to Your Happy Place!
Foreword BY BUTCH HARMON
Nick Bradley is one of the world s bright new teaching stars. Among the many things I admire about Nick is the way he dares to depart from the accepted norm of golf instruction. He has new and refreshing ways of getting his message across to the reader or audience that immediately hook them into the learning process.
I first met Nick on Tour during the 2006 season, when he managed the coaching of PGA Tour golfer Justin Rose. At the time, Justin was certainly not playing to his potential and had fallen to a career low of 123rd in the world rankings. Within just twenty months, Justin climbed to a career high of sixth in the rankings and won the 2007 European Tour Order of Merit. Quite a turnaround! Such a dramatic change in Justin s game can be greatly attributed to Nick s ability to communicate the correct information in a very digestible way.
In this new book of his, you will see an enthusiasm and a new approach to teaching delivered via amazing imagery and a common-sense text. I know that, like myself, you will really learn a lot from Nick s latest work.

Butch Harmon is ranked No. 1 Instructor in the world by Golf Digest .
Introduction
On Christmas Day of 1980, when I was ten years old, I was walking past a room with a TV playing and happened on a scene from the James Bond movie Goldfinger . In it, Bond was driving a 1964 silver Aston Martin and an Asian assailant was holding a gun on him. I stopped to see how Bond would deal with this deadly threat. The camera panned swiftly back and forth between Bond s face and his hand on the gearshift, then froze on his hand. Using his thumb, he flicked the end of the handle upward, revealing a bright red button, which he pressed. This opened a section of the roof and vertically ejected the killer.
This scene gave me a love of dramatic and dynamic images that became an important part of my life and eventually manifested itself in my golf instruction. Why, I reasoned, couldn t golf instruction be as visually stimulating as that famous scene in Goldfinger ? Why couldn t it actually stimulate and inspire golfers to live up to an image they had seen? How many men in their thirties and forties have walked around hotels and airports imagining that they were the great James Bond on a secret mission? The answer, of course, is millions. A powerful and indelible icon encourages people to emulate its example.
Golf instruction should be the same. It should encourage you to fit into an image and try to sense that feel for yourself. Truly inspired learning-the wish to develop and grow-is most effectively generated by a source that operates at a higher than ordinary level. At its best, education is inseparable from entertainment-they are one.
In Kinetic Golf , you will see images that I have successfully used with top players during major championships. The Ball Has Gone with the Wind, for example, shows an image of me exhaling and literally blowing the ball powerfully down the fairway. The idea for it came from the 2007 Masters Tournament, in which I had Justin Rose inhale (generating a beta wave in the brain) and then exhale in the pattern he wanted the ball flight to follow. It was a pretty successful process, leading to a fifth-place finish for him that year. You will also see an image from the swing bible I created for him, which led to his record-breaking year winning the 2007 European Tour Order of Merit in just twelve counting events. From 2009 to 2011, I consulted for Kevin Chappell, taking him from zero status as a professional to winning on the Nationwide Tour and breaking two Tour records. He went on to finish third in the U.S. Open that year. The Firing the Right Knee image was a critical tool for Kevin during this period, since he showed a lot of potential if he could only develop better dynamic balance during his swing.
Kinetic Golf is a valuable tool for any golfer wanting to get to the essence of what playing golf is all about. In my previous book, The 7 Laws of the Golf Swing , I taught you how to build the Ferrari. In this book I teach you how to drive it. No question, mechanics have to be in place, and that, dear reader, happens in the pit lane (practice ground). This book is about driving your car on the track, letting go, and allowing your brain to swim in pictures and feelings.
I d like to give special thanks to good friend and artist Lee John Rouse. Without Lee and our unique working relationship,