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While the popularity of golf is coming under increased pressure, it
continues to hook millions of players. However, the complexity of
the game and the extremely high level of precision required to hit
the ball consistently well means that it is a game that is
difficult to even become 'good' at, let alone master. Consequently,
irrespective of whether the player is a weekend golfer, a club
member, or a tour professional, the search for the key to playing
good golf feeds an insatiable desire for ideas and tips to improve
golf performance and bring one's handicap down. However,
traditional coaching, with its primary focus on developing the
perfect swing is not leading to a reduction in handicaps and the
time is ripe for a new approach. This book aims to fill this void
and is a landmark text for golf coaches and players about applying
a constraints-led approach (CLA) to golf coaching. In this book,
two golf coaches, Pete Arnott and Graeme McDowall talk to Ian
Renshaw to demonstrate how their practice is driven and inspired by
their alignment to a CLA. A Constraints-Led Approach to Golf
Coaching includes case studies and examples of how constraints are
manipulated to induce adaption in the technical, tactical (or put
in golf terms, course management), physiological, and psychological
development mechanisms needed to improve at golf. Examples cover
coaching from their work with beginners, high handicappers,
aspirant tour players, and elite players looking to make the
'tour'.
Tay BridgeOn the night of Sunday December 28, 1879, the unthinkable
happened. Battered by a ferocious storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed.
Tay Bridge tells the poignant and unexpected stories of the
suddenly interrupted passengers making the journey that night. Who
were they? Where were they going? A powerful ensemble piece, Tay
Bridge gives a whole new perspective on this famous bridge
disaster.The SignalmanWinter 1919. Thomas Barclay is transported
back in time by his memories of the night when he was the Signalman
who sent the Edinburgh/Burntisland train onto the Tay Rail Bridge
forty years before. Who is responsible when accidents occur? Why do
we need somebody to blame...even if it's ourselves?
While the popularity of golf is coming under increased pressure, it
continues to hook millions of players. However, the complexity of
the game and the extremely high level of precision required to hit
the ball consistently well means that it is a game that is
difficult to even become 'good' at, let alone master. Consequently,
irrespective of whether the player is a weekend golfer, a club
member, or a tour professional, the search for the key to playing
good golf feeds an insatiable desire for ideas and tips to improve
golf performance and bring one's handicap down. However,
traditional coaching, with its primary focus on developing the
perfect swing is not leading to a reduction in handicaps and the
time is ripe for a new approach. This book aims to fill this void
and is a landmark text for golf coaches and players about applying
a constraints-led approach (CLA) to golf coaching. In this book,
two golf coaches, Pete Arnott and Graeme McDowall talk to Ian
Renshaw to demonstrate how their practice is driven and inspired by
their alignment to a CLA. A Constraints-Led Approach to Golf
Coaching includes case studies and examples of how constraints are
manipulated to induce adaption in the technical, tactical (or put
in golf terms, course management), physiological, and psychological
development mechanisms needed to improve at golf. Examples cover
coaching from their work with beginners, high handicappers,
aspirant tour players, and elite players looking to make the
'tour'.
Fifteen years ago, Tommy Hunter committed a terrible crime. Now
pursued by his own bad memories and the attentions of his criminal
companions of the past (as well as the present-day curiosity of the
boys and girls in blue), Tommy is trying to put his family back
together by the unlikely means of kidnapping them with the added
allurement of a bag of stolen money. Moon Country is a wild and
woolly Scottish Western, a family road movie, a slightly insane
hermeneutic treatise on nationhoodand belonging, and a definitely
lunatic quest for personal redemption. It's also pretty funny. It
is quite unlike anything you've ever read before.Peter Arnott has
squared the circle by combining the demotic, the entertaining, the
literary and the chaotic all within a surprisingly ordered
structure. This is a book that stays with you once you've finished
reading it: the many connections continue to emerge.
Based on real events happening on two days in Ireland and London a
hundred years ago, "Shall Roger Casement Hang?" is the story of an
interrogation. It is a confrontation between two men that asks
fundamental questions about history, the British State, and
personal and national identity. For both of them, the stakes get
higher and more personal as violent events elsewhere and the
revelation of Casement's sexuality change the rules of their
struggle. When this conversation is over, one of them will be
condemned to death, while the Empire that both men served will
never be the same again.In one and the same moment, two sisters
with one face, identical twins Isobel and Morag each have a story
to tell about family, money, sex, truth and happiness - and about
each other. It should be the same story about the same people, but
the sisters are as divided from each other as two people can be.
The play explores the ways in which they inhabit the world. By
giving two very different but connected sides of the same coin,
through humour and vitriol, the sisters show us how we think of
ourselves and the world around us, and the shapes we get ourselves
into in order to survive that world, asking fundamental questions
about what matters to us and why.
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